Model Online / On-Site
Duration
Modules 5 modules

Course Objective & Scope

Knowing the syntax of a single tool (Selenium, Cypress or Playwright) is rarely enough to keep an enterprise suite of hundreds of tests healthy. As suites grow, duplicated code, shared-data collisions, hour-long runs and noisy false positives can erode trust in automation altogether.

This course focuses on designing a sustainable test automation architecture and quality workflow. It covers deciding what to automate at which layer (unit, API, UI), Page Object, Component and Screenplay patterns, hybrid API + UI test design, test isolation for parallel runs, actionable reporting and flaky-test governance.

Who Should Attend?

  • SDETs and senior automation engineers designing enterprise test automation frameworks
  • QA and test leads responsible for automation strategy, tool selection and coding standards
  • Development and testing teams struggling with slow or high-maintenance automation suites
  • Prerequisite: foundational hands-on experience with at least one test automation tool

Key Takeaways

  • Decide what to automate — and at which layer — using clear ROI and risk criteria
  • Combine UI, API and database clients inside a clean, layered automation architecture
  • Design atomic, self-contained tests that run safely in parallel without shared-state collisions
  • Apply Test Data Builder, Object Mother and API state-seeding patterns
  • Triage, quarantine and eliminate flaky tests while keeping CI feedback loops fast

Curriculum

Automation Strategy, ROI and Tool Evaluation
  • Selecting automation candidates based on frequency, business risk, stability and maintenance cost
  • Avoiding the ice-cream-cone anti-pattern by pushing assertions down to the API layer
  • Structured PoC evaluation matrix for Selenium, Playwright, Cypress and Appium
Test Automation Design Patterns
  • Limits of naive Page Objects, breaking up bloated pages and the Component Object pattern
  • The Screenplay Pattern (Actors, Abilities, Tasks, Questions) and Fluent Interfaces
  • Clean assertion helpers, configuration management and multi-environment support
Hybrid Automation (API + UI) and Test Data Architecture
  • Generating collision-free domain data with Test Data Builders and Faker
  • Seeding preconditions (users, carts, orders) via REST/GraphQL APIs before touching the UI
  • Writing atomic, independent tests: eliminating shared static accounts and managing cleanup
Parallel Execution, Anti-Flake Engineering and Observability
  • The 5 root causes of flakiness: async timing, shared state, environment drift, third parties and time/dates
  • Disciplined retry policies, automated test quarantine and failure categorisation
  • Attaching traces, HAR files, video and backend correlation IDs to speed up triage
CI/CD Integration, Maintenance Workflows and Governance
  • Structuring smoke suites, fast PR checks and full regression pipelines
  • Code review standards, linters and refactoring habits for test codebases
  • Workshop: auditing an existing automation framework and drafting an improvement roadmap

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