PODTEST.

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Learning Platform for Aspiring SDET’s

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Table of Content:
➢ SDET Program Overview & Features[Page 3]
➢ Who can Enroll?[Page 4]
➢ High Level Syllabus [Page 5]
➢ Course Instructor details & experience [Page 6 -7]
➢ Detailed Syllabus of all 20 modules page-wise [Page 8 -27]
➢ Recommended SDET Learning Schedule [Page 28]
➢ Recommended DSA Learning Schedule [Page 29]
➢ Video Recording list per topic [Page 30- 44]
➢ Registration process [Page 45]
➢ Pricing & payment details [Page 46]

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SDET Program
• Welcome to world’s most in-depth & most affordable Recorded ‘SDET’ Program.
• This program is a subset of our Original ‘Full-Stack’ Bootcamp, which is currently
running live & ‘Registration is Closed’ now for that program.
• We wanted to extend the benefits of that program to everyone who wish to upskill
themselves in the SDET field.
• What you will get as part of this Program:
- Recorded 20 Modules
- Framework Design: Product Companies standard Framework creation from scratch
covered.
- Recordings of these modules are provided [For 3 Years]
- Access to GitHub Repositories for all the modules
- Access to Discord Community [can ask your queries & doubts here & learn from
other peers]
- Live Doubt Session of 2 hours on Every Alternate Saturday for 6 months

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Who can Enroll?

• Since every module is covered from scratch.
• Suited for people with below needs:
- Switching Career to Software Testing
- Freshers/Intern
- People in Manual Testing, wanting to switch to Automation Testing
- Automation Engineers looking to become Full-Stack
- People with career gap

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• Languages covered: Java

High Level Syllabus
• Web Automation tools covered: Selenium[Java]
• Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, HTML-DOM, XPath, CSS-Selector
• Framework Design: Learn Industry standard framework using 5 Different Design patterns
• CI/CD: Git, GitHub, Jenkins,
• Build Tool: Maven
• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS
• Containerization: Docker
• Reporting: TestNG, Cucumber, Allure
• DSA: Big-O Notations, Design Patterns, Solving Patterns, Design Principles, Searching Algo,
Sorting Algorithms, UML, SQL, LLD, HLD Designs, Top Interview Coding Questions

*Detailed Syllabus for individual module mentioned in respective slides, do check out the
coverage.

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About Our Mentor

• Akhil Jain will be the course instructor for this bootcamp.
• IIM Lucknow Alumni, CFA Level 1, AWS Cloud Practitioner certified, ISTQB
certified.
• He has 13+ years of working experience as Automation Engineer.
• Worked on Java & JavaScript based tech-stack to build frameworks from scratch.
• Worked on Web, Mobile, API, Performance, Database, System Testing.
• Currently working on System automation testing which involves automating
Installation, Upgrade , Backup/Restore for telecom systems using Linux shell
scripting, Docker, AWS, EKS, GRE, Kubernetes, Jenkins.
• Have skillset on Java, JavaScript, Selenium, Webdriver.io, Cypress, Playwright,
Postman, RestAssured, Appium, Jmeter, Jenkins, Linux, AWS, etc..
• Have taught more than 2000+ aspiring SDET’s. [Check the next slide to know
about the platforms on which he is currently teaching]
• LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhil-jain-podtest/

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Teaching on Platforms
• GeeksforGeeks: ‘Java with Selenium’ Bootcamp
• Bootcamp link: Currently running the fifth batch SDET5.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/courses/complete-guide-to-software-testing-automation
• TheTestTribe: Recorded course of 30+ hours on Java, Selenium, Maven, TestNG, Git,
Framework Design, Jenkins CI/CD.
• Already 1000+ students enrolled in the program.
• Course link: https://www.thetesttribe.com/courses/selenium-course/
• Completed 2 Live Bootcamp:
https://www.thetesttribe.com/live-trainings/automation-bootcamp-selenium-java/
• Corporate trainer: Conducted Trainings for multiple MNC’s.
• YouTube channel: Regular uploads of Automation testing related videos.
• https://www.youtube.com/@namastetest [Do Subscribe us for latest updates]
• Podtest.in: Running 12 months Live ‘FullStack SDET Bootcamp’ [End Date: 1 Mar 25]
- Ran Automation Architecture Bootcamp [2000+ Registrations, lectures available for
free on YouTube Channel]

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• Installation
JAVA Register using our website:
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• JDK, JRE, JVM

