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Design test coverage, reproduce defects and automate meaningful checks.
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4.1–8.3 months, approximately
Foundation → intermediate · 180–360 focused hours of overlapping study and project practice. Job-readiness development is ongoing.
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○ Testing○ Selenium○ Postman○ Python○ Git
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Suggested next step: Testing →
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Test thinkingNot detected
Testing verifies expected software behavior.
25–50 focused hours · roughly 2.5–5.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Design API cases including invalid requests and ownership; learn Python before the unittest coding exercises.
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Test thinkingNot detected
An API exposes data and operations through defined requests.
20–45 focused hours · roughly 2.0–4.5 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Design an inventory CRUD API with failure cases.
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API investigationNot detected
Postman helps explore and test APIs.
10–25 focused hours · roughly 1.0–2.5 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: REST API
Milestone: Create a collection with positive and negative API cases.
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API investigationNot detected
SQL queries and manages relational data.
25–60 focused hours · roughly 2.5–6.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Answer ten business questions against a sample database.
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Automation practiceNot detected
Python is a general-purpose programming language.
60–120 focused hours · roughly 6.0–12.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Build a CSV reporting command-line tool.
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Automation practiceNot detected
Git records changes to source code.
8–16 focused hours · roughly 0.8–1.6 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Track a small project and resolve a practice merge conflict.
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Automation practiceNot detected
Selenium automates real browsers.
25–50 focused hours · roughly 2.5–5.0 weeks at your schedule · Intermediate
Prerequisites: Testing
Milestone: Automate a login and form workflow on a test app.
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Release confidenceNot detected
CI/CD automates safe build, test and release workflows.
30–60 focused hours · roughly 3.0–6.0 weeks at your schedule · Intermediate
Prerequisites: Git · Testing
Milestone: Create a test-and-build pipeline with a manual release gate.
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Release confidenceNot detected
Agile approaches use short feedback cycles to adapt work.
10–25 focused hours · roughly 1.0–2.5 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Plan two iterations and review what changed.
Build evidence through projects
BeginnerExploratory test plan
Document boundary cases and reproducible bug reports.
Skills practiced: Testing
IntermediateAPI collection
Exercise valid, invalid and unauthorized requests.
Skills practiced: Postman · REST API
AdvancedRegression pipeline
Run isolated browser and API tests in CI with useful failure reports.
Skills practiced: Selenium · Python · CI/CD
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