[Magus]

My brother was a QA tester for years at Nintendo and Microsoft, you can't work your way up (well he was originally a worker on the Nintendo hotline but the internet killed that off right quick), not just because the hierarchy doesn't work that way in those companies, but also the fact that they only ever hired him for 9 months at a stretch so they wouldn't have to provide health benefits.

He finally took a short course on game design a couple of years ago and got a decent job at a small game studio actually working on some coding/design elements, which was sort of what he always wanted to do. He's much more interested and happy now than he ever was as a QA tester, seems like.