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These games jobs were last updated on 04/02/10. This is for video game tester and audio jobs and also the fringe areas such as legal, support and finance. If you are interested in any of them please quote the ref no(s) and send your CV.

My client is looking for a Test Team Lead to take responsibility for testing their software development kit.
The right person will be experienced and competent in defying and implementing a comprehensive test strategy. Working closely with the product exec and technical team the role is responsible for selecting and managing the tools necessary to perform effective system, performance, regression and testing activities.
Leading a small team of testers, the successful candidate will have experience of testing software development kits. Experience of working in an Agile environments is also beneficial as is experience of testing 3d graphical products. In addition candidates must have prior experience of developing automated tests.

Responsibilities
- Accountable for the quality of the software being released.
- Develop an automated test suite for the SDK
- Formulate a test strategy and associated processes/tools.
- Assist with creation and management of suitable test environments
- Assist other test analysts with system, performance and regression testing

Skills:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to track issues, estimate, prioritise and balance requirements under pressure
- Ability to develop an automated test suite
- Degree level education or equivalent industry experience.

South East £Good

Contact: Donna Ref: 31748 04/02/10

Every single one of the 200 developers at this studio shares a passion for games - it shines through their impressive track record. Their advanced, integrated platform of technology & tools, which they've been evolving for 14 years, helps them maximise the care and attention to detail they put into all aspects of their work as they continue to drive towards their vision: of videogames being the world's premier form of entertainment. They're committed to making innovative, quality games. They have an exciting, varied crop of current projects and they want talented individuals to work with them. They've got a great work environment based in Cambridge, a fun university city with a good quality of life, and they make sure it's both a stimulating place to work and a meritocracy. They care about career development, encourage ideas and contribution and enthuse their staff to keep improving, whatever their chosen discipline and stage of career - They're big enough to be professional, and flexible enough for everyone to make a difference.

This is a great opportunity for you to utilise your sound designing skills.
You will join a strong audio team and create original and inventive sound design.
The studio has several AAA titles awaiting your skills. The successful candidate will have a minimum of 1 year in-house audio design experience, but they will consider substantially more experienced candidates as well.

Requirements:-

- Experience on Xbox 360 and PS3
- Worked on a recently published title
- Experience creating sound effects using custom recordings and library material to generate highly original audio
- Experience using audio middleware (Wwise) and custom built audio implementation solutions
- High level of ability and familiarity with DAWs such as Cubase, Vegas, Sound Forge, and the integrated use of plug-ins.
- Knowledge of recording techniques, microphone placement, Foley sound creation and on-location recording

The successful applicant will demonstrate a broad knowledge of both computer game audio issues and sound design methods, will have experience with sound production tools and game audio engines, and will be a pro-active communicator with a passion for games and interactive audio.

Get in touch now with a copy of your showreel!

South East £Good

Contact: Lucy Ref: 31693 28/01/10

This Swedish company takes a fresh approach to game development, enabling them to optimise their creativity. They are passionate about providing state of the art products. Their in-house Engine is subject to constant evolution. They pride themselves on providing a comfortable and productive working environment.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a well established, creatively driven studio with a proven audio track-record and a strong audio team. Candidates will have a proven track record in audio design and management, with at least 5 years' as a professional games audio designer under their belt. They just also have at least one, but preferably mutiple, current generation console title to their name.

The successful applicant will be versed in audio integration techniques, interactive music, as well as demonstrate experience with current console creation techniques. The Audio Director has a deep understanding of popular trends in music, SFX including Foley, vocal recording, and mixing.

Please note that showreels must be submitted for this position.

Sweden SEK Excellent

Contact: Lucy Ref: 31662

This company is an ambitious German developer. It is a financially independent development studio for next generation multiplayer games and exclusively develops its own IP. English is the studio's first language and employees come from all over the world. The work environment is highly creative with the company's ethos being that everyone plays a significant role in the development process, meaning all team members contribute their ideas and are important to the success of the game. The QA Manager manages testers and testing processes. He/Shewill be responsible for planning, conducting and assessing product tests as well as working on process improvement.

