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Let’s pretend you have completed your professional software quality assurance training course at Spin Career. Now, you should prepare for your first interview and probably your first job opportunity. You will be asked several questions during your interview.  One of the most common QA questions is, “Tell me about yourself, QA tester.” Most QA specialists […]

In fact, during a QA tester interview, 50-60% of candidates fail when asked about their biggest failure. Many people do not admit their failures. I’ve got a feeling that many of them read books on how to be successful and believe that all stories are built on a sequence of successful test cases. But this […]

This case is not something brand new for QA: testing the simplest form, search box, or login/sign-up form. In practice, many specialists cannot fully solve this problem, considering what IT companies expect. How to Approach a Problem in QA Interview During the typical QA interview testers approach this problem using testing theory, classes of equivalence, […]

These are the stages I use when I interview candidates myself. Typical QA Interview Process Introduce Company 1. First, I introduce the company, describe the processes, talk about the team and what I expect from a future team member. I must say right away that I like to leave “traps” in this part: I deliberately […]

Recently, I had a task to hire new members to the testing team, and 2 positions were opened: Middle QA and Junior QA. Let’s take a look at the Junior position. The selection consisted of 3 stages: Task when applying for a vacancy. Face-to-face meeting to test hard skills. The third stage was introduced already […]

As in any other job, the field of software testing has its position levels, which are usually called grades. The generally accepted grading of the levels in the job of a QA specialist looks like this: Junior Middle Senior The rest of the article will discuss exactly what skills junior testers should have at their […]