Advanced API Testing with Postman Training Course

Name: Advanced API Testing with Postman and REST Assured Training Course
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Design maintainable REST API tests, connect Postman and Java automation, and control execution through delivery pipelines.

Advanced API Testing with Postman Training Course

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Duration: 12 days
Format: Classroom
Cities: Rome, London, Manama, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Dubai and more
Next session: 19 – 30 October 2026, Rome
Average fee: 9,900 €

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Overview

Advanced API Testing with Postman and REST Assured Training Course is a ten-day advanced course for API testers, quality engineers, automation engineers, developers, DevOps teams, and technical leads who leave with a Production-Ready API Test Automation Framework. Participants apply Postman test automation, REST Assured framework design, API contract validation, Newman pipeline execution, and API test governance to expose defects, organize reusable assets, and control release evidence. Agile Leaders Training Center develops advanced API testing capability.

Who Should Attend

Quality functions responsible for REST API validation and release evidence
Automation teams responsible for reusable test suites and execution architecture
Development teams responsible for service behavior and defect diagnosis
DevOps functions responsible for pipeline gates and test reporting
Technical leads responsible for API quality controls and test governance

The course assumes participants can read REST requests and responses and use basic Java or scripting, and leaves out API design, application development, performance engineering, and penetration testing.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that rely on stable service integrations and repeatable API release checks.

Software quality and test automation
Application engineering and DevOps
Financial services and digital commerce
Telecommunications and logistics platforms
Healthcare and professional-service technology teams

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Build Postman collections with variables, scripts, assertions, and data sets
Apply authentication, negative, boundary, schema, and contract checks
Use mock servers and request chaining for dependent workflows
Build reusable REST Assured specifications and test components
Diagnose failures through logs, reports, and pipeline evidence
Build a Production-Ready API Test Automation Framework

Course Agenda

Day 1: REST Test Strategy and Request Design

REST Resource and Operation Test Map
HTTP Request Component Checklist
Response Behavior and Status Matrix
API Risk-Based Test Coverage Model
Test Data and Environment Boundary Plan

Day 2: Postman Environments and Collections

Postman Workspace and Collection Structure
Environment and Collection Variable Model
Request Parameterization Pattern
Authentication Configuration Matrix
Collection Documentation and Naming Rules

Day 3: Postman Scripts and Assertions

Pre-Request Script Control Flow
Post-Response Assertion Library
JSON Path Extraction Pattern
Dynamic Variable and Token Handling
Assertion Failure Diagnostic Record

Day 4: Negative, Boundary, and Data-Driven Testing

Negative API Test Case Matrix
Boundary Value Request Catalogue
Data-Driven Collection Runner Design
Stateful Request Chaining Workflow
Error Response Consistency Checklist

Day 5: Contracts and Service Virtualization

OpenAPI Operation Coverage Map
JSON Schema Validation Rules
Request and Response Contract Checklist
Postman Mock Server Scenario Design
Contract Drift Defect Register

Day 6: Newman Execution and Reporting

Newman Command-Line Execution Profile
Environment and Data File Control Procedure
Collection Run Failure Thresholds
Newman Reporter Configuration
Execution Evidence Retention Plan

Day 7: REST Assured Test Architecture

Java API Test Project Structure
REST Assured Request Specification
REST Assured Response Specification
Serialization and Deserialization Pattern
Reusable Endpoint Client Layer

Day 8: REST Assured Validation and Diagnostics

Hamcrest Response Assertion Pattern
REST Assured JSON Schema Validator
Authentication and Session Filter Design
Conditional Request and Response Logging
Failure Triage and Defect Evidence Template

Day 9: CI Integration and Test Governance

API Test Pipeline Stage Design
Parallel Execution and Test Isolation Plan
Quality Gate Decision Matrix
Flaky Test Classification Register
API Automation Ownership and Review Model

Day 10: API Automation Framework Practice

Exercise: Build a Postman Collection Test Suite
Exercise: Validate Contracts and Negative Scenarios
Exercise: Implement Reusable REST Assured Components
Exercise: Diagnose Newman and Pipeline Failures
Capstone: Production-Ready API Test Automation Framework

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities drawn from financial services, digital commerce, telecommunications, logistics, and healthcare technology.

Suggested activity: create a data-driven Postman collection with authentication, chaining, and failure diagnostics.
Suggested activity: compare live responses with OpenAPI operations and JSON schemas, then record contract drift.
Suggested activity: construct reusable REST Assured request, response, serialization, and logging components.
Suggested activity: run API tests in a delivery pipeline and evaluate gate evidence, isolation, and ownership.

FAQs

Who suits advanced API testing with Postman and REST Assured, and what does it assume?

Quality, automation, development, DevOps, and technical leadership functions suit the course; it assumes participants can interpret REST exchanges and use basic Java or scripting.

How does advanced API testing differ from introductory Postman training?

Advanced API testing combines risk-based coverage, scripts, data-driven execution, contracts, mocks, REST Assured architecture, pipeline integration, diagnostics, and governance rather than basic request sending.

How should Postman collections support maintainable API testing?

Postman collections should use controlled environments, scoped variables, reusable scripts, explicit assertions, stable naming, separated data, documented dependencies, and diagnostic failure messages.

How can REST Assured test components remain reusable?

REST Assured components remain reusable through shared request and response specifications, endpoint clients, serializers, authentication filters, assertion helpers, configuration boundaries, and isolated test data.

What belongs in a Production-Ready API Test Automation Framework?

A Production-Ready API Test Automation Framework includes coverage rules, collections, schemas, mocks, Java components, test data, environment controls, pipeline execution, reports, diagnostics, quality gates, ownership, and maintenance procedures.

Conclusion

Participants take back a Production-Ready API Test Automation Framework supported by Postman collections, contract checks, REST Assured components, pipeline controls, reports, and governance records. It changes scattered API checks into repeatable release evidence with defined ownership. The framework provides a maintainable basis for detecting defects, diagnosing failures, and controlling API quality decisions.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Rome	Week 43, 2026 19 – 30 October 2026	12 Days	Onsite	€10,000
London	Week 44, 2026 26 October – 6 November 2026	12 Days	Onsite	€10,000
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Advanced API Testing with Postman Training Course