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Quality Engineer

Engineers test strategy, automation, and quality feedback across the software delivery lifecycle.

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Skill coverage

86%

6 of 7 skills

Course coverage

68%

15 of 22 courses

Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.

Role skills 7

Published coverage 6

Relevant courses 15

Capability map

Skills

Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.

01

Test engineering

4 capabilities

Test strategy

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Selects test layers and evidence appropriate to product risk.

Course coverage

Software Testing Fundamentals

Test Strategy Unit and integration testing

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Builds fast tests around components and their boundaries.

Course coverage

Unit and Integration Testing

Unit Testing Integration Testing (planned) End-to-end testing

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Validates critical user and system workflows in representative environments.

Course coverage

End-to-End Testing, Mobile Application Testing (planned)

Test automation

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Builds maintainable automated test systems and data.

Course coverage

Test Automation

Property-Based Testing, Test-Driven Development (planned)

02

Quality attributes

3 capabilities

Performance testing

Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

Measures behavior under load and identifies capacity limits.

Course coverage

Load Testing

Performance Testing (planned) Security testing

Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

Integrates vulnerability-focused tests into delivery feedback.

Course coverage

Dynamic Application Security Testing

DevSecOps Fundamentals Software Composition Analysis Static Application Security Testing AI Red Teaming Security Testing (planned) Continuous testing

Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Runs trustworthy quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.

Course coverage

Continuous IntegrationFree

GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Fundamentals

Learning path

Relevant courses

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Core foundations

The concepts this role is built on.

Continuous IntegrationFree

Dynamic Application Security Testing Software Testing Fundamentals Test Automation Test Strategy Unit and Integration Testing Unit Testing End-to-End Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing (planned)

Supporting knowledge

Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.

DevSecOps Fundamentals

GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Fundamentals Load Testing Software Composition Analysis Static Application Security Testing Mobile Application Testing, Property-Based Testing, Security Testing, Test-Driven Development (planned)

Specializations

Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.

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