Fellowship Program in QA Automation (SDET)

Faster product releases and higher software reliability have skyrocketed the demand for skilled QA engineers. Seize the growing opportunity with high-demand testing tools.

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DREAM JOBS
6 - 15 LPA
SUPER DREAM JOBS
8 - 20 LPA
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Curriculum to crack dream jobs in top Product-Based companies

Two tracks. Same foundation. Pick the depth that matches your career goal.

Premium

Advanced

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Premium Curriculum (Included)

All 8 foundation modules from the Premium track

  • Learn Web-based Automation for sites like Redbus and Amazon — fetch pages, extract element data, automate tasks.
  • Understand how LeetCode/HackerRank test code submissions — test data identification, manual & automated testing.
  • Get hands-on with your first automated test — fetch a page, find elements, and validate results
  • Understand the difference between manual testing, automated testing, and web-based automation
Manual testing
Automated testing
Web-based automation
  • Strengthen foundational Java programming through hands-on activities and curated problem statements
  • Master Object-Oriented Programming — classes, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and abstraction applied to real testing scenarios
  • Learn Collections framework — ArrayList, HashMap, HashSet — essential for test data management and result aggregation
  • Exception handling patterns for robust test code that doesn't break silently
  • Debugging techniques to identify and fix issues in test automation code efficiently
Java
OOPS
Collections
Exception Handling
Debugging
JUnit
  • Get introduced to key SDET skills through mini-projects and hands-on activities
  • Master Linux command line for server-side testing, log analysis, and CI environment debugging
  • SQL for database validation — write queries to verify data integrity across microservices
  • Git workflows for managing test code — branching, merging, resolving conflicts in automation repos
  • CI/CD with Jenkins — configure automated test pipelines that run on every commit
Agile
SQL
Linux
Git
HTML Basics
Gradle
CI/CD
Jenkins
Bugzilla
TestRail
  • Master testing fundamentals through carefully designed workshops and activities
  • Design comprehensive test strategies that cover functional, non-functional, and edge-case scenarios
  • Generate effective test data that covers boundary values, equivalence classes, and real-world patterns
  • Understand the complete Defect Life Cycle — from identification through resolution and verification
  • Learn estimation techniques for accurate test effort planning in Agile sprints

Through a carefully designed series of hands-on workshops and mini-projects, learn fundamental testing concepts that are essential to become a strong SDET.

  • QKart: Create Automated Test Cases for a Flipkart-like web-based application. Implement data-driven testing with Apache POI, build a robust Page Object Model framework, and generate test reports with Extent Reports. Work with experienced mentors who review your code.
  • QTrip: Architect a complete Selenium Framework using Page Object Model, TestNG, Selenium Grid for parallel execution, Extent Reports, and Cucumber BDD. Automate test cases for an AirBnB-like web-based application and deploy tests to run across multiple browsers simultaneously.
Selenium
Web Driver
XPath
Apache POI
Page Object Model
Framework
Grid
TestNG
Cucumber

You'll be able to: Build production-grade Selenium frameworks · Implement POM, BDD, and data-driven patterns · Run parallel tests with Grid · Generate rich HTML test reports · Debug test failures efficiently

Master essential Data Structures from an interview perspective and understand their applications in the real world.

  • Learn to solve 200+ curated problems covering the most-asked patterns in SDET interviews at top product companies
  • Master the Crio problem-solving methodology — understand, plan, code, test — applied to every coding challenge
  • Practice with timed mock assessments that simulate real interview conditions
Time space complexity
Arrays
Linked List
Stack/Queue
Trees
Hash
Sort
Search

Advanced Add-ons

Only in the Advanced track

Why these add-ons matter: The Advanced add-ons go beyond what traditional QA bootcamps cover. You'll crack DSA for top-tier interviews, master advanced SDET specializations, and learn the exact AI engineering skills (LLMs, RAG, Agents, MCP) and modern frameworks (Playwright) that top product companies are hiring for in 2026.

Create and execute integration tests on LIVE Flipkart-like distributed backend systems deployed on AWS.

