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Start QA career from scratch
  • Bootcamp with a lot of hands-on experience (each session 4 hours) + Intensive internship
  • Online and in-person live classes
  • daytime or evening time classes
  • Recorded sessions
  • Working in small groups
  • Testing on real projects
  • Resume preparation based on your previous experience
  • Individual Job Interview Coaching
  • The program is approved by California Government Organization for Educational Institutions
The installment payment plan is available
What you'll learn
40+ hours of Software QA Fundamentals
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Software Development models: Waterfall; Agile: Scrum, Kanban, Extreme, and other methodologies;
  • Test Documentation; Bug reporting and tracking; JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Teams
  • Interview Questions and Interview Preparation
40+ hours of Frontend Testing and Information Technologies
  • Web Technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript);
  • Web Services (REST API);
  • Networking
  • Devtools
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Interview Questions and Interview Preparation
Backend Testing
24+ hours of Backend Testing:
  • UNIX OS
  • LINUX OS
  • SQL
  • RDBMS
  • Interview Questions and Interview Preparation
Mobile Testing
40+ hours of Mobile Testing plus 40+ hours of hands-on live project testing activities using Android Studio Emulator and more.
Interview Questions and Interview Preparation
Test Automation
  • 40 Hours of Hands-on work with Selenium WebDriver with Java
  • Behavior Driven Development using Cucumber BDD
  • Get familiar with Jenkins for CI/CD
  • Utilize version control tools: Git/GitHub
  • Perform various types of testing: regression, build acceptance/smoke, browser/device compatibility, usability, GUI
  • Interview Questions and Interview Preparation
Intensive internship
  • Internal and External (for California only) internship
  • Participate in a hands-on real-life web application software testing project (both manual and automated)
  • Practice Test Automation with Selenium Webdriver, Java and Cucumber
  • Participate in Scrum rituals: Stand Up meetings, Sprint plannings, and Retrospectives
  • Get hands-on with Agile environment/company processes
  • Interview Questions and Interview Preparation
Interview preparation, including video examples
Most common interview questions; detailed review and best practices with examples for answering each question.
A series of video interviews with:
  • Recruiter
  • Hiring manager
  • Team members
  • HR

This course is for those who don’t want to waste a minute!


Portnov Computer School is known as the pioneer in QA education. It is the oldest one in the U.S. (over 30 years) and is the only one backed and approved by the U.S. Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education.

Our graduates have an unheard-of success of 79% placement rate. That’s partly because we take care of our students like no other computer school. Every student goes through an internal internship and then can do one of several external ones (working in real IT companies) to be ready for a good-paying QA job.

We offer both daytime (10 am – 2 pm) and evening (5 pm – 9 pm) programs. This career change program is ideally suited for students who work during the day or have other schedules. This flexible program allows students to complete their training, providing them with the flexibility to choose their timeframes. The course takes 16 weeks to complete.

Most programming jobs take years of education — but you can become a QA specialist in just a few months. The industry is growing so fast that people are often getting hired right out of our courses at $35+/hour. People who previously worked minimum wage jobs in factories, grocery stores, etc., people for whom English is not their first language, people with zero programming skills or IT background — everybody can become a QA specialist and be ready to ace the interviews (and get a job) after completing our QA course.

Every class is limited to 40 students with an individual approach and 1-on-1 teacher attention to each student. Students learn to work in small groups of 5-7 people (just like in a real job), discuss topics in class, and can always privately ask the teacher any questions.


  • Learn a new skill from scratch - regardless of your current experience
  • Choose a convenient training schedule ( offline or online)
  • Get an in-demand specialty and you a high-paying job that has great potential for advancement
  • work from anywhere in the world
How does the course proceed?
  • Live sessions
    (Online and In-Person)
    During these sessions, you will gain new knowledge on the topic.
  • Practice
    Homework with practical assignments, working with the teacher, and feedback
  • Live and Recorded
    Learn live or catch up with recordings if you miss a session
  • Self-Study
    Access to an online library with additional information for independent learning
This program is suitable for those who
Have never worked in IT
and want to gain a sought-after profession and secure employment from scratch.
Want to change career
and obtain a relevant, well-paid specialty in IT.
A convenient platform for learning
Class Schedule
The schedule of online classes is displayed in your personal account. Recorded lessons are also available. Managing your workload is easy and simple.
Watch Sessions
All lessons are live, where you can ask the instructor questions. After the lesson, the video recordings with subtitles are available to you.
Complete Assignments
After each class, you complete homework assignments or practical tasks. These are reviewed by instructors: they will praise you for successful work or provide guidance on how to improve your results.
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CONTACT US
Address
830 Stewart drive, #106,
Sunnyvale, CA 94085