Overview
You don’t necessarily need to write code to start an IT career — you can check it instead. The quality of a product and the success of the team lie on the shoulders of the tester. If you enjoy evaluating a product as a whole, you have critical thinking skills, and you’d like to fix errors — we’ve got a course for you. That is QA Manual.
Even without any technical training, you will acquire the necessary knowledge about the QA profession. In this course, you will learn to find defects, write bug reports, compose test cases, checklists, and master test plans using the test design techniques. You’ll be able to conduct mobile testing, will get the hang of network basics, learn to calculate risks, and write autotests. You’ll become familiar with an all-purpose QA vocabulary as well as compile a portfolio. In the end, you will have a test interview with us and become ready to search for a new job.
Required skills
- You know your goals and motivation for completing the course
- You can allocate ~15 hours per week for studies
- Your level of English allows you to read theory resources (at least with an online translator).
- You can find the information you need online and get the most out of it
- You know how to check the accuracy and relevance of information
- You are on friendly terms with your computer, so you can find the task manager or install Zoom on your own
Why QA Manual?
- QA is the second most demanded IT profession with a low entry threshold.
- No advanced knowledge is required to start working in QA, basic education is enough.
- QA opens doors to any other subfield such as PM, development, or business analysis.
- Testers are the first ones to see the new software, get their hands on new apps, and learn the news of the field.
Course program
Main course modules and lessons for this course.
Fundamental theory of testing and its application.Test control systems and bug tracking systems
24 h • 12 topics- What is testing and why is it important? Core ISTQB Standards
- SDLC & STLC. Software development methodologies. Quality of a product
- Working with specifications. Analyzing and writing specifications
- Test documentation. Test Plan, Checklist, Test Suite, Test Case. Documents that are created upon testing
- Levels and types of testing
- Test control systems TestRail and TestLink
- Bug and working with bug tracking systems. Working with Jira
- Test design techniques (White-Box & Black-Box)
- The practice of applying the Black-Box test design technique. Part 1
- The practice of applying the Black-Box test design technique. Part 2
- Practice of using test design techniques. White Box
- Lesson zero. Get to know everyone
Testing web applications, web services, and mobile testing
12 h • 6 topics- Testing user interfaces (GUI). Web applications testing
- Web basics (HTML, CSS). Xpath and СSS selectors. Character Encoding
- API testing. JSON vs XML. REST vs SOAP
- API testing with Postman
- Testing API with SOAP UI
- Basics of mobile apps testing
Databases. Intro to SQL
6 h • 3 topics- Relational databases. SELECT operator
- Comparison predicates, aggregate functions
- Join operations, nested requests and JOIN statements
Basics of traffic analysis, load and automated testing. Preparing for an interview
10 h • 5 topics- Working with Wireshark and Fiddler traffic analyzers
- Load testing basics with Apache Jmeter
- Basics of Automated Testing (Selenium WebDriver)
- Getting ready for an interview
- Exam
Application process
Take the test
Register in our LMS and do a test to help us evaluate your knowledge.
Interview
Once we receive your test results, we'll invite you for an online meeting. Let's see if we're a good match.
Enroll
Start your education in the next available group. Your next career destination has never been closer.
Course content
total hours
Teachers
Senior QA at Perfectial powered by Avenga
4+ years of experience. Worked for SoftServe
QA Engineer at Codevog
7 years in QA. Worked for JoyRocks, Renome
QA Analyst at Allvue Systems
2+ years in QA. Worked for Think Global, Ubisoft
Test Lead at Walkme
5 years of experience. Worked for Luxoft
Lessons schedule
Practical skills for your future career
You will get
- 26 teacher-led sessions
- 3 times/week
- Life time access to course materials
- Certificate of completion
New skills and an amazing career in IT awaits!
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Our impact
graduates finished our courses
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teachers work today
IT companies employed our students
of graduates are female
people studying right now
The studying process was of the highest standards! Your Academy and team are outstanding; everything was excellent. During the course, I found a vacancy I liked and did some test tasks. I passed my Beetroot exam and got a new job as a QA Engineer within one week!
Application process
Take the test
Register in our LMS and do a test to help us evaluate your knowledge.
Interview
Once we receive your test results, we'll invite you for an online meeting. Let's see if we're a good match.
Enroll
Start your education in the next available group. Your next career destination has never been closer.
