My first role in the games industry was as a QA Tester working on Football Manager 2019. My QA position had me using lateral thinking to analyse parts of the Football Manager 2019 game to find bugs within it, I would writeup concise and clear reports to delivery to the developers to fix these issues. I also followed and conducted thorough test plans to check the playable state of the game.

My time in QA was an enjoyable one and it was the perfect way for me to get my foot in the door of games development. My first contract was only to be four months, and between thoose months I logged over 400 bugs and expressed and interest in joining the programming side of things.

I got my wish as Sports Interactive to a chance with me and I was mentored in C++ whilst fixing post release bugs on FM2019 earning a fulltime junior contract later in the year.