Software Testing & Quality Assurance Mastery
From Manual Foundations to Automation Readiness
Build an unbreakable foundation in quality assurance. Master modern testing principles, SDLC/STLC processes, test scenario generation, defect reporting in JIRA, black-box design techniques, Agile Scrum QA, REST API verification with Postman, and foundational automation concepts.
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What Is Included in Your Enrollment:
Detailed 45-Hour Curriculum Breakdown
Structured into progressive, hands-on modules designed by QA leads. Learn practical defect management, test design techniques, and enterprise quality practices.
- What is Quality? Definition of Software Testing and QA vs QC
- The 7 Fundamental Principles of Software Testing
- Verification vs Validation and Static vs Dynamic Testing
- Costs of Defect: Early defect detection vs post-release production fixes
- Psychology of Testing: How effective testers approach quality assurance
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models: Waterfall, V-Model, and Agile Scrum
- Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) step-by-step phases and deliverables
- Agile QA Role: Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives
- Acceptance Criteria, User Stories, and Definition of Done (DoD)
- Traceability Matrix (RTM): Mapping requirements to test scenarios
- Test Plan components: Scope, strategy, environment, entry/exit criteria
- Deriving test scenarios from business requirement documents (BRD / PRD)
- Writing enterprise-standard test cases with preconditions, steps, test data, and expected results
- Negative testing, edge cases, and exploratory testing methodologies
- Test execution logs and test summary reporting (TSR)
- Equivalence Class Partitioning (ECP): Identifying valid and invalid partitions
- Boundary Value Analysis (BVA): 2-value vs 3-value boundary testing
- Decision Table Testing: Complex business logic and rule combinations
- State Transition Testing: Diagramming lifecycle transitions and triggers
- Error Guessing & Checklist-Based Testing best practices
- What is a Defect, Bug, Fault, and Failure?
- Complete Defect Lifecycle: New, Assigned, Open, Fixed, Retest, Closed, Reopened
- Defect Severity vs Priority: Definitions, matrices, and industry examples
- Authoring bug reports developers respect: Steps to reproduce, logs, screenshots, environment
- Hands-on JIRA: Creating sprint boards, bug tickets, epics, and reporting filters
- Smoke Testing vs Sanity Testing: Scope, timing, and automation triggers
- Regression Testing: Impact analysis, test suite maintenance, and selective retesting
- Integration Testing: Top-down, bottom-up, big bang, and sandwich approaches
- System Testing, End-to-End (E2E) Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Non-functional testing overview: Performance, Security, Usability, and Accessibility (a11y)
- Client-Server architecture, HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH)
- HTTP status codes (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx) and JSON payload structures
- Postman collections, environment variables, and authentication tokens
- Writing basic Postman test assertions for status code, response time, and body schema
- Validating backend business logic independent of UI layers
- When to automate and when to keep tests manual: Automation ROI analysis
- Introduction to automation frameworks: Selenium WebDriver vs Playwright
- Writing your first automated browser test script
- QA Resume building: Showcasing real project deliverables, JIRA metrics, and domain experience
- 1:1 Mock QA Interview: Tricky scenario questions, defect dispute resolution, and feedback
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