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Automation Engineer / SDET Training: Java, TDD, AI-Powered Test Automation

A 16-week, hands-on program that takes QA engineers from Java fundamentals through TDD, Selenium/Playwright, Appium, REST Assured, GitLab CI/CD, and AI-powered self-healing automation to a portfolio-ready SDET framework.

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COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
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Learn Java through Test-Driven Development from day one

No prior coding experience needed — every concept is introduced by writing a failing test first, then making it pass.

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One real framework, built incrementally

Instead of isolated exercises, you evolve a single SOLID-compliant, layered automation framework across Web, API, and Mobile.

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AI woven into every phase

Use AI-assisted script generation, build a custom self-healing locator lab on an OpenAI endpoint, and see agentic MCP-based testing in action.

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WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO

The skills you will have by the end of this course.

  • Practice Test-Driven Development (Red → Green → Refactor) in Java with JUnit 5, building real business logic test-first
  • Design a test automation framework from SOLID principles, Singleton/Factory/Builder/Strategy patterns, and the Page Object Model
  • Write production-quality automation code with Selenium WebDriver and Appium (Android and iOS), and compare Selenium with Playwright
  • Automate API testing with REST Assured, backed by SQL validation, inside the same shared automation framework
  • Integrate Web, API, and Mobile suites into a GitLab CI/CD pipeline with Allure reporting, and scale execution with Selenium Grid/Docker
  • Apply AI tools across the automation lifecycle, including AI-assisted script generation and a custom self-healing locator mechanism
  • Describe agentic, MCP-based test automation (Playwright MCP, Appium MCP) and where the industry is heading next
  • Own a real, portfolio-ready automation framework built on live applications, ready to present in an SDET interview
CONDENSED SYLLABUS

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01Core Java Foundations & Tooling5 lessons+

Variables, control flow, and Object-Oriented Programming

Collections: Lists, Maps, and Sets

Exception handling and file handling

Version control with Git & GitHub: branching, pull requests, merge conflicts

Build tools: Maven & Gradle project structure and dependency management

02Test-Driven Development with JUnit 55 lessons+

The TDD workflow: Red → Green → Refactor

Writing the test before the implementation and letting it fail on purpose

Making it pass with the simplest possible code, then refactoring safely

JUnit 5 annotations, assertions, and test lifecycle

Project Checkpoint: Business Logic Library built TDD-first

03Automation Framework Architecture & Design Patterns5 lessons+

SOLID principles applied to test automation code

Singleton, Factory, Builder, and Strategy design patterns

The Page Object Model and Page Factory

Layered framework architecture: config, driver management, pages, utilities, reporting

Project Checkpoint: Framework Skeleton v1

04Selenium WebDriver Deep Dive5 lessons+

WebDriver architecture and CSS/XPath locators

Waits and synchronization strategies

Handling frames, alerts, dropdowns, and multiple windows

Using AI (Copilot/Claude) to draft and review Selenium step code

Project Checkpoint: Web Automation Project on saucedemo.com

05TestNG & Modern Web Automation with Playwright5 lessons+

TestNG annotations, execution order, parameterization, and parallel runs

Playwright architecture vs. Selenium: auto-waiting, tracing, browser contexts

Porting SauceDemo journeys from Selenium to Playwright

Awareness: visual regression testing with Applitools/Percy

AI Spotlight: Playwright MCP driving a browser via natural-language instructions

06Mobile Automation with Appium — Android & iOS6 lessons+

Appium server and Inspector, Desired Capabilities

UiAutomator2 (Android) and XCUITest (iOS)

Native, hybrid, and mobile web app testing across both platforms

Documenting platform-specific locator and capability differences

AI Spotlight: Appium MCP driving Android and iOS apps via natural language

Project Checkpoint: Mobile Automation Project on Sauce Labs' My Demo App

07BDD with Cucumber4 lessons+

Gherkin syntax and feature files

Step definitions and framework integration

Wiring Cucumber into the existing Selenium/POM framework

Project Checkpoint: SauceDemo checkout journey as a Gherkin feature file

08REST Assured API Automation5 lessons+

Setup, HTTP methods, and request/response validation

Authentication, serialization/deserialization, and JSONPath

API assertions and framework structure with SQL validation

AI Spotlight: drafting an assertion in Postbot, then translating it to REST Assured

Project Checkpoint: API Automation Project on Petstore/restful-booker

09Self-Healing Test Automation with AI4 lessons+

How self-healing works conceptually: free Healenium vs. Healenium Pro

Catching broken-locator exceptions and sending DOM context to an OpenAI endpoint

Retrying with an AI-suggested selector

Bonus lab: logging every healing event as an Allure step

10CI/CD with GitLab & Test Reporting5 lessons+

Why GitLab CI/CD for a training environment: free tier, .gitlab-ci.yml in-repo

Pipeline stages, jobs, scheduling, and triggering test runs

Awareness: GitHub Actions and Jenkins in industry environments

Allure and Extent Reports, publishing reports and healing-event logs as pipeline artifacts

Project Checkpoint: Framework goes CI — Web, API, and Mobile suites unified in one pipeline

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