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Manual Testing Foundations: Think Like a Tester

The complete grounding every QA needs: SDLC, test design, bug reporting, Agile ceremonies and the soft skills that get you taken seriously in a sprint team.

  • Jira
  • TestRail
  • Confluence
  • Chrome DevTools
  • Charles Proxy

What you will be able to do

  • Design test cases from requirements using real techniques, not guesswork
  • Write bug reports that developers thank you for
  • Work confidently in Scrum: grooming, estimation, sprint demos
  • Use DevTools and proxies to debug beyond the UI
  • Explain testing fundamentals clearly in interviews

Who this is for

Career changers, fresh graduates, and anyone who has been testing for a while but never had a structured foundation.

How we teach it

You join a simulated sprint team. Every week you receive user stories for a real application, write test cases, execute them, log bugs in Jira and demo your findings. By week five you have done five sprints’ worth of actual QA work.

Syllabus

Week Topic
1 What testing is for. SDLC, STLC, test levels and types
2 Test design: equivalence partitioning, boundaries, decision tables, state transitions
3 Agile and Scrum in practice. Jira, TestRail, writing stories and acceptance criteria
4 Bugs that get fixed: reporting, severity vs priority, triage, DevTools and proxies
5 Mobile, cross-browser and accessibility basics. Resume and interview prep

What you get

  • 10 live sessions with recordings
  • Real sprint board and test management tool access
  • One mock interview on interview.qatechlabs.com
  • Certificate of completion

Upcoming batches

Starts 29 November 2026

Sat and Sun, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM IST

5 weeks · Live online + recordings

30 seats

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Questions before you enrol?

We reply within a day, usually faster. Tell us about your background and we will say honestly whether this course is right for you.

Or practise for your next interview on interview.qatechlabs.com