Becoming a Full-Stack QA Engineer – The Non-Functional Edge

Explore performance testing by assessing responsiveness, speed, scalability, and stability under real-world load. Learn about tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, Rc6, and Blazemeter, and avoid testing on local systems.

Explore security testing by using tools like OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, and Nessus to identify vulnerabilities and safeguard applications against cyber threats.

Learn performance engineering basics, including load, stress, and endurance testing, and how it differs from performance testing, while identifying bottlenecks and monitoring response time and throughput.

Explore the basics of database testing, covering structure validation, crud operations, joins, and query performance. Ensure data integrity and accuracy of results while considering security testing and data breach risks.

Learn the fundamentals of security testing within non-functional QA, safeguarding integrity, confidentiality, and availability while identifying vulnerabilities, threats, and regulatory risks, and exploring SAST, DAST, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment.

Identify vulnerabilities as a core of security testing, covering OWASP risks such as SQL injection, XSS, and deserialization, and use automated scanners with manual testing and code reviews for mitigation.

Penetration testing simulates an authorized cyber attack to identify security gaps in an application and its network. Plan, reconnaissance, scanning, and gaining access culminate in documented findings and recommendations.

Explore the Open Web Application Security Project (owasp) guidelines and top ten risks to prioritize security measures, reduce vulnerabilities, and strengthen software security practices for qa professionals.

Adopt secure software development with regular security audits, secure coding standards, and integrated testing across the SDLC, plus training on OWASP top ten and trends in AI and cloud security.

Learn the basics of shell scripting, its role in automating repetitive tasks for full-stack qa, and how scripts enable batch processing in ci/cd pipelines and servers.

Explore common shell commands for Linux scripting, including navigation with LLS, CD, PWD, and file operations like CP, MV, RM, and touch, plus text processing with grep and awk.

Learn practical shell basics by creating, editing, and managing files and directories with commands like touch, cat, vim, grep, awk, mv, cp, rm, mkdir, and recursive removal using rm -rf.

Turn basic shell commands into a reusable script that copies a file, adjusts ownership and permissions, and counts text occurrences with grep and wc using variables.

Master advanced shell scripting techniques using variables, parameters, conditional statements, loops, and functions to create dynamic, modular scripts that automate tasks and boost efficiency.

Learn how CI and CD basics drive faster releases and higher quality by automatically testing and integrating code into a shared repository, enabling early issue detection and easier team collaboration.

Define and implement a ci/cd pipeline with stages for source code management, build, test, and deploy, and choose tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions.

Learn to run and monitor CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot failures with logs and RCA, and keep pipelines clean and modular for reliable software delivery.