QA Engineering Intern

About EA Labs:

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia and two nearshore delivery centres. Founded in 2011, we now have 360 employees.

The internship:

We want someone who notices small things and writes bug reports a developer can act on without asking follow-up questions. Remote position. Most of the team is in Dortmund, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities:

• Retest fixed bugs and close them only once verified.
• Write and maintain test cases in TestRail, Zephyr or Google Sheets.
• Log bugs in Jira with clear steps, expected and actual results, screenshots and screen recordings.
• Monitor the automation suite in the CI pipeline and flag flaky tests.
• Report test results in a short summary before each release goes out.
• Test APIs in Postman, checking status codes, response bodies and error handling.
• Automate repeated test flows with Selenium, Playwright or Cypress.

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028.
• Eligible to work in Germany.
• Familiarity with Jira or any bug tracking tool.
• Some programming in Java, Python or JavaScript.
• Willing to test on the occasional weekend during major releases.
• Understanding of the software development life cycle and the bug life cycle.
• Strong attention to detail and patience with repetitive work.
• Laptop, a stable internet connection and an Android or iOS phone for testing.

Preferred:

• ISTQB Foundation Level certification or coursework towards it.
• Experience writing simple SQL queries.
• Exposure to performance testing with JMeter.

What you'll learn:

• You will own the regression checklist for at least one product area.
• Good performers are offered a junior QA role.
• Building and maintaining a small automation suite.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: €1,400 to €1,750 per month

Perks:

• Internet allowance.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Flexible hours.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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