🚀 1-on-1 Custom Mentoring Program
Personalized, Practical, Professional

Learn test automation or improve your tech skills with a custom mentoring program tailored to your specific needs, led by an industry expert.

👨‍🏫 One-on-one personalized training

🎯 Custom learning path for your goals

Start with a free call

Free 15mins intro call - no commitment

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🔹 How It Works

🗓️ FREE initial call to assess your needs and skills

📝 Customized learning plan based on your goals

👨‍💻 Regular 1-2 hour sessions focused on practical learning

💻 Focus on coding and real-world applications

🎓 Build a portfolio of projects for your GitHub

🔹 What You Get

  • Recorded video sessions you can download and keep
  • Access to all code examples created during sessions
  • Lifetime access to updated slide presentation materials
  • Professional invoice after each session
  • Flexible scheduling and the freedom to stop anytime
  • Real-world projects you can add to your portfolio

🔹 About the Mentor

I'm Razvan Vancea, a QA Automation Lead with over 10 years of experience in automated software testing and a certified trainer. I also create technical content on YouTube, maintain a Tech Blog, speak at international conferences, mentor and act as a technical interviewer for QA roles. I've led QA teams across dozens of projects and aim to create a safe, practical and authentic space for those who want to learn structured, efficient test automation through practical steps.

Razvan Vancea - Mentor
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🔹 Program Options

General Test Automation Learning Path

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If you don't have a specific topic in mind and simply want to learn test automation or improve your tech skills, we will:

  • Assess your current skills and knowledge
  • Create a FREE commonly agreed and shared plan document
  • Structure your learning into recommended milestones
  • Progress at a pace that suits your learning style
  • Build practical skills through hands-on projects

Specific Topic Focus

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If you want to learn or improve your skills on a specific topic, tool, language, design pattern, or framework, we will:

  • Focus exclusively on your chosen area
  • Create a tailored learning path for that specific skill
  • Provide hands-on practice with real-world examples
  • Take one or multiple sessions to achieve your desired results

Example topics include:

  • Basic or advanced Cypress
  • API automation
  • Advanced Playwright skills
  • Getting started with performance testing
  • And many more based on your interests

Example Topics & Time Estimates

These estimates assume starting from zero.

Experienced engineers usually need fewer sessions depending on their goals.

Sessions are fully customizable — most mentees choose a mix of topics rather than a single one.

Core Automation & High-Demand Skills

(most requested topics)

Build an end-to-end framework with Playwright / Cypress / TestCafe
4–8 hrs (often 1–3 sessions for experienced engineers)
JavaScript fundamentals & OOP for test automation
2–4 hrs
API automation framework from scratch (PactumJS)
2 hrs
CI/CD with GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
0.5–1 hr

Practical Engineering Skills

Git basics for version control
2.5 hrs
Docker fundamentals workshop
2 hrs
Performance testing with k6 / JMeter
2–3 hrs
API Testing with Postman
0.5–2 hrs

Optional Foundations

(optional depending on background)

Web architecture + HTML / CSS essentials
1–2 hrs
Optimized CSS selectors
0.5–1 hr
Linux basics
1–2 hrs
Web accessibility testing (Pa11y / Axe)
1–2 hrs

🔹 What You'll Achieve

By the end of this program, you will have:

  • The ability to understand and implement a complete test automation framework from scratch
  • Skills to build clean, maintainable, and scalable web and API test automation frameworks
  • Knowledge of DevOps concepts, Docker basics, and CI/CD pipelines (if included in your learning path)
  • Experience setting up automated test runs with scheduled triggers and email notifications
  • Real projects added to your GitHub portfolio to showcase to potential employers
  • Practical experience you can immediately apply to real-world testing scenarios

🔹 Conference & Speaking Engagements

Delivering talks and workshops at international QA conferences

2026 & Beyond (6 events)

  • AutomationSTAR 2026 — Antwerp

    [Workshop Trainer • 3.5h] Scalable Playwright Framework with AI

  • Nordic Testing Days 2026 — Tallinn

    [Workshop Trainer • 4h] Breaking things on purpose: Getting started with k6 Load Testing

  • Test Automation Days 2026 — Hilversum

    [Workshop Trainer • 3h] Scratch to Smart: Building a Scalable Playwright Framework with AI Agents and MCP Server

  • expoQA 2026 — Madrid

    [Workshop Trainer • 4h] Mastering Playwright: Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Scalable Testing Framework with AI and Codegen

  • SEETEST 2026 — Ljubljana

    [Workshop Trainer • 4h] Scratch to Smart: Building a Scalable Playwright Framework with AI Agents and MCP Server

  • ISTC 2026 — Istanbul

    [Workshop Trainer • 4h] Scratch to Smart: Building a Scalable Playwright Framework with AI Agents and MCP Server

Past Events

  • Test Automation Days 2025 — Rotterdam

    [Speaker • 40mins talk] A11y First: Accessibility in action for Web Apps (40 mins talk)

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🔹 Simple pricing. No commitment.

1-on-1 mentoring rate

€50 / hour

Most mentees start with 1–2 hours per week.

📄 Invoice provided after each session

💳 Payment via bank transfer

⏱️ Weekly sessions of 1-2 hrs

🛑 Stop anytime — no commitment required

Book your free call

Limited availability each month

📧 Prefer email? Contact me at iamqarv@gmail.com