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These games jobs were last updated on 02/09/10. 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.

Award winning outsourcing company specialising in video game QA. I'm looking for a Compliance Technician with strong experience with Xbox360 and XBLA.

Responsibilities:
· Responsible for ensuring a SKU is 100% compliant
· Identify problems and resolve them in a timely manner
· Effectively communicate to stakeholders the current status of a project
· Creation and updating of testing and reference documentation
· Complete checks within limited timeframe to the highest standards

Requirements:
· Worked on multiple titles
· Comprehensive understanding of a platform holders compliance requirements
· Proficiency in the use of a platform holders testing tools
· Excellent MS Office skills, especially Excel and Word
· Experience with various online bug tracking databases

Desirable:
- Experience testing on Kinect.

UK £8.50-9.50 ph DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 36179 02/09/10

Award winning outsourcing company specialising in video game QA. I'm looking for a Compliance Technician with strong experience with PS3 and PSP.

Responsibilities:
· Responsible for ensuring a SKU is 100% compliant
· Identify problems and resolve them in a timely manner
· Effectively communicate to stakeholders the current status of a project
· Creation and updating of testing and reference documentation
· Complete checks within limited timeframe to the highest standards

Requirements:
· Worked on multiple titles
· Comprehensive understanding of a platform holders compliance requirements
· Proficiency in the use of a platform holders testing tools
· Excellent MS Office skills, especially Excel and Word
· Experience with various online bug tracking databases

Desirable:
- Experience testing on Move.

UK £8.50-9.50 ph DOE

Contact: Info Ref: 36178 02/09/10

Our client is the worldwide leading provider and pioneer of online games with a number of awards won in the past year for the innovation and creativity. With their new technologies, they are able to realise new game concepts which contain graphics with a quality similar to that of console games but can still be played without downloading anything. Responsibilities:
·Leading, supervising and coordinating the in-house localization department for native translations mainly in gaming content
·Responsible for on-time delivery of localization into 37 languages
·Expert in Software Internationalization and Globalization best practices including leading Localization Tools and work flow
·Managing and Creating translation plans to ensure a smooth integration within an agile development paradigm
·Ensure the accuracy and quality of the language translations achieving highest standards including localization bug tracking and fixing
·Ensure highest quality with a small localization testing team
·Expert in Games Grapics Localization best practices and tools
Ensure translation process and reports are finished on time, set right focus to relevant product / gaming pipe line

Requirements:
·Technical and professional knowledge – The ability to show and apply an appropriate level of expertise.
·The ability to show and apply understanding of the organization to daily working life.
·Quality and standards – The ability to achieve high standards and quality in work.
·Team skills – the ability to work collaboratively with others (mainly producers) in order to achieve common objectives.
·Developing people and communication – The ability to communicate appropriately and develop the very diverse international team
·Leadership – The ability to inspire and lead a team of more than 40 employees in 25 nationalities
·Delegation and follow up – the ability to allocate effectively decision-making and task responsibilities to people.
·Planning and organization – The ability to identify what needs to be done to achieve objectives.

Key skills/knowledge:
·Competent games experience as translator and localization lead
·Expert in Globalization and Internationalization for Web based services
·Understanding of Localisation procedures.
·Expert knowledge of Word, Excel and tracking tools (ie Jira)
·Good understanding of the development cycle and constraints
·Methodical approach to work.
·Able to motivate the international and cosmopolitan team
·Lead translator or equivalent team management with more than 5 years experience desired.
·Appreciation of languages other than English desired.

Germany € Excellent

Contact: Donna Ref: 36159 01/09/10

This flourishing independent games developer, based in North London, has full funding from one of the industries biggest publishers and is actively developing titles for current and next gen consoles.

Our client is looking for an exceptional Technical Sound Designer to work on AAA next gen platforms. Candidates must have the following skills:

- At least 1 published AAA title in a similar role.
- Implementation - 3d map editor & Animation editor skills.
- Wwise implementation and experience with Unreal.
- Manage the assignment of bugs across the audio team, using an external bug database system.
- The ability to edit music in complex and changing time signatures.
- MIDI file preparation for orchestrator.
- Cue sheet preparation for recording and foley sessions.

It would be advantageous if the candidate also had familiarity with Logic, MIDI files, Pro Tools, and Sound Forge.

