Game QA tester

[AnAutisticDog]

I have a friend that is 16, in home school, and he wants to be a Game QA tester. Does anyone know if there is any way he could be one at his age?

[FatTrucker]

I have a friend that is 16, in home school, and he wants to be a Game QA tester. Does anyone know if there is any way he could be one at his age?

If he contacts some of the developers he might be able to score himself some focus group work, although AFAIK a lot of this is outsourced now.

As for proper QA, bug testing and the like its still usually done by people studying something in a related field up to graduate level, because nowadays it involves a fair amount of technical knowledge and its often just testing bite sized pieces of levels/games/code for glitching, clipping and other bugs. Pretty repetetive, boring, technical stuff. Generally nowadays, testers need to be able to provide a technical report on bugs and stuff rather than just finding and describing them, they need to have some understanding of the underlying code.

Can't hurt to email/write to a few devs and ask though.