Position Responsibilities:
- Train and manage external test teams
- Communicate with QA outsourcing studios and beta testers
- Integrate external feedback and test reports in the internal production process
- Identify and isolate issues with pre-release software
- Report and track issues, verify fixes
- Conduct regression and stress testing
- Prepare/execute test scripts
- Evaluate test coverage
- Ensure work is completed in accordance with project deadlines

Position Qualifications/Requirements
- Wide range or scope of experience or interest in gaming on a variety of platforms
- Self motivated with superb work ethic and a desire to make world class games
- Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to take direction and effective listening skills
- Ability to troubleshoot and isolate faults, sometimes within severe time constraints
- Sharp attention to detail, highly analytical

Technical Requirements
- Prior testing experience
- Experience following testing processes and methodologies
- Understanding of QA measurement/metric techniques

Please get in touch ASAP to find out more.

Germany €DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31497

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's R and D Group provides a full range of services (technical support, software development and consultancy) that supports the development of PlayStation products by both SCEE and its third party partners throughout Europe and Australasia. They are the resident experts at SCEE when a technical issue arises relating to any of the PlayStation platforms. The group is unique in reporting directly into both SCEE’s headquarters in London, and SCEI’s R&D group based in Tokyo. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Research and Development Team provides a range of services that support the development of games on the PlayStation family of products by both SCEE's own internal studios and its third party partners throughout Europe and Australasia.

They’re looking for s Software Test and Integration Manager to be responsible for coordinating test activities for multiple software development projects developed by teams within the SCEE R&D organization to ensure high quality standards.

Essential experience:
- Experience of managing API and tools testing.
- Excellent communication skills - able to work with a range of groups and individuals across a wide organization.
- Demonstrable project management experience in managing the delivery of multiple software products through the test lifecycle on schedule.
- Proven skills in being able to plan and manage all aspects of a test project.
- Previous team management experience
- Strong problem solving skills
- Fluent in English

Technical skills
- Solid understanding of the software engineering and testing processes.
- Demonstrable C / C++ programming skills.
- Proven experience of C / C++ black box testing for APIs including domain, functional, and scenario testing.
- Experience of testing frameworks, ideally UnitTest++ and CppUnit.
- Experience of automated build solutions such as Cruise control.
- Project management tools experience (such as Hansoft / MS Project).
- Experience of issue tracker software (Bugzilla/Jira) and source control systems (Perforce/Subversion).
- Computer Science or Engineering Degree 1st or 2:1 preferred.

London £DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31448

Our Client is the leader in localisation, audio and quality assurance outsourcing. Their wide client list include the largest publishers and developers within the industry.They have localised thousands of games across all platforms and genres. My clinet is looking for a Native German Tester who will be responsible for liguistic checking and reporting of video games across all hardware platforms for US Clients.

Responsibilities:
- carry out specific checks in a consistent and thorough manner as part of a structured test plan
- ensure that all problems and bugs recorded are done so in an efficient and informative manner
- write up bug reports to the high standard required by our vendors. This includes using correct naming conventions and displaying a concise style of writing whilst ensuring that all the necessary information (what the bug is, how to recreate it, etc.) is contained within the report
- use investigative skills to find problems, whilst continuing to complete tasks set by the Language Team Lead or Language Assistant Team Lead.

Skills required:
- knowledge and experience in the a QA role
- computer literacy, word processing, database handling, record keeping, good working knowledge of Word, Excel, PPT, PDF
- knowledge of bug tracking databases such as DevTrack, TTP and Mantis an advantage
- basic IT skills
- clear and concise communication skills, both written and verbal.

Ideally previous work experience with in a video game localisation/QA environment at an agency or publisher/developer.

Ideally the candidate will be a committed and/or passionate gamer, with good game excellent play skills.