  • Implement API testing to test individual microservices on the backend
  • Implement DB testing to test correctness of SQL tables for the common user journeys
  • Write e2e integration tests for data flows involving Kafka queues, REST APIs and DB across microservices
  • Benchmark API performance for microservices using JMeter (Performance testing)
API
API Testing
DB Testing
Performance Testing
Microservices Testing
Integration Testing
Kafka
JMeter

Learn the nuances of different system architectures and how to effectively test them.

  • Big Data systems
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Microservices
  • N-tier applications
System Architecture
Test Strategy
Test Plan

Learn important concepts required to become a competent new-age automation/SDET engineer. Get familiar with cloud concepts like virtualization, containerization, and cloud services around compute, storage, and networking.

Cloud concepts
Cloud services
CI/CD
Virtualization
Docker
Deployment
Scripting
Advanced Git
Test Bed Creation
Swagger
Postman
BDD
TDD
Agile

Go from zero AI background to confidently building with LLMs — the foundation every modern QA engineer needs in 2026.

  • How LLMs Work (And Why It Matters)
  • Navigating the AI Model Landscape
  • Prompt Engineering That Actually Works
  • Building with the OpenAI API
  • Fine-Tuning — When & How to Train Your Own Model
  • RAG Pipelines — Make AI Know Your Data
  • Building AI Agents That Take Action
  • Full-Stack AI Apps with Bolt.new
  • AI-Powered Development with Cursor
LLMs
OpenAI API
LangChain
Cursor
Bolt.new
RAG
Fine-Tuning

Take your AI skills production-grade — build, evaluate, and ship a real AI product as your capstone.

  • Building LLM-Powered Applications
  • Vibe Coding with Claude Code & Cursor
  • From Single Agents to Multi-Agent Systems
  • AI Agents That Integrate Everything (MCP)
  • RAG Systems — Search Anything with AI
  • How to Know If Your AI Actually Works (Evals)
  • Production AI — Scaling, Cost & Monitoring
  • Capstone — Build & Ship a Real AI Product
LangGraph
Claude Code
MCP
FAISS
Pinecone
RAGAS
Langfuse

Leverage your Selenium knowledge to quickly learn Playwright — a modern, fast, and reliable web automation framework. Build directly on your QKART foundation.

  • Why Playwright? (1 hr): Evolution of web automation, Selenium vs Playwright, auto-waiting mechanisms, native support for Shadow DOM & iframes, multi-browser context handling, setup with Java
  • Fundamentals & Locator Strategies (2 hrs): Role-based locators (recommended), getByText, getByLabel, test ID locators, chaining & filtering, Selenium-to-Playwright locator comparison
  • Interactions & Auto-Waiting (2 hrs): Click/fill/selectOption, checkboxes & dropdowns, file uploads/downloads, built-in auto-wait magic, when explicit waits are still needed, recreate Amazon search-bar automation
  • Advanced Features & Browser Management (2 hrs): Browser contexts vs WebDriver instances, multi-tab handling, frames/alerts/dialogs, built-in screenshots & video, Trace Viewer & Playwright Inspector for debugging
  • Capstone — QKART Lite, Playwright Edition (3 hrs): Recreate QKART test cases (search, login, add-to-cart, verify) with a mini Page Object Model framework in Playwright
Playwright
Cross-browser Testing
Auto-waiting
Role-based Locators
Browser Contexts
Trace Viewer
Page Object Model
Java

You'll be able to: Choose Playwright vs Selenium intelligently · Write reliable tests with minimal explicit waits · Use modern locators for maintainability · Run efficient parallel tests with browser contexts · Convert existing Selenium suites to Playwright

Meet our Mentors

Industry Experts guiding the next generation of innovators. Our team of seasoned professionals brings years of real-world experience, offering invaluable mentorship and insights to help you achieve success in your career.


