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DevOps for QA
Everything needed to run, scale and diagnose test execution in modern delivery pipelines.
Starting level: Automation EngineerTarget role: QA engineer who owns the pipelineJourney: 3–4 months
Core skills
- Pipeline design: stages, gates, artifacts
- Containerising applications and test runners
- Environment provisioning and configuration management
- Secrets handling and environment promotion
- Reading logs and metrics from a deployed system
Recommended technologies
- Git
- Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Docker
- Kubernetes basics
- Linux shell
- Terraform basics
Practice labs
- Write a pipeline that builds, deploys and tests on every pull request
- Run the suite inside a container with a Selenium/Playwright grid
- Add artifact publishing and failure notifications
Projects
- An end-to-end pipeline with parallel test shards, reports and a quality gate
Interview preparation
- How you would run 400 tests in under ten minutes
- Handling environment-specific configuration and secrets
- Debugging a test that passes locally and fails in CI
Suggested next step
- SDET or Platform/Tooling engineer
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