Learning Paths
Free career paths from your first QA lesson through automation, specialization branches, and quality leadership.
10
Career paths
119
Total Lessons
Every career path is free
Follow the ladder or choose the step you need
Start from zero, deepen your core testing skills, add automation, branch into a domain, and move into leadership when you are ready.
1. Start Here
Build the vocabulary, judgment, and tool familiarity every QA role needs.
Free
Start Here
18 lessonsStart your QA career from zero. Learn how software teams work, practice test design and triage, write useful bug reports, and use the everyday tools behind manual testing.
What's included:
- Introduction to Software QA Basics
- Switching to QA: What You Need to Know (From Any Background to Tech)
- Tech Career Basics: From Non-Tech to QA (Your Realistic Transition Guide)
- + 15 more lessons
2. Core Testing Skills
Practice manual testing and API quality before specializing in automation.
Free
Manual QA Mastery
20 lessonsComplete manual skillset plus decision training: priority under capacity, ownership and routing, RCA, and defect management. AI-assisted techniques included — you stay the verifier of what to test and ship.
What's included:
- Introduction to Software QA Basics
- Will AI Replace the QA? The Honest Truth in 2026
- Manual Testing Essentials: The Foundation of Quality Assurance
- + 17 more lessons
Free
API Testing & Automation
8 lessonsBecome a high-demand API testing specialist. From Postman basics to advanced automation, contract testing, and AI-powered API validation. Perfect for those wanting to specialize in backend/API QA.
What's included:
- API Testing Intro: Getting Started with Backend Quality
- What is Postman? The Number 1 Tool for API Testing
- API Manual QA: Hands-On Validation Mastery
- + 5 more lessons
3. Test Automation
Move from testing judgment into maintainable browser, API, mobile, and CI automation.
Free
SDET / Test Automation Engineer
14 lessonsOwn a suite, including tests a model wrote. Judgment first, then API, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, frameworks, CI quality gates, and AI you still verify. Not a coding bootcamp — you read, edit, and reject automation.
What's included:
- When to Automate — Judgment Before a Suite
- API Automation — The Highest-Leverage Layer
- Selenium WebDriver Mastery — Own the Suite Enterprises Still Run
- + 11 more lessons
4. Choose a Branch
Apply the core skills to the product surface or quality problem you want to own.
Free
Mobile QA Professional
9 lessonsBecome a mobile QA expert covering iOS and Android. Learn manual testing, Appium automation, performance testing, security, usability, and accessibility. High-demand specialization with excellent career prospects.
What's included:
- Mobile QA Fundamentals: Mastering the Chaos of Phones & Tablets
- Mobile Manual Testing: Core Skills for App Quality
- Mobile Usability Testing: Make Apps Feel Intuitive
- + 6 more lessons
Free
Frontend QA Expert
10 lessonsMaster frontend quality assurance from responsive design to Cypress automation. Cover usability, accessibility, visual regression, and cross-browser testing. Essential for modern web application QA.
What's included:
- Frontend QA Basics: Mastering UI, Responsiveness & User Experience
- Responsive Design Testing: Making Websites Work Beautifully Everywhere
- Frontend Manual Testing: UI Validation & User Experience Mastery
- + 7 more lessons
Free
Hardware & Robotics QA
13 lessonsYour unique competitive advantage - master QA for physical devices, IoT, robotics, and drones. From manual testing to automation and management. The future of quality assurance beyond software.
What's included:
- Basics of Hardware QA: Testing the Physical World in the Age of AI
- Introduction to Robotics Testing: Ensuring Safe, Reliable Robots in the Real World
- Hardware Test Fundamentals: Manual Testing for Physical Devices
- + 10 more lessons
Free
AI-Powered QA: The Future Is Now
11 lessonsAI-powered testing track that starts with practice: critique AI test plans, then co-pilot workflows, generation, flaky debug, and assisted pipelines. Stay the verifier.
What's included:
- Critique This AI Test Plan
- Will AI Replace the QA? The Honest Truth in 2026
- AI as Your Testing Copilot: Supercharge Your Manual QA Skills
- + 8 more lessons
Free
Security Testing Foundations
5 lessonsSpecialize in security testing across platforms. Learn security automation, AI-powered security testing, mobile security, backend security, and hardware security management. Critical skills for modern QA.
What's included:
- Security Testing Automation Mastery for SDETs – Shift Left & Block Breaches Early (2025-2026 Edition)
- AI in API Testing: Payloads & Validation Mastery for SDETs (2025 Edition)
- Backend Performance QA: Identify & Diagnose Bottlenecks Manually
- + 2 more lessons
5. Lead Quality
Learn prioritization, people leadership, metrics, process improvement, and written release decisions.
Free
QA Leadership & Management
11 lessonsLead quality, not just status meetings: triage under constraints, people (including firing), a week of coverage, metrics, and a written go/no-go. Decision labs as the IC→lead bridge. You do this on the page — no meeting required.
What's included:
- Prioritize Eight Bugs with Limited Capacity
- Priority Is Not Severity
- Ownership and Routing
- + 8 more lessons