Good place to start and potentially grow - Junior QA Analyst Trainee SQAsquared Employee Review

5.0
Oct 27, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

This is a place where you will be learning, and doing entry level QA Analyst work. It's tedious, boring, but it will help you cultivate skills that actually have market value. You don't need experience, you just need to be quite tech savvy. The CEO's Nephew is very down to earth, and very approachable. You have a lot of potential to learn about how businesses operate, and not just your own either, since this company deals with a lot of business partners you get to learn a lot about different business models and different software various industries use. Everyone; peers and management alike are very laid back. You can network with like-minded people interested in the same field potentially. They got ping pong and a smash bros setup Free lunch once a week. You get experience working in an agile environment. (I think it's stupid, but it's very popular in this sector or work, so getting used to it is a plus) Again I want to drive this point home, this is an entry level position, you will be paid an entry level amount, you will be asked to perform entry level tasks, they don't lie to you about pay, they don't embeds any illusion of benefits in you. If you've been working here for a few years, and you feel you've acquired the skills to justify a higher pay, or benefits or both, and they refuse it, go somewhere else. Don't whine at them because your desires don't fit their business model.

Cons

These are probably a bit more subjective. You're in a bullpen style room with everyone else, it feels exactly like a computer classroom. You can hear pretty much everyone conversations going on, it's pretty distracting. (But they let you wear headphones and listen to music) You're not directly micro managed, but their "task" system essentially makes you micro manage yourself. Lesser of two evils I suppose, but I think it's pretty asinine. Their "on-boarding" system is completely wonky, for a business that makes you micro manage all your activities they ironically have an on-boarding system that is completely without structure. Your peers are pretty catty towards management. It's pretty boring.

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5.0
Sep 23, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Alright here’s the truth. Yes this is a good place to learn, no it’s probably not going to benefit 80% of you in today’s job market. Most of these tasks that people get started here with for <5 years are extremely menial and will probably get replaced by AI in the next few years. I’ve been mulling this decision of posting this over for past few weeks but I think explaining this somewhere is the right thing to do: we’re all working on automation on the backend to cut costs and remove the need for sqaas. Hell, even most embedded positions are getting removed in the next couple years so a few of our QA Architects, Principals and a couple POCs can get rewarded for the extra work in their automation by taking over the contracts. It sucks to say but this company has always cared about protecting the individuals who’s been here since the beginning and will do anything to put us first. Even if this means screwing over recent grads or young kids to not have to cut our own salaries. It’s a bit sad to see how oftentimes my colleagues who’s been here for about a decade as well have weeks on end where they do almost nothing related to the tasks from their assigned business partners, but yet profit off of the hard work done by sqaas (of course when I say hard I usually mean easy just a lot of tasks). That part makes me the most guilty

Cons

I’ll give an honest break down the pay for those who are still interested: You start at ~33,000 After a year you’ll be at ~36,000 After two years you’ll be at ~40,000 If you do get embedded you’ll be at ~44,000 From there you’ll probably be stuck at that for a while, I’ve seen people who’s been here for 5 years and barely broke 55,000. However if (very unlikely I don’t see this happening at all) you become Principal, congratulations you’re finally an employee we care about - then you’ll be at ~80,000 Honest truth is only the VPs make high 6 figures. Every year Jeremiah would make presentations about the cost-benefit of sqaas and get raise after raise while at the same time laying people off when things get a bit rocky. Still think they/we care? But in this economy, even if you won’t take the 33,000, there’s always going to be another sucker who would. After all, sqaas is easy menial labor

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4.0
Oct 13, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Training is offered, Real experience with different projects and technologies Good Experience for newly grads

Cons

- Low pay - Lack of mentorship from the people ahead of you

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