Locator and interaction suite
Deliverable: A test suite covering a practice application's forms, dropdowns, frames and alerts, with a written justification for the locator strategy chosen for each element.
Course
Selenium Automation Testing
Automation testing taught around the problem that actually kills automation projects — flaky tests — with waits, locator strategy and framework design given the weight they deserve.
- Duration: 4 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Write maintainable Java for test automation, at the level the work needs
- Choose locator strategies that survive front end changes
- Eliminate flaky tests using explicit waits rather than sleeps
- Structure a framework with the Page Object Model and reusable components
- Run data-driven and parallel test suites with TestNG
- Produce reports a manager can read and a developer can act on
- Integrate a suite into a CI pipeline so it runs on every merge
Who this course is for
- Manual testers moving into automation
- Graduates in engineering, computer applications or IT
- Support and QA staff who want a technical specialisation
- Java is taught to the level automation needs; no prior coding required
Syllabus
7 modules · 4 months
Module 1. Testing foundations
- Manual versus automation, and what should never be automated
- Test case design and choosing automation candidates
- The test pyramid, and why UI-heavy suites become unmaintainable
- Defect lifecycle and writing a report a developer can act on
Module 2. Java for automation
- Types, control flow and methods
- Classes, objects and inheritance as automation uses them
- Collections for test data
- Exceptions and error handling
- File handling and reading external data
Module 3. Selenium WebDriver
- Architecture and how WebDriver talks to the browser
- Browser setup and driver management
- Locators — id, name, CSS and XPath
- Locator strategy that survives a front end refactor
- Interacting with inputs, dropdowns, checkboxes and alerts
- Frames, windows and tabs
- Actions class for hover, drag and keyboard input
Module 4. Waits and flakiness
- Why a passing test fails on the next run
- Implicit, explicit and fluent waits
- Why Thread.sleep is the wrong answer, always
- Custom expected conditions
- Diagnosing a flaky test methodically instead of retrying it
Module 5. TestNG
- Annotations and execution order
- Assertions, hard and soft
- Groups, priorities and dependencies
- Data providers and parameterisation
- Parallel execution and thread safety
- Retry logic, and using it responsibly
Module 6. Framework design
- Page Object Model, and why it exists
- Page Factory and element initialisation
- Reusable utilities and base classes
- Configuration and environment handling
- Test data from Excel and from properties files
- Reporting with Extent Reports and screenshots on failure
Module 7. Integration and beyond the browser
- Running a suite in Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Running headless and in a grid
- API testing basics with Postman and REST Assured
- Where automation fits alongside manual testing
Tools and technologies you will use
- Java
- Selenium WebDriver
- TestNG
- Maven
- Page Object Model and Page Factory
- Apache POI for data-driven testing
- Extent Reports
- Git and GitHub
- Jenkins and GitHub Actions
- Postman for API testing basics
Projects you will build
Flaky test diagnosis
Deliverable: A supplied suite with deliberately unstable tests, diagnosed and fixed with explicit waits, plus a written note on the root cause of each failure and why sleep was not the answer.
Page Object Model framework
Deliverable: A complete framework with page objects, base classes, configuration handling, data-driven tests from Excel and screenshots captured on failure.
CI-integrated suite
Deliverable: The framework running in a CI pipeline on every push, executing in parallel, producing a readable report, with evidence of a run that caught a genuine regression.
Where this course can take you
- Automation Test Engineer
- QA Engineer
- SDET
- Test Analyst
- QA Automation Lead
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 4 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Share your details and an advisor will confirm the current fee.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
Flaky tests are the real subject
Automation projects rarely fail because the tool could not do something. They fail because the suite became unreliable.
The pattern is consistent. Tests start passing. Some begin failing intermittently. People start re-running them. Then they start ignoring failures. Then the suite is disabled “temporarily”, and eventually deleted. Months of work gone, and nobody quite remembers when it stopped being trusted.
That is why waits get a full module and one of the four projects is diagnosing a
deliberately unstable suite. Thread.sleep is treated as a defect throughout,
because it is — it either makes tests slow or leaves them fragile, usually both.
Locators that survive a refactor
The second most common cause of maintenance collapse is locators tied to page structure.
An absolute XPath breaks the moment a developer wraps something in a div. A CSS selector chained through five levels breaks for the same reason. Multiply that by three hundred tests and every front end change becomes a day of test repair, which is how automation acquires a reputation for costing more than it saves.
We teach locator strategy as a design decision — preferring stable attributes, asking developers for test identifiers, and knowing which XPath axes are worth the fragility.
Java only as deep as the job needs
You do not need to be a Java developer to be a strong automation engineer, and teaching this course as a full Java course wastes your time.
What you need is classes, collections, file handling, exceptions and enough object-oriented design to build a Page Object framework that does not become a tangle. That is what module two covers. Concurrency, Spring and JVM internals are not part of the job.
Where automation actually fits
Not everything should be automated, and knowing what to leave manual is a professional judgement worth having.
Exploratory testing, usability, one-off checks and anything changing weekly are usually better done by a person. Regression suites, data-driven scenarios and smoke tests before a release are where automation repays the investment.
Candidates who can say what they would not automate interview noticeably better than those who treat automation as universally correct.
Questions
Selenium Automation Testing — frequently asked questions
Is automation testing a good career in India?
Yes, and it is one of the more accessible technical routes for people without a computer science degree. Services companies hire automation testers in volume, and the progression into SDET roles pays comparably to development. The work suits people who enjoy finding out why something is broken.
Will AI replace automation testers?
It is already generating test scripts, and that will continue. What it does not do is decide what is worth testing, work out whether a failure is a real defect or an unstable test, or judge risk before a release. The people at risk are those who only record and replay; the ones who design suites and diagnose failures are not.
Selenium or Cypress and Playwright?
Selenium still appears in by far the most Indian job postings, largely because of its install base in services companies, which is why we teach it. Playwright and Cypress are technically newer and pleasant to work with. The concepts — locators, waits, page objects, flakiness — transfer almost entirely, so learning Selenium first does not lock you in.
Do I need to know Java before this course?
No. Java is taught to the level automation actually requires, which is considerably less than a full development course. You need classes, collections, file handling and exceptions rather than concurrency and Spring. Manual testers with no coding background complete this course regularly.
Why is a whole module about flaky tests?
Because flakiness is what kills automation projects. A suite that fails randomly gets ignored, then disabled, then deleted, and the investment is lost. Teams do not abandon automation because it cannot find bugs; they abandon it because they stopped trusting it. Learning to diagnose instability is the difference between a suite that survives and one that does not.
Enquire about Selenium Automation Testing
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