You Get Out What You Put In
I enrolled in Test Pro's full QA Engineering course, covering both Manual and Automation Testing. While I rate it as a positive experience, this is NOT a quick cheat to get into the industry. It's several months of classes for three nights a week, homework, and reading assignments - and even then the job market is garbage right now so there's no guarantee you'll be making huge money right at the completion. Take the automation course too for more job marketability. These courses aren't for everyone, and it's a significant buy-in for the full course, but if you put the time and effort in, you can learn some useful skills. Most of the instructors do take their roles seriously, and several of them are very knowledgable resources for the field. As things get to be more complicated the instructors are increasingly knowledgeable, and if you take the Automation section of the course you will learn a little bit of basic programming. Muhammad was an excellent instructor for the programming and selenium portions of the course. However, many of the class sessions have too much information to get through in a timely manner, and if you can't join the live sessions a lot of times you might feel a little bit lost rewatching the videos. The homework assignments have a wild variation going from too easy to somewhat difficult, and overall I think more could have been assigned to help drive the concepts home rather than many of the short exercises early on. A lot of times the instructors, the coordinators, and the homework crews are not actually on the same page in regards to HOW something should be done, and that does cause a lot of frustrations. We were also told that this 6 month course equals two years of experience or college education, that is a huge overstatement. Overall, I'd rate it as a positive experience with a lot of room for the program to grow and evolve. It's a significant time, energy, and monetary commitment, so make sure it's something your priorities and schedule can allow. Stay on top of assignments and attend the classes when you can, or you will fall behind quickly.




