I've studied BE, but there aren't really any courses or degrees for what this job requires; that was self-learnt. I have designed about 20 international games across genres; two of them at EA. You acquire a lot of the knowledge required for this job by playing games; it gives you an understanding of how games work.

There is also a lot of creativity involved; you should be able to visualise and have the passion for creating something new. Even if you have a simple object like a ball, there are thousands of ways in which you can weave gameplay around it. So a game designer should be able to come up with different possibilities and ideas. We visualise how a game should work.

Amol Samant, Engineering Manager

We cater to several projects for teams worldwide. My job involves managing programmers in our team, and also planning and managing the various projects of game development for the mobile division. We oversee game development from start to finish. I've been developing games on various platforms for the past eight years and that experience has definitely helped here at EA.

Programmers in our team work on various parts of a game, ranging from artificial intelligence to physics. We also have people who work on optimisation for various devices, so the game engine is a very important part of that. We have some people focussed on developing the engine. Delivering the game to the customer is also handled by our team; we work on the delivery platforms that will allow the customer to get the game onto their mobile device. For our team, we hire both freshers and those with more experience, so there is a balance. We do hire a lot of freshers, mostly engineers. But we also hire people from other backgrounds if they have the aptitude for the job.

EA Hyderabad plans to ramp up its operations, and to do this, they aim to expand their workforce from 200 to 500 in the near future. Here's a detailed list of jobs currently open at the Hyderabad studio:

EA Mobile: Associate Development Manager
EA Mobile: QA Lead
EA Mobile: QA Tester
EA Mobile: Software Engineer (J2ME)
EA: Lead Engineer (Sims)