Where is a good place to find jobs as a VR tester? (Software/Hardware.)
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Testing is typically referred to as Quality Assurance, so that's what you need to look for. It's a fairly niche role you're looking for, so there's not a lot around. A bit of googling turned this up :
www.luminousgroup.co.uk
I have no connection to the company at all. The job description might give you an idea of what you'd need skills wise.
FWIW testing is an under-paid, under-appreciated, surprisingly skilled profession. It's not just playing around in VR or whatever all day, it's very process-oriented and suits very well organised people.
XR Quality Analyst
An exciting opportunity has come up for a VR Content Analyst to join the in-house QA team working on ground breaking VR and Mixed Reality enterprise projects.
www.luminousgroup.co.uk
I have no connection to the company at all. The job description might give you an idea of what you'd need skills wise.
FWIW testing is an under-paid, under-appreciated, surprisingly skilled profession. It's not just playing around in VR or whatever all day, it's very process-oriented and suits very well organised people.
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It's such a niche as well, that I'd imagine it'll be more a case of Googling and looking about. You can try the standard places, but I can't imagine there are tons of those positions about.
Testing is typically referred to as Quality Assurance, so that's what you need to look for. It's a fairly niche role you're looking for, so there's not a lot around. A bit of googling turned this up :
XR Quality Analyst
An exciting opportunity has come up for a VR Content Analyst to join the in-house QA team working on ground breaking VR and Mixed Reality enterprise projects.
I have no connection to the company at all. The job description might give you an idea of what you'd need skills wise.
FWIW testing is an under-paid, under-appreciated, surprisingly skilled profession. It's not just playing around in VR or whatever all day, it's very process-oriented and suits very well organised people.
Thanks for the reply. I'm just in a tricky situation as I had to abruptly leave my career to become a full time single parent.
I'm trying to think of work I can do which would give me the flexibility of working from home and having flexible hours.
I recently purchased and built my dream computer and I am overjoyed with it.
I thought it would be great if I could use my computer to help me generate an income, if possible, as I have a VR set up and the hardware to match then maybe they might need people like myself to help them test during the day while my son (5) is at school?
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Getting a job in games is hard enough (even with industry experience), let alone a part time, WFH one. Not meaning to put you off, but I wish you good luck because you're gonna need it.
I guess on the other hand QA Analyst roles (in general, not necessarily in games or VR) aren't necessarily hard to find and they're pretty much entry level + can be part-time (a place I worked at had a part-time QA analyst who was completing an undergrad degree at the same time).
Being able to code is useful even though it isn't specifically a developer role, while there may be some full-time developers on a QA team automated testing is big (I'm not sure to what extent in games to be fair) and also being able to look into code changes when issues occur and need to be reported back to the relevant dev team can mean you're much more useful than say someone who struggles to search even some relevant log files.
I think if you're interested in QA in general then perhaps pursue that initially whether you get into a games or VR related role, perhaps some experience as a QA analyst in a regular software firm + an interest in games might then allow you to move into a gaming QA role later if it's not something you manage to break into initially.
Being able to code is useful even though it isn't specifically a developer role, while there may be some full-time developers on a QA team automated testing is big (I'm not sure to what extent in games to be fair) and also being able to look into code changes when issues occur and need to be reported back to the relevant dev team can mean you're much more useful than say someone who struggles to search even some relevant log files.
I think if you're interested in QA in general then perhaps pursue that initially whether you get into a games or VR related role, perhaps some experience as a QA analyst in a regular software firm + an interest in games might then allow you to move into a gaming QA role later if it's not something you manage to break into initially.
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I'd say it's pretty straightforward these days, with the skill shortages. Loads of opportunities for junior developers and people without industry experience at the moment. You're not going to walk into the industry easily, but anyone who puts a bit of work into their profile will manage it.
I wouldn't limit yourself to VR in that case.
The problem you may find is that while remote jobs are quite readily available for experienced senior people, they are few and far between for entry level roles. It's just much harder to onboard, mentor and develop junior staff remotely, and there's enough keen young people to not have to accommodate remote to find candidates.