Software Testing & QA Automation Bootcamp Certificate

Checkpoint 1: Define a risk-based test strategy for a small web/API product: critical journeys, test layers, environments, data and release gates.
Checkpoint 2: Write unit tests for core business logic with deterministic fixtures, edge cases and explicit exception/failure coverage.
Checkpoint 3: Build Postman API tests for happy paths, auth, negative cases, schema validation and chained workflows; automate with CLI.
Checkpoint 4: Build Playwright browser tests using robust locators, assertions, fixtures and page objects; include at least one accessibility check.
Checkpoint 5: Add visual or cross-browser evidence, flaky-test detection and a quarantine/fix policy; measure runtime and failure signal quality.
Checkpoint 6: Run the suite in CI on every pull request; publish reports/artifacts, block a known regression and demonstrate root-cause diagnosis.

Day 1: Choose a real application/API and create a quality-risk map, release criteria and layered test plan tied to user impact.
Day 2: Build unit tests and API happy/negative-path coverage; capture baseline defects and coverage gaps before automation expands.
Day 3: Add schema/contract assertions, auth cases and data-driven API workflows; make the API suite runnable from the command line.
Day 4: Automate the highest-risk browser journeys with Playwright; add fixtures/page objects plus accessibility and visual checks.
Day 5: Harden reliability: remove timing assumptions, detect flakiness, test failures intentionally and document failure taxonomy.
Day 6: Integrate unit/API/E2E suites into CI with artifacts, thresholds and one deliberately injected regression that blocks release.
Day 7: Publish repo, test strategy, trace/report evidence, defect examples, CI screenshots, demo video and a release-readiness memo.