End-to-End QA Testing Cycle is the capstone course for the Junior QA/Software Tester Professional Certificate. You will step into the role of sole QA Tester for a new mock application—GreenLeaf Grocers—and execute a complete software testing lifecycle from start to finish.

You'll begin by importing requirements into Jira, authoring Zephyr test cases, and manually executing tests to uncover seeded defects. You'll use BrowserStack to confirm a mobile UI bug on a live device, and Postman to isolate an API failure triggering a 500 Server Error. From there, you'll validate data integrity with SQL queries, automate the checkout path using Playwright, and push your script to GitHub via a pull request linked to your Jira ticket. Finally, you'll use Microsoft Copilot to generate a stakeholder-ready Test Summary and Release Recommendation report. Everything feeds into an End-to-End Release Portfolio—a PDF artifact to demonstrate QA readiness to employers. By the end of the course, you will automate checkout happy-paths with Playwright, validate SQL SELECT queries, commit to GitHub linked to Jira, create Copilot reports, and build a Release Portfolio. To complete this capstone, you will need to apply your skills in automating scripts with Playwright, executing SQL queries, isolating API failures with Postman, and managing pull requests in GitHub.