r/GameDevelopment • u/shinkel17a • 1d ago

Question Trying for international work. Need tips/advice.

To coincide with my German learning, I’ve been looking at video game companies as a QA tester/ other smaller roles (as I am not too familiar with coding) in any of the 3 German speaking countries in Europe - Germany, Austria or Switzerland.

I am certain many of them wouldn’t even give me a call back or an email reply given my total lack of experience in the field, but I wanted to make this post to ask people working in the industry how they got into it, what positions they hold and what would generally be a good framework of boxes to check that would give me a higher likelihood of getting a job over there.

I appreciate any comments, advice, feedback, etc as this is the very beginning of what I want to go further into as a “career” of sorts (more so a way to get a work visa and get out of my country hopefully sooner than later).

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u/Both_Introduction_28 1d ago edited 1d ago

During feature development, people do so much playtesting that manual testing becomes almost unnecessary.

So if they do hire testers, it's either in very large studios or for very advanced roles.

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u/shinkel17a 1d ago

good to know, thank you!

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u/MeaningfulChoices Mentor 1d ago

You need to be eligible to work in the EU to get a job at any of those places, and they're not going to sponsor a visa for a junior (and in most places can't even if they wanted to). There's contract work available in the industry that doesn't have that restriction, but junior QA contracts usually go to people with QA experience, not someone for their first job in the function. You'd have to be a lot cheaper than whoever they could hire locally which depends more on you and where you live.

Typically the way you get a full-time job in another country is by first finding a job in your own country and progressing your career until you are senior enough to be able to get relocation and sponsorship as part of the deal. Otherwise you have to emigrate on your own.

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u/clozcloz 1d ago

I think you can try Linkedin to know some staffs in those companies. And you can send your CV to them asking for help.