Manual QA Course
Professional Software Quality Assurance Training Course is for
Unemployed
Those who lost their jobs because of the crisis and are having
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to gain a promising high-paid position in Tech
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making the American dream come true
Manual QA Course
Why Start Now
You have few competitors now
While there aren't many courses for mastering software quality assurance, there aren't
many
professionals. Thus, software quality assurance QA-specialists are in demand.
72% of the jobs are remote offers
It will be easier and less stressful for you to get a job in IT tech software quality
assurance.
It's easy to learn from scratch
Software quality assurance is a comparatively new field. However, the longer you wait,
the
more it is developing and the harder the start in your software quality assurance career
becomes.
Manual QA Course
Our Team
Alex Kara
Spin Career leader. Has 9+ years of Software Quality Assurance experience leading teams
at Verizon, CoreLogic, US Bank, Expedia.
- First IT job: 2012
- Moved to San Diego from Ukraine in 2016
- Junior → Senior → Team Lead
- CTFL/ISTQB certified
- Job interviewing experience:
- "I know exactly what
you
need to know for a successful interview because I am the interviewer :)"
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Natalie Sinipolskaya
QA Spin instructor. QA at Google. Self made QA expert with experience in manual testing,
managing teams, IT interviewing, mentoring and previous teaching background experience.
- In USA from 2011
- Lead Software Test Engineer/Test Program Manager
- First IT project in USA in 2016
- Junior manual QA → Senior → Lead → Test Program
Manager
- Google (Youtube, Google My Business, Google Maps,
etc.)
- Self made QA expert with experience in manual
testing,
managing teams, IT interviewing, mentoring and previous teaching background
experience.
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Iaroslava Kornachevska
QA Spin instructor. Senior QA Engineer at Apple. Has 7+ years of experience in QA
working as Manual and Automation Quality Assurance Engineer.
- Moved to the USA from Ukraine in 2013
- First IT job in US in 2015
- Manual test engineer → Java automation test engineer
→
Senior test engineer
- Google → Branch → Apple
- Job interviews experience
- Mentoring experience (including tech for kids)
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Statistics
Spin Career in numbers
03
months of studying
1.5
hours per day on
average
22
recorded lessons and
practical tasks
150
and more questions
for job interview
70K
your average salary per
year
04
live internship lessons
01
individual mock
interview
01
one-to-one call for
resume assistance
Manual Quality Assurance Course
What Is Included in Our Course
You get your private account on the software quality assurance course platform where you
can
see all the lessons, handouts, videos and tasks.
You get your personal mentor who will support you during and after the software quality
assurance training course and will answer all your questions.
You get the opportunity to have all your practical assignments manually checked by a
professional. You get valuable pieces of advice at every level of your development in a
software quality assurance career.
You get a lot of practice which is perhaps the most important factor in becoming a
software
quality assurance technician. Practice does make perfect and it is usually useless
without
professional guidance.
You get access to the private chat of like-minded people interested in quality assurance
software testing and training who understand what you are going through like nobody
else.
The goal of our software quality assurance course is you getting the result. You study
nothing but the things you will actually use in your future job in software testing.
We will be there for you when you will be going to the first job interview, when you
will
visit your workplace for the first time, when you will have to find your first bug at
work.
You can ask any question about software quality assurnace any moment even when the
course is finished.
Short description
Course Syllabus
All the software quality assurance training classes except the internship are prerecorded
for your convenience. You don't have to quit your
job or change your plans to become a quality assurance professional. You can watch the lessons
any time that is comfortable for you. After each
lesson you will be given handouts with technical course material.
The internship classes are live for you to get real practical experience and professional
skill-checking. But don't worry, you will also be able to choose the time that is the most
convenient
for you.
Lesson with Natalie Sinipolska
Course plan. Purpose of testing. Who is a tester? Roles and
responsibilities. What is a bug?
Description
You will know the goal of the software testing, quality control, and all the most
important things about bugs, including bug's components and where they come from.
Also, you will get familiar with other roles on the projects who work with QAs
Lesson with Alex Kara
Art of test case creation. Test plan. Test strategy.
Description
You will get to know how to create test cases, test suites, and test plan. You will
understand the structure as well as the result of the test case. You will know the
way you can maintain the bunch of test cases and how to manage test cases that have
different datasets
Lesson with Iaroslava Kornachevska
Requirements. Agile. SDLC. Waterfall.
Description
You will see the practical examples of the software development processes when the
coding and testing start and why we need the requirements. You will get a clear
picture of how the software development methodologies work nowadays and how robust
and flexible is the software development with software testing, unit testing,
quality management, and quality control.
Lesson with Natalie Sinipolska
Testing types. Testing activities in the real delivery
cycle. Boundary values analysis. Equivalence partitioning.
