Manual vs. Automation Testing: Benefits, Limitations, and When to Automate. The Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and its relation to Automation. Introduction to Programming for Testers: Basics of Python/JavaScript for writing test scripts. Overview of Automation Tools: Selenium, Cypress, Postman, Appium.

Selenium WebDriver Basics: Architecture and Setup. Locating Web Elements: Using ID, Name, XPath, CSS Selectors. WebDriver Commands: Interacting with browsers and web elements (clicks, forms, drop downs). Synchronization: Using Implicit and Explicit Waits. Handling Alerts, Frames, and Windows.

Introduction to AI in Testing: How AI is transforming test automation, benefits and use cases. AI-Powered Test Generation: Automated test case creation from requirements/user stories. Self-Healing Test Scripts: How AI handles dynamic UI changes and locator maintenance. Visual Testing with AI: Image recognition, visual validation, and defect detection. AI for Test Optimization: Smart test selection, prioritization, and flaky test detection. AI Testing Tools Overview: Introduction to tools like Testim, Applitools, Mabl. Integrating AI with Existing Frameworks: Combining AI tools with Selenium/Appium. Future Trends: Predictive analytics, NLP for test creation, autonomous testing.

API Testing Fundamentals: REST API concepts, HTTP methods, status codes. Automating API Tests with Postman: Creating collections, writing test scripts, automation in Postman. Introduction to Mobile Testing: Types of mobile apps (Native, Web, Hybrid). Mobile Automation with Appium: Overview, architecture, and basic script creation.

Test Automation Frameworks: Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven, and Hybrid Frameworks. Introduction to TestNG/JUnit: Annotations, assertions, grouping tests, parallel execution. Version Control with Git: Basics for test code management. CI/CD Integration: Triggering automation scripts using Jenkins/GitHub Actions. Best Practices: Maintaining scalable and robust test suites.