Master QA Automation with Java Selenium - Course Syllabus

🔧 Tools Covered

Selenium • Java • TestNG • Cucumber • Postman • Rest Assured • JIRA • Jenkins • GitHub • MySQL • JMeter • Maven

Manual Testing Foundations + Agile

  • Introduction to Software Testing: SDLC vs. STLC
  • Types of Testing: Functional, Regression, Smoke, UAT, etc.
  • Test Case Design & Bug Lifecycle
  • Agile & Scrum Deep Dive: Roles, Ceremonies, Sprint Planning
  • JIRA: Managing Stories, Sub-Tasks, and Reporting Bugs 

Core Java for Testers

  • Java Basics: Variables, Loops, Conditions, Arrays
  • OOP Concepts: Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, and Abstraction
  • Exception Handling, Collections, File Handling
  • Writing Java code for automation logic 

Selenium WebDriver & Test Automation

  • Selenium Introduction & Setup
  • Locators (XPath, CSS, ID, etc.)
  • Automating User Actions (Forms, Alerts, Dropdowns)
  • Page Object Model (POM) Design
  • Data-Driven Testing with Excel or Properties files
  • TestNG Integration

Automation Frameworks & CI/CD

  • Building a Scalable Automation Framework (Maven + POM)
  • Hooks, Assertions, Utilities, Reports
  • Introduction to BDD with Cucumber
  • Hooks, Tags & Reusable Steps in Cucumber
  • Integrating BDD Tests with Reports
  • GitHub: Version Control Basics
  • Using GitHub from Your Local Machine – Student Guide
  • Jenkins: Automation Job Scheduling + Reporting
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Integrating tests into the DevOps flow 

API Testing with Postman & Rest Assured

  • What is an API? How to test APIs
  • Postman: Collections, Assertions, Environments
  • Writing End-to-End API Tests
  • Validating APIs Against Database Results
  • Intro to Rest Assured (Java-based API testing framework)
  • Complete beginner-friendly API test suite using Rest Assured + TestNG 

Performance Testing Basics

  • Why Performance Testing?
  • Introduction to JMeter
  • Building Your First Load Test Scenario with JMeter
  • Analyzing & Reporting Performance Test Results Professionally
  • Building test plans, thread groups, analyzing results
  • Using Timers, Assertions, and CSV Data in JMeter for Dynamic Testing
  • Performance metrics every tester should know
  • JMeter Best Practices for Real-World Performance Projects

SQL & Database Validation

  • MySQL Basics: SELECT, JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY
  • Advanced SQL Concepts for Testers: Subqueries, Aliases, and Data Validation
  • Hands-On SQL Challenges for QA Testers
  • Writing queries to validate UI/API data
  • Writing Automated DB Checks in Your Test Framework
  • Java utility to read this file and switch between multiple DB environments easily
  • DB Integration in Automation Tests

Security Testing

  • SQL Injection in API, UI & DB Testing
  • Automating SQL Injection Detection in Postman & JMeter 

Final Project + Resume & Interview Prep

  • Real-World Project: UI + API Test Automation 
  • GitHub Portfolio Setup  
  • Resume Optimization for QA Roles  
  • Mock Interviews, Behavioral + Technical  
  • Job Hunting Tips, LinkedIn Optimization, & Referrals