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
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
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
JOB SEARCH WORKSHOP
Interview preparation, including video examples.
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:
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?
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Live sessions
(Online and In-Person)During these sessions, you will gain new knowledge on the topic. -
PracticeHomework with practical assignments, working with the teacher, and feedback -
Live and RecordedLearn live or catch up with recordings if you miss a session -
Self-StudyAccess 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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FAQ
According to BPPE school performance fact sheet (SPFS) 70+ percents of our graduates are successfully working in the IT industry.
After completing the course, you can submit your CV to Junior or Middle positions. You will get enough practical experience, hard and soft skills to be competitive on market.
After completing the course, you can submit your CV to Junior or Middle positions. You will get enough practical experience, hard and soft skills to be competitive on market.
Our courses are for beginners, so you don't need any prior knowledge to join the course. The course program is designed to teach the future tech specialist comprehensively and consistently, starting from the basic knowledge.
Absolutely. We work with new technologies that are used in the IT industry. We update our course program once a year. Moreover, our teachers are industry experts who have been working in tech for a long time and happy to share with you some fresh ideas and tools that are competitive on the market now.
To help graduates build a successful career in the digital economy, we support their first steps, help them write their CVs, and prepare for interviews. For the best students we provide external internships in a real IT company in Silicon Valley.
Testimonials
- Olha⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Portnov Computer School has given me a great start in my new career.
The course is well-organized and gives you a lot of valuable knowledge. At first, it can feel overwhelming because there’s so much information, but over time, everything starts to make sense. The most important thing is to stay motivated and persistent. If you keep going, you’ll get the best out of what the school has to offer. - Ivan V⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I graduated Portnov in autumn of 2022 and had an absolutely life changing experience. The staff has taught me so many things about Software Testing and made it very digestible for someone like me who did not have any background knowledge in IT. When I finished the QA Express course I started the internal internship and worked really hard to become knowledgeable on all the concepts. I learned everything from the basics of networking, database manipulation, writing automated test scripts using Selenium and JavaScript, as well as the building blocks for web development.
After the internal internship the school helped me a lot with finding a paid internship in a real company, which I successfully got the offer for with all the interview training that the school provided. I worked at that company for a year and recently got a position at a very big and well known IT company, which I will be starting very soon. - Sahithi⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I am a very recent graduate of Portnov computer school. I can say that after a long career break, joining PortNov is the best decision I have made.
Everything here is very well organised with excellent faculty who is always willing to help.
They literally teach each and every thing we need in order to become the best QA engineer.
My special thanks to my wonderful teachers, Ozzy, Artem, Anna. What a wonderful and informative sessions we had !! I truly miss them.
And Sofia, Julia, Galina are really very experienced and took personal interest in each and every student.
I love Portnov Computer school. I have also enrolled another course and I am excited about it !!! - Ekaterina⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I completed the boot camp and internship at the end of October 2023 and on Jan 3rd 2024 I started a job as a QA UAT Engineer. I had no experience or any background in IT or anything related to software engineering. The boot camp was challenging, but very well organized, and instructors ensured anyone could understand the concept and learn whatever you’d need to get a job. The internal internship was a game changer in terms of understanding the day-to-day of a QA and gaining real-life experience. As I’ve been working as a QA for the last few months not a day goes by when I don’t think this wouldn’t be possible if not for Portnov Computer School!
- Natalia S⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The courses are thoughtfully designed, and the instructors are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about their subjects. I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Yan, Jana, Sasha, Galina, Ozzy, Artem, Sofia, and Julia. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and patiently answering all my questions. I am immensely grateful for my time at Portnov Computer School and highly recommend it to anyone seeking a top-notch education in a supportive environment. Thank you to everyone at Portnov Computer School for providing incredible opportunities and unforgettable memories.
- Vitalik K.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Huge shoutout to the amazing team and instructors – their expertise and support were truly invaluable. The course offered a comprehensive curriculum and hands-on learning that equipped me with essential skills in just a few months. After completing the internship, I wasted no time in applying for jobs and, incredibly, landed a position within two months. This accomplishment speaks volumes about the quality of education and mentorship at Portnov. A big thank you to the school for paving the way to my career success – highly recommended!
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830 Stewart drive, #106,
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
830 Stewart drive, #106,
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
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