Junior QA Analyst

Junior QA Analyst Intern
SCALIS is hiring a remote full time Junior QA Analyst to help us deliver a reliable recruiting platform used for complex, high-impact workflows such as job requisitions, candidate management, interviews, approvals, offers, and onboarding.

This is a hands-on quality role. You will explore the product, test new features, reproduce customer issues, run regression checks, and help the team understand whether a change is truly ready for customers.

Manual and exploratory testing are central to the role. You will also work with engineers to identify valuable automation opportunities, but this is not primarily a test automation or software engineering position.

What you’ll do

• Test new features and bug fixes before release.
• Perform exploratory testing across complete user workflows.
• Reproduce customer-reported issues and document clear, reliable steps.
• Build and maintain regression checklists for critical product areas.
• Verify resolved bugs and identify related edge cases.
• Review product requirements, designs, and acceptance criteria before implementation.
• Identify ambiguous or missing requirements early.
• Create high-quality bug reports with severity, expected behavior, actual behavior, evidence, and reproduction steps.
• Help assess customer impact and prioritize quality issues.
• Test across supported browsers, devices, permissions, and account configurations.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, and Customer Success.
• Recommend which recurring checks should be automated.
• Track patterns in escaped defects and suggest improvements to our development process.

What we’re looking for

• Experience in software quality assurance or product testing.
• A genuine interest in building a career in QA and product quality.
• Strong exploratory testing instincts.
• Ability to investigate unexpected behavior beyond the obvious happy path.
• Clear written communication, especially when reporting bugs.
• Attention to detail without losing sight of customer impact.
• Ability to distinguish blocking defects from minor issues.
• Comfort learning a complex B2B SaaS product.
• Confidence asking questions when requirements or expected behavior are unclear.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with a remote team.

Nice to have

• Experience testing ATS, HRIS, recruiting, or other workflow-heavy SaaS products.
• Experience with permissions, approval workflows, email, scheduling, or third-party integrations.
• Familiarity with browser developer tools, API clients, SQL, or application logs.
• Experience with Linear, GitHub, Figma, and Slack.
• Exposure to automated end-to-end testing.
• Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment.

What success looks like within your first three months, you will:

• Understand SCALIS’s core recruiting workflows and their customer impact.
• Reliably test new features and verify bug fixes.
• Produce bug reports engineers can act on without repeated clarification.
• Establish repeatable regression coverage for our most important workflows.
• Surface meaningful issues before customers encounter them.
• Give the team better evidence about whether changes are production-ready.

How we think about quality
Quality is not owned by one person. Engineers remain responsible for testing and understanding the changes they ship. The QA Analyst strengthens that ownership by bringing dedicated exploratory testing, product knowledge, and an independent customer perspective.

We value thoughtful investigation over checking boxes. Finding an obvious broken button matters, but understanding that an approval workflow silently skipped the wrong person matters more. We want someone who is interested in developing that judgment over time.