QA in USA Course Syllabus

"QA in USA"
Course syllabus

Course plan. Purpose of testing. Who is a tester? Roles and responsibilities. What is a bug?

Lesson

01

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Natalie Sinipolska

Art of test case creation. Test plan. Test strategy

Lesson

02

Alex Kara

Requirements. Agile. SDLC. Waterfall

Lesson

03

Iaroslava Kornachevska

Testing types. Testing activities in the real delivery cycle. Boundary values analysis. Equivalence partitioning

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04

Natalie Sinipolska

TC creation techniques. Defect life cycle. Bug attributes. Bug-tracking system. JIRA, XRAY

Lesson

05

Alex Kara

TDLC. Test case execution reporting. UI Testing. Web and mobile web testing

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06

Iaroslava Kornachevska

Intro to mobile testing. Xcode. Android Studio. App install/uninstall. Log files

Lesson

07

Natalie Sinipolska

Mobile testing: log files, exceptions (crashes, errors, screenshots, video recording). Repeated tests execution in a real project

Lesson

08

Alex Kara

Client-Server model. Product versions, environments. Dev Tools. HTML

Lesson

09

Iaroslava Kornachevska

Protocols, OS, Linux, Logs

Lesson

10

Alex Kara

REST API, HTTP-request/response structure. XML, JSON. Postman, Swagger

Lesson

11

Iaroslava Kornachevska

API Testing, Postman with an example, Splunk

Lesson

12

Alex Kara

Classwork: payment system testing part 1

Lesson

13

Natalie Sinipolska

Classwork: payment system testing part 2

Lesson

14

Iaroslava Kornachevska

SQL. Understanding of databases

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15

Alex Kara

Classwork: payment system testing part 3

Lesson

16

Natalie Sinipolska

Interview questions and answers analysis. How to practice so that I don't need to memorize?

Lesson

17

Iaroslava Kornachevska

Internship. End to end testing on real projects

4 LIVE INTERNSHIP LESSONS

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Alex Kara

Resume preparation. Self-introduction

Lesson

18

Alex Kara

Test Automation lesson. Framework overview. Automated testing of previous manual test-cases. Daily post your resume

BONUS Lesson

22

Iaroslava Kornachevska

All the classes except the internship are prerecorded for your convenience. You don't have to quit your job or change your plans. You can watch the lessons any time that is comfortable for you. After each lesson you will be given handouts with technical material.

The internship classes are live for you to get real practical experience and professional skill-checking. But don't worry, you will also be able to choose the time that is the most appropriate for you

Result: you will know the goal of the testing and all the most important things about bugs, including bug's components and where they come from. Also, you will get familiar with other roles on the projects who work with QAs

Result: you will get to know how to create test cases, test suites, and test plan. You will understand the structure as well as the result of the test case. You will know the way you can maintain the bunch of test cases and how to manage test cases that have different datasets

Result: you will see the practical examples of the software processes when the coding and testing start and why we need the requirements. You will get a clear picture of how the development methodologies work nowadays and how robust and flexible is the development with testing

Result: you will get the picture of real-life development methodology and get the exact steps that QA does at a different stage of the software development cycle. You will have an understanding of most common testing types and advanced knowledge about test case creation techniques

Result: you will get an understanding of interaction with developers managing the defect lifecycle. You will get familiar with the JIRA Issue Tracking system and XRAY – a plugin for managing test cases and executions

Result: after this class, you will get the important aspects of graphic user interface testing and will have the details related to web and mobile testing. As a very important addition, you'll get an understanding of testing for different page layouts and screen resolutions

Result: you will get a full picture of the testing for applications that have mobile phone applications and get an understanding of how to work with the phones from the command line and get the logs

Result: you will get a clear understanding of how the server communicates with a client. And you will get a very good understanding of the product versioning and deployments to environments. You will get the answer to the question of why can't we use only one environment

Result: you will get understanding about common protocols that are used for request-response communication in the internet. We will cover the principles of operational systems and will stop more deeply about Linux and terminal commands. Will go over the logs and how we work with logs

Result: you will get the theoretical part of API testing including the practical introduction of REST services tool – Postman, Swagger, XML and JSON structure principles. You will get the most important verification we usually do for API testing and HTTP request components

Result: you will get big practical part of API testing where we will do practical steps and will cover all the aspects of API testing. What verification QA does, how to create, run, maintain and automate the backend test cases

Result: you will have practical experience of the full list of activities made by QAs

Result: you will be able to work with a database and manage selecting data that can be connected with the keys

Result: you will have practical experience of the full list of activities made by QAs

Result: you will have an understanding of interviews and how to answer basic questions during recruiter and technical interviews

Result: you will get practical experience working on a real project in sprints where you need to do testing activities and act as QA

Result: you will have a draft version of your resume that we will discuss on by one and add missing things to be more attractive to recruiters

Result: you will get hands-on experience with test automation. You will be provided with detailed instructions and a framework that you will use for creating automated tests

Building a solid LinkedIn profile. Posting resume to the appropriate jobs. Job market skills. Effective job search

Lesson

19

Natalie Sinipolska

Result: you will get the LinkedIn profile with your skills and past experience added. You will get a clear understanding of the job market and salaries and tricks for a better job search

Interview practice. Lifehacks

Lesson

20

Alex Kara

Result: you will see how the technical interview goes in real life

Interview practice. Lifehacks

Lesson

21

Alex Kara

Result: you will see how the technical interview goes in real life

Mock interview

INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE

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Alex Kara

Result: you will see how the technical interview goes in real life

+ one-to-one call for resume assistance