12-Week QA Engineering Bootcamp

Break software
before it breaks
your users.

Breakpoint turns career-switchers into QA engineers who ship — teaching Selenium, Cypress, and Postman before real production code ever reaches your users.

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Next Cohort Starts March 10 — 32 Seats Left

Graduates hired at:StripeShopifyTwilioWayfairBraintreeEpic SystemsSalesforceHubSpotAtlassian

12-Week Curriculum

The bootcamp, compressed into a scroll.

Every section below is a real week. Every testimonial is a real graduate. The progress bar on the left fills as you read.

Week 1–332 seats remaining

Foundations & Test Design

Build the mental model before touching a framework.

SDLC & where QA fits at every stage
Test case design: equivalence partitioning, boundary analysis
Bug taxonomy — severity vs. priority, defect lifecycle
Exploratory testing techniques used at FAANG
Writing test plans that engineers actually read

test_case_001.md
## TC-001: Login — Invalid Credentials
 
**Precondition:** User on /login page
**Input:** email: x@x.com | password: wrong123
**Expected:** Error "Invalid credentials" shown
**Severity:** High  **Priority:** P1
**Status:** ✓ Written  → Pending Execution

"The test design module alone changed how I think about software. I went from clicking around randomly to writing test cases that caught 3 production bugs in my first week on the job."

Marcus WebbQA Engineer @ Stripe

✓ Hired after Week 3 concepts clicked

Week 4–728 seats remaining

Automation Frameworks

Selenium, Cypress — write tests that run while you sleep.

Selenium WebDriver: locators, waits, Page Object Model
Cypress: component testing, network stubbing, time-travel debugging
JavaScript & Python fundamentals for QA automation
Test data management & fixtures
Parallel test execution — cut your CI run from 40 min to 8 min

SeleniumCypressPythonJavaScriptpytest

checkout.cy.js
describe('Checkout Flow', () => {
  it('completes purchase with valid card', () => {
    cy.visit('/cart')
    cy.get('[data-testid=checkout-btn]').click()
    cy.get('#card-number').type('4242 4242 4242 4242')
    cy.get('#expiry').type('12/26')
    cy.get('#cvv').type('123')
    cy.get('[data-testid=pay-btn]').click()
    cy.url().should('include', '/confirmation')
    cy.contains('Order confirmed').should('be.visible')
  })
})

terminal● PASSING
  ✓ visits /cart (12ms)
  ✓ clicks checkout button (8ms)
  ✓ fills card details (34ms)
  ✓ submits payment (891ms)
  ✓ confirms order on /confirmation (5ms)
 
  5 passing (950ms)

"I had zero coding experience. By Week 6 I had a Cypress suite with 47 tests running in GitHub Actions. That repo got me three interviews in one week."

Priya NairSDET @ Shopify

✓ Hired 3 weeks after graduation

Week 8–1024 seats remaining

CI/CD Pipelines & API Testing

Ship tests into production workflows with Postman and GitHub Actions.

REST API fundamentals — status codes, headers, auth patterns
Postman Collections: environment variables, pre-request scripts
Newman CLI — run Postman suites in any CI pipeline
GitHub Actions: trigger tests on every pull request
Contract testing with Pact — catch breaking changes before deploy

PostmanNewmanGitHub ActionsJenkinsDocker

.github/workflows/qa.yml
name: QA Automation Suite
 
on: [push, pull_request]
 
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Run Cypress Tests
        run: npx cypress run
      - name: Run Postman Collection
        run: newman run ./collections/api-suite.json

"The CI/CD week was the unlock. I could finally talk to senior engineers as a peer — not just "the tester." Twilio hired me specifically because I had Newman running in GitHub Actions."

Darnell FosterQA Automation Engineer @ Twilio

✓ Hired at $74K — former help desk analyst

Week 11–12

Capstone Projects

Real automation suites built by real graduates. These are the portfolios that got them hired.

Tanya Okafor

QA Engineer @ Wayfair

$71K hired

E-Commerce Checkout Automation Suite

127 Cypress tests covering cart, checkout, payment, and order confirmation flows. Runs in 4 minutes via GitHub Actions on every PR.

CypressGitHub ActionsJavaScript127 tests

James Kowalski

QA Automation Eng. @ Braintree

$68K hired

Payments API Test Collection

89 Postman tests across REST endpoints for a fintech API. Newman integrated into Jenkins pipeline — catches regressions before they reach staging.

PostmanNewmanJenkinsREST APIs

Amara Singh

SDET @ Epic Systems

$76K hired

Healthcare Portal Regression Suite

Selenium POM framework in Python — 203 tests across patient portal, scheduling, and records. Reduced manual regression time from 3 days to 45 minutes.

SeleniumPythonpytestPage Object Model

94%

of graduates hired within 90 days of completing the capstone

Placement rate94%

$68K

median starting salary

March 10 Cohort — 24 Seats Remaining

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