The evolution of QA

1.1 Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Agile, Scrum. Where does QA fit into all this?

1.2 Requirements Analysis: Working with User Stories in Jira. Acceptance Criteria as the foundation of testing.

1.3 Test Design Techniques: Analysis and Implementation of Specification-Based Test Design Techniques in Software Quality Engineering

1.4 BDD and Gherkin (Behaviour Driven Development): From chaos to precision

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2.1 Variables and Memory: Data types, variables. Stack vs Heap.

2.2 Algorithms: Loops (for, while), conditional statements. Bubble sort

2.3 Functions and Modularisation: The DRY Principle (Don’t Repeat Yourself).

2.4 Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): Classes, Inheritance, Polymorphism.

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3.1 Relational Databases: Tables, Keys (Primary/Foreign).

3.2 SQL in Practice: SELECT, JOIN, WHERE, and GROUP BY queries.

3.3 Data verification: Checking whether ‘User Created’ has actually been saved in the table.

3.4 Data verification in NoSQL databases

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4.1 HTTP protocol in quality engineering

4.2 Postman Pro: Collections, Environment Variables.

4.3 Scripting in JavaScript and testing APIs in Postman

4.4 Backend system simulation engineering

4.5 GraphQL testing challenges for QA engineers

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5.1 Architecture and Implementation of Scalable API Testing Frameworks

5.2 Advanced validation and data architecture with Pydantic V2

5.3 Advanced authorisation architecture in API testing

5.4 Reporting: Generating HTML reports (Allure).

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6.1 DOM (Document Object Model): How the browser sees the code.

6.2 Localisation Strategies: CSS Selectors vs XPath. Best practices (test-id).

6.3 DevTools: Debugging in the browser console.

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7.1 Playwright vs Selenium: Why the modern web requires new tools.

7.2 Interactions in UI testing: Forms, Modals, Shadow DOM, iFrames.

7.3 Page Object Model (POM) pattern: Professional test code architecture.

7.4 Pytest-BDD

7.5 Accessibility automation in the Playwright ecosystem

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8.1 Visual regression testing: Comparing screenshots pixel by pixel.

8.2 Mobile testing: Android emulators, Appium – differences compared to the web.

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9.1 Performance Theory: Latency vs Throughput. Load vs Stress Tests.

9.2 Locust (Python): Writing load test scripts in code.

9.3 Test performance and microservice architecture

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11.1 Docker: Containerisation of tests

11.2 GitHub Actions: Building a pipeline. Automatically running tests after git push.

11.3 Strategies for running tests in CI CD

11.4 Code working strategies and code review in test automation

11.5 Observability in quality engineering

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