Test strategy
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Selects test layers and evidence appropriate to product risk.
Course coverage
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Software development
Quality Engineer
Engineers test strategy, automation, and quality feedback across the software delivery lifecycle.
Skill coverage
86%
Course coverage
68%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 7
- Published coverage
- 6
- Relevant courses
- 15
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Test engineering
4 capabilities
Unit and integration testing
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds fast tests around components and their boundaries.
Course coverage
- Unit and Integration Testing
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing (planned)
End-to-end testing
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Validates critical user and system workflows in representative environments.
Course coverage
- End-to-End Testing, Mobile Application Testing (planned)
Test automation
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds maintainable automated test systems and data.
Course coverage
- Test Automation
- Property-Based Testing, Test-Driven Development (planned)
02
Quality attributes
3 capabilities
Performance testing
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Measures behavior under load and identifies capacity limits.
Course coverage
- Load Testing
- Performance Testing (planned)
Security testing
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Integrates vulnerability-focused tests into delivery feedback.
Course coverage
Continuous testing
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Runs trustworthy quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.
Course coverage
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
- Continuous IntegrationFree
- Dynamic Application Security Testing
- Software Testing Fundamentals
- Test Automation
- Test Strategy
- Unit and Integration Testing
- Unit Testing
- End-to-End Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing (planned)
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- DevSecOps Fundamentals
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Jenkins Fundamentals
- Load Testing
- Software Composition Analysis
- Static Application Security Testing
- Mobile Application Testing, Property-Based Testing, Security Testing, Test-Driven Development (planned)
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
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