As organisations continue to increase their investment in automated testing, there is growing demand for professionals who can build reliable, scalable automation solutions that support fast-moving delivery environments. This course develops the practical Selenium WebDriver skills needed to automate functional web application testing effectively, helping you strengthen quality assurance processes while reducing the effort associated with repetitive manual testing activities.
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Develop Selenium WebDriver expertise for modern test teams
Explore how Selenium automation supports functional testing activities within agile and continuous delivery workflows. Throughout the course, you’ll work with Selenium 4 tools, including locators, DOM structures, CSS selectors, parallel test execution and reliable scripting techniques. Successful completion of the course and exam leads to an internationally recognised iSQI certification, demonstrating your expertise in Selenium WebDriver automation.
Learning objectives
- Explain the principles of test automation
- Understand the role Selenium WebDriver plays in automation strategy
- Design reliable Selenium automation frameworks for long-term use
- Implement Selenium WebDriver scripts to automate functional web application tests
- Execute automated test suites and interpret results within a development workflow
- Apply Selenium 4 features and advanced automation techniques
- Build maintainable automation frameworks using recognised design patterns
- Apply Selenium automation to improve script reliability and coverage
Key facts
Certification
iSQI Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Who it’s for
Test professionals, automation engineers and developers who want to build skills in Selenium WebDriver automation.
Prerequisites
Learners should have general knowledge of programming and some familiarity with Python or similar languages.
Exam information
The exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions, lasts 60 minutes, and requires 65% to pass
Optional extras
Pass Protect.
Pre-course
There is no pre-course work for this course.
Course syllabus
Dive into the detail of the course by looking at the syllabus below.
- Introduction to test automation
- Understand how automation testing can be applied to different test levels
- Understand the components of gTAA and how to build a TAS
- Remember industry-wide expectations from a TAS
- Understand the relationship between manual and automated tests
- Explain the benefits and limitations of automation testing
- Understand the different test automation solutions
- Automation web technologies
- Understand how different web technologies co-exist together
- Remember the different locators used by Selenium
- Use different Selenium locators to find GUI elements
- Understand the structure of a DOM tree
- Apply XPath expression to locate elements
- Analyse a DOM tree to distinguish the most appropriate locator to use
- Apply locator semantics to locate malformed locator expressions
- Apply best practices to increase reliability of locator expression
- Understand how to use a CSS selector to search for a node
- Execute a CSS selector expression to search for HTML nodes
- Selenium automation tools
- Remember the different Selenium frameworks and the supported languages
- Understand the function of Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, and Selenium Grid
- Understand the architecture on which Selenium WebDriver 4 is built
- Understand the concept and uses of headless automation
- Distinguish the optimum parameters for Selenium automation tools given a scenario
- Use appropriate browser controller commands in correct sequence given a scenario
- Understand the new features of Selenium 4
- Apply the correct feature of Selenium 4 given a scenario
- Using Selenium WebDriver
- Understand the different libraries available for Selenium in Python and Java
- Know how Selenium WebDriver is initialised, executed, assertions made and terminated
- Remember the important information needed on a test automation report
- Understand the different common interactions possible with Selenium automation tool
- Understand the concept of parallelism of tests and how it can be used for performance testing
- Know how machine learning can help in reducing false positives and maintenance effort
- Use the best practices in test automation given a scenario
- Use appropriate strategy to handle different Selenium exceptions
- Apply appropriate strategy to achieve test parallelism on Selenium tools
- Apply appropriate test assertions given a test scenario
- Analyse a test scenario to distinguish the best sequence of Selenium interactions
- Implementation of test automation in an organisation
- Remember the factors to consider for implementing test automation in an organisation
- Understand how the evaluation of a TAS can be done
- Adapting a Selenium TAS
- Understand how dynamic variables can help test automation
- Understand why custom actions may be needed for test automation
- Understand what additional verification checks can be undertaken by a Selenium based TAS
FAQs
This Selenium WebDriver course introduces the fundamentals of automated web testing and prepares you for the iSQI certification. The training combines automation concepts with practical exercises, helping test professionals develop Selenium skills and apply them effectively in sample software development environments.
What is Selenium WebDriver?
Selenium WebDriver is an open-source automation tool used to test web applications. It allows testers and developers to create scripts that automatically interact with browsers, replicating user actions such as clicking buttons, entering data and navigating pages. Selenium WebDriver is widely used for functional testing and regression testing due to its ability to support multiple browsers and programming languages.
How long does the Selenium certification last?
The iSQI Selenium 4 Tester Foundation certification does not expire. Once you pass the exam, the certification remains valid as evidence of your knowledge of Selenium WebDriver and automation testing principles. Professionals may choose to update their skills through further advanced courses as tools and technologies evolve.
How can Selenium automation support development teams?
Automation using Selenium WebDriver helps development teams test web applications more efficiently. Automated tests can run frequently during development, supporting continuous integration and rapid feedback. This helps teams identify issues earlier and maintain consistent testing across releases.
What courses can I take after Selenium 4 Tester Foundation?
After completing the Selenium 4 Tester Foundation course, recommended next steps include the Cypress Introduction or Cypress Advanced courses for testers looking to broaden their automation tool experience, or the Web Services API Testing course for those focused on back-end automation. Professionals looking to deepen their broader expertise may also consider ISTQB Advanced Level courses in test automation engineering or technical test analysis.
What our customers say
Brilliant course, very helpful, very useful. Trainer obviously knows what they're doing and is experienced
bob.johnson
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
The course packed in a lot of information in the 3-day period and would not have been so easily digested without Rosie's calm manner and ease in conveying difficult to understand wording/contexts and lines of code Also taking the extra time to explain some of the nuances of Automation that were awkward to understand.
Trusted Customer
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Good primer for anyone considering using Selenium.
Campbell Forsyth
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Brilliant course, very helpful, very useful. Trainer obviously knows what they're doing and is experienced
bob.johnson
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Good course, well structured but as its done virtually I believe there should be more hands on involved. 3 days is not enough.
Fokhrul Islam
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Very informative & made a technical subject easy to understand with lots of examples to work through together.
Sam Moule
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
The trainer was very knowledgeable and helpful and the course was well presented.
Wayne John
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Slides were very wordy. Would be great to have an environment to try out the exercises as we didn't have a copy of Thonny
John Kurowski
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Really Informative, useful course that I already have plans for applying within my role. Rosie was very patient and helpful, felt that we could ask questions freely and were frequently provided with good knowledge and insight.
James Ashcroft
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
The course packed in a lot of information in the 3-day period and would not have been so easily digested without Rosie's calm manner and ease in conveying difficult to understand wording/contexts and lines of code Also taking the extra time to explain some of the nuances of Automation that were awkward to understand.
Jason Aisbitt
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
Certified Selenium 4 Tester Foundation
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