Software testing is the discipline of verifying that every feature, integration, and performance benchmark meets business and technical expectations before a system is released.
Modern QA covers manual, automated, and performance testing using specialised frameworks.

What We Teach at Oliya.tech

Students train as full-cycle testers, not button-click verifiers.
They learn how testing fits within Agile and DevOps pipelines, writing scripts, managing test cases, and interpreting metrics.

Learning Path

1. Testing Fundamentals – understanding defects, severity vs priority, smoke/sanity/regression cycles.

2. Manual Test Design – equivalence partitioning, boundary-value analysis, decision tables.

3. Automation Testing – using Selenium WebDriver, Appium (intro) for mobile, and PyTest for Python projects.

4. API Testing – employing Postman and Newman collections, writing assertions and mocks.

5. Performance & Load Testing – JMeter and Locust for concurrency simulation; reading response-time graphs.

6. Test Management – documenting results in TestLink, defect logging through Jira or Sintra.ai boards.

7. Continuous Testing (CI/CD) – integrating automated suites into GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline.

8. Reporting & QA Metrics – measuring defect density, pass/fail ratios, mean time to detect (MTTD).

9. Security & Compliance Basics – OWASP Top 10 awareness and GDPR validation for data safety.

Verified Industry Examples

1. Google Chrome uses Selenium-based frameworks for UI regression across thousands of device profiles.

2. Netflix runs continuous integration tests on every microservice deployment using automated pipelines.

3. IBM QA Labs employ JMeter and Locust for performance testing of Watson APIs.

4. Infosys Validation Solutions deliver enterprise test automation for global banks using Selenium and TestLink.

5. Microsoft Edge leverages Appium for cross-platform mobile testing.

6. Amazon maintains internal QA frameworks that execute millions of automated cases daily.

7. TCS Quality Engineering teams use Jira dashboards for test-defect tracking in government projects.

8. Cognizant integrates AI-based test-data generation tools for predictive defect analytics.

9. Salesforce automates regression suites using Selenium-Java in every release sprint.

10. NASA Software Assurance Lab uses PyTest and custom Python scripts for mission-critical simulation validation.

Summary

Testing ensures that technology delivers confidence, not surprises.
By mastering both manual and automated frameworks, Oliya graduates can enter any QA environment with an immediately usable skill set.

Career Paths

• QA Analyst / Engineer – functional & regression testing.

• Automation Engineer – scripting with Selenium / PyTest.

• Performance Tester – JMeter / Locust expert.

• QA Lead / Test Manager – manage test cycles & teams.

• Security Testing Associate – validate compliance and penetration resilience.