Chris Hicks



Chris Hicks is an American software development engineer. For 11 months between April 2005 and February 2006, Hicks was a quality assurance tester at Nintendo of America through placements with the temp agency Mentor 4. He tested a handful of games, many of them Nintendo DS titles. These include Metroid Prime Hunters, Mario Party 7, a port of "Tales of Phantasia" to DS (which title is unclear), Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! and the DS port of Final Fantasy III. For Hunters, Hicks took the initiative to lead a group of 20-30 QA testers in a "methodical and extensive testing" of the game's multiplayer mode and online support. He is uncredited in Hunters, likely due to his testing the game via work placements. After working as a tester at Microsoft for their original Xbox backwards compatibility program, Hicks joined Amazon. He is currently a software development engineer there.