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3 · Professional QA engineering

Agile ceremonies for QA

16 min · Module 25

Refinement: make stories testable. Planning: call out test capacity/risk. Daily: surface blockers early. Review: demo quality evidence. Retro: improve escape/flake systemic issues.

Lab work board tickets mimic sprint test backlog items.

Example / notes

# Refinement checklist
# - clear acceptance criteria
# - data/env needs
# - non-functionals noted (perf/a11y/security)

Practice in Lab: /lab/work/

Compliance awareness for QA →

Modules in this track

15. QA Foundations — Strategy & Planning
- Writing a test strategy
- Test planning and estimation
16. Test Design Techniques
17. API & Contract Testing
- HTTP API testing fundamentals
- Contract and schema testing
18. Performance Testing Basics
- Performance concepts and SLOs
- Designing a minimal performance check
19. Security Testing Basics
- Auth, sessions, and authorization
- OWASP-minded checks for web apps
20. Accessibility Testing
- Accessible by design checks
- Automated a11y smoke
21. Mobile Testing
- Mobile web quality risks
- Native apps and device farms (overview)
22. CI/CD, Quality Gates & Environments
- Pipelines and quality gates
- Environments and progressive delivery
23. Test Data, Environments & Observability
- Test data management
- Observability for QA
24. Soft Skills — Stakeholders, Mentoring, Metrics
- Stakeholder communication
- Mentoring and quality metrics/OKRs
25. Career & Process — Agile, Compliance, Senior Bar