AI-Native Testing Series

First STeP brings together four comprehensive courses across three connected learning steps.

The program provides a practical progression from essential testing knowledge to AI-Native and technical competency in software test engineering. Each STeP develops a different layer of capability, while allowing you to begin at the point that best matches your experience, role, and career goals.

STeP 1 — Testing & QA Fundamentals

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Pragmatic Software Test Engineer

STeP 1 delivers the essential foundation for effective software testing.

You’ll develop a strong quality and testing mindset, understand how the software development lifecycle affects testing, and build practical capabilities in testing approaches, planning, test design, test case documentation, bug reporting, and professional communication.

This course grew out of the classic book Testing Computer Software by Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, and Hung Nguyen, and has been continuously updated over the last three decades.

Recommended For

New entrants, students, career-switchers, and new and experienced testers seeking a structured refresher.

STeP 2 — AI in Testing

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Testing AI Systems and Testing with AI

STeP 2 explores both sides of AI in modern software testing through Testing with AI and Testing AI Systems.

You’ll first build essential AI literacy, develop co-piloting and prompt-engineering skills, and apply GenAI across practical testing activities. This includes 22 structured ways AI can assist day-to-day testing tasks in your workflow.

You’ll then learn how to evaluate AI-powered systems, addressing challenges such as probabilistic behavior, hallucinations, bias, model drift, robustness, explainability, consistency, performance, Human-in-the-Loop evaluation, and adversarial testing.

Course Parts

Testing with AI

• AI foundations for software testers
• Co-piloting and prompt engineering
• GenAI-assisted testing workflows
• 22 ways AI can assist day-to-day testing tasks in your workflow
• Custom AI-powered solutions

Testing AI Systems

• AI-specific testing skills and risks
• Traditional versus AI software testing
• Common AI-specific bugs
• Black-box exploratory AI testing
• AI testing methods, tools, demos, and exercises

STeP 3 — API Testing & Test Automation Engineering

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API Testing with Postman, Hoppscotch, and Insomnia

Test Automation Engineering Series

STeP 3 is your technical introductory pathway into API testing, automation engineering, SDET, and modern quality engineering roles. It gives you the fundamentals needed to work with AI and review, evaluate AI-generated outputs.

It includes one comprehensive API testing course and one progressive test automation engineering program.

You’ll develop practical capabilities in HTTP, authentication, API test design, schema and contract validation, mocking, automation, secure configuration, CI/CD integration, and end-to-end API testing.

Test Automation Engineering Series

This progressive program begins with Selenium fundamentals and framework engineering, advances into modern Playwright automation, and concludes with advanced AI-assisted automation practices.

Part 1 — Test Automation Engineering with Selenium

You’ll build foundational skills in Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, data-driven testing, Page Objects, parallel execution, Selenium Grid, and Jenkins.

Part 2 — Modern Web Automation with Playwright

You’ll develop modern automation capabilities using Playwright, TypeScript, resilient locators, fixtures, session reuse, network control, trace-based debugging, and visual regression.

Part 3 — Advanced Practice: AI-Assisted Test Automation

You’ll apply 15 practical ways AI can assist test automation engineering, including locator design, script generation, code review, debugging, wait and assertion improvement, flaky-test stabilization, and regression-scope optimization.

Choose Your Starting STeP

First STeP is a recommended progression, not a rigid sequence.

• Begin with STeP 1 if you’re entering software testing or want to strengthen your core QA knowledge.
• Begin with STeP 2 if you already have testing experience and want to develop AI-Native capabilities.
• Enter STeP 3 when you’re ready to expand into API testing or test automation engineering.

Each STeP is designed to help you identify the next practical capability you need and keep growing in your testing career.