Kick off your gaming QA career: basics of testing for games

There is so much more to testing games than just playing them! QA career is considered entryway to the gaming industry and if you are interested in joining this lucrative and fascinating industry, testing job might be just the right start. In this course, you will gain necessary skills for QA job and learn:

- basics of quality assurance (testing)

- how to manually test games

- what is a bug and how to report them

- how to select and use testing tools for manual testing

- how to write excellent test cases that will yield bugs for a long time

- what is a testing strategy and how to pick the right one

- basics of testing methodology.

Many lessons will also apply to general software testing. At the end of the course, you will have skills to start and improve your QA career in games, and a deeper understanding of what is QA and why it is necessary for any modern software development. Besides testing, you will also learn more about the gaming industry in general, how gaming studios work and basics of agile methodologies.

This course is aimed at people who are interested in starting their QA career in the gaming industry, but it's beneficial for anybody already working in QA, considering changing careers to QA, or requires a deeper insight into how manual testing is done (for example producers, product owners, project managers).

This course can be taken without prior experience in the gaming and tech industry, but a general understanding of technology and software is beneficial. You don't need to invest into any special tools or software for this course, as we will be focusing our practice on free-to-play games and software that has limited free usage.