Junior QA Specialist

**Description**:

- For every person joining us for any entry-level position, there is a path and an opportunity to reach an executive role and become a company partner_

Antons Sapriko, Company Founder
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Video stories of colleagues who joined as Junior QA Specialists:
**Ilona Smatko, from a Junior QA to a QA Community Lead. Latvia.**

**Eleonora Grigane, from a Junior QA to an expert QA. Latvia.**Aleksandrss Panass, from an Intern to a QA expert. Latvia.** Experience ScandiFest: scandiweb first annual festival in Egypt**

**How to become a Junior QA Specialist at scandiweb eCommerce expert team?**:
We are a very inclusive company with colleagues across 30+ countries on all continents with the female developer ratio being among the highest in the industry. We welcome people from different paths of life, who can complete a technical test, which consists of a testing challenge.

The test does not require you to have previous QA experience, instead, it focuses on aspects like checking your attention to detail and ability to use common sense and bringing structure to a complex environment. You have the opportunity to look holistically at a project and to perform various actions that are reflective of actual QA work in Scandiweb. We also test your capability to learn during the test as we will share educational materials for some of the tasks.

Everybody who completes the Entry Level test and successfully passes the Practical Trial day task, is invited to an interview. We are confident that if you can complete the entry-level test and successfully pass the Practical Trial Day task, you have the necessary background to let us guide you further on the path to engineering expertise and enterprise-level delivery.

Your previous experience and education do not matter; what matters is your ability to deliver results starting from the test task, and your enthusiasm and openness to embrace new knowledge and processes. You can even fail the test and redo it; we will provide you with feedback and will appreciate your ability to act on it to improve and pass. Continuous learning and acting on feedback are among our core organizational values.

**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;
- 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.

**Further career growth for Junior QA Specialist**

You will get support in career counseling from our HR department as each career path is unique taking into account your personal strengths and ambitions.

A successful Junior QA usually becomes an independent QA, further advancing to either a Senior manual QA or a Junior Project manager by mastering the technological, communication, and business context of their work.

Further steps from an independent QA role will depend on your preferences for g