Entry Level QA Analyst - Anonymous employee SQAsquared Employee Review

1.0
Apr 19, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Chill coworkers -Foosball, pool, ping pong -Something you can put on your resume

Cons

-Horrible management. -Crooked reward system. Advancement favors those who get along well with management not by performance. -Discourage feedback. Those who speaks up are deemed to be antagonistic so therefore are less likely to advance. In my experience speaking up for new ideas will usually be shot down just because that's now how things were supposed to be. Worse, promises that changes will be made but never really happens. -Misguided promises. Talk of moving to on-site are often delayed indefinitely. Here’s my advice for newcomers if you wish to work for this company as an entry level QA engineer. -The name job title QA Analyst or QA Engineer does not mean you will really be ‘engineering’ or 'analyzing' anything. 90% of tasks can be done with basic knowledge of the computer and web browser. You will be 'executing test cases' or clicking through links. -Work here if you need the money and are desperate. Otherwise your time will be worth much more if you continue to find another job or build your experience on your own time to find a job. Trust me on this. -If you decide to work here, make friends quicks because that is the only way to keep you sane through hours of clicking through links. Don’t worry everyone here is the same boat as you. -Know that everyone is thinking about leaving as well, they’re all waiting for the right moment. -On the good side, you can take this as a learning experience because as you move on to other companies you will have an excellent example of how a company shouldn’t be ran.

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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
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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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