QA Academy is a training center collaborating with a1qa company, which has provided testing services for over 20 years. We opened the training center in 2013 at the peak of QA sphere growth. At first, we prepared students to work with our company, but now anyone can join our training.
We still offer a job to our best graduates. They join our team and get under the supervision of more experienced testers. Therefore, we really teach as if for ourselves.
The base for those who are not familiar with QA sphere
Training from scratch, from simple to complicated material
The next step for beginner testers
More practical skills to feel more confident at work
Specialized English for reading and writing documentation
Speaking skills for work with foreign teams: business correspondence and calls
For those who are crazy about computer games
You have to know testing basics: we will go in depth of games development
Learning the principles of automatization, getting to know programming
You need some testing experience
The next step for those who tried their hand in automation testing
We teach to solve QA tasks with the help of Java
A tester checks the quality of a program before it reaches a user. They closely work with project developers, hinting to them what can go wrong.
The main task of a tester is to make sure that a product works as designed: effectively and without glitches. A tester can work with websites, computer games, mobile apps, cloud services. Testing can be functional and automated. For the former one, you need computer literacy, and for the latter you must know programming.
We offer a qa engineer course with a job placement. So, we prepare you for real work. We give the base of knowledge: it helps understand basic QA processes and be on the same wave with the team. We don’t forget about practice: we have a lot of it on our courses. Therefore, you will have real experience, but not a career from a clean slate.
You will study in the evening, twice a week. The lectures and practice part last 2 academic hours. For sure, everything will be recorded so that you can watch it to make sure you get what you may have missed.
These will be real tasks that testers face every day. We understand that hardly anyone has a chance to study from morning till sunset. Therefore, we offer to complete simple tasks on weekdays, and we assign more complicated tasks for the weekend.
Our trainers are working in QA teams right now. They are ready to answer your questions and give extensive feedback on your tasks.
You can discuss home assignments and topics that are hard for you in the chat with other students and your trainers. It is always easier to do something together!
We provide personal certificates when completing an online courses for qa testing. We must ensure you have grasped the course curriculum. So, you will have a talk with a trainer via the online call.
Yes, you can. Our courses are aimed at job placement so you can get the skills needed at work. The graduates who showed the best results get an offer to work with our partners. If you would like to look for a job by yourselves, we will prepare you for it. To make your resume more powerful, we suggest taking several stages of our courses. Depending on what course you have passed, you can become a functional, automation or computer games tester.
After the course completion we recommend applying for Junior level vacancies. If you have passed several stages of our courses, for example, basic and advanced, then you can apply for Junior position. Pay attention to the employer requirements: it happens that the borders between Junior and Middle levels are rather blurred.
We offer comprehensive training: from scratch in IT to the advanced level in automatization. Our programs include training of manual functional testing, games testing, automation testing and English to work in QA.
Be ready to study for 2 months. Lectures are usually in the evening on weekdays. We give practical assignments both on weekdays and weekends, but with different levels of complexity. A lecture lasts 2 academic hours and to complete a home assignment you may need from 2 to 10 academic hours.
These are the tasks you are going to complete in your future work, for example, to hold a bug test and to write comments for developers. You will face more bulky tasks – they may take about 8-10 academic hours. Consider it as drilling and experience gaining. The deadlines are pleasant, and the feedback is extensive.
We have our training in English and Russian. You will need English when working and you had better have B1 level of English. Join our course QA English Basics to improve your level and work on foreign projects.
It depends on what course you are going to select. Usually, you don’t need any specific knowledge if you join the course for beginners. But any knowledge about the sphere you have will be valuable: it will be easier for you to dive deep into the context.
There are no requirements, except when you join advanced courses. There you will certainly need some experience in testing, otherwise it will be very hard to understand what a trainer is talking about. As for the rest, we are ready to support you during the course and answer any professional questions. We don’ t care about your age, gender and walk of life.
You will need a laptop or a PC with the following features:
We specialize only in testing in comparison with other multi-discipline schools. Only hands-on trainers work in the QA Academy, and they know what you are going to face during work. Besides, we teach as if for ourselves; therefore, we ask the best graduates to join our company. So, we are directly interested in preparing top-notch specialists.
Our teachers are practitioners who work in QA: directly in testing or in project management. Their work experience is from 3 years. To effectively share their knowledge and skills with you, they have received training in teaching methods. And now she is teaching testing courses in Latvia for you!
Send a request from our website and wait till our administrator gets in touch with you. They will send you a special code to enter on the payment page. Then, you will have to follow simple instructions. You can pay for the course before the training starts or after the first lecture to make sure the quality of teaching matches your expectations.