London £Excellent

Contact: Lucy Ref: 36081

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 must also have at least one, but preferably multiple, 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: 35991

Our client is currently looking for a Senior Sound Designer join their London studio to work on a AAA title. They are seeking a Sound Designer with a strong track record (at least 5 years industry experience, must have lead on one project). The successful candidate will be working on a AAA action title. Please contact me for a full job spec.

London £Good + bens

Contact: Lucy Ref: 32776

Our client is currently looking for an experienced Audio Director to join their London studio. The successful candidate will be working on a PS3/360 project.
Applicants must have at least one shipped PS3 and/or Xbox 360 project in a Lead Audio or Audio Director position. For a full job spec, please contact me.

London £Excellent

Contact: Lucy Ref: 32761

Our client has a community of over 12million members subscribing to a great number of F2P games. Covering all genres from all ends of the world, players are sure to find a unique and exciting gaming experience in our community. We are looking for a candidate with previous GM or customer service experience. This person should have a strong knowledge of to MMO games.

Responsibilities:
· Answer e-mail customer support tickets in a professional manner.
· Manage and promote in-game and forum events.
· Write compelling error-free text to increase player participation or sales.
· Maintain a fun and cooperative gaming community.
· Test and write bug reports for content in development.
· Evaluate upcoming games and providing feedback.
· Translate text between English and the language of the targeted territory.
· Work in a team and share information across multiple international teams.

Requirements:
· Previous experience in customer support and playing MMORPGs
· Fluency and literacy in English as well as the language of targeted territory: French, German, Russian, Turkish or Italian.
· Basic knowledge of HTML or BBCode
· Superb team player
· Good computer skills
· Self-directed, detail oriented, problem solver with a burning desire to contribute to a uniquely creative environment.

Germany €Good

Contact: Donna Ref: 32667

Our client has a community of over 12million members subscribing to a great number of F2P games. Covering all genres from all ends of the world, players are sure to find a unique and exciting gaming experience in our community. Be responsible for maintaining servers that provide online gaming services for game players across the world.

Qualifications:
· Expert knowledge of Linux (preferably Red Hat variants and Debian) and Windows 2000/2003 Servers
· 3+ years experience maintaining small and large-scale (100+ servers) systems.
· Database experience: MySQL, Postgres and MSSQL.
· System monitoring tool experience: Nagios, Cacti, Munin, etc.
· Network infrastructure device experience: firewalls, load balancers, etc.
· Knowledge of shell scripting and other interpreted languages is a plus.
· Mail administration experience: qmail, Postfix, Amavisd/ClamAV/SpamAssassin
· Advanced knowledge of NFS, NIS, DNS, Open VPN, etc.
· Fluency/literacy in English. Knowledge of German is a plus.

Responsibilities:
· Installing and configuring operating system, proprietary game software, and associated patches or updates.
· Maintaining large Linux/Windows systems (composed of several hundred servers) from our office to our remote data centers.
· Providing and implementing monitoring processes/tools and using automated system software tools/procedures to monitor, manage, and report on server performance.
· Contributing to planning efforts for database backup, disaster recovery, capacity expansion, component upgrading, and system hardening.
· Producing and maintaining documentation on installations, incidents, and FAQs.
· Being a key member of our 24/7 (on-call) System Administrator team.
· Providing IT administration for our local office.

Berlin €Very Good

Contact: Matthew Ref: 32628

Our client is the worldwide leading provider and pioneer of online games with a number of awards won in the past year for the innovation and creativity. With their new technologies, they are able to realize new game concepts which contain graphics with a quality similar to that of console games but can still be played without downloading anything. Our client, based in Germany, makes free-to-play online games. They are looking for a Playability Testing Manager with experience in setting up and managing the playability QA. This will involve ensuring, from the beginning of the first playable demo, that the gameplay features are consistent with the overall gaming experience. Is the game fun to play, are the control methods done well, is the usability good, does the character or vehicle control well in the environment, is the balancing done properly, does the storyline fit into the overall settings, etc.?

The office is English speaking and candidates with a very good level of spoken English will be preferred. The successful candidate will also build their own team.

Only candidates who have previous experience will be considered.

Germany €Excellent

Contact: Donna Ref: 32207