Professional Software Quality Assurance Course (PSQA)

Definition, importance, and goals of QA in software development.

Differentiating between quality assurance, quality control, and testing.

Overview of industry standards and models such as ISO, CMMI, and Six Sigma.

Responsibilities, skills, and mindset required for a successful QA career.

Phases of the software testing life cycle and their significance.

STLC in Waterfall Methodology: Requirements analysis, test planning, test case development, environment setup, test execution, test cycle closure.

STLC in Agile Scrum Methodology: Sprint planning, test execution within sprints, continuous feedback loops, integration of QA in daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

Manual Testing Techniques: Black-box testing, white-box testing, grey-box testing, exploratory testing.

Automated Testing Techniques: Unit testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing

Test Planning: Objectives, scope, and criteria for success, resource planning and scheduling

Test Execution: Execution of test cases, logging results and tracking progress

Metrics-Based Reporting: Key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, test coverage, defect density, and test efficiency

Risk Management: Identifying and assessing risks, mitigation strategies and contingency planning.

Configuration Management: Version control, managing changes to the test environment.

Requirements for different types of testing environments

Configuration and maintenance

Creating and managing test data

Data privacy and security considerations

Identification, reporting, and classification of defects.

Prioritization and assignment.

Using Jira for defect tracking and management.

Integrating defect management with the development process.

Importance of API testing in modern applications.

Using tools like Postman

Writing and executing API test cases.

Automating API tests.

Introduction to Test Automation: Definition and Importance, advantages and benefits, types of tests suitable for automation.

Test Automation Tools and Frameworks: overview of popular test automation tools, introduction to test automation frameworks.

Test Automation Process: Test Script development, test execution and reporting, continuous integration and continuous testing.

Non-Functional Testing Overview: Definition and Scope, types of non-functional testing, importance of non-functional testing in software development lifecycle.

Integration of Test Automation and Non-Functional Testing: Best Practices for integrating test automation and non-functional testing, leveraging test automation for non-functional testing scenarios, challenges and considerations in combined test approach.