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Software QA and QA Automation Road Map 2023

The document outlines a comprehensive roadmap for software QA and automation from beginner to senior level over 12 sections. It covers fundamentals, technical skills, test planning, popular automation tools, programming skills, web and mobile test automation, API testing, performance testing, security testing, and tips for senior QA engineers. The roadmap guides testers on everything from basic terminology to advanced topics like performance testing, security testing, and leading a QA team.

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Software QA and QA Automation Road Map 2023

The document outlines a comprehensive roadmap for software QA and automation from beginner to senior level over 12 sections. It covers fundamentals, technical skills, test planning, popular automation tools, programming skills, web and mobile test automation, API testing, performance testing, security testing, and tips for senior QA engineers. The roadmap guides testers on everything from basic terminology to advanced topics like performance testing, security testing, and leading a QA team.

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Software QA and
QA Automation
Road Map 2023
From Zero to Architect
Resources: Real work experiences, big company
career ladders, roadmap.sh

Mohammad Monfared, Lead SDET and Architect


https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-monfared/
1- Theory & Fundamentals

• What is software testing? 7 principles and its objectives.


• Terminologies (ISTQB glossary)
• Testing approaches (White box, Black box, Grey box) - definitions &
differences
• Functional & Non-functional test - definitions & differences
• Smoke, Exploratory, Sanity and Regression test - definitions & differences
• Test documentation & design - Test case, Test suite, Test scenario,
checklist, how to convert user story (or requirements) to Test scenario
• Test planning
• Test coverage, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Bug life cycle
• Static and Dynamic testing
• How to report a bug - Steps to reproduce, expected & actual result
• Explain how web, mobile, and desktop applications work
• What is automation testing?
• Type of automation testing (UI, E2E, Performance, Security, API (Service),
Unit & Integration)
• Where and why automated testing can be used?
• Understanding CI/CD and its theory.
• Living documents
• Create reports
• Agile & Scrum:
• QA in waterfall model and agile methodologies.
• Iterations (Sprint)
• Roles and responsibilities: Product Owner, Product Manager, Scrum
Master, Leads, Developers, QA, QAA
• Artifacts: Project backlog, Sprint backlog
• Meetings: Daily, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospectives,
Backlog refinement
• Type of tasks: Epic, Story, Tasks, Subtasks, Issue/Bug, Spike
• ISTQB Fundamental Certificate

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2- Basic Technical Skills:
• API testing fundamentals
• What is a web service and API?
• Response Codes
• Type of APIs
• Authentication
• Monitor Backend (DevTools, Fiddler, CharlesProxy)
• Git - basics
• Database - queries and schemas, primary and foreign key
• Network protocols (e.g. TCP, UDP, FTP)
• Basic HTML and main tags (a, div, table, span, tr, td, ul, li)
• Basic CSS
• How a web page is rendered in the browser - Applying CSS styles, DOM,
JavaScript
• How the web application works - Client-Server architecture, web socket.
• Cache and cookies
• Continuous integration - run a build, monitor the results, and deploy on the
environment.
• BDD framework and Gherkin syntax
• Linux
• CLI / Powershell / Unix bash

3- Test Planning:
• Implement STLC
• Implement BDD & Gherkin syntax for everything (PRD, Bug report, Test-
cases)
• Choose appropriate tools and strategy
• Define bug life cycles
• Manage test-cases
• RTM

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4- Know about the important tools/frameworks and their uses:

• Web testing: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, WebDriverIO, Selenide


• Mobile testing: Appium, Calabash, Selendroid, Detox
• Desktop testing: WinAppDriver, Winium, Ranorex, TestComplete
• Codeless tools: Katalon, Testproject.io
• API testing: Postman, Swagger, RestAssured, Katalon, SoapUI, Cypress,
Karate
• Performance test: jMeter, K6.io, Gatling, Locust, ChromeDevTools,
Loader.io, Blazemeter, LoadRunner
• Test frameworks: Robotframework, TestNG, Pytest, Mocha, Jasmin,
Puppeteer
• BDD frameworks: Cucumber, Serenity, Behave
• Making reports and dashboards: AllureReports, Mochawesome, Grafana,
Kibana
• HTTP monitor: Fiddler, CharlesProxy, HttpAnalyzer
• Version Control System (VCS): Git, GitLab, Bitbucket, TeamCity
• Issue tracker: Jira, YouTrack, TFS
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Teamcity, CircleCI, Travis CI, Bamboo
• Test managers: TestRail, Jira+Xray, TestLink, TestMo, TestPad
• Documentation: Confluence, Notion
• Device farms: Browserstacks, SauceLabs, AWS device farm, Lamdatest,
Samsung Remote Test Lab, Firebase Test Lab, Xamarin Test Cloud, STF
(create in-house device lab)

