Video game tester vs automation engineer

Differences between video game tester and automation engineer duties and responsibilities

Video game tester example responsibilities.

• Manage departmental inventory and troubleshoot testing, reporting and inventory issues.
• Test console and PC games for errors by testing their performance and reporting any errors find into the computer database.
• Communicate with repair and modification technicians in order to troubleshoot hardware and software issues with problematic blade units.
• Create the traceability matrix for comprehensive coverage of the requirements.

Automation engineer example responsibilities.

• Perform inter-departmental audits documenting ISO compliant results with associate corrective action requests in order to achieve company-wide certification.
• Design and develop automation framework settings and implementation of Java, JavaScript.
• Develop automation scripts for quality assurance in Perl and ruby.
• Develop and maintain an automation tool written in Perl which are used to perform the build verification and regression test.
• Execute the batches (shell scripts) in UNIX that invokes Java programs and SQL loader to load data into tables.
• Involve in documenting test cases and packaging test suites and making them available to all of engineering and QA using JIRA.
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