SDET / Automation QA Academy Self Taught Guide

The Test Lead
3 min readMar 8, 2024

In the software testing world the greater the your skillset, the more marketable you are, leading to more opportunities that you can possibly pursue. If you are currently a manual QA tester and want to expand your skillset, this program might be for you. Even if you aren’t planning on buying the program, you can use this video as a guide for things you can research and learn on your own for the automation skillset.

First off this is not going to be a magic pill that gets you from being unemployed to making half a million dollars by next week. Before you sign up you should know what you are investing in to so you can have realistic expectations from it. Now we will discuss the core contents of the course.

Prerequisites

This is an advanced course to help someone go from having just the manual or human testing skillset to having the required automation or SDET skillset as well. This can lead to more job stability, more job options, and higher ceiling for career growth and salaries. Before diving into automation you shared have confident knowledge in the manual QA skillset first.

Programming Languages

Coding is a key component of automation testing and helps us communicate with the computer in a language it can understand. Python is the easiest…

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