Here’s an interview for you game testers out there, with an ex-employee of VMC Game Labs Montreal.

From C.Dump Magazine:

Here at C Dump Magazine we have had the opportunity over the course of a few years to work with many people in QA. This includes people who were clients and co-workers at both 3rd party testing companies and development companies. For our first interview on C Dump we had a chat with former co-worker and close friend Paul Loynd who now works at Microsoft with the Xbox LIVE Arcade Group.

Jack Rage: Can you describe your role in QA at the Xbox LIVE Arcade Group?

Paul Loynd: My official title is SDET/Test Lead but I perform more Associate Producer type tasks. I am in charge of driving titles all the way from Alpha to Release which entails coordinating tests, triaging bugs, giving game design feedback, processing milestone submissions (in addition to making a pass or fail calls), sometimes demoing titles at public venues like PAX, E3, CES in addition to the basic QA lead duties. My team handles all first party titles for Xbox LIVE Arcade so anything not published by EA, Capcom, Eidos, etc comes through our group. Think like Halo, Gears, Forza, but for Arcade titles.

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After spending time as a tester on that team I was eventually promoted to a lead position. Later I did a bit of work outside the Arcade team on other projects and I started working with a group up in Montreal while I was in Redmond. Because of my experience so far they Montreal office wanted to steal me away up to Montreal for a while to help build out a test team for G4WL PC testing. I was only supposed to be in Montreal for a couple weeks. But I immediately fell in love with Montreal when I got there, and the Montreal office was very pleased with the work I was doing in addition to the business I was giving them the opportunity to bring there because of my experience. So I got an apartment and stayed and you know the majority of the Montreal part of the story from there.

Read the complete interview at C.Dump Magazine…

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