Professional Certificate: AI-Assisted Software Quality Assurance (QA)

Learn manual and automation testing techniques to ensure software quality and reliability.

12 Weeks

Online / Offline

English & Tamil

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Course Overview

Quality assurance is the backbone of great software. Our Software Testing program covers both manual and automated testing strategies. You will master frameworks like Selenium and Cypress, learn to write robust test cases, perform API testing, and integrate your tests into modern CI/CD pipelines to ensure flawless deployments.

Skills You Will Master

Manual Testing Automation Testing (Selenium) API Testing Test Case Design Performance Testing Agile & DevOps Testing

Course Curriculum

1. Introduction to Software Testing

What is Software Testing? Importance & objectives
Software Quality Assurance vs Software Testing
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
Levels of Testing: Unit, Integration, System, Acceptance
Testing Types: Functional vs Non-Functional

2. Basics of Testing

Test Cases & Test Scenarios
Test Plan & Test Strategy
Test Data Preparation
Bug Life Cycle / Defect Life Cycle
Severity vs Priority of Defects
Basics of Test Documentation

3. Manual Testing

Functional Testing: Smoke, Sanity, Regression, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Black Box Testing Techniques:
Equivalence Partitioning
Boundary Value Analysis
Decision Table Testing
State Transition Testing
Exploratory Testing
Ad-hoc Testing

4. Non-Functional Testing

Performance Testing: Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance Testing
Security Testing Basics
Usability Testing
Compatibility & Cross-browser Testing
Reliability, Maintainability, and Scalability Testing

5. Test Management Tools

Introduction to Test Management Tools: Jira, TestRail, Quality Center
Creating & Managing Test Cases
Defect Reporting & Tracking
Test Execution & Reporting

6. Automation Testing Basics

Introduction to Automation Testing: Benefits & Limitations
When to Automate vs Manual Testing
Automation Testing Tools Overview: Selenium, QTP/UFT, Appium
Basics of writing automated test scripts

7. Selenium WebDriver

Introduction to Selenium architecture
Locators: ID, Name, Class, XPath, CSS Selector
Handling WebElements: Click, SendKeys, Dropdowns, Checkboxes, Alerts
Browser actions & navigation
Implicit & Explicit waits
Page Object Model (POM) design pattern

8. Test Automation Frameworks

Types of frameworks:
Linear, Modular, Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven, Hybrid, BDD (Cucumber)
TestNG basics: Annotations, Assertions, Test Suites
Reporting: Extent Reports, Allure Reports
Continuous Integration (CI) with Jenkins

9. API Testing

Introduction to API Testing
HTTP Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
Using Postman for API testing
Assertions, Environment Variables, and Collections
Automating API tests with RestAssured (Java) or Pytest (Python)

10. Mobile Application Testing

Mobile app types: Native, Hybrid, Web
Mobile testing challenges & best practices
Tools: Appium, Espresso, XCUITest
Device emulators vs real device testing

11. Performance & Load Testing

Introduction to Performance Testing
Tools: JMeter, LoadRunner
Creating test plans, scenarios, and workloads
Analyzing performance reports & bottlenecks

12. DevOps & Agile Testing

Agile Testing concepts & Scrum methodology
Continuous Integration & Continuous Testing
Role of testers in DevOps pipelines
Using CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps