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Vault_News  3 stars
Title: 0110011010
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Registered: 2005-10-18 12:53:17

Blizzard posted:

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We?ve just published ?A Day in the Life? John Shin? on our 20th Anniversary website, chronicling a single day in the life of a QA Analyst III focused on quality assurance for World of Warcraft. John gives you an inside look at testing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, collaborating with the development team, and staying active while working a busy day at Blizzard Entertainment.

You can read the full article here.



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Quazimortal  4 stars
Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
'A Day in the Life of a Slacker' is more like it.

 

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Auenwing  3 stars
Title: straightface
Posts: 589
Registered: 2002-12-27 23:23:12
Dear Blizzard, for the last time, please understand that only 25% of the world's population can be catagorized as demonstraing observable behavior that places them in the "expressive quadrant" which appears to be the overriding culture of your company based on empirical data (see: Wilson Learning).


Translation: please do not throw more personal stories about Blizzard employees at your customers. If there is an issue with QA, 75% of your customers will probably not care about the "personalities" at Blizzard; they just want the quality fixed. Thank you.


Results please.

 

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_Kewk_  2 stars
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Registered: 2002-12-17 16:11:04
Vault_News posted:

<center><img src="http://us.media1.battle.net/cms/blog_header/AZRH0LQM986Q1317947873538.jpg"></center><br><a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3925574/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_a_QA_Analyst-11_10_2011#blog">Blizzard</a> posted:<br><blockquote>We?ve just published ?A Day in the Life? John Shin? on our 20th Anniversary website, chronicling a single day in the life of a QA Analyst III focused on quality assurance for World of Warcraft. John gives you an inside look at testing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, collaborating with the development team, and staying active while working a busy day at Blizzard Entertainment.<br><br>ou can read the full article <a href="http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/b20/interviews.html#secondInterview">here</a>.</blockquote><br /><br />Posted from <a href="http://wowvault.ign.com">WoW Vault</a>



This looks oddly familiar... http://www.ritualistic.com/content.php/articles/030325_kewk.php
Ugh_Lancelot  3 stars
Title: Ooo...bouncy!
Posts: 766
Registered: 2002-6-17 14:37:05
Something suspicious about throwing them for a loop with the treasure chest experience feature. If you operate from a spec, that should have been on the list, which means the test lead wasn't paying enough attention to the spec. If it wasn't on the spec or you don't have one, then /facepalm.

 

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Spookysheep  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-1-9 06:49:19
LMAO, they think anyone believes that blizzard has a single competent QA Analyst?

 

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_Kewk_  2 stars
Title: Sith Lord
Posts: 400
Registered: 2002-12-17 16:11:04
Spookysheep posted:

LMAO, they think anyone believes that blizzard has a single competent QA Analyst?



Yes, they have amazingly talented testers at Blizz.
kuide  1 star
Posts: 106
Registered: 2004-11-1 08:23:04
They pay this guy? Im in the wrong job..
_Kewk_  2 stars
Title: Sith Lord
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Registered: 2002-12-17 16:11:04
kuide posted:

They pay this guy? Im in the wrong job..



He's getting ~25k a year, as a Assistant QA Lead. Nothing to brag about or raise a family on but if you are single and have room mates, you're able to get by.
heiromancerdrackus  2 stars
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Posts: 274
Registered: 2001-12-24 17:04:55
_Kewk_ posted:

kuide posted:

They pay this guy? Im in the wrong job..



He's getting ~25k a year, as a Assistant QA Lead. Nothing to brag about or raise a family on but if you are single and have room mates, you're able to get by.



25k as an assist to a lead? I think you are seriously lowballing that, particularly for CoL in Irvine.

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