A Complete Career Guide
Breaking Into Software QA
A 41-page guide + ready-to-use templates for landing your first QA job — manual, API, mobile, and automation, all in one place.
- Pages
- 41
- Chapters
- 20
- Templates
- 4
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Career changersSome comfort with computers or spreadsheets is enough to start.
Recent gradsWant to specialize in quality engineering, not just development.
Informal testersAlready doing QA work and ready to formalize it into a job.
What's inside
Most QA advice online is scattered. This puts it in one place.
The full QA landscape
Testing types, Agile/DevOps fit, and the core skills hiring managers actually screen for.
Tools of the trade
Jira, TestRail/Zephyr, Postman, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium.
Real, working code
Page Object Model examples in Selenium, Playwright, and Appium, plus automated API tests.
Mobile QA & Appium
A full manual + automation walkthrough for iOS and Android testing.
Job search strategy
Where to look, what interviews look like, take-homes, salary negotiation.
A 90-day roadmap
From zero to job-ready, week by week, with a career-path chapter after.
Learn by reading real code
Not pseudocode. Not screenshots. Actual test suites.
$ pytest test_login.py -v
test_valid_login ..................... PASSED
test_invalid_password_shows_error ..... PASSED
test_account_lockout_after_5_tries .... PASSED
test_lockout_expires_after_15_min ..... PASSED
4 passed in 2.14s
Pricing
Pick what you need
Guide Only
The full 41-page guide, PDF & DOCX.
$19
- ✓ 20 chapters + 5 appendices
- ✓ Real automation code examples
- ✓ 90-day roadmap & interview prep
Guide + Templates
Everything above, plus templates and a runnable automation starter kit.
$29
- ✓ Everything in Guide Only
- ✓ Test Case Tracker (dropdowns + auto-summary)
- ✓ Bug Report Tracker (dropdowns + auto-summary)
- ✓ Fillable Test Plan template
- ✓ Automation Starter Kit (Selenium, Playwright, Appium, API)
Questions
What format is this delivered in?
PDF and Word (.docx), so you can read on any device or drop your own notes right into the file.
Do I need to know how to code already?
No. The guide starts from fundamentals and builds up to real automation code, with a chapter specifically on choosing a first language.
What's the difference between the two tiers?
Guide Only is the 41-page guide. Guide + Templates adds three editable spreadsheets/documents (test case tracker, bug tracker, test plan) plus a runnable automation starter kit (Selenium, Playwright, Appium, and API testing projects) so you can start logging real work and running real tests immediately.
Is this refundable?
Reach out through Gumroad's messaging and I'll take care of you — see Gumroad's standard policies at checkout.
Ready to start?
Read chapter one tonight. Have a test case tracker running by the weekend.
I want this!