Cambridgeshire DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31341

Our Client is the leader in localisation, audio and quality assurance outsourcing. Their wide client list include the largest publishers and developers within the industry.They have localised thousands of games across all platforms and genres. My clinet is looking for a Native Dutch Tester who will be responsible for liguistic checking and reporting of video games across all hardware platforms for US Clients.

Responsibilities:
- carry out specific checks in a consistent and thorough manner as part of a structured test plan
- ensure that all problems and bugs recorded are done so in an efficient and informative manner
- write up bug reports to the high standard required by our vendors. This includes using correct naming conventions and displaying a concise style of writing whilst ensuring that all the necessary information (what the bug is, how to recreate it, etc.) is contained within the report
- use investigative skills to find problems, whilst continuing to complete tasks set by the Language Team Lead or Language Assistant Team Lead.

Skills required:
- knowledge and experience in the a QA role
- computer literacy, word processing, database handling, record keeping, good working knowledge of Word, Excel, PPT, PDF
- knowledge of bug tracking databases such as DevTrack, TTP and Mantis an advantage
- basic IT skills
- clear and concise communication skills, both written and verbal.

Ideally previous work experience with in a video game localisation/QA environment at an agency or publisher/developer.

Ideally the candidate will be a committed and/or passionate gamer, with good game excellent play skills.

Cambridgeshire DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31344

Our Client is the leader in localisation, audio and quality assurance outsourcing. Their wide client list include the largest publishers and developers within the industry. They have localised thousands of games across all platforms and genres. The position will involve in-house translating and the use of translation tools such as Wordfast, SDLX Trados.

Responsibilities:
- Translating material sent by various Project Managers implementing the principles of games localisation to produce good-quality translations that implement the various TRCs and glossaries
- Assisting with checking and quality assurance
- Maintenance of databases
- Assisting with quality control of material
- Archiving and storage of materials
- Assisting in the production and use of glossaries

Requirements:
- A good level of education is expected, ideally to degree level and in particular a Linguistic/Translation degree would be beneficial.
- Knowledge and experience in the translation environment
- Computer literacy, word processing, database handling, record keeping, good working knowledge of Word, Excel, PPT, PDF
- Basic IT skills

Experience:
- Ideally previous work experience with a video game localisation environment at an agency or publisher/developer.
- Ideally the candidate will have a good knowledge of video games, in particular MMO’s and RPG genres across all hardware platforms.
- Ideally the candidate will be a committed and/or passionate gamer, with good game play skills.

Cambridgeshire DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31342

Our client is looking for an Business Analyst IT manager with responsibility for development and maintenance of business intelligence systems supporting their sales, financial planning and operations (distribution) functions. The role involves:
- Relationship-building with business users to identify and respond to opportunities for IT to improve business efficiency and effectiveness
- Developing and maintaining Microsoft Sharepoint implementation throughout the business.

The successful candidate will:
- Have experience in management reporting in support of sales or finance using Microsoft SQL Server 2005, with advanced skills in SQL Server technologies and good skills in MS Sharepoint Server
- Have previously forged good direct relationships with business users
- Have strong communication skills
- Be a creative and inspiring strategic thinker
- Be familiar with SAP.

London mid £50s

Contact: David Ref: 3298

This new independent development studio is made up of passionate and talented team players who are committed to shipping great games, taking full ownership and having fun while doing it. They retain a small family culture which will encourage people's talent, treat people fairly, and reward people well. Their goal is to build a great reputation as an independent studio that ships innovative console games that are both commercially and critically successful.

Their audio department requires the services of a contract sound designer onsite for six to nine months next year (2010), starting around February/March.

The candidate will be:

- Lovely!
- 4+ years games industry experience (no exceptions - this position is not suitable for a junior)
- An excellent sound effects editor
- An experienced and capable audio implementer
- Able to work offsite for content creation/editing using their own equipment
- Able to work onsite in Guildford when required (estimated to be at least half the time)

Please supply a showreel with your application.

Guildford £Good

Contact: Lucy Ref: 31289