AI-Assisted Fullstack Engineering Program

Internal program overview: all 4 phases, API contracts, evaluation criteria by phase, and specialization track details. Reference for program directors and mentors.

Week-by-week plan with concrete deliverables, full backlog with interactive checklists, and learning resources by technology.

1-month QA engineering onboarding: Playwright TypeScript framework from scratch, custom fixtures, helper modules, 30+ tests, custom reporter, and CI/CD pipeline.

1-hour pairing challenge: build a Webhook Processing System end-to-end — HTTP endpoint, payments store with idempotency, and minimal web UI.

4–6 hour take-home challenge: build a production-ready Playwright framework for the ParaBank demo banking application with fixtures, helpers, reporters, and CI/CD integration.

Five object-oriented design principles illustrated with diagrams — one letter per slide, with before/after examples.

Key DDD building blocks: ubiquitous language, entities, aggregates, bounded contexts, domain events, and layered architecture.

Red-Green-Refactor cycle, Arrange-Act-Assert, test doubles, the test pyramid, and TDD best practices with diagrams.

The ten most critical web application security risks — 2021 edition — with vulnerable and secure code examples for each.

Prompting, planning, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, MCP connectors, subagents, and project-scoped skills with concrete examples.

Framework standards for SDET engineers: core principles, custom fixtures, helper patterns, reporters, CI/CD integration, and PR checklist.

Trunk-based branching, conventional commits, PR anatomy, review etiquette, and git hygiene habits for professional team collaboration.

Resource naming, HTTP verb semantics, status codes, consistent response shapes, and versioning for production-grade APIs.

Naming conventions, function design, guard clauses, the comment policy, and six common code smells with the Scout Rule.