Entry-Level QA Jobs

Entry-level quality assurance professionals have many duties to perform, administer, or advice on work concerned with assuring the quality of products acquired and used by general public, companies or the federal government. They have a responsibility to the development of plans and programs for achieving and maintaining product quality throughout the item's life cycle and monitoring. They provide leadership to their team by setting priorities and providing a strategic and tactical vision for the team. Entry-level quality assurance professionals identify areas for improved testing efficiencies, test automation and facilitate implementation of automated test scripts. They are responsible for reports quality metrics and insuring that the testing strategy is appropriate and effective in delivering business needs. Entry-level quality assurance professionals should develop test strategies and test plans for effective and efficient testing practice and developing and maintaining QA project plans.

An entry-level quality assurance job requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or information technology and a master's degree in finance, computer science, or information technology. A PMP or SQA / CSTE certification is a plus. An entry-level quality assurance professional requires analytical ability combined with knowledge and application of quality assurance.