Hot tech job roles in the Indian gaming industry

Hot tech job roles in the Indian gaming industry

Service-side and client-side software engineers, user interface designers and quality assurance engineers are some of the tech job roles which are in demand within the evolving Indian casual gaming industry
The number of casual gamers in India is set to increase eight times by 2015 and this would in turn lead to 4X growth in revenue of the casual gaming sector, says a recent report released by NASSCOM Gaming Forum in association with International Game Developers Association (IGDA).
The report brings out the potential the evolving casual gaming industry holds and highlights that it is set to grow at a CAGR of 32 per cent by 2015. The figure is a direct indicator of the demand for workforce that is set to emerge in the casual gaming industry.
According to the TimesJobs.com data, about 69 per cent job profiles, in demand within the Indian gaming industry, are for the technology centric job roles.
To understand various hot tech job profiles emerging in the casual gaming industry, we spoke to Tanay Tayal, co-founder, Moonfrog Labs, a Bangalore based startup specialising in building cross-device social, causal games.
Company’s Teen Patti Gold – a multi-player casino game – has experienced nearly a million downloads which is a rare achievement among Indian gaming companies.
Tanay highlighted four core tech job profiles which would be in demand in the coming year, when the Indian gaming industry is set experience rapid growth.
1)   IT engineers (Server) 
Job description

• Taking active part in development of various game components in a scalable manner
• Ensuring the gaming platform/components are highly available and scalable
• Designing backend system architecture for better manageability 

Required skill set

• IT/software professionals who are good at system architecture at various levels – be it operating system, network, security or storage
• Understanding of designing scalable systems and running highly available backend infrastructures
• Comfort level with managing huge volumes of data, since the data might be streaming in from millions of players logged on to the gaming app at any particular point in time

2)  IT engineers (Client) 
Job description

• Development of gaming apps for iOS, Android or web platform
• Understanding of key differences and gotchas ( a counter-intuitive, but documented, behavior in a computer system) of different platforms (iOS, Android, Kindle, Windows)

Required skill set

• Software/IT professionals with sound tech skills, prior knowledge of flash, iOS, Android or any cross-platform frameworks
• Good coding skills and problem solving skills
• Flair for writing highly extensible code and modules
• Sense of design and aesthetics

3)    User interface designer 
Job description

• Building effective user interface of the game involving strategising the usage of right control and feedback mechanisms
• Defining appropriate interactions
• Understanding the players intentions

Required skill set 

• Deep understanding of user psychology
• Implementation of user testing and feedback loops
• Know and cater to the preconceptions of players in various game scenarios
• Good analytical skills
• Specialisation in user interface and interaction design – IIT Bombay and NID provide relevant courses

4)    Quality assurance specialists 
Job description

• Testing the games/features for any defects
• Come up with systematic test plan and recurring testing checklists
• Reporting defects to the engineering team
• Act as safeguard for quality of the app/game from the users point of view

Required skill set

• Ability to write automated scripts to test different scenarios
• Passionate gamer who gets a kick by trying different games
• Self-driven to keep user delight and experience as the first priority in terms of quality
• Doesn’t get bored of testing games, as it requires one to keep trying different facets of the game repeatedly

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