• Data types: Primitive , Non-Primitives
• Scoping: Local, Instance, Static
• Operations: Arithmetic, Logical, Relational
• Conditional logics: If-Else, For, while, Switch
• Classes, Objects, This keyword, Constructors, Methods
• Interfaces & Abstract Classes
• OOPS: Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, polymorphism[Overloading, overriding]
• Access Modifiers: Default, Private, Public, protected
• Arrays & its operations
• String & its methods
• Exception Handling: Try-catch-finally, throws. Checked vs unchecked exceptions.
• Collections Framework: Set, Map, List, Arrays, Collections
• Comparable, Comparators, Hash Code, Equality etc.
• Working with File systems
• Working with Streams, Date Time
• Working on Threading

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• Installation
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• Architecture understanding
• Selenium Grid
• WebDriver Browser commands & its capabilities.
• Elements related commands, working with different elements & Action
Class
• Wait Mechanisms
• Handle Iframes, Popups, Windows, Tabs
• Shadow DOMs, File uploads, JavaScript executor, Screenshot capturing,
WebTables related operations

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• Installation
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• Maven Hierarchy: Lifecycle -> Phases -> Plugins ->Goals

• Understanding Lifecycle: Clean, Build
• Different configuration files: pom.xml, settings.xml
• Different types of Repositories
• How Maven works
• Adding dependencies
• Adding Plugins configuration
• Profiling
• Need of Target folder
• Maven CLI
• Adding custom properties
• Running testcases via Maven
• Surefire report plugin

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• Installation
• Need of TestNG, Understanding Testing process
• TestNG.xml file
• Hierarchy understanding: Suite -> Test -> Groups -> Class -> Methods
• Create testcase using @test annotation
• Using Before & After Hooks for each level.
• Test Data Management using Data Provider
• Parameterization
• Parallel Execution
• Cross-Browser Testing
• Generating Execution reports
• Adding custom listeners.
• Attaching logs, screenshots, exceptions to the report

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• What is SQL & learn the structure of it.

• Select, from, where, distinct
• Different types of joins: Inner Join, Left, Right, Outer
• Grouping, having clause
• Insert, update delete queries
• Learn to write Sub-queries
• Setting up JDBC connection to run SQL scripts via automation scripts
• Database testing using SQL

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• Installation
• File lifecycle in Git, different stages involved.
• Important files in Git: .gitignore, readme.md
• Create a Git Repository
• Cloning a project
• Forking a project
• Working with branches : creation, switching, etc.
• Updating a branch with latest changes
• Pushing local changes to remote
• Merge branches & resolve merge conflicts.
• Git commands: init, clone, remote, branch, checkout, add, commit, push, pull, log,
merge

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• Account Creation
• Creating a Repository.
• Types of repositories: Private/ Public
• Controlling the access to the users
• Creating branching strategies.
• Defining the rules for merging the branches
• Review commit changes & approval process
• Sharing review comments & incorporating the comments.

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 Design Patterns
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Covered Below Patterns:

- Singleton
- Factory Method
- Abstract Factory
- Builder
- Page Object Model

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• Installation of Linux OS via Virtual Box.

• Linux: History, versions & different flavours & comparison with Windows machine
• Understanding Linux file system
• Working with file management system
• Files & Directory CRUD: chmod, touch, rm, cat , less, more, head, tail, mv, copy
• Working on data: grep, pipe
• Work with vi Editor
• Switch users & sudo access
• Shell scripting basics: variable creation, if-else, for loop, methods
• Connecting to linux via CLI using ssh command
• Copy content from one machine to another using scp.
• Linux repositories & how to install softwares on Linux.

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• Installation
• Using Docker Images.
• Creating containers from images & setting up connection between
multiple containers
• Volume mapping of docker with underlying OS.
• Using Docker as agent machine in Jenkins pipeline
• Running your Automation framework inside Docker container via Selenium
& installing browser inside it to perform the execution.

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• Account Creation
• Using AWS Free tier
• Connecting to AWS via UI, CLI.
• EC2: Creating a EC2, what is base image, how to connect to EC2 via UI &
CLI
• Use EC2 as a Agent machine to run Jenkins pipeline.
• S3 bucket: how to create S3 bucket & add objects to it via CLI & UI.
• How to host your Allure Report using S3 bucket & share with stakeholders

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• Installation
• Agent Machines & Configurations understanding.
• Creating Free Style Jobs
• Creating pipelines
• On-demand & Scheduling based execution
• Dynamic scripting samples
• Create CI/CD pipeline for Automation framework execution using Jenkins, Github,
Docker, AWS.
• Attaching
• Creating branching strategies.
• Defining the rules for merging the branches
• Review commit changes & approval process
• Sharing review comments & incorporating the comments.

