QA Training online

In my 25 years working in IT, I have rarely hired course graduates. They have the knowledge, but lack the practical skills that employers need. That's why since 2016 I have been working on my dream — creating a 100% practical course without lectures, after which the maximum number of students will start an IT career.
Eight years later, the goal was achieved — in 2024 the number of students who obtained IT jobs exceeded the results of the average QA course by 4 (four!) times.

After that, the question arose: how can we ensure that anyone who is interested can verify that we are truly #1 in employment? After all, you can post anything you want on a website or publish glowing reviews on the internet.

This is how we became the only IT school that openly shows its results. Only Mentorpiece publishes lists of all enrolled students by name and the final outcome of their education for each one: which IT company the student now works for.

Using these lists, you can directly contact students from any study group to personally verify our employment records and ensure that they have been achieved without fraud. Mentorpiece's complete transparency gives you confidence that your money and time will not be wasted and that your IT career will truly begin.

Lilia Urmazova

Founder of Mentorpiece, a professional QA training school—ranked No. 1 for students' employment rate among schools with open employment data or those that have undergone auditing.
QA engineer since 2001, QA mentor since 2004.

Mentorpiece only accepts 90 applicants per year.

Why so few?

Because we strive to be the Harvard of QA, and when teaching QA, we focus on quality rather than quantity.

How does professional QA education differ from mass one?

Professional QA education is close to individual for students who have completed IT vocational guidance in groups of 10-15 people under the guidance of QA mentors with at least 10 years of IT experience.

Professional QA education uses an uncompromising lecture-free approach. Theory is presented in an interactive textbook, all lectures are replaced with practical workshops and there is a 4-month long internship on a real business project in a Russian-speaking or US company for every student.

Professional QA education provides a completely different level of practical skills compared to mass education and completely different employment results.

Learn more about professional QA education.

Discussions of professional QA education

Mentorpiece - mentor + masterpiece.

QA mentors' total experience in IT is 138 years ↴

Founder of Mentorpiece,
Chief QA Mentor

QA mentors who teach testing

Lilia Urmazova

Founder of Mentorpiece, Chief QA Expert Mentor (AM)

QA engineer since 2001, QA mentor since 2004.
Worked in Star Software, Exigen Services, Grid Dynamics; преподавала в учебных центрах Luxoft, Grid Dynamics. See more.
I like QA because this profession allows me to participate in the entire software development process from A to Z and work with a lot of people at once.
I am a good QA mentor because I am good at explaining complex things using simple examples, pictures, diagrams and tables.
Sergei Gerasimov

Co-founder of Mentorpiece, QA expert mentor in Agile and SQL / Head of Testing at Quadcode (CY)

Works in QA since 2007.
Worked in Positive Technologies, IQCard, Performance Lab, MVideo.
I like QA because it allows me to influence development processes and make people's lives better.
I am a good QA mentor because I am ready to guide students from complete unfamiliarity to a deep and detailed understanding and solution of work tasks.
Fedor Kulishov

Network Expert Mentor / Lead Security Expert at Acronis (CH)

Works in IT since 2005.
Worked in several startups, NIIVOSKHOD, Positive Technologies.
I like IT, especially security, because you always have to stay on top of things and there's always something interesting to explore. Plus, I'm surrounded by talented professionals who are passionate about their work.
I am a good QA mentor because I enjoy seeing the excitement in my students' eyes, noticing their progress and receiving gratitude and kind wishes.
Evgenii Lozovan

Java Automation Expert Mentor / Lead Automation Engineer at Grid Dynamics (US)

Works in QA since 2006.
Worked in MuranoSoft, Global Logic.
I like QA because this job fulfills my passion for research and science.
I am a good QA mentor because laziness compels me to teach people around me in such a way that I have as little work as possible left to do myself. 🙂
Maxim Usmanov

Expert mentor in Git, Docker and AT / Lead QA Automation Engineer at Semrush (US)

Works in IT since 2012.
Worked in Deutsche Bank, Motorola Solutions, Digital Design.
I like IT because it allows me to satisfy my inner perfectionist and contribute to improvement, since we are discussing QA.
I am a good QA mentor because I like to explain complicated things in simple terms. This is the only way I know.
Nikolai Mishin

Linux and Networks Expert Mentor / Lead DevOps Engineer at Grid Dynamics (US)

Works in IT since 2012.
Worked in Mirantis, Semonix.
I like QA because I can learn new technologies and keep up with the modern world while I work.
I am a good QA mentor because I am very good at explaining concepts that I believe are essential not only for testers but for everyone; I consider my subject to be the most important. 🙂
Nikolai Gladnev

QA Expert Mentor in Linux, API Testing, and WebUI / QA Engineer at Exness (CY)

Works in IT since 2011.
Worked in Arrival, Aplana, Nexign, Humans Engineering.
I like QA because it involves dealing with complex technical issues.
I am a good QA mentor because I really love tricky questions from students.

