In the world of internet video and online games are $50 billion business a year. Every year the business has considerable increase with huge demand of games. With increased number of game lovers there are many new games being released every week to meet huge competition. Game testers are wanted by the programmers to analyze whether their games are working properly or not. Game testers will suggest the programmers changes that can be made on every game to make it somewhat better. It is understood from surveys that an average game tester is earning $50K every year. But, the game testers should have the experience and knoweledge and known the decent, intelligent way of expressing their ideas on a particular game. The programmers are really in the need of successful and contentful completion of their games which are in beta form. It'll be always important for programmers to get feedback and ideas from mass of game testers to run their business successfully.

To get a video game tester job the applicant needs to own the gaming platform for which they want to test video games on. The standard procedure is that the video game tester is mailed the unreleased video games with a survey sheet enclosed. A game tester might also be asked to play on the specific area of the game to find bugs or giltches that the programmers suspect is there. The programmers will try to fix the bugs and the game tester has to play that part until the giltch is fixed. The video game tester has to complete entire and return the survey with any issues and bugs. Upon receiving the survey or feedback the gaming company will then mail the video game tester a check. The life of video game tester is certainly not a fun. It's however, a necessary and serious job. The testers are judging the marketability of a particular product by giving feed back to the programmers. There are constantly new gaming platforms being introduced. We can find many major gaming sites and job offering sites to get these dream jobs of game testing. Major gaming companies such as Microsoft, Ubisoft, Nintendo require keen and motivated game testers for their unreleased games.

Below given all the major gaming sites are in the demand of game testers whenever they release their new games in beta forms.

http://www.nintendo.com

http://xbox360.ign.com

http://www.rockstargames.com

http://www.midway.com

http://www.ea.com

http://www.stationsony.com

http://www.us.playstation.com

http://www.microsoft.com/games/

http://www.cube.ign.com

http://www.gameloft.com

http://www.koolkampus.com

We can also find the game testing jobs by searching on major job offer sites such as

http://www.dice.com

http://www.monster.com/employment

http://www.findcareersnow.com

http://www.carrierbuilder.com

http://www.simplyhired.com

http://www.stylusinc.com

Some tips to get dream job of game tester

• Joining game sites will be helpful to get news letters which most of the time indicate major game testing job.
• Search for the forums with in the game sites is the smart way to get friendship with many game testers who already work in the sites. If you are lucky to get a friend working as game tester you can get easily an idea about the job.
• Joining Monster.com, findcareernow.com, dice.com, is also helpful to find out new game testing job offers.
• Searching on popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Msn will make favorable results. You can use the key words such as Nintendo game testing job, xbox game testing job, microsoft game testing job and etc.,
• Every game site may have career section where you can find job offers and you can try them by sending your resumes.
• It is better to think twice before joining membership sites asking for money as any thing asking money in the internet can be considered as scam.