Video Games

The Video Games industry is growing very rapidly. The number of game players continues to increase exponentially and to meet this demand more and more games are being produced. The games are becoming bigger, faster, more complex, and more realistic. The number of platforms is increasing and the platforms themselves are becoming more technologically sophisticated and innovative to enhance the user-experience. Gamers are from across the globe and are becoming ever more proficient at gaming.

The industry has to meet this ever increasing demand in an extremely competitive market, so that higher quality games have to be produced within the stringent constraints of cost and time-to-market and have to be synchronised with marketing deadlines.

Effective and optimal off-shoring is the key to achieving these multiple challenging objectives of this industry and so SQS-India has set up a wolrwide centre of excellent in games testing.  The centre of excellence includes a fully equipped test lab, which contains games consoles from all OEMs, a facility with strict access security, mechanisms for protection of the client's intellectual property, uninterrupted power, large redundant internet bandwidth provided by multiple service providers, and a video-recording set up for bug reporting.

From this centre of excellence, SQS-India provides a complete set of testing services to its customers leveraging SQS’s games testing mthodology and the deep experience of its consultants. Some of these services are:

• Functional Testing – to ensure that the games’ functions such as collisions, players, attributes, menus, events, button functions, scoring /statistics, function according to the game design. 
• Compatibility Testing – to ensure that the game functions consistently, without any conflicts with other standards software, across all typical PC configurations on the market.
• Multiplayer Testing – to ensure if games are designed to be played across the Internet or local network. These tests ensure games provide a smooth multiplayer gaming experience for end-users.
• MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) – to test a computer game capable of supporting thousands of players simultaneously, and which is played online on the internet.
• Localization Testing – to ensure that local language version of games perform consistently with the original versions.
• Compliance Testing -– to ensure if the games are designed as per pre-defined standards, rules or a technical requirement document such as TCR/TRC, Lot Check, etc.
• Game Play Testing – to give a professional and independent evaluation of the game play quality, such as realism of animation and fight damage, balance of the game, exploits etc. 
•  Independent Evaluation – to provide a third party evaluation of game quality and handling