1-on-1 Mentoring Program

🔹 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 11 years of experience in automated software testing and an accredited trainer. I also create technical content on YouTube, run a Blog, am an International Speaker, Mentor, and official ambassador for Grafana k6 and Cypress. I have led QA teams on dozens of projects and aim to create a safe, practical, and authentic space for those who want to learn test automation in a structured and efficient way, through practical steps.

🔹 Program Options

General Test Automation Learning Path

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

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 (4 events)

Test Automation Days 2026 — Hilversum
Scratch to Smart: Building a Scalable Playwright Framework with AI Agents and MCP Server (3h Masterclass)
expoQA 2026 — Madrid
Mastering Playwright: Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Scalable Testing Framework with AI and Codegen (4h workshop)
Nordic Testing Days 2026 — Tallinn
Breaking things on purpose: Getting started with k6 Load Testing (4h workshop)
ISTC 2026 — Istanbul
Scratch to Smart: Building a Scalable Playwright Framework with AI Agents and MCP Server (half-day workshop)

Past Events

Test Automation Days 2025 — Rotterdam
A11y First: Accessibility in action for Web Apps (40 mins talk)

Explore all conference talks and community events

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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