Course overview
What you will work on
A practical course covering DevTools, Postman, SOAP/SoapUI, SQL clients, logs, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Netdata, Kafka, proxy/network tools, BrowserStack/TestMu AI, Docker, CI, and OpenTelemetry.
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Practical QA course
QA Engineer Toolset: From Request to Evidence
A practical course covering DevTools, Postman, SOAP/SoapUI, SQL clients, logs, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Netdata, Kafka, proxy/network tools, BrowserStack/TestMu AI, Docker, CI, and OpenTelemetry.
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Lesson 11. Tool choice and evidence safety
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleFrom a question to a reproducible evidence packet
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 22. Terminal, files, JSON, and Git
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleRepeat the work without interface magic
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 33. Browser DevTools in depth
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleFrom a visible defect to network, state, and execution
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 44. Postman: collections, environments, and tests
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleFrom a manual request to a repeatable API scenario
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 55. Newman, Postman CLI, and OpenAPI
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleFrom a local collection to a reproducible API check
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 66. SOAP, WSDL, and SoapUI
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleXML contracts, SOAP Faults, and a controlled service
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 77. SQL clients and data-state evidence
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleSafe database reading with DBeaver or DataGrip
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 88. Graylog: log search and signals
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleFrom a correlation ID to a verifiable timeline
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 99. Elasticsearch and Kibana
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleFrom documents and mappings to a reproducible Discover search
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 1010. Prometheus and PromQL
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleMetric types, correct rates, and tested alerts
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 1111. Grafana and OpenTelemetry
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleCorrelating metrics, logs, and traces without invented causes
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 1212. Netdata and host diagnosis
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleRapid resource inspection without replacing service evidence
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 1313. Kafka and event-driven systems
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticlePartitions, offsets, retries, and evidence of completed processing
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 1414. Proxy and network tools
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleRequest modification, TLS boundaries, and packet evidence
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 1515. BrowserStack and TestMu AI
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleRisk-based browser and device matrices, tunnels, and trustworthy artifacts
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint
Lesson 1616. Toolset capstone
Theory, examples, and practice
- ArticleFrom a contradictory symptom to a peer-reproducible decision
- Knowledge checkApplied checkpoint