What are the responsibilities of a Junior QA Specialist?

Once you start your career at scandiweb, your first responsibility is to complete onboarding in the company, setting you up in all the processes and systems. This process is set forth in our Learning System and you will be supported by an HR member of our team. 

Your next responsibility is to complete the Starter Training Course to ensure that you can join a commercial project with a minimum necessary knowledge of the workflow and quality requirements. 

Once you start your active work in the role of Junior QA Specialist, your responsibilities will include:

• Revising your active pipeline of the tasks, discussing them at Daily Standup making sure tasks are clear for you and nothing blocks you from delivering;
• Participating in Daily Standups with the team is crucial for understanding the project's direction, its current status, the completion of tasks, and ensuring there are no pending bugs as we enter the UAT period;
• Understanding the tasks, functional, and business scope not only ensures that the project is pixel-perfect and all required features are functioning correctly but also ensure that the tasks work together with the solution components;
• Creating test cases before starting work allows the developer assigned to the task to have a better chance of success by following your test cases. This ensures that the necessary functionality and integration for the feature are covered within the project;
• Identifying issues and errors on a project and reporting them following internal company quality guidelines;
• Performing manual quality assurance using tools, like, Browserstack, DevTools, TestLodge, Lightshot, Loom, and others;
• Performing various forms of manual testing: cross-browser, smoke tests, cross-device testing for different back-end and front-end scenarios, regression testing, and in some cases performance or stability testing;
• Applying company quality standards and practices to ensure optimum project quality and delivery;
• Providing daily status updates on your work and reflecting your delivery in commit messages, task comments, and time logs to facilitate transparency and teamwork;
• Cooperating with internal and external stakeholders in your tasks: developers, project managers, and clients;
• Upgrading existing competencies by taking part in relevant certification processes organized by the company.

What will help you to advance in your career starting as Junior QA Specialist?

• Deepening your knowledge of libraries, frameworks, and platforms that are necessary for a successful delivery for customers;
• Understanding your success KPIs that we will share with you and setting the goals to improve them;
• Ability to speak up and proactively ask questions about your work, seek clarification for your tasks, and support and guidance from your senior colleagues;
• Ability to integrate the use of various performance optimization tools in your learning and delivery;
• Following the Continuous Learning process passing suggested courses internally and obtaining valuable external credentials such as globally recognized certifications that the company will arrange for you;
• Participating in company-organized events to foster collaboration both online and offline.

What is the compensation package of a Junior QA Specialist at scandiweb?

• Competitive starting salary relative to the market;
• Salary revisions and upgrades that happen twice a year;
• Growth path to become an Engineer, Senior Engineer, Team Lead, and Partner
• Support for hardware upgrades;
• Core health insurance coverage and sports bonuses;
• A diverse multinational team of experts to learn from;
• Best tools for collaboration, coding, quality assurance, and communication;
• Company-covered training and certification;
• Legendary online and onsite events to celebrate our success together.

Next steps

• Apply and fill in the application form
• Receive the test task and complete it.