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3 · Professional QA engineering

Compliance awareness for QA

14 min · Module 25

Regulated contexts (finance, health, privacy) need audit trails: who tested what build, evidence retention, segregation of duties. Even outside regulated industries, treat reports as professional records.

Lab: reports store user, ticket, result, release_version, timestamp—practice complete evidence.

Example / notes

# Evidence pack
# ticket key, steps, screenshots/logs, release/version, tester id, timestamp

Practice in Lab: /lab/work/reports/

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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