Software Tester Intern

Artisam Labs is a builder studio working on modern web, blockchain and AI products. We're taking on a Software Tester Intern to add testing capacity to one of our active project teams.

You'll work under a QA Engineer, testing each sprint's scope on the staging environment against agreed acceptance criteria. Your job is to find problems before a client does. That means executing assigned test cases, exploring beyond them, and writing up what you find clearly enough that a developer can reproduce it without asking you a follow-up question.

We use AI tools in our day-to-day work, and familiarity with them is a strong plus, though not required. Used well they speed up test case drafting, data generation and report writing. The judgment about what to test, and whether something is actually broken, stays yours.

This is a mentored role. You'll be briefed on what to cover and your reports will be reviewed before they go to the wider team. You'll pick up test case design, defect reporting, regression testing and how quality decisions get made under a real deadline.

Work setup: Hybrid — primarily remote, with attendance at face-to-face meetings when necessary.

What you'll do

• Execute assigned test cases against the staging environment
• Run smoke and sanity checks when new work is promoted to staging
• Perform exploratory testing to catch what scripted cases miss
• Log defects with steps to reproduce, expected vs actual behaviour, environment and severity
• Retest fixes and confirm closure
• Test across the browsers, devices and screen sizes relevant to the product
• Carry out basic usability and responsiveness checks on user-facing work
• Help maintain the regression suite and keep test documentation current
• Capture screenshots or short clips of defects and working features
• Contribute to the sprint's test report and flag anything risky before the deadline

• Currently enrolled in, or a recent graduate of, a Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering or related programme
• Understands basic software testing concepts: test cases, defect lifecycle, severity vs priority
• Careful and methodical, with genuine attention to detail
• Writes clearly enough that a bug report needs no clarification
• Comfortable working from written requirements and acceptance criteria
• Familiar with using a browser's developer tools at a basic level
• Reliable internet connection and a working setup for remote delivery and video calls
• Available for daily standups, defect triage and the sprint ceremonies listed above
• Able to handle test data and credentials responsibly and keep company work confidential

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AI tools for drafting test cases, generating test data or writing reports
• Exposure to a defect tracker such as Jira, Linear or GitHub Issues
• Basic API testing (Postman or similar)
• Any scripting or automation exposure (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium)
• Interest in blockchain or AI products