Assessing your job readiness

Starting your Search for a QA Tester Role

Interviews and Advice

In this project you will review and prepare as you take the next steps to getting your first job as a QA Tester. 

Next Steps for Job Readiness

Who is a Quality Assurance Tester?

2019.3

2019.2

2019.1

2018.4

The QA Testing Process

Course Introduction

2022.3

2021.3

Install Unity Software

Lesson 1.1 - Start your 3D Engines 

Lesson 1.2 - Pedal to the Metal

Lesson 1.3 - High Speed Chase

Lesson 1.4 - Get into the Driver's Seat

Challenge 1 - Programming a Plane

Lab 1 - Create a Project Design Document

Unit 2 - Introduction

Lesson 2.1 - Player Positioning

Lesson 2.2 - Food Flight

Lesson 2.3 - Random Animal Stampede

Lesson 2.4 - Making Collision Decisions

Challenge 2 - Play a Game of Fetch

Lab 2 - Create a New Project with Primitives

Unit 3 - Introduction

Lesson 3.1 - Jump Force 

Lesson 3.2 - Make the World Whiz By

Lesson 3.3 - Don't Just Stand There

Lesson 3.4 - Working with Particles and Sound Effects

Challenge 3 - Creating Balloons, Bombs, & Booleans

Lab 3 - Establishing Player Control

Unit 4 - Introduction

Lesson 4.1 - Watch Where You’re Going

Lesson 4.2 - Follow the Player

Lesson 4.3 - PowerUp and CountDown

Lesson 4.4 - Creating Gameplay Loops

Challenge 4 - Scripting Soccer

Lab 4 - Creating Basic Gameplay

Unit 5 - Introduction

Lesson 5.1 - Clicky Mouse

Lesson 5.2 - Keeping Score

Lesson 5.3 - Game Over

Lesson 5.4 - What’s the Difficulty? (Copy)

Challenge 5 - Whack-a-Food Game

Lab 5 - Swapping out Assets

Next Steps - Introduction

Lesson 6.1 - Project Optimization

Lesson 6.2 - Research and Troubleshooting

6.3 - Sharing your Projects & Database

Quiz 1

2020.3

Quiz 2

Quiz 3

Quiz 4

Quiz 5

In this project you will be introduced to the concept of Quality Assurance and the kinds of roles available and the requirements needed to start a career in testing. You will also hear from QA Testers on what are good traits of a tester, why to go into testing, and the typical day on the job as a tester. Finally you will learn about the common types and levels of software testing. 

Introduction to Quality Assurance Testing

In this Unit, you will be introduced to the course, then you will download and install the Unity software. You will then you will program a car moving side-to-side on a floating road, trying to avoid (or hit) obstacles in the way. In addition to becoming familiar with the Unity editor and workflow, you will learn how to create new C# scripts and do some simple programming. By the end of the Unit, you will be able to call basic functions, then declare and tweak new variables to modify the results of those functions. 

Create with Code - Unit 1 - Getting Started and Player Control

In this Unit, you will program a top-down game with the objective of throwing food to hungry animals - who are stampeding towards you - before they can run past you. In order to do this, you will become much more familiar with some of the most important programming and Unity concepts, including if-then statements, random value generation, arrays, collision detection, prefabs, and instantiation. In completing this Unit, you will learn how to program a basic game with the ability to launch projectiles and maneuver the player to keep the game alive. 

Create with Code - Unit 2 - Basic Gameplay

In this Unit, you will program a fast-paced endless side-scrolling runner game where the player needs to time jumps over oncoming obstacles to avoid crashing. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to add music and sound effects, completely transforming the experience of your projects. You will also learn how to create dynamic endless repeating backgrounds, which are critical for any side-scrolling games. Finally, you will learn to incorporate particle effects like splatters and explosions, which make your games so much more satisfying to play.  

Create with Code - Unit 3: Sounds & Effects

In this Unit, you will program an arcade-style Sumo battle with the objective of knocking increasingly difficult waves of enemies off of a floating island, using power ups to help defeat them. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to implement new gameplay mechanics into your projects, which are new rules or systems that make the game more interesting to play. On one hand, you will learn to program a powerup, which give the player a temporary advantage. On the other hand, you will learn to program increasingly difficult enemy waves, which make survival more challenging for the player. A good balance of powerups and increasing difficulty make for a much more interesting gameplay experience.  

Create with Code - Unit 4: Gameplay Mechanics

In this Unit, you will program a game to test the player’s reflexes, where the goal is to click and destroy objects randomly tossed in the air before they can fall off the screen. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to implement a User Interface - or UI - into your projects. You will add a title screen with a difficulty select menu that will control how challenging the gameplay is, you will add a score display that will track how many points the player has earned, and you will add a Game Over screen, which will allow the player to restart and try again. In learning these skills, you will be able to create a fully “playable” experience that the user can enjoy from start to finish without having to restart the application to try it again.

Create with Code - Unit 5: User Interfaces (UI)

In this final Unit, you will prepare to continue developing your Unity and C# skills independently, including learning how to complete your personal project and how to troubleshoot and optimize your project to continue to practice and refine your QA testing skills.

Create with Code - Unit 6: Optimization & QA

QA, which stands for quality assurance, is a position that tests and assures the quality of software, websites, applications, programs, and more. A QA tester is the last line of defense between the consumer and a broken product. They're a vital part of a development team with a focus on uncovering bugs and issues to help fix and improve items before releasing to a customer or company. In completing the QA Tester Pathway, you will learn what QA testing is, the QA testing process, basics of the C# and how to analyze code, practice testing and analyzing your own code to help you learn the skills it takes to be a QA tester. 

This pathway leverages Unity's popular Create with Code course and expands it by including development lifecycle and where and how QA plays a role.  While this pathway will be game-centric and the coding language you will learn is C# the skills and competencies you learn in developing, testing and troubleshooting will be applicable to a wide-variety of QA testing roles. As you work through the pathway you will also create your own project and through building, troubleshooting and testing your project you will apply the coding and QA skills you learned to understand the development lifecycle and where and how QA plays a role. In addition to these core technical competencies, you will learn how to manage a project from start to finish: coming up with a concept, creating a project plan, prioritizing tasks, and hitting milestones. 

3D assets for this course were generously provided by our partner, Synty Studios, and are not for commercial use. If you would like to use any of the 3D assets from this course in commercial projects, please purchase one of the asset packs from Synty Studios’ 

Quality Assurance (QA) Pathway

Check out some of the learner submissions from this unit.

Learner submissions