ICT integration tester to digital games tester
An ICT integration tester already meets 75% of what the digital games tester role asks for. The move turns on 2 required skills not yet in the profile.
29.1/ 100
1 How much of what a digital games tester is expected to do is already part of an ICT integration tester’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the digital games tester role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A digital games tester role treats 7 of its required skills as things an ICT integration tester already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- address problems critically
- execute software tests
- levels of software testing
- provide software testing documentation
- replicate customer software issues
- report test findings
What stands in the way is 2 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 28 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A digital games tester role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an ICT integration tester background worth leading with.
- already held perform software recovery testing working with computers
- already held replicate customer software issues working with computers
- already held develop automated software tests communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held provide software testing documentation communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held develop ICT test suite communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held conduct ICT code review working with computers
All 28 carried skills, including the 7 the digital games tester role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 10 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn application usability required
- optional, not held human-computer interaction optional
- optional, not held software interaction design optional
- still to learn digital game genres required
- optional, not held principles of animation optional
- optional, not held compose digital game story optional
- optional, not held create concept of digital game optional
- optional, not held demonstrate functionality of video games optional
- optional, not held measure software usability optional
- optional, not held create game testing software optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 2 entries a digital games tester role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 28 skills that carry over
- already held address problems critically skill
- already held execute software tests skill
- already held levels of software testing knowledge
- already held provide software testing documentation skill
- already held replicate customer software issues skill
- already held report test findings skill
- already held software anomalies knowledge
- already held Agile project management knowledge
- already held ICT debugging tools knowledge
- already held ICT project management methodologies knowledge
- already held LDAP knowledge
- already held LINQ knowledge
- already held MDX knowledge
- already held N1QL knowledge
- already held Process-based management knowledge
- already held SPARQL knowledge
- already held XQuery knowledge
- already held conduct ICT code review skill
- already held debug software skill
- already held develop ICT test suite skill
- already held develop automated software tests skill
- already held lean project management knowledge
- already held manage schedule of tasks skill
- already held perform software recovery testing skill
- already held query languages knowledge
- already held resource description framework query language knowledge
- already held tools for ICT test automation knowledge
- already held use scripting programming skill
8 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held compose digital game story optional
- optional, not held create concept of digital game optional
- optional, not held create game testing software optional
- optional, not held demonstrate functionality of video games optional
- optional, not held human-computer interaction optional
- optional, not held measure software usability optional
- optional, not held principles of animation optional
- optional, not held software interaction design optional
9 held skills the digital games tester role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role ICT infrastructure knowledge
- not needed by the target role ICT network simulation knowledge
- not needed by the target role ICT performance analysis methods knowledge
- not needed by the target role execute integration testing skill
- not needed by the target role implement ICT security policies skill
- not needed by the target role integrate system components skill
- not needed by the target role inter-organisational middleware system knowledge
- not needed by the target role manage system testing skill
- not needed by the target role use an application-specific interface skill
5 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn application usability required
- still to learn digital game genres required
- optional, not held human-computer interaction optional
- optional, not held principles of animation optional
- optional, not held software interaction design optional
Common questions about this move
Can an ICT integration tester become a digital games tester?
Yes, and it is an adjacent move. An ICT integration tester already covers 75% of what a digital games tester is expected to do: 28 skills carry over, 7 of which the digital games tester role treats as required.
What skills does an ICT integration tester need to become a digital games tester?
2 required skills are missing, plus 8 optional ones. They fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information and communication technologies (icts). The single most important is application usability.
How hard is the move from ICT integration tester to digital games tester?
Its learning distance is 29.1 out of 100, which is the adjacent band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.