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Competences — digital games tester

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/33e4f026-a823-4ffc-99e4-60d3fe597a1e).

Essential

  • address problems critically (skill/competence)
  • application usability (knowledge)
  • digital game genres (knowledge)
  • execute software tests (skill/competence)
  • levels of software testing (knowledge)
  • provide software testing documentation (skill/competence)
  • replicate customer software issues (skill/competence)
  • report test findings (skill/competence)
  • software anomalies (knowledge)

Optional

  • Agile project management (knowledge)
  • compose digital game story (skill/competence)
  • conduct ICT code review (skill/competence)
  • create concept of digital game (skill/competence)
  • create game testing software (skill/competence)
  • debug software (skill/competence)
  • demonstrate functionality of video games (skill/competence)
  • develop automated software tests (skill/competence)
  • develop ICT test suite (skill/competence)
  • human-computer interaction (knowledge)
  • ICT debugging tools (knowledge)
  • ICT project management methodologies (knowledge)
  • LDAP (knowledge)
  • lean project management (knowledge)
  • LINQ (knowledge)
  • manage schedule of tasks (skill/competence)
  • MDX (knowledge)
  • measure software usability (skill/competence)
  • N1QL (knowledge)
  • perform software recovery testing (skill/competence)
  • principles of animation (knowledge)
  • Process-based management (knowledge)
  • query languages (knowledge)
  • resource description framework query language (knowledge)
  • software interaction design (knowledge)
  • SPARQL (knowledge)
  • tools for ICT test automation (knowledge)
  • use scripting programming (skill/competence)
  • XQuery (knowledge)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 10 ads, as of 2026-07-11)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

  • game testing — 80 %
  • attention to detail — 60 %
  • bug identification — 20 %

Responsibilities

  • game testing — 50 %
  • gameplay — 30 %
  • gameplay testing — 20 %