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//Roadmap

Chart your QA career.

Seven paths covering the QA career landscape — from manual fundamentals to specialized tracks, plus pivots into adjacent roles. Each path breaks the journey into phases and topics linking to free courses, cheat sheets, glossary entries, and tools.

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Paths
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Topics
Beginner → Intermediate5 phases · 13 topics

Manual → Automation

You write test cases by hand today. You want to write test code by next quarter. This is the route.

JS/TSJavaPython
~12 weeksExplore path →
Intermediate4 phases · 10 topics

API testing specialist

Most production bugs ship through APIs. Become the person who catches them before the UI does.

Language-agnostic
~10 weeksExplore path →
Intermediate → Advanced4 phases · 10 topics

Performance testing engineer

Slow is the new broken. Learn to find the bottleneck before users do.

Language-agnostic
~10 weeksExplore path →
Intermediate4 phases · 11 topics

AI-augmented QA engineer

Use AI to ship more tests with less typing. Practical workflows for testing engineers, not buzzwords.

Language-agnostic
~8 weeksExplore path →
Advanced4 phases · 12 topics

SDET / test infrastructure

Stop writing tests. Start building the platform that lets your team write better tests, faster.

Language-agnostic
~10 weeksExplore path →
Intermediate5 phases · 12 topics

Mobile testing

Mobile apps fail differently from web. Different tools, different devices, different bugs. Become the tester who catches mobile-specific issues before users do — across iOS and Android, native and cross-platform.

JS/TSJavaPython
~10 weeksExplore path →
Pivot4 phases · 11 topics

QA → Product Manager

Your testing instincts are PM instincts in disguise. Edge-case thinking, user empathy, and quality judgment all transfer. Here's the bridge from finding bugs to shaping what gets built.

Language-agnostic
~8 weeksExplore path →