Description
You will get the picture of real-life development methodology and get the exact
steps that QA does at a different stage of the software development cycle. You will
have an understanding of most common testing types and advanced knowledge about test
case creation techniques
Lesson with Alex Kara
TC creation techniques. Defect life cycle. Bug attributes.
Bug-tracking system. JIRA, XRAY.
Description
You will get an understanding of interaction with developers managing the defect
lifecycle. You will get familiar with the JIRA Issue Tracking system and XRAY – a
plugin for managing test cases and executions
Lesson with Iaroslava Kornachevska
TDLC. Test case execution reporting. UI Testing. Web and
mobile web testing.
Description
After this class, you will get the important aspects of graphic user interface
testing and will have the details related to web and mobile testing. As a very
important addition, you'll get an understanding of testing for different page
layouts and screen resolutions
Lesson with Natalie Sinipolska
Intro to mobile testing. Xcode. Android Studio. App
install/uninstall. Log files.
Description
You will get a full picture of the testing for applications that have mobile phone
applications and get an understanding of how to work with the phones from the
command line and get the logs
Lesson with Alex Kara
Mobile testing: log files, exceptions (crashes, errors,
screenshots, video recording). Repeated tests execution in a real project.
Description
You will get a full picture of the testing for applications that have mobile phone
applications and get an understanding of how to work with the phones from the
command line and get the logs
Lesson with Iaroslava Kornachevska
Client-Server model. Product versions, environments.
Dev Tools. HTML
Description
You will get a clear understanding of how the server communicates with a client.
And you will get a very good understanding of the product versioning and
deployments to environments. You will get the answer to the question of why
can't we use only one environment
Lesson with Alex Kara
Protocols, OS, Linux, Logs
Description
You will get understanding about common protocols that are used for
request-response communication in the internet. We will cover the principles of
operational systems and will stop more deeply about Linux and terminal commands.
Will go over the logs and how we work with logs
Lesson with Iaroslava Kornachevska
REST API, HTTP-request/response structure. XML, JSON.
Postman, Swagger
Description
You will get the theoretical part of API testing including the practical
introduction of REST services tool – Postman, Swagger, XML and JSON structure
principles. You will get the most important verification we usually do for API
testing and HTTP request components
Lesson with Alex Kara
API Testing, Postman with an example, Splunk
Description
You will get big practical part of API testing where we will do practical steps
and will cover all the aspects of API testing. What verification quality
assurance and quality control does, how to create, run, maintain and automate
the backend test cases
Lesson with Natalie Sinipolska
Classwork: payment system testing part 1
Description
You will have practical experience of the full list of activities made by QAs
Lesson with Iaroslava Kornachevska
Classwork: payment system testing part 2
Description
You will have practical experience of the full list of activities made by QAs
Lesson with Alex Kara
SQL. Understanding of databases
Description
You will be able to work with a database and manage selecting data that can be
connected with the keys
Lesson with Natalie Sinipolska
Classwork: payment system testing part 3
Description
You will have practical experience of the full list of activities made by QAs
Lesson with Iaroslava Kornachevska
Interview questions and answers analysis. How to
practice so that I don't need to memorize?
Description
You will have an understanding of interviews and how to answer basic questions
during recruiter and technical interviews
Lesson with Iaroslava Kornachevska
Resume preparation. Self-introduction
Description
You will have a draft version of your resume that we will discuss on by one and
add missing things to be more attractive to recruiters
Lesson with Iaroslava Kornachevska
One-to-one call for resume assistance
Description
We will ask you questions related to your past experience and we will come up
with the best options for your resume
Lesson with Natalie Sinipolska
Building a solid LinkedIn profile. Posting resume to
the appropriate jobs. Job market skills. Effective job search
Description
You will get the LinkedIn profile with your skills and past experience added.
You will get a clear understanding of the job market and salaries and tricks for
a better job search
Lesson with Alex Kara
Interview practice. Lifehacks
Description
You will see how the technical interview goes in real life
Lesson with Alex Kara
Interview practice. Lifehacks
Description
You will see how the technical interview goes in real life
Lesson with Iaroslava Kornachevska
Test Automation lesson. Framework overview. Automated
testing of previous manual test-cases. Daily post your resume
Description
You will get hands-on experience with test automation. You will be provided with
detailed instructions and a framework that you will use for creating automated
tests
By Alex Kara & Iaroslava Kornachevska
4 LIVE INTERNSHIP LESSONS. End to end testing on real
projects
Description
You will get hands-on experience with test automation. You will be provided with
detailed instructions and a framework that you will use for creating automated
tests
By Alex Kara
MOCK INTERVIEW. You will see how the technical
interview goes in real life
Description
You will get the real interview one-to-one session with us and then receive a
feedback with the areas that you need to fill up
expected Results
Your Main Result After Finishing The Course
You are a software quality assurance QA professional. You are working for a reputable
company
and your career is holding great promise. Your job interview was a huge success. You were
well
prepared and having no experience working in the USA or no degree from an American
university
did not become an obstacle on your way. Now you feel that you finally found your place in
this
country. You no longer need to worry about money, credit cards or medical insurance. You are
sure about your future and can enjoy your life in America. You proved everyone that you can
make
it!
