QA Engineer Training: Manual Testing & AI-Assisted QA
Create account & apply
QA (SDET) Engineer SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTING · BEGINNER LEVEL

QA Engineer & AI-Assisted QA Testing

A 7-week, no-code program that turns beginners into job-ready QA Engineers: test design, defect management, AI-assisted testing, Postman API testing, and SQL โ€” all on real, live applications.

Beginner7 weeks42 hoursOnline
Your selected course will be carried into Ingress Portal.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
๐Ÿงช

Real, live applications from day one

Every exercise runs against saucedemo.com, Swagger Petstore, and restful-booker instead of slideware, so your practice mirrors real QA work.

๐Ÿค–

AI used the responsible way

Learn to generate test cases, exploratory ideas, and bug report drafts with AI while always reviewing output before trusting it.

๐Ÿ“‹

Interview-ready portfolio

Graduate with a full manual test suite, bug report set, and Postman API collection you can show a hiring manager.

Not sure you are ready? Take a skill assessment
YOUR LEVEL
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO

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

  • Design and execute structured manual test plans, test cases, and defect reports using equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, and exploratory testing.
  • Apply the QA role inside Agile/Scrum, using JIRA and Confluence for test management and documentation.
  • Classify and apply test levels and types, including smoke, sanity, regression, and black/white/grey box testing.
  • Write bug reports developers act on, using AI to summarize logs and screenshots and suggest severity/priority.
  • Use AI responsibly for test case generation, exploratory testing, and synthetic test data, always reviewing before trusting the output.
  • Test REST APIs manually with Postman, including Postbot's no-code assertion generation, against real, live APIs.
  • Validate backend data with SQL SELECT, JOIN, and filter queries against a real relational database.
  • Own a complete manual QA baseline โ€” test suite, bug reports, and API test collection โ€” that is interview-ready for a Junior QA Engineer role.
CONDENSED SYLLABUS

See the structure without reading a textbook.

Modules stay collapsed for quick scanning. Open any module to inspect its topics.

01Software Testing Foundations: SDLC, STLC & the QA Role in Agile6 lessons+

Why testing matters and the real cost of defects

QA vs. QC vs. Testing

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

Testing in Waterfall vs. Agile models

Agile/Scrum fundamentals and the QA engineer's role in a Scrum team

JIRA and Confluence for test management and documentation

02Test Design, Levels & Types6 lessons+

Test plans, test strategy, and requirement traceability matrices

Writing effective, maintainable test cases and test suites

Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis, Decision Tables

Exploratory testing as a structured discipline

Test levels: Unit, Integration, System, Acceptance

Smoke, sanity, and regression testing; Black/White/Grey Box; Alpha/Beta testing

03Defect Management4 lessons+

Bug lifecycle, severity vs. priority

Writing bug reports developers actually want to read

AI Spotlight: summarizing logs and screenshots into a clear bug report

AI-suggested severity/priority โ€” with tester review before submission

04AI-Assisted Manual Testing5 lessons+

Prompt engineering fundamentals for QA

Generating test cases and scenarios from user stories with ChatGPT/Claude

AI-assisted exploratory testing: suggesting risk areas and edge cases

Generating synthetic test data with AI

Data privacy and compliance when using AI with sensitive (banking) data

05Project Checkpoint: Manual QA Baseline4 lessons+

Building a full manual test suite against saucedemo.com

Executing test cases and logging results

Writing a complete bug report set

Packaging the manual QA baseline as a reference spec for automation

06API Testing Fundamentals4 lessons+

REST and SOAP basics, HTTP methods, status codes

Postman: collections, environments, variables

Reading Swagger/OpenAPI specifications

Designing manual test cases for CRUD operations, auth, and negative scenarios

07AI-Powered API Testing with Postman3 lessons+

Postbot: generating assertions from plain-English prompts

Reviewing and correcting AI-generated test scripts before trusting them

Combining manual judgment with AI-assisted test authoring

08SQL & Database Fundamentals for QA4 lessons+

Relational database basics

Writing SELECT, JOIN, and filter queries

Backend data validation for API and UI tests

Hands-on practice with MySQL

09Project Checkpoint: API Test Suite v14 lessons+

Building a Postman collection against Swagger Petstore and restful-booker

Adding Postbot-assisted assertions

Writing SQL queries to confirm API responses match database state

Finalizing the collection as the seed for future API automation

UPCOMING GROUPS

Choose the cohort you can actually attend.

Only current, open groups are shown.

STARTS

To be announced

Online
Schedule
To be announced
Format
Online
Duration
7 weeks · 42 hours
Language
Confirm with advisor
Join the next cohort waitlist
CONTEXTUAL PROOF
“The program helped me connect individual skills into the way real teams design, build and deliver software.”

See real graduate stories from the Ingress community.

Explore graduate results
APPLICATION THROUGH INGRESS PORTAL

Your course stays selected while you create your account.

We use one Portal account for applications, assessments and future learning progress. You will not need to email your details or select the training again.

Questions first? Talk to an advisor
  1. 01

    Create or sign in to your Portal accountYour contact details stay connected to one student profile.

  2. 02

    Confirm your application detailsQA Engineer & AI-Assisted QA Testing is preselected.

  3. 03

    Submit your applicationThe admissions team receives it immediately and can follow up from the Portal.

SELECTED TRAININGQA Engineer & AI-Assisted QA TestingOnline

Continue in Ingress Portal Already registered? The Portal will let you sign in instead.