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Become a QA / SDET
Ship high-quality software faster by mastering test automation, CI pipelines, and shift-left quality.
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Meera P. [PLACEHOLDER] ★ 5.0
Team Lead, Data Science at AdMetrics | 9+ years of experience
About this Path
Built for manual QA engineers, junior SDETs, and developers who want to own quality at the engineering level. You will write robust automation frameworks in Selenium and Playwright, design API test suites with RestAssured, and wire everything into CI/CD pipelines. This roadmap takes you from test-case writer to engineering partner who prevents bugs from reaching production.
Path Overview
Intermediate LevelCertificate of CompletionAbout 46 hours to completeEnglish language18+ curated videosLearn online at your own pace5 modules with resourcesGamified & interactive
Path Curriculum
Testing pyramid and the real cost of late defects
Map unit, integration, and E2E layers to deployment frequency and risk tolerance.
Risk-based test planning for sprint and release cycles
Prioritize test effort using impact-probability scoring on feature change surfaces.
BDD with Cucumber: writing executable specifications
Collaborate with product and dev using Gherkin scenarios that generate living documentation.
Mutation testing with PIT to measure suite quality
Run PIT on your Java test suite and drive mutation score above 80 percent.
Page Object Model architecture with Selenium WebDriver
Build a maintainable POM framework with explicit waits and a fluent assertion layer.
Playwright end-to-end tests with auto-waiting and traces
Write reliable cross-browser tests using Playwright's built-in network interception.
Data-driven testing with external CSV and JSON fixtures
Parameterize test scenarios to cover boundary values without duplicating test code.
Visual regression testing with Percy or Playwright screenshots
Catch unintended UI changes by diffing snapshots on every PR automatically.
RestAssured test suite design for REST and GraphQL APIs
Validate status codes, schema shapes, and response times in a single fluent chain.
Postman Newman in CI and environment-variable management
Run Postman collections in headless mode with per-environment base URLs and secrets.
Consumer-driven contract testing with Pact
Decouple frontend and backend deployments by verifying API contracts independently.
GitHub Actions matrix builds for parallel test execution
Split Playwright test shards across runners to cut E2E suite time by 70 percent.
Jenkins declarative pipelines with test gate quality thresholds
Fail builds automatically when coverage drops or flaky test rate exceeds threshold.
Allure and ExtentReports for actionable test dashboards
Generate trend reports that show flakiness, pass rates, and slowest tests over time.
Docker-based test environments with Selenium Grid
Spin up disposable browser grids using Docker Compose for infrastructure-independent runs.
Load and stress testing with k6: scripting realistic user journeys
Write k6 scripts that simulate ramp-up, sustained load, and spike traffic patterns.
OWASP ZAP integration for automated security scanning in CI
Run ZAP baseline scans against staging on every merge to catch injection and auth gaps.
Test observability: correlating flaky tests with deployment events
Use Grafana dashboards to surface test failure spikes caused by infrastructure changes.
SDET interview prep: system design for quality at scale
Answer architecture questions on large-scale test infrastructure, flakiness triage, and coverage strategy.
What you'll learn
- ✓Design and implement a Page Object Model (POM) test framework in Java or Python from scratch.
- ✓Write end-to-end UI test suites using Playwright with TypeScript and async patterns.
- ✓Build API test suites using RestAssured and Postman Newman that validate contracts and edge cases.
- ✓Integrate automated test suites into Jenkins and GitHub Actions CI pipelines with parallel execution.
- ✓Perform performance and load testing using k6 or JMeter to identify throughput bottlenecks.
- ✓Apply shift-left testing practices including TDD, contract testing, and mutation testing.