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• Recursion, Slicing Window, Frequency Counter, LIFO, FIFO

• Search Algorithms: Linear, Binary search
• Sorting Algorithm: Bubble, Selection, Insertion, Merge Sort
• Data Structures: Stack, Queue, Singly Linked List, Doubly Linked List,
Binary Search Tree.
• Languages covered for DSA: Java & JavaScript

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• Installation
• Implement Allure Report in the framework.
• Attach screenshots to the report
• Attach the test case logs to the report
• Generate execution report.
• Attach report with CI/CD pipeline
• Share the report with stakeholders [Implementing AWS S3 bucket usage]

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Framework utilities
• Data Driven testing via reading data from Excel sheets
• Implementing logging framework like log4j2
• Configuring properties files
• Creating custom execution reports
• Using POM pattern to design framework.
• CI/CD integration using Jenkins, GitHub, maven
• Cross Browser & Parallel Execution capabilities.

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• What is BDD?
• Gherkin Syntax: Feature, Scenario, Scenario-outline, examples, Given,
When, Then, And, But, Datatable, Tags
• Creating feature file, Step definition files & Runner files
• Integrating Cucumber with TestNG
• Cucumber Hooks: Global, Conditional, Scenario, Step
• Running testcases based on tags i.e. grouping, Tag Inheritance
• Generating Cucumber execution reports
• Attaching cucumber reports in Jenkins

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• What is HTML?
• How HTML works?
• Why as Automation Engineer, we should know about HTML
• Tags understanding: Input, div, span, button, body, head, html, p , h1, a,
img, script, iframe, svg, shadow, list, webtable etc.
• Attributes understanding & how to read them.

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• Need of CSS
• How Styling gets applied on a web page using CSS?
• Stylesheets & inline css
• Learn writing CSS Path: Id, classname, attributes, descendants,
immediate childs, Indexing, partial attributes, prefix, suffix, immediate
siblings, following-siblings, ignore cases, multiple attibutes, grouping.

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• What is Document Object Model?

• How it works & why it is important for Automation engineers to know about
it?
• How HTML gets converted to DOM structure?
• Document object
• Using DOM methods to write Javascript code to perform operations on UI
Automation
• Understanding nodes & its relationship with other nodes.
• DOM Methods: queryselector, getElementById, etc…
• Use Browser console to learn working with DOM

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• What is Xpath?
• Types of Xpath: Absolute & Relative
• Learn using attributes: id, name, class etc..
• Working with text()
• Methods covered: contains, starts-with, normalize-space
• Grouping & indexing
• Axes methods: following, ancestor, child, preceding, following-sibling,
parent, self, descendant

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SDET Learning Schedule

We Recommend you to learn the modules in below Sequence:

1. Git
2. Github
3. Java
4. HTML, CSS, Xpath, DOM,
5. Selenium
6. TestNG
7. Maven
8. Framework Design
9. Allure
10. Cucumber
11. Jenkins - CI/CD
12. Linux
13. Docker
14. AWS

* DSA Module: You should start DSA Module after completing Java & run it parallelly with other remaining modules.

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DSA Learning Schedule

We Recommend you to learn the modules in below Sequence:

1. Big-O Notation
2. Solving Patterns
3. Searching & Sorting Algorithms
4. Data Structures
5. Design Principles
6. Design Patterns
7. Solve Programming Questions
8. UML
9. SQL
10. LLD
11. HLD

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Git Topics

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GitHub Topics

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Java Topics (1)

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Java Topics (2)

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Selenium Topics (1)

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Web Automation Topics

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TestNG Topics

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Maven Topics

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Framework Design Topics -1

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Allure Topics

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Design Pattern Topics

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DSA Topics

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Modules (In-Progress)
• Cucumber
• Linux
• Jenkins
• Docker
• AWS
• DSA

* Recordings for above mentioned modules will get available after 1 October
2024.
** DSA Module: Some videos are already available & provided, remaining topics
video will be provided as they become available.[Complete set of videos should
get available before 31st December 2024]

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Registration Process
• Visit website https://podtest.in
• Click on ‘Register’ Button for ‘SDET Program’.
• Google form will open up, fill up the asked details.
• Once registered, we will contact you personally in 24 hours on your
provided contact details.
• We are offering 2 day trial period where you will get access to the complete
module video for your reference.
This can help you to make an informed decision.
• We encourage everyone to compare our course syllabus, duration, topics,
projects, pricing, access to recorded courses with any other vendor. Once
you are satisfied only then enrol.

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• We have tried our best to make this program the most affordable in the entire
industry considering the duration, depth of topics, access to recorded lectures,
Real time projects & our expenditures.
• Our Price is (Rs 4,999/-)
• Consider this as a Investment for your career growth.
• This may open up new opportunities in form of Salary Hike, Job Switch,
Promotions.
• Other Vendors are charging around Rs 1,00,000 for half the curriculum we are
covering & we encourage you to do your due diligence & compare our course,
offerings , benefits & cost with the similar course provided by our vendors &
once Satisfied, only then enrol.
• Make a informed & a wise decision. [Looking forward to have you in the course]
• In case of queries, please reach out on LinkedIn or through our email address

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