Why This Course? (USA Market Focus)

• Covers real-time frameworks used by US IT companies
• Focus on hands-on automation experience
• Aligned with Automation Tester / SDET job requirements
• Emphasis on interview questions, best practices, and industry tools

Module 1: Automation Testing & Selenium Overview

• Introduction to Automation Testing (USA industry perspective)
• Manual vs Automation Testing
• Role of an Automation Tester / SDET in US projects
• Selenium components and real-time use cases
• Course roadmap and learning outcomes

Module 2: Java for Automation Testing (Job-Oriented)

• Core Java Required for Selenium Jobs
• Java setup (JDK installation & environment variables)
• Eclipse IDE setup and project creation
• Data types, variables, and operators
• Control statements (loops & conditions)
• Arrays and Strings
• Classes, objects, and constructors

Module 3: Java OOPs – Real-Time Automation Usage

• Encapsulation (framework design usage)
• Inheritance (test base classes)
• Polymorphism (method overriding in frameworks)
• Abstraction (interfaces in automation)
• Packages and access modifiers
• Exception handling (runtime test stability)

Module 4: Java Collections, Reflection & File Handling

• Used in Real Automation Frameworks
• Collections API (List, Set, Map)
• ArrayList, HashSet, HashMap usage in test scripts
• Reflection API – dynamic test execution
• Properties file handling (environment configuration)
• Excel data handling using Apache POI

Module 5: Selenium WebDriver – Architecture & Setup

• Selenium 3 vs Selenium 4 (USA projects focus)
• WebDriver architecture and internal workflow
• Browser-driver communication
• WebDriver setup for Chrome, Firefox, Edge
• Handling browser compatibility in US client environments

Module 6: Selenium WebDriver Commands (Real-Time Scenarios)

• Browser and navigation commands
• WebElement commands
• Handling checkboxes, radio buttons, and dropdowns
• Web tables and dynamic elements
• Alerts, pop-ups, and multiple windows
• Frames and iFrames handling

Module 7: Locators & XPath – Interview Critical Module

• Inspecting elements using DevTools
• Locator strategies (ID, Name, CSS Selector, XPath)
• Absolute vs Relative XPath
• Writing dynamic XPath
• Handling dynamic web elements

Module 8: Synchronization & Advanced User Actions

• Implicit, Explicit, and Fluent waits
• Handling AJAX and dynamic content
• Actions class (mouse & keyboard events)
• Drag & drop, hover, right-click, double-click
• Robot class usage (file upload/download)

Module 9: Test Automation Framework Design (USA Projects)

• Most Important Module for US Jobs
• Test automation framework architecture
• Data-driven framework
• Keyword-driven framework
• Hybrid framework (industry standard)
• Page Object Model (POM) – real-time implementation
• BDD framework using Cucumber (Given–When–Then)

Module 10: TestNG, Selenium Grid & Maven

• Enterprise-Level Automation Skills
• TestNG framework overview
• Annotations and execution flow
• Assertions and reporting
• Data providers
• Parallel execution (USA scalability standards)
• Selenium Grid
• Grid architecture
• Hub and Node setup
• Cross-browser testing
• Distributed test execution
• Maven
• Maven project setup
• Dependency management
• Build lifecycle
• Integration with Selenium projects

Module 11: CI/CD Integration – Jenkins, Git & GitHub

• Mandatory Skills for US Automation Jobs
• Introduction to CI/CD pipelines
• Jenkins installation and configuration
• Creating Jenkins jobs for automation projects
• Scheduling and triggering builds
• Version Control
• Git installation and commands
• Branching and merging strategies
• GitHub repository management
• Team collaboration workflows

Module 12: Selenium with Database Testing

• Database testing fundamentals
• JDBC architecture
• Connecting automation scripts to databases
• Data validation in test automation

Module 13: Selenium IDE & Automation Tool Overview

• Selenium IDE usage
• Selenium RC overview
• When Selenium IDE is used in real projects