QA is definitely the right track

I just peeped this craigs post for an Associate Producer, which I hope to be one day.
A lot of it consists of QA experience, bug tracking, know the software and managing it. So, looks like I'm on the right track. Ad post next page


Responsibilities

Assist in PC/Mac downloadable and online web-playable game production by way of, but not limited to:

* scheduling
* resource management
* obtaining internal approvals
* asset delivery
* other production tasks assigned as necessary
* Own the QA process by managing internal and external QA resources. Create test plans and review bug reports.
* Work closely with creative services, engineering, marketing and other departments to produce casual single player and multiplayer games.
* Work with external game development agencies to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of projects.
* Work with marketing team to create marketing materials related to properties.
* Facilitate communication of key production aspects as determined by the Producer.
* Maintain and help manage multiple products through the entire production process including pre-production and post-production.

Qualifications

* Minimum 2 years of industry experience in production of games.
* Strong QA background highly desirable.
* Experience working on multiple projects across multiple teams, both internal and external.
* Ability to manage work plans, track status and manage team for complex product development.
* Excellent written, communication and interpersonal skills.
* Passionate gamer who understands web, casual and hardcore audiences and behavior. Strong casual games knowledge a huge plus as well as knowledge of social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace.
* Must be a highly motivated team player with a good sense of leadership and strong collaboration skills.
* Strategic critical thinker with a high attention to detail.
* Proficient in MS Office (especially Word, Excel, Project, Visio) and Adobe Photoshop.
* Experience with bug tracking systems such as Jira or Bugzilla.
* Experience managing QA, both internal and external.
* Creative, with an interest in game design.
* Strong PC and MAC technical knowledge.

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QA at Sony!

I finally have a job, it's not great, doesn't pay well, and I work with a lot of idiots haha. But! It's really fun, I'm learning a ton about the game industy and how the development process works and it's a great foot in the door for my dream job.

It's basically game testing at Sony, working on uncharted 2, which kicks ass for me coz I loved the first one plus there's multiplayer which makes testing more refreshing.

Sucks I couldn't find something a bit better so I could buy a house but it's cool, might move into a new apartment soon and get away from this college town. Another plus for having a job, parents can stop bothering me about it. They'll prolly go back to me with marriage so they can get their grandkids asap.

Thinking of blogging about my successes and failures with my job search and help some peeps out

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Im tired

4 Weddings (1 down), 3 trips (1 down)and my journey to the perfect job still continues.


Games:
Took a break from wow, been playing my xbox more: street fighter, ghost busters and will start playing COD4 again for practice when Modern Warfare2 hits. With all that playing tho, my xbox red ringed and eventually died on me. What sucks more is that its past the 3 year extended warranty and would cost 100 to fix so what did I do? bought a new one =( haha. Figure i could do it with the money i got from texas.


Dancing:
Flo-master kicked my ass but it was awesome. The dance is making more sense to me each day and hearing what he had to say made it that much easier. I got his number too so whenever I go home, I will definitely call him up.


Everything else:
Lyn and I survived 5 years together. wee.

ugh im too tired to write anything else, will continue another time

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New dish

I call it Mike's Tuna surprise. The surprise part is you cant tell that there's tuna.

Ingredients:
1 small can of tuna, squeeze out the water.
1 egg.
1 slice reduced fat swiss cheese.
onion (red is preferred)
pepper
olive oil.

I used to just heat up the tuna w/ pepper in some olive oil and eat that with rice. If I wanted to go fancy I'd add some mayo. This version is healthy and you get way more vitamins. Tuna itself is already 20g protein, add the egg and cheese and you're good to go.

Simple dish, cook some onion with the oil, then add tuna w/ pepper. After it gets a little brown, add the egg, scrambled first. Once the egg's cooked and mixed in, add some cheese. Cook till desired and there you go. Serve with rice, brown rice obviously.

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