Building QA teams
In small and even medium-sized gaming studios (sized up to fifty people), it’s not uncommon to have only one dedicated QA employee. But when a studio starts to work on multiple games or a game goes to live ops and becomes very successful, the QA department usually starts to grow. There are several different ways to plan your QA team. Let’s have a closer look at them:
- Adding more embedded QA to the game development teams. A QA team is usually hired to work specifically on this game, and it will have its own structure within the team, with one of the QA team members acting as the QA lead. Each game team will have its own QA team that will work primarily within the game team rather than with the QA teammates from different games. This approach is great in teams and companies that favor flat organizational structures and collaborative working practices. QA can get really deep insight into the product and participate in decision-making about the games...
