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Launching Your QA Career

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Launching Your QA Career

This course is part of Microsoft Junior QA/Software Tester Professional Certificate

Instructor: Microsoft

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Translate course projects into professional resume bullet points highlighting technical and manual QA skills.
Prepare a public GitHub portfolio showcasing proficiency in automated testing.
Navigate common behavioral and technical QA interview questions using the STAR method.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Test Tools
Category: Automation
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Quality Assurance
Category: Quality Assessment
Category: Verbal Communication Skills
Category: Communication Strategies
Category: Software Testing
Category: Software Documentation
Category: Interviewing Skills
Category: Interpersonal Communications
Category: Test Automation
Category: AI Integrations
Category: Technical Writing
Category: Issue Tracking
Category: Product Testing

Tools you'll learn

Category: GitHub

Details to know

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Add to your LinkedIn profile

Build your Personal Development expertise

This course is part of the Microsoft Junior QA/Software Tester Professional Certificate

When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Professional Certificate.

Learn new concepts from industry experts
Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
Earn a shareable career certificate from Microsoft

There are 2 modules in this course

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

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.

What's included

2 videos1 reading2 assignments

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.

What's included

2 videos1 reading2 assignments

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Frequently asked questions

This course is designed for graduates of the Junior QA / Software Tester Professional Certificate. However, you can take it concurrently with the final long courses if you're actively preparing to apply. The more projects you've completed, the more material you'll have to work with.

You'll work with a word processor to refine your resume, GitHub to set up and curate your public portfolio, LinkedIn to position yourself professionally, and Coursera Coach to simulate a live QA interview. No new technical tools are introduced.

This course helps you position yourself for entry-level roles such as Junior QA Tester, Software Tester, QA Analyst, and Manual Tester. It bridges the gap between the technical skills you've built in the program and the practical steps needed to secure your first QA role.

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