Career guidance

Rajendra Sahu

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Career guidance
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₹500
30 mins

Phase 1: QA Foundation (Manual Testing)

Goal: Build strong fundamentals in software testing.

Focus Areas:

  • SDLC, STLC, Bug life cycle
  • Test case design techniques (Boundary, Equivalence, Decision tables)
  • Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Integration testing
  • JIRA / TestRail / Zephyr for test management
  • Basic SQL (Joins, CRUD, Constraints)
  • Understanding of APIs (via Postman or Swagger)

📘 Recommended Tools:

JIRA, TestRail, Postman, SQL Developer, Swagger

Phase 2: Automation Foundation

Goal: Automate web and mobile test cases using frameworks.

Focus Areas:

  • Core Java / Python basics
  • OOPs, Collections, Exception handling, File handling
  • Data-driven concepts (Excel, JSON, XML)
  • Selenium WebDriver (Locators, Waits, Actions, JavaScriptExecutor)
  • TestNG / JUnit for test organization
  • Maven / Gradle for build management
  • Framework structure: Page Object Model (POM), Hybrid, or BDD (Cucumber)

📘 Recommended Tools & Libraries:

Selenium, TestNG, Maven, Cucumber, Log4j, Extent Report, Apache POI

Phase 3: Advanced Automation (SDET Level)

Goal: Build scalable frameworks and integrate with CI/CD & APIs.

Focus Areas:

  • REST API Automation (RestAssured / HTTP Client / Postman collections)
  • Database validation via JDBC
  • CI/CD Integration (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps)
  • Version control (Git, GitHub, Bitbucket)
  • Parallel execution, cross-browser (Selenium Grid, Docker, BrowserStack)
  • Hybrid frameworks: Combine Web + API + DB + Reports

📘 Recommended Tools:

Jenkins, Git, RestAssured, Allure/Extent Reports, Docker

Phase 4: Mobile Automation

Goal: Automate iOS and Android apps.

Focus Areas:

  • Appium (Native, Hybrid, WebView apps)
  • Android Studio, Xcode setup
  • Device cloud testing (BrowserStack, SauceLabs, LambdaTest)
  • iOS certificate, provisioning profile management

📘 Recommended Tools:

Appium 2.x, Android Studio, Xcode, Node.js, Appium Inspector

Phase 5: Expert / Leadership Level

Goal: Build complete automation ecosystem & mentor others.

Focus Areas:

  • Framework design from scratch
  • TestOps & DevOps awareness (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Cloud-based test infra setup
  • Performance testing (JMeter / Gatling)
  • Security testing basics (OWASP, ZAP)
  • Leading test strategy and automation roadmap

📘 Recommended Tools:

JMeter, Grafana, AWS Device Farm, Jenkins Pipelines

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