Manual QA + Automation Crash Course.

This course contains the following sections:

• Manual QA
• JAVA Basics for Automation
• Automation Framework Setup
• Writing Auto Tests
• Apprenticeship at a SaaS Company
• Career Mentoring

PREREQUISITE: English B1 (Intermediate). Classes will be held in English.

Course Schedule:

• • • • I week:  May
        • 13 Mon (2 h): Asxat 
          • Group Intro; Class Intro; Intentions; Course Requirements; Company Intro;
        • 14 Tue (2 h): Asxat
          • CPB Setup; Shopify Hosting Infrastructure; Tools / Apps Used in a SaaS; Jira / Youtrack / Zendesk / Shopify / Google Cloud Platform; Gitlab
        • 15 Wed (2 h): Asxat
          • Workflow; Team Roles; SDLC; Documentation; User Guides; Wikis; Changelog; Terminal; Git
        • 16 Thur (2 h): Vlad 
          • Apprenticeship Onboarding;
        • Fri:
          • Apprenticeship + Homework
      • II week:
        • 20 Mon (3 h): Eugene
          • ABC of testing.
          • QA VS Testing.
          • What is a bug?
          • Triaging.
          • Jira
        • 21 Tue (3 h): Eugene
          • Lifetime of a bug.
          • Types of testing. Testing tours
          • White/Gray/Black box testing.
        • 22 Wed
          • Apprenticeship + Homework
        • 23 Thur (3 h): Eugene
          • Advanced testing techniques.
          • Dev tools.
          • Cookies.
        • 24 Fri (2 h): Natalia S
          • Tester Job Essentials.
          • Career Planning.

Automation Part Highlights:

• QA Automation course
• Main ideas: What/ When and how to automate. Test pyramid. Ideas and conceptions.
• Introduction of Java for Quality Assurance engineers. Selenium with Java.
• Selenium – Interface which defines set of methods / Webdriver – API.
• The Must: How to find an element: Locators. Ids / CSS Selectors / XPath etc
• What we can do with elements: Actions with elements / Javascript actions. (different examples)
• First tests: tests for the most common functionality. (Login/ Menus/ Buttons etc)
• Advance test structure: Annotations / Assertions
• Tools for Automation testing: JUnit/ TestNG/ Maven
• Putting it all together: SELENIUM FRAMEWORK architecture/ component/ reporting mechanism /CI/CD
• How to pass Automation interview.

Full Program Highlights:

• As a part of the program you will be going through an internship at our SaaS company
• Get support from real QA engineers working in the US
• Participate in weekly group calls where you can ask any questions (there are no stupid questions!)
• Meet your future colleagues and support each other along the journey in the chat
• Complete homework and practice tasks that will help to get the most out of the course
• IT Overview: tools, infrastructure, team structure
• Get access to YouTrack and Zendesk
• Start working on real QA tasks and tickets
• Prepare interview answers for the most popular company and product related question
• Career prep: Build your first resume
• Prepare interview answers for the most popular technical questions
• Prepare interview answers for the most popular behavioral questions
• API & SQL master classes
• Get familiar with release process
• Career prep: Round of mock interviews
• Start applying for jobs
• Get real time support during application process

+ Get Professional Career Mentorship to make sure your resume and interview skills stand out from the crowd. Your mentor will: