🧪 30-Day Free QA Learning Roadmap

A structured 30-day roadmap to learn Software Testing (QA) from scratch to intermediate level using only free resources.
This roadmap covers manual testing, QA fundamentals, API testing, automation basics, and practice projects.

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📌 Prerequisites

• Basic computer knowledge 💻
• Interest in problem-solving 🔎
• Willingness to learn daily 🚀

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📅 Roadmap

✅ Week 1: QA Foundations & Manual Testing

Learn the basics of QA, SDLC, STLC, and manual testing methods.

• Day 1: Introduction to QA & Testing
  📖 Guru99 – What is Software Testing?

• Day 2: SDLC & STLC
  📖 Guru99 – SDLC
  📖 Guru99 – STLC

• Day 3: QA Roles & Responsibilities
  📖 SoftwareTestingHelp – QA Roles

• Day 4: Testing Types (Smoke, Sanity, Regression, etc.)
  📖 Types of Testing – Guru99

• Day 5: Writing Test Cases & Test Scenarios
  📖 Test Case Tutorial – Guru99

• Day 6: Defect/Bug Lifecycle
  📖 Bug Life Cycle – GeeksforGeeks

• Day 7: Practice on Demo Websites
  🔗 SauceDemo
  🔗 OrangeHRM

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✅ Week 2: QA Tools & Test Management

Hands-on with test documentation and project management tools.

• Day 8: Introduction to Test Plans & Strategy
  📖 SoftwareTestingHelp – Test Plan

• Day 9: Writing Bug Reports
  📖 How to Write a Good Bug Report

• Day 10: Explore Jira for Test Management
  🎥 Jira Tutorial (YouTube)

• Day 11: Explore Trello/Redmine for QA Tracking
  🔗 Trello
  🔗 Redmine

• Day 12: Exploratory Testing Practice
  📖 Exploratory Testing – Ministry of Testing

• Day 13: Boundary Value Analysis & Equivalence Partitioning
  📖 Test Design Techniques

• Day 14: Hands-on: Create Your Own Test Cases
  📝 Use SauceDemo to write 10 test cases.

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✅ Week 3: API Testing & Postman

Get started with API testing using free tools.

• Day 15: API Basics
  📖 What is API Testing?

• Day 16: Install & Setup Postman
  🔗 Postman Download

• Day 17: Postman Beginner Guide
  🎥 Postman Crash Course (YouTube)

• Day 18: Work with Swagger APIs
  🔗 Swagger Petstore

• Day 19: DummyJSON API Testing
  🔗 DummyJSON

• Day 20: Writing Test Scripts in Postman
  📖 Postman Scripting Docs

• Day 21: Create API Test Collection & Share
  📝 Export & upload your Postman collection to GitHub.

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✅ Week 4: Test Automation & Projects

Learn automation basics & build a small project.

• Day 22: Introduction to Test Automation
  🎥 What is Test Automation?

• Day 23: Selenium Basics
  📖 Selenium Tutorial – Guru99

• Day 24: Cypress Basics
  🎥 Cypress Crash Course (YouTube)

• Day 25: Hands-on with Cypress Test Cases
  🔗 The Internet Herokuapp

• Day 26: CI/CD Basics for QA (Intro to Jenkins/GitHub Actions)
  📖 CI/CD for Testers – LambdaTest

• Day 27: Practice Bug Reporting on Demo Apps
  📝 Report 5 bugs from OrangeHRM or SauceDemo.

• Day 28: Mini Project – Manual Testing
  📌 Choose one demo app → write Test Plan, 10 Test Cases, Bug Report.

• Day 29: Mini Project – API Testing
  📌 Use DummyJSON or Swagger → create Postman Collection & share on GitHub.

• Day 30: Showcase Your Work
  🚀 Upload projects to GitHub & share roadmap with others.

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🏆 Final Output

By the end of 30 days, you will have:
✔️ Knowledge of QA fundamentals & manual testing
✔️ Experience with bug reporting & test management tools
✔️ Hands-on practice with API testing (Postman, Swagger)
✔️ Basic exposure to test automation (Selenium, Cypress)
✔️ Mini projects to showcase on GitHub

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📚 Free Resource Hubs

• 🌐 Test Automation University
• 🌐 Ministry of Testing
• 🌐 Software Testing Help

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About the Author(QA)

Jubair Rahman

Software Engineer (QA) | HealthTech | Passionate about testing, tools, and UI quality.