10 years of creating the course #1 in employment ↴

Mentorpiece in numbers

2004

The founder of the school gave the first QA lecture.

2016

The first QA course was held at Mentorpiece.

138 years

Combined experience of the school's QA mentors in IT: 21+18+20+19+23+13+24

Mentorpiece history

2004 - The founder's first lesson

the school's founder held the first QA class

2012 - QA expert trainer

the founder of the school began lecturing at one of the largest IT training centers

2013 - Establishing a QA school at Grid Dynamics

the founder is organizing an internal AQA school at a large IT outsourcing company

2016 - Mentorpiece was founded

offline QA classes began to be held

2019 - The first online course

QA courses have become available
to a wide audience

2020 - The first B2B course

training is organized for employees of large IT companies

2021 - New Silicon Valley

Mentorpiece headquarters follows its founder to Armenia, a rapidly developing IT hub with favorable tax incentives

2021 - The “Manual Testing from Scratch” course has been expanded with a unique “Troubleshooting” module

which raises the level of proficiency of graduates to Pre-Middle level

2022 - First American course

the first students and mentors from the United States emerged

2022 - First American internship

after each course, graduates begin a two-month internship as full-fledged QA specialists on a real business project

2022 - The concept of professional QA training

all the basic principles of professional education and its differences from mass one are fully formulated

2022 - Introductory individual vocational guidance in IT

the school no longer charges money from those who have no prospects in QA, which has dramatically increased the number of students who successfully graduate and find a job

2023 - Free «100-Year QA-Textbook»

an interactive 700-page textbook of testing, written by mentors with a combined experience of over 100 years in IT, has been published

2023 - First course based on the three-level teaching model

a three-level learning model has been developed, transforming EACH of the 35+ lessons into a practical workshop for effectively building students' skills

2024 - Free «Orange QA-Textbook»

the first textbook not about WHAT QA needs to know (enough has been written and said about that), but HOW to learn more effectively and HOW to find your first QA job faster has been published

2024 - The vocational guidance course “Should You Become a QA-engineer?”

based on ~500 career guidance sessions for beginners, a vocational guidance course for QA engineers has been developed

2024 - The first IT school that delivers results

reviews about Mentorpiece are now easy to check — Mentorpiece has become the first course to publish lists of all enrolled students and all graduates who have started IT careers, including their contact details and companies they work in

2024 - №1 for starting IT careers

Mentorpiece is ranked #1 in starting IT careers among schools with open employment data or that have undergone an audit

2025 - Testing AI applications

thanks to the experience gained during internships at AI companies, testing of AI applications has been added to the Russian- and English-language courses.

Found something better? Study for free! ↴

You have a chance, although very small, to study at the IT school #1 in employment completely free of charge. No payment is required before, during or after studying.

To become #1, we had to implement four unique approaches to teaching. Other IT schools do not use them because it is difficult and requires long-term investment.

Study at Mentorpiece on any course completely free of charge — if you find at least one QA course that meets the basic requirements:

✓ paid course
✓ has been in operation for at least three years
✓ not an individual mentorship
✓ includes at least 40 lessons with a total duration of at least 80 astronomical hours

and which features at least one of the approaches implemented in Mentorpiece:

Entrance selection with an individual vocational guidance interview with a mentor with 20+ years of QA experience

Students are not charged for tuition until both they and the IT school are 100% confident that their IT career will be successfully launched.

The entrance interview is conducted by an experienced QA mentor who has launched the IT careers of hundreds of juniors and knows who will be successful in QA and who will not.
Absolutely all lessons in the course are practical.

No lectures, no webinars, just practical workshops. 100% of class time is devoted to developing practical skills.

Each student in a mini-team of 5-7 participants performs practical IT tasks under the guidance of a mentor. This is as close as possible to how a development team works on a real IT project.
4-month internship at an IT company

✅ Commercial project — not a pet project, not a non-profit organization, not an open source project.
✅ Students work within the development team of an IT company — interns work as full-fledged QA engineers within the team rather than outside it.
✅ Full technical stack — there is testing of the UI, API, business logic layer and database.
✅ The minimum duration is 4 months.
✅ Is provided to every student of the course — without any extra requirements.
69%

There are named lists of all enrolled students, which show that the average employment rate is at least 69% of all enrolled students.

Please note that this refers to 69% of all enrolled students, not graduates. Courses sometimes calculate statistics in a very tricky way.

To ensure transparency, first complete the free vocational guidance course and only after receiving a positive recommendation from the chief mentor should you submit evidence of the course you have found. Please remember to carefully verify that the course you have found meets the requirements mentioned above.

QA education for beginners

QA course for working in international IT companies

"Manual Testing from scratch

+ AI application testing

+ 4-month internship in a US IT company"

Difficulty: “from scratch”

Free vocational guidance course
"Should You Become a QA-engineer?"
(with an individual interview)

Difficulty: “from scratch”