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Buy Package
Buy course in 1 or 2 payments
Self-Study
$570
- Personal account on the course
platform
- 22 prerecorded lessons
- Extra files for studying
- Questions for preparation for
job
interview
- Practical assignments
- 3 months of assignments checking
- 4 live internship lessons
- Individual mock interview
- One-to-one call for resume
assistance
- Personal professional support and
help
- Private chat with instructors and
other students
- Certificate of completion
- Post-course support and advice
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Full Package
$2150
- Personal account on the course
platform
- 22 prerecorded lessons
- Extra files for studying
- Questions for preparation for
job
interview
- Practical assignments
- 3 months of assignments
checking
- 4 live internship lessons
- Individual mock interview
- One-to-one call for resume
assistance
- Personal professional support
and
help
- Private chat with instructors
and
other students
- Certificate of completion
- Post-course support and
advice
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Guarantee
We Guarantee You
We are sure about the quality of knowledge we provide and the result you are going to get.
Thus,
we guarantee the refund due to any reason you have.
If you doubt whether you are really interested in software quality assurance and quality
control, you have time to make a final decision — 7
days from the course start. You can request your money back within 7 days. After that your
payment cannot be cancelled.
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Reviews
What our students say about us
Loved the amount of practice the guys gave me for the QA course! It was worth every penny I paid for the program and I got an offer in 6 months, only because I had to take care of a few things after I graduated. Anyway, all the support I got was really help...
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I loved the content, this has been by far the most informative course I ever attended. I appreciate team's expertise and insight on what it's like actually working at a giant company...
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Thank you so much for your great work you guys have done! I graduated the online QA course and got the gob in 2 and half months after finishing the program. Was plenty of practice where I worked with requirements, created test cases...
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I took course QA manual testing. Everything in syllabus, I got. At the beginning we had a bunch of theory, next we learned how to create matrix, test cases, bug reports by testing real work sites. After this we moved to the Jira, mobile...
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I took the Manual software Quality Assurance course with Spin Career guys and it helped me a lot especially with interview handling. The course has many practical tasks and internship where we worked in the groups and I could ask questions ...
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I loved the content, this has been by far the most informative course I ever attended. I appreciate team's expertise and insight on what it's like actually working at a giant company. The teachers are open to all kinds of questions and...
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Before applying to the Manual QA course I thought that it’s super easy like only typing and clicking but actually learning more and more understood that it’s way more than monkey job) The Spin Career guys gave a lot of practice and prepared...
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The fact that the classes are simple or the instructors make it look simple and straight forward and they were so friendly they are flexible and always willing to help, I like the fact that in most of the sessions there was a lot of...
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I was not sure I would understand perfectly coming from a banking career to IT or tech world but I decided to give it a trial.
I attended another webinar on QA, yours was cheaper and I was already reading...
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What skills do I need to start with the Manual QA course?
You don't really need some specific skills like programming or mathematics to start with our manual QA training course or in our QA engineer training. Something that will help you a lot with further progress is your super MOTIVATION! Other than that experience working with computer and communication skills are 2 things that are not required but will help you as well.
Do you help with creating a resume?
Yes, we help you to create your resume, give advice, best practices, red flags and many recommendations. Additionally we have one to one private session where we help to demonstrate a prior experience. Along with many topics such as fixing bugs in production we also prepare students for the job interview. The program includes 1 Mock interview where you run through almost real interview with one of our instructors. At the end we provide you a feedback with the things to improve.
Do you set homework?
Yes, we provide the homework tasks that will be oriented to the tasks from real projects and tasks during interviews.
Do you help with getting a job offer after completing a course?
Yes. Our goal is to see you with the job offer that has a 6 digits number after completing our program. Meaning that you will be provided with assistance even after you finish the course. Student find the job in average from 2 to 6 months after starting the course.
What is the schedule for the programs?
Short answer is it depends on the program. For Manual QA program the schedule is up to you! As students from the previous courses couldn't visit each and every lesson because of other duties and plans, we decided to make most of the lessons prerecorded. That is why now you can study any time that is convenient for you!
Internship classes and mock interview are the only live lessons. But don't worry — we will plan our meetings in advance and try to choose the best possible time. We also have hundreds of helpful blogs like the popular tell me about yourself interview questions for qa tester or the blog about automated testing benefits
I finished programming courses or a bootcamp and now I'm struggling to find a job, can you help me?
Do you have a Automation QA Course?
Weren't you called the "QA in USA" school?
Spin Career is the former QA in USA school, you are right! We came up with a new school name and logo, since we are planning to do much more than just one course on Quality Assurance! More courses are to come. Stay tuned!