Want to become a Playstation Game Tester?

[rootbear75]

http://www.realitywanted.com/call/5542-sony-playstations-the-tester-casting-call

 

The Tester Open Casting Call!

 

Are you at the top of your game? Now you have a chance to prove it in the new reality competition series for PlayStation Network called "The Tester." This original program will challenge a select group of gamers in a series of tests to determine if they have what it takes to make it as an official Game Tester. The elimination competitions throughout the series will not only test the contestants' video game knowledge, but they will also challenge the gamers' memory, stamina, dexterity, and overall mental prowess. Contestants must have the whole package to take home the coveted prize in this new original series. That's because the lucky winner will earn a contract position at Sony Computer Entertainment's Quality Assurance department in San Diego, CA, where he or she will get hands on time with the most highly anticipated games in the industry.

 

You must be at least 21 years of age and legally eligible to work in and a current resident of the United States for consideration.

 

This could be your chance to become The Tester!

 

How To Apply:

 

To submit as a potential contestant please go to http://www.us.playstation.com/psn/thetester/default.html , there you will see an application. Please follow the directions and fill out the entire application. Submissions are only accepted over the next four weeks. So, hurry up and get to it!

Application Url: http://www.us.playstation.com/psn/thetester/default.html

 

 

sigh.... if i was only 1 more year older...

Edited September 16, 2009 by rootbear75

[Bak]

i heard testing a very boring position. You have to do things over and over again and write bug reports.

[»Lynx]

And you're not exactly testing the awesome game as you or I play it, you're testing buggy irritating games and have to then write up test reports. If you've ever done a computer related subject, writing test reports will be familiar to you. I know I wouldn't want to be writing those up all day long.

 

-L

[Drake7707]

Testing is one of the most tedious and annoying job to do in a development cycle. You have to create a whole series of different tests for something you didn't even make.

 

Besides gaming as a job is a pretty lousy one, you don't learn anything and when you're laid off you're as helpless as someone who has no experience, yet they have to pay you more than them.

[Diwa]

I did QA for Electronic Arts a long while ago. And I thought it was an AWESOME job. Besides playing the "same thing over and over again," we had a hand in setting Time-Trial times, scores for scored events, and stuff like that. And besides all that, we had a cafeteria where we could eat and get fat, ping-pong tables, pool tables and big screen tv's, A large soccer field where you could play soccer and volleyball, a basketball court where we held basketball leagues (competitive and casual), hockey leagues (comp. and casual).

 

Yeah, you spend A LOT of time in a LARGE room with a bunch of other testers (the majority of which are male ) but you'll still manage to mingle with "the higher ups." (the QA were pretty much the bottom rung, but we had good times.) I played regular ping-pong and pool (9-ball) with one of the developers. I never managed to beat him though. He was freakin' good! LOL

 

I only have fond memories of testing for EA (for the most part.) Though, the area of the games I tested, I was required to play the games from start to finish, so I wasn't stuck playing one part of the game over and over and over again like some of the testers were required to.

 

 

That being said, I DOUBT that what was posted in the Original Post will be anything like my experience at EA.

[»Ceiu]

The hell were you doing on a reality tv casting call site?

[»freakmonger]

The hell were you doing on a reality tv casting call site?

[rootbear75]

i wanted to go on the show Solitary when i originally visited that site first. they send me digests every so often.

i'm a loner by nature, so i thought i could handle it.

watch 3 seasons of solitary here: http://www.hulu.com/solitary

or on the Fox Reality Channels website.

Edited September 18, 2009 by rootbear75