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Launching Your QA Career

Microsoft via Coursera

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Provider

Coursera
Pricing

Paid Course
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Effort

2 weeks, 1 hour a week
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Beginner
Subtitles

English

Part of

Microsoft Junior QA/Software Tester

Overview

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You've built the technical skills of a Junior QA Tester. Now it's time to land the role. Launching Your QA Career is a practical, job-search course designed to help you translate your lab work and projects into the language that hiring managers and recruiting systems recognize. You'll learn how to write metric-driven resume bullet points that pass Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), using the right keywords — from Jira and Zephyr to Playwright and SQL. You'll also curate a public GitHub portfolio that showcases your automation scripts in a way that non-technical recruiters can understand and appreciate. When it comes to interviews, you'll be ready. This course breaks down the most common behavioral and technical QA interview questions and teaches you the STAR method for crafting confident, structured answers. You'll even practice with an AI-powered mock interviewer that simulates a real final-round QA interview. By the end of the course, you will translate projects into resume bullet points highlighting technical and manual QA skills, prepare a public GitHub portfolio showcasing automated testing, and navigate behavioral and technical QA interview questions using the STAR method

Syllabus

The QA Resume and Portfolio

Learn how to market yourself to tech recruiters. You will transform your academic projects into professional experience, ensuring you pass automated Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and curate a public GitHub portfolio to prove you can write and document real automation code.

Acing the QA Interview

Interviews can be intimidating, but QA interviews follow predictable patterns. Learn how to answer questions about bug triage, developer conflicts, and automation strategy, and practice your responses live with an AI hiring manager.