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5- Learn a programming language (Preferably Python, Java,
or JavaScript):
• Basics and syntax
• String - analyses, pattern matching, regex
• Containers (list, set, array, dictionary, tuple, etc.)
• OOP
• Control flow and loops (decision-making)
• Work with files - read/write, analyze the contents, download and upload
• Work with databases
• API requests
• Run system commands
• Data structure and algorithms
• Generators
• SOLID principles
• Scopes
• Multithreading
• Debug
• Mastering in an IDE (VS-Code and JetBrains product)

It’s time to dive into Automation…

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6- Web test automation (e.g. Selenium or Cypress)
• What are WebDriver and JsonWireProtocol? How do they work?
• Install requirements and tools needed
• Locators: XPath / CSS, validate locators in DevTools
• Creating a framework from scratch (e.g, Selenium+Robotframework or
Java+Maven+TestNG)
• Browser actions
• Assertions + Get attributes + Form validations
• Implement Page Object Model
• Mouse actions (Click, RightClick, Scroll vertically and horizontally, Hover,
Drag & Drop)
• Keyboard actions
• Waits
• Work with Alerts
• Work with Permissions (Microphone, Camera, Location, Notification)
• Dialog / Snackbar /Tooltip
• Handling all types of elements (Radio button, switch, checkbox,
dropdown, slider, chips)
• iFrame
• Setup & Teardown
• Intercept and Mocking
• Use JavaScript
• Cookie and Storage
• Hooks, Tags, and Annotations
• Multiple windows/tabs
• Headless testing
• Record, Report & Dashboard (e.q. Allure)

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7- Mobile test automation (e.g Appium)

• Install requirements and tools needed


• Details of APK and IPA files
• packageName and MANIFEST.XML
• Phone Developer tools and USB debugging
• ADB & Shell commands
• Appium architecture and how it works
• Run Appium server (cable/wifi)
• Connect to real devices and emulators
• Desired capabilities
• Locating elements (UIAutomatorViewer, Appium desktop, Appium studio,
Katalon mobile spy)
• Mastering Appium studio
• Install / Uninstall APKs using tools and scripts (on real and virtual devices)
• Create a framework from scratch (e.g. Appium+Robotframework or
Java+Maven+TestNG)
• Assertions + Get attributes + Form validations
• Reading SMS
• Gestures actions (Swipe, Scroll vertically and horizontally, Drag and Drop)
• Handling all types of elements (Text box, checkbox, radio button, switch,
slider, drop-down, chips, badge, wheeler, date picker)
• Handling Alerts and Popups
• Setup & Teardown
• Tags and Annotations
• Record, Report & Dashboard (e.q. Allure)
• iOS automation: XCode, iOS simulator, XCUITest, UICatalog, and all the
previous subjects

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8- Should know then:
• What and When to automate?
• Implement Data Driven Testing (DDT)
• Implement BDD framework
• Test automation design patterns
• Mastering Git
• Basic code review (peer review)
• Select testing strategy (tools and schedules)
• Parallelize and Multithreading
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI, Gitlab-CI, etc.)

9- API (Service) automation (backend automation):


• What is a web service and API?
• How do web services work?
• Response Codes
• Authentication and Authorization
• Monitor the backend using browser DevTools,
• Monitor mobile app backend using Fiddler, CharlesProxy, etc
• WSDL and UDDI
• Type of APIs (REST, Soap)
• Fixtures and Data-Driven API testing
• API Chaining
• Tools and frameworks:
• Postman (& Newman)
• Swagger
• RestAssured
• Katalon
• SoapUI
• Cypress
• Karate

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10- Senior and Lead:
• Code coverage of test automation
• Calculate automated test ROI
• Distributing tests between multiple servers
• Create an in-house device farm (STF)
• Code review approval (code owner)
• Structuring QA Team and flow
• Interview and Hire
• Mentoring, Coaching, Consulting
• Perform webinars
• Create roadmaps, OKRs and KPIs, report to managers

11- Performance testing

• What is performance testing?


• User load definition
• Types of performance testing (Smoke, Stress/Spike, Load,
Soak/Endurance)
• Define goals
• Thresholds
• Correlations
• Results Analyze and Report
• SRE requirements
• Environment preparation and cleanup
• Mastering in tools and frameworks:
• jMeter
• k6.io
• Gatling
• Locust
• etc.
• Mobile app performance:
• Profiling
• CPU/RAM/Battery Usages
• Benchmarking

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12- Security testing

• Methodology and Techniques


• Actions in each SDLC phase
• Authentication / Authorization
• Vulnerability/Security Scanning
• Attack Vectors
• Secret management
• Risk assessment
• Penetration testing
• Posture assessment
• Security auditing
• Ethical hacking
• Tools:
• KaliLinux
• Owasp
• Acunetix
• WireShark
• Intruder
• W3af

Just like a real project, break your goals to epics and


tasks, then define your sprints and Kanban boards!
Don’t forget to have a daily check and sprint review
with yourself! …!

Mohammad Monfared
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-monfared/

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