QAstra Academy

Build Fast, Reliable Web Automation with Cypress + TypeScript — The #1 Choice for React & Vue Teams.

BDD with Cucumber, API testing, Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines — built for manual testers moving to automation and QA engineers who need their tests to ship as fast as the code does.

Cypress holds 6.6M weekly npm downloads and remains the #1 choice for JavaScript-first teams (TestDino, Feb 2026). This course teaches the full production stack — TypeScript, component testing, BDD, AI-assisted selectors with Cursor and Copilot, and Cypress Cloud analytics. This course teaches you to build production-grade Cypress frameworks with TypeScript — including component testing, BDD workflows with Cucumber, smart AI-assisted selectors, and end-to-end CI/CD integration. If your team ships fast, your QA needs to keep up.

Syllabus

Phase 1: TypeScript Fundamentals for QA

Modules

TS Environment & Setup

Types, Interfaces & Enums

Functions & Async in TS

Modules & Namespace

Error Handling & Debugging

TS for Cypress Config

Logic Building Lab

Phase 2: Cypress Core, BDD & API Integration

Modules

Cypress 13+ Installation & UI

Selectors & Commands

Assertions & Sync

Interactions & Events

Handling XHR/Fetch & API Interception

Fixtures & AI Data Mocking

Custom Commands in TypeScript

Cypress Studio & BDD with Cucumbe

Phase 3: AI-Enhanced Testing & Visual Automation

Modules

Cursor + Copilot AI Pair Programming

AI-Driven Test Design

AI for Selector Strategy

Visual Testing with AI

Component Testing

Cypress Plugin Ecosystem

Handling Iframes/Shadow DOM

Dynamic Data with AI

Cypress Cloud, Parallelism & Analytics

Flakiness & Retries

Phase 4: Framework Design, CI/CD & Capstone

Modules

CI/CD — GitHub Actions + Jenkins + Azure DevOps

Performance Monitoring

Security Basics for QA

Capstone: AI-Powered Framework

Final Demo & Review

Outcome

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
  • Build a complete Cypress + TypeScript automation framework from scratch
  • Implement BDD automation using Cucumber with Gherkin feature files
  • Perform component testing and API testing within Cypress
  • Apply AI-assisted selector strategies to reduce locator maintenance
  • Execute tests in Docker and integrate them into GitHub Actions or Jenkins pipelines
  • Use Cypress Cloud for test analytics, parallelism, and flakiness reporting
  • Implement visual regression testing with AI-powered diff tools
  • Use Cursor IDE and GitHub Copilot to generate TypeScript Cypress tests with .cursorrules conventions.
  • Run parallel Cypress tests using Cypress Cloud Smart Orchestration.
  • Implement accessibility testing using cypress-axe in your CI pipeline.
After completing this course, you can apply for: QA Automation Engineer (avg. ₹8–15 LPA), Frontend QA Engineer, SDET (avg. ₹10–20 LPA), and Test Engineer roles at product companies.

Tools

Cypress 13+

TypeScript

Cucumber BDD

Applitools

Docker

GitHub Actions

GitHub Copilot

Cursor IDE

Who Should Enroll

Manual tester →

Wants front-end automation.

JavaScript/TypeScript developer →

Add formal testing skills.

React/Vue team member →

Component + E2E testing together.

Existing Selenium/Playwright user →

Add Cypress for front-end speed.

Market Growth

6.6M weekly npm downloads — Cypress remains the #1 JavaScript testing framework
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Cypress + TypeScript roles: $53K–$92.5K — Cognizant, Microsoft, SAP actively hiring
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9,000+ QA automation roles on LinkedIn include Cypress skill
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FAQs

This course is designed to teach modern web automation testing using Cypress and TypeScript, focusing on real-world automation frameworks, CI/CD integration, and AI-assisted testing techniques.

This course is ideal for manual testers, automation testers, QA engineers, developers, and freshers who want to learn modern web automation tools.

Basic knowledge of JavaScript or programming concepts is helpful, but the course also covers TypeScript fundamentals to help beginners get started.

You will learn Cypress 13+, TypeScript, Cucumber BDD, Cypress Cloud, cypress-axe, Applitools/Percy, Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitHub Copilot, Cursor IDE, and AI-assisted test generation with .cursorrules conventions.

Yes, the course includes real-world automation framework setup and practical testing scenarios similar to enterprise QA environments.

Playwright is growing faster overall (33M vs 6.6M weekly downloads). But Cypress remains the #1 choice for JavaScript/TypeScript teams working with React, Vue, or Angular — thanks to component testing, Cypress Cloud, and a developer-first DX. If your team is JS-first, Cypress is faster to ship. If you need multi-browser, Python/Java, or agentic MCP testing, choose Playwright.

No. The course starts with TypeScript fundamentals and Cypress from scratch. Prior automation experience is helpful but not required. If you already know Selenium, you’ll find the transition to Cypress straightforward and the AI modules genuinely new.

Ready to Start Your QA Journey?

New batches start monthly. Cohorts are capped at [N] participants so every student gets direct instructor feedback. Speak to us about the next available seat.

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