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SQA, Test Automation & SDET · Course #053

SDET Real-World Capstone Project

Teams create better software when quality activities are deliberate, explainable and proportionate to risk. SDET Real-World Capstone Project helps participants design, implement and defend an end-to-end SDET solution for a realistic product with changing risks and delivery constraints through a progression covering capstone brief, stakeholders and technical constraints, architecture review and quality-risk model and test strategy, layers and automation backlog. Learners analyse architecture, select test layers, write production-quality automation, integrate CI, manage data and environments, diagnose seeded failures and present coverage, trade-offs and technical debt. Each exercise asks learners to interpret evidence, refine their approach and communicate findings in language that technical and non-technical stakeholders can use. The capstone creates portfolio evidence of engineering decisions and iteration, not only a repository containing scripts.

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Overview

Teams create better software when quality activities are deliberate, explainable and proportionate to risk. SDET Real-World Capstone Project helps participants design, implement and defend an end-to-end SDET solution for a realistic product with changing risks and delivery constraints through a progression covering capstone brief, stakeholders and technical constraints, architecture review and quality-risk model and test strategy, layers and automation backlog. Learners analyse architecture, select test layers, write production-quality automation, integrate CI, manage data and environments, diagnose seeded failures and present coverage, trade-offs and technical debt. Each exercise asks learners to interpret evidence, refine their approach and communicate findings in language that technical and non-technical stakeholders can use. The capstone creates portfolio evidence of engineering decisions and iteration, not only a repository containing scripts.

Course Highlights

Authentic product brief

Risk-led test architecture

Production-quality automation

CI and environment integration

Failure diagnosis challenge

Portfolio and technical defence

Modules & Curriculum

Capstone brief, stakeholders and technical constraints

Architecture review and quality-risk model

Test strategy, layers and automation backlog

Repository, coding standards and review workflow

Framework foundation, configuration and data services

API, UI and integration automation implementation

CI pipeline, reports and diagnostic artefacts

Seeded failures, debugging and resilience review; coverage, technical debt and improvement roadmap

Portfolio packaging and technical defence

Learning Outcomes

  • Analyse a product architecture and prioritise quality risks.
  • Design a balanced, maintainable test-automation architecture.
  • Implement selected component, API and interface checks.
  • Integrate the suite with version control and CI evidence.
  • Diagnose seeded defects and automation failures systematically.

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Build and defend a complete SDET solution through realistic engineering constraints.

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