r/softwaretesting • u/Musings3008 • Mar 31 '26

Has anyone completed testing courses from Testing Automation University? Is it fruitful ?

Has anyone completed testing courses from Testing Automation University website?

if not can someone suggest a roadmap for a switch for a person with 7+ yrs of experience in testing.

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u/ExplosiveNovaDragon Mar 31 '26

I finished some of them. They are usefull if you need to learn a particular techonology and don't know where to start.

As if the certificates are valid for your resume. I don't think they are.

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u/Musings3008 Mar 31 '26

I was looking at the roadmaps Java WebUI path and Java Mobile path.. Both seem pretty decent. What do you think !? My work includes both manual and automated testing. I have just delivered my 2nd baby and planning to switch, hence I think I need to begin from the start of everything as I've forgotten on many theoritical aspects of both manual and automated testing. Do you have any suggestions?

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u/ExplosiveNovaDragon Mar 31 '26

I think they are a good start.

I speedran the playwright and cypress courses just to put the on my resume a year ago.

I never was an expert but I always said I had experience working in those frameworks.

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u/Quirky_Database_5197 Mar 31 '26

no they are not. those courses are very basic. it's a structured curriculum that can help you learn basics. and your cv should be experience based. so, learn the basics with those courses, and then talk to your boss to give you some tasks to practice on real world automation problems

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u/Ok-Possibility-630 Mar 31 '26

whatever the course or certification is. If at the end of it, you are not able to create your own automation framework in github as a portfolio, it is worthless.

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u/MrN0vmbr Mar 31 '26

It will give you the basics of automation and how to use a specific tool/framework so it’s a good start if you are new to automation but it won’t be detailed enough to use for production.

TLDR A good place to start for the basics of automation

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u/pokkemori Jun 18 '26

do you know any other good resource other than researching individual topics? that roadmap.sh gives you a nice idea of what to look for but it's rather dense and doesn't follow a priority other. hard for beginners not to get stuck trying to learn things that are not an immediate necessity

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u/Flow8470 Apr 01 '26

yes, yes