Nadeem Zaya
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Krishnendu Halder
Krishnendu Halder
Software Engineer
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Sivasankar V V
Sivasankar V V
Lead Quality Engineer
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Nimrah Khan
Vishal Jumnani
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Senior Software Engineer
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Sanjita Sahu
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Lead Tech Mentor
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Ujwal Koteesh
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Research And Development Engineer 3
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G Venkatesh
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Senior Software Engineer
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Nadeem Zaya
Nadeem Zaya
Software Engineer
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Krishnendu Halder
Krishnendu Halder
Software Engineer
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Sivasankar V V
Sivasankar V V
Lead Quality Engineer
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Nimrah Khan
Vishal Jumnani
Vishal Jumnani
Senior Software Engineer
Vishal Jumnani's company logo
LinkedIn logo
Sanjita Sahu
Sanjita Sahu
Lead Tech Mentor
Sanjita Sahu's company logo
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Ujwal Koteesh
Ujwal Koteesh
Research And Development Engineer 3
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G Venkatesh
G Venkatesh
Senior Software Engineer
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Nadeem Zaya
Nadeem Zaya
Software Engineer
Nadeem Zaya's company logo
LinkedIn logo
Krishnendu Halder
Krishnendu Halder
Software Engineer
Krishnendu Halder's company logo
LinkedIn logo
Sivasankar V V
Sivasankar V V
Lead Quality Engineer
Sivasankar V V's company logo
LinkedIn logo
Nimrah Khan
Vishal Jumnani
Vishal Jumnani
Senior Software Engineer
Vishal Jumnani's company logo
LinkedIn logo
Sanjita Sahu
Sanjita Sahu
Lead Tech Mentor
Sanjita Sahu's company logo
LinkedIn logo
Ujwal Koteesh
Ujwal Koteesh
Research And Development Engineer 3
Ujwal Koteesh's company logo
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G Venkatesh
G Venkatesh
Senior Software Engineer
G Venkatesh's company logo
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Crio Grads have Cracked their Dream Careers In

93%

placed within 9
months of graduation

10 LPA

average dream
job CTC

21 LPA

average super-dream
job CTC

1000+

Hiring
Partners

81%

Average
Salary Hike

Gain the Competitive Edge with Mastery of Essential QA Automation Tools

Master leading QA Automation tools like Selenium, TestNG, API Testing, XPath.

Projects You’ll Build

Ship 8+ industry-grade projects across QA Automation, Advanced SDET, and AI — directly mirroring real testing work at Flipkart, Amazon, Swiggy & top product companies.

Exclusive Career Services - with a personalized Career Plan

Get access to Crio’s Exclusive Career Services that will equip you to use your learnings and skills to land your next job.

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1:1 Interview preparation (Mock Interviews) before technical interview rounds with our hiring partners

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Soft-Skills training coupled with pre-training and post-training assessments

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Series of mock assessments and detailed interview prep sprints to ace top tech jobs

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Expert guidance to get your profile ready (Github, LinkedIn, Resume)

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Access to a diverse set of job opportunities with 1000+ hiring partners

Program Fee and Scholarships

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(For 36 months)

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Pay the success fee only if you land a job within 6 months of placement eligibility date

Success fee is Rs. 19,999 if CTC is less than 15 LPA.
Success fee is Rs. 39,999 if CTC is greater than 15 LPA.
12 month no-cost EMI and 18, 24 & 36 month low-cost EMI available.

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Mini-project and micro-skilling exercises to learn CS Fundamentals and practical QA Automation testing skills.

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4+ Professional work like projects, with expert mentorship, to master Automation Testing skills in a practical work-like environment.

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Well-structured interactive workshops and live sessions from industry seasoned professionals.

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Advance QA concepts in API, DB, Microservices & Integration testing for cracking SDET jobs.

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Assured Job Referrals with job-search support, referrals, and career guidance from experienced career coaches.

Real work experience, Real project-based learning with Crio

The best way to learn a skill is by applying what you learn in real scenarios. At Crio, we take it a notch higher by giving you actual work experience-based learning. So, instead of just watching tutorials, you actually experience building real products like professional engineers.

Basically, how a real professional working in a leading product company would grow their career.

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Recruiters too, look for real project experience when hiring tech professionals and here at Crio, we strive to provide just that. We empower learners with high-quality applied learning opportunities and build skills that translate into career growth and success.

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