Professional Software Testing & Automation Program

What you'll cover

1. 1Phase 1· Week 1

   Software Testing Mindset

   Why testing exists, what quality means, and where defects cost the most.

   7 lessons
2. 2Phase 2· Week 2

   SDLC & STLC

   Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, user stories, acceptance criteria, and where testing fits.

   4 lessons
3. 3Phase 3· Week 3

   Requirement Analysis

   The most-skipped, highest-leverage phase: asking the right questions early.

   4 lessons
4. 4Phase 4· Week 4

   Test Scenarios

   Positive, negative, edge, and how to brainstorm without missing a class of bugs.

   3 lessons
5. 5Phase 5· Weeks 5–6

   Test Cases

   Structure, preconditions, data, expected results, writing cases anyone can execute.

   4 lessons
6. 6Phase 6· Week 7

   Test Design Techniques

   Equivalence Partitioning, BVA, Decision Tables, State Transitions, Error Guessing.

   3 lessons
7. 7Phase 7· Week 8

   Defect Management

   Lifecycle, severity, priority, and how to write a report someone will actually fix.

   3 lessons
8. 8Phase 8· Week 9

   Bug Hunting Lab

   Real apps, real defects, real reports.

   2 lessons
9. 9Phase 9· After Week 9

   Recap · Manual Testing Foundations

   Cement the manual-testing mindset before stepping into the technical stack. Cheat sheet + review quizzes + a 10-minute self-check.

   7 lessons
10. 10Phase 10· Week 10

    HTML

    DOM, elements, forms, tables, the alphabet of the web (and of your locators).

    4 lessons
11. 11Phase 11· Week 11

    CSS

    Selectors and specificity, the foundation of every CSS-style locator you will ever write.

    3 lessons
12. 12Phase 12· Week 12

    Browser Internals

    How a browser turns text into pixels, and how DevTools shows you every step.

    3 lessons
13. 13Phase 13· Week 13

    Client–Server Architecture

    Browser → server → database → response. Where bugs hide in each layer.

    3 lessons
14. 14Phase 14· Week 14

    Networking Fundamentals

    DNS, IPs, URLs, ports, TLS, the language of the web.

    3 lessons
15. 15Phase 15· Week 15

    HTTP

    Methods, status codes, headers, cookies, sessions, the protocol you will test for years.

    3 lessons
16. 16Phase 16· After Week 15

    Recap · Web Fundamentals

    HTML, CSS, browser internals, client–server, networking, HTTP, pulled together.

    6 lessons
17. 17Phase 17· Weeks 16–17

    API Testing

    REST, JSON, methods, validation, and how to test APIs without a UI.

    5 lessons
18. 18Phase 18· After Week 17

    Recap · API Testing

    API discipline in one cheat-sheet.

    5 lessons
19. 19Phase 19· Weeks 18–20

    Python Fundamentals

    Variables, control flow, functions, the Python a tester actually uses.

    5 lessons
20. 20Phase 20· Week 21

    Python Intermediate

    Lists, dicts, sets, tuples, picking the right container is half of Pythonic code.

    3 lessons
21. 21Phase 21· Week 22

    OOP in Python

    Classes, inheritance, encapsulation, the foundations of the Page Object Model.

    3 lessons
22. 22Phase 22· Week 23

    Exception Handling

    Try/except for automation that fails gracefully and tells you what broke.

    2 lessons
23. 23Phase 23· Week 24

    File Handling

    CSV and JSON for test data, read, write, validate.

    3 lessons
24. 24Phase 24· After Week 24

    Recap · Python Foundations

    Variables, collections, OOP, exceptions, files, the Python a tester uses daily.

    5 lessons
25. 25Phase 25· Week 25

    Selenium Foundations

    Architecture, drivers, the first script.

    3 lessons
26. 26Phase 26· Week 26

    Locators

    ID, name, class, CSS, XPath, picking what won't break next week.

    2 lessons
27. 27Phase 27· Week 27

    XPath Mastery

    Relative paths, predicates, axes, the last 10% that separates juniors from seniors.

    2 lessons
28. 28Phase 28· Week 28

    Selenium Actions

    Click, input, dropdowns, alerts, uploads, the interactions you'll automate constantly.

    2 lessons
29. 29Phase 29· Week 29

    Synchronization

    Waits, the single most important skill for reliable UI tests.

    2 lessons
30. 30Phase 30· Week 30

    Advanced Selenium

    Windows, frames, tables, mouse actions, JS execution.

    2 lessons
31. 31Phase 31· After Week 30

    Recap · Selenium

    Drivers, locators, waits, interactions, the foundations of reliable UI tests.

    5 lessons
32. 32Phase 32· Week 31

    Framework Development

    PyTest, Page Object Model, utilities, building something the team can grow.

    2 lessons
33. 33Phase 33· Week 32

    Reporting & Logging

    Allure, pytest-html, structured logs, making failures findable.

    2 lessons
34. 34Phase 34· Anytime

    Git

    Clone, branch, commit, push, pull request, the daily craft.

    2 lessons
35. 35Phase 35· Anytime

    GitHub Actions

    Run your tests on every push, no servers to maintain, free for public repos.

    5 lessons
36. 36Phase 36· Before the Capstone

    Recap · Framework, Reports, Git, CI

    Before the capstone, the engineering hygiene that turns a script into a team asset.

    6 lessons
37. 37Phase 37· Final

    Live Project

    Real project: requirements → manual cases → API tests → automation → reports → CI.

    2 lessons