Expert level Quality Assurance and Test Automation

Reliability, Resilience, Security Testing and Advanced Test Techniques

Lead quality for large systems: risk-based strategy for organisations, eliminating flaky tests and building test infrastructure, testing distributed systems with contracts, chaos and production testing, security testing in the pipeline, advanced techniques such as property-based, mutation, model-based and metamorphic testing, testing data and machine learning systems, and measuring and growing a quality culture.

  • 46hours of work
  • 13parts
  • Reviewedcapstone
  • Lifetimeaccess
  • Quality strategy and leadership
  • Flaky test elimination and test infrastructure
  • Chaos and resilience testing
  • Security testing in CI
  • Property-based and mutation testing
  • Quality metrics and culture

At a glance

Who it is for

Experienced QA engineers, SDETs and developers who are becoming quality leads, test architects or platform engineers and need to design strategy, infrastructure and measurement across many teams.

Before you start

The intermediate programme in this track or equivalent: Playwright framework design, API and contract testing, test data and environments, k6, accessibility testing and CI quality gates. Comfort reading code in at least one language and basic distributed systems and Docker knowledge are expected.

How you finish

Pass the quizzes and labs, then submit a capstone project. The NIBVEDA team reviews it and either accepts it or sends it back with comments you can act on.

What you will be able to do

  1. 01Build a risk-based quality strategy for an organisation, with explicit trade-offs, ownership and measurable goals
  2. 02Diagnose and eliminate flaky tests and design fast, hermetic, parallel test infrastructure
  3. 03Test distributed systems with contract tests, chaos experiments, observability-driven checks and safe testing in production
  4. 04Integrate security testing into delivery with threat modelling, static and dynamic analysis, fuzzing and dependency controls
  5. 05Apply property-based, mutation, model-based, metamorphic and snapshot techniques, test data and ML systems, and measure quality with meaningful metrics

Curriculum 46 hours in 13 parts

Select a kind to highlight its parts.

Stage 1Resilience experiments and a security testing pipeline for a distributed application7 parts · 20 h
  1. 1
    From testing to quality engineering: strategy, risk and ownership at scaleWorkshop · Follow along and build, with the steps and the traps written out.
    3 hFree
  2. 2
    Eliminating flaky tests and building fast, hermetic test infrastructureWorkshop · Follow along and build, with the steps and the traps written out.
    3 h
  3. 3
    Hunt, fix and prevent flaky tests in a deliberately broken suiteWorkshop · Follow along and build, with the steps and the traps written out.
    2 h
  4. 4
    Check yourself: quality strategy, flaky tests and test infrastructureQuiz · Twelve questions, marked at once, with the reason behind each answer.
    1 h
  5. 5
    Testing distributed systems: contracts at scale, chaos engineering and testing in productionWorkshop · Follow along and build, with the steps and the traps written out.
    2 h
  6. 6
    Security testing in the delivery pipelineWorkshop · Follow along and build, with the steps and the traps written out.
    3 h
  7. 7
    Resilience experiments and a security testing pipeline for a distributed applicationLab · Hands-on work. Many labs are checked automatically against what must exist.
    6 h
Stage 2Prove your tests are strong with mutation and property-based testing, and build a quality analytics platform4 parts · 11 h
  1. 8
    Check yourself: distributed system testing, chaos engineering and security testingQuiz · Twelve questions, marked at once, with the reason behind each answer.
    1 h
  2. 9
    Advanced techniques: property-based, mutation, model-based, metamorphic and testing data and ML systemsWorkshop · Follow along and build, with the steps and the traps written out.
    2 h
  3. 10
    Measuring quality and growing a quality cultureWorkshop · Follow along and build, with the steps and the traps written out.
    2 h
  4. 11
    Prove your tests are strong with mutation and property-based testing, and build a quality analytics platformLab · Hands-on work. Many labs are checked automatically against what must exist.
    6 h
Stage 3Advanced test techniques, quality metrics and culture1 part · 1 h
  1. 12
    Check yourself: advanced test techniques, quality metrics and cultureQuiz · Twelve questions, marked at once, with the reason behind each answer.
    1 h
FinishCapstone project1 part · 14 h
  1. 13
    Lead quality for an organisation with strategy, platform, evidence and culture changeCapstone · A full project for your portfolio.
    14 h
Free lessonFrom testing to quality engineering: strategy, risk and ownership at scale
What you take away

An internship certificate with your skills on it.

Made for you automatically when you finish the last part, it names the internship programme, the level and the 46 hours, lists what you showed, and carries a number and a QR code. Anyone can check it on the NIBVEDA verification page, and it shows as withdrawn there if it is ever revoked.

  • Proof you completed all 46 hours of this internship programme
  • An Internship badge for your profile, CV or portfolio
  • Not a job, a stipend or an academic degree, and it says so

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It is a virtual internship programme: a structured, self-paced course built around a real project, with checked assessments and a certificate. It is not employment, it does not carry a stipend and it is not an academic or AICTE-approved qualification. What it gives you is verified, project-based evidence of skills.

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You start when you like and move at your own speed. Each part unlocks when you finish the one before it. There are no live classes and no deadlines. Your access is shown on each programme page.

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Quizzes are marked as soon as you submit them. Labs use a tick-list of tasks. Intermediate and Expert programmes finish with a capstone that the NIBVEDA team reviews and either accepts or sends back with comments.

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