Learn Manual QA Engineering From Scratch

Explore the software development life cycle, software testing life cycle, and testing methodologies from planning and requirements through deployment and maintenance.

Explore the software testing life cycle from requirements through planning, test case design, environment setup, test execution, defect tracking, test reporting, and closure, to ensure quality releases.

Explore software methodologies, including waterfall and agile, and examine how they structure development, deliverables, and feedback through sequential phases or iterative sprints.

Master front end versus back end testing by applying user interface checks for layout and usability, and backend validation of servers, databases, and apis.

Explore the testing pyramid and apply unit testing, integration testing, and end to end UI testing to build a solid foundation and achieve best testing coverage.

Learn to distinguish functional testing from non-functional testing from an end-user perspective, with examples of input validation, UI testing, performance, security, usability, and reliability.

Explore black box, white box, and gray box testing, contrasting end-user oriented manual qa with code-focused testing, and identify who performs each type.

Explore sanity, regression, smoke, alpha and beta, positive and negative, boundary, and exploratory testing with practical examples that show how each type validates software quality before release.

Explore the roles in a software development team, from product manager and product owner to project manager, team lead, developers, testers, DevOps, stakeholders, and customers.

Learn how project management tools help project managers and teams plan, organize, and execute projects by enabling planning and scheduling, task management, resource allocation, communication, collaboration, and document management.

Explore how Jira enables issue tracking, bug management, test case management, and collaboration, with customization and tool integration to streamline software testing.

Define how a test plan acts as a blueprint for testing, outlining objectives, scope, approach, environment, schedule, and risk management, with demonstrations of test plans and test cases.

Create and read test plans in Jira as blueprints for sprint testing, outlining login feature testing with valid and invalid credentials, objectives, strategy, deliverables, and metrics.

Define test cases with ids, descriptions, preconditions, steps, expected and actual results, and pass/fail status to verify functional, non-functional, and performance requirements, and document data and environments.

Learn how to create test cases for a subscription form using a Jira template with Sapphire Skill, detailing positive and negative flows, preconditions, steps, and attachments.

Identify what a bug is and why it occurs, from coding errors to vague requirements, and learn to document them with bug reports to limit defects.

Learn how to classify bugs by severity and priority, from S0 critical blockers to S3 minor issues, and from P0 showstoppers to P4 cosmetic defects, for effective bug management.

Explore how to construct and break down a bug report, covering summary and title, description, steps to reproduce, environment details, attachments, priority and severity, and assignee.

Explore the bug life cycle from discovery to closure, including reporting, prioritization, assignment, fixing, verification, and potential reopening.

Learn to file a Jira bug report with summary, description, environment, priority, and attachments, and document steps to reproduce, including the image overlap, and the expected versus actual behavior.

Master front end testing by evaluating the UI, UX, and components to ensure a smooth user experience, cross-browser and cross-device compatibility, performance, accessibility, and visual consistency.

Learn how testing environments are defined in a test plan and how to validate software across development, testing and staging, and production environments, using multiple browsers, operating systems, and devices.

Test web and mobile apps in real-time using BrowserStack, with virtual machines across operating systems, devices, and browsers.

Learn back end testing, focusing on API and database testing, how back end supports front end actions like login and API status codes.

Explore what an API is and how endpoints enable programs to share data, then see how manual QA tests API functionality, security, and performance using Postman, SoapUI, Apigee.

Master API status codes by examining HTTP status codes, including 200, 201, 204, 301, 302, 400, 401, 403, 404, 500, 502, and 503, to understand their impact on API requests.

Master API CRUD operations by creating resources with post, reading with get, updating with put or patch, and deleting with delete, including 201 created responses and request body handling.

Learn how API testing tools empower manual testers to test APIs without diving into the code. Explore Postman, Swagger, Insomnia, Soap UI, and JMeter for functional, performance, and security testing.

Explore Postman as an API testing tool and sign up for a free Postman account to access its workspace for designing, building, testing, and documenting APIs.

Learn how to create and test API requests in postman, including get and post methods, checking status codes like 200 and 201, and reviewing JSON responses.

Learn how to create and organize collections in Postman to group get, post, and put requests, save them, document them, and share with teammates.

learn to create tests in postman to verify status codes and response bodies for api calls. practice testing status code 200 and json value checks to validate api responses.

Create a runner in postman to automate API testing and run thousands of tests quickly. Design collections, add status 200 checks, and share reusable collections with your team.

Learn manual qa engineering from scratch covers mobile testing basics, tools like Browserstack, Appium, Selenium, and Testcomplete, and testing on real devices, emulators, simulators, and across networks.

Explore how Browserstack enables testing across iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac environments from a single platform, with a free trial, device simulations, and bug reporting.