QA Engineer Intern (English Speaking)

Top 3 reasons to join us

• Competitive salary packages.
• Dynamic and open-sharing working environment.
• Hybrid and flexible working mode.

Job description

Spartan is a venture studio building and scaling zero-to-one startups alongside founders from VC (YC, PearVC, a16z, BlingCap), Stanford, Uber, and Amazon. Every project operates like a mini-startup: small teams, fast feedback loops, and high ownership.

As a QA Intern, you'll work on real production products shipped to real users, learn directly from QA engineers who've shipped at startup speed, and get exposure to AI-native QA workflows that most QA teams aren't doing yet.

🛠️ What you'll do

• Hands-on Testing: Run functional, exploratory, and API testing on real products before they ship to users.
• Bug Hunting & Reporting: Investigate issues deeply, reproduce them reliably, and write bug reports clear enough that developers can fix without follow-up questions.
• Learn Risk-Based Thinking: Work alongside QA engineers to understand what to test, how much to test, and when a feature is good enough to ship.
• Collaborate Across the Team: Join standups, PRD reviews, and release calls. Ask questions, surface edge cases, and learn how startups make quality decisions in real time.
• Explore AI Testing: Get hands-on with modern tooling (LLM-assisted test generation, AI-powered exploratory testing) and contribute ideas on how we test AI features.

Your skills and experience

Must-have

• Strong English communication (written and verbal) to work directly with international clients and founders.
• Foundational understanding of QA: test cases, bug life cycle, and core testing types (functional, regression, exploratory).
• A curious, detail-oriented mindset — you naturally notice when something feels off and want to dig in.
• A strong product mindset, comfortable operating without a perfect spec.

Nice-to-have

• Hands-on experience with Jira, Notion, Postman, or basic SQL.
• Personal projects, coursework, or freelance work where you tested software (even informally).
• Familiarity with Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium basics.
• Interest in testing AI / LLM-powered features.
• Basic understanding of how web APIs, browsers, or mobile apps work under the hood.

Tools you'll learn

• QA workflow: Jira • Notion • Postman • Basic SQL (MySQL)
• Testing: Functional • API • Exploratory • Cross-browser/device
• Automation basics: Playwright or Cypress
• AI-native QA: LLM-assisted test generation, evals, prompt regression

Why you'll love working here

• 100% salary during probation
• Competitive compensation packages
• Unlimited PTO + public holidays
• Hybrid working model 
• Flexible working hours
• Macbook provided
• Premium healthcare insurance & annual health-check 
• Social insurance in accordance with Labor Law
• Training and career development opportunities
• An open and transparent culture where people are valued, treated fairly, trusted, and empowered
• Sponsoring sports participation costs - We have play hours where our team meets up for PS5 Gaming and Football sessions, also with a Strava Yearly Subscription
• Challenging yourself with high and difficult goals by participating in unprecedented business models in the market.
• Working in an environment that is highly flexible and open, eager to incubate any valuable idea.

Why Spartan

• More than 50 MVPs launched
• 3 IPOs and over $100M raised by our partners
• 95% engineer retention
• You will own real problems, ship real features, and grow fast