Remote Volunteer QA Tester (Part Time)

Job Overview

Job Description

About SkilledUp Life

At SkilledUp Life, we empower individuals to gain valuable real-world experience that accelerates their careers, while enabling tech startups to grow with the support of skilled Volunteers. Our global community has grown to over 57,500 Volunteers across 147 countries, helping hundreds of startups primarily in the UK and USA scale sustainably.

Purpose of role

-The QA/QC Test Volunteer ensures the SkilledUp Life product and tools are stable, usable, and continuously improving. You will plan and execute tests, report bugs, develop automation scripts, and collaborate with developers and product managers to deliver a high-quality product experience.

-Test Planning & Strategy: Create and refine QA test plans, participate in strategy discussions, evaluate frameworks, and ensure clear test case documentation.

-Manual & Exploratory Testing: Perform exploratory, sanity, and regression testing on core functionalities; validate bug fixes; maintain issue tracking sheets.

-Automation Development: Develop and merge automation scripts for key workflows, integrate with CI/CD, and review peers’ scripts.

-Bug Reporting & Tracking: Log, verify, and close issues in GitHub; collaborate with developers and PMs; improve ticket quality.

-Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: Attend team meetings, coordinate with PMs and developers, and provide feedback to improve QA processes.

-Continuous Learning & Problem-Solving: Research new QA tools, adapt priorities, troubleshoot blockers, and escalate/share solutions.

Disclaimer: This is a voluntary position, i.e. there is no direct financial compensation, a promise of future paid work or any taxable benefit in kind.

Endorsements:
Once a satisfactory outcome is delivered, we will:
* Provide a testimonial against your profile on SkilledUp Life.
* Allow you to add Company Name to your Linkedin Profile.
* Provide a Letter of Recommendation (LoR).
For Volunteer team mates who deliver exceptional results:
* Provide a Linkedin testimonial, when requested.
* Write a Linkedin Post thanking you for your contribution.
* Provide further references, when required (we have the right to reject these)