Performance QA (k6) Learning Roadmap 2025

🎯 From beginner to job-ready — step by step

This Performance QA roadmap is your visual guide to mastering modern load and stress testing. Whether you're starting your QA journey or transitioning into performance-focused work — this PDF shows you what to learn, in what order, and how to apply it in real-world scenarios using k6.

✅ What You’ll Get

📌 A topic-by-topic Performance QA learning path
🧠 Beginner to Advanced progression — structured and easy to follow
⚙️ Covers the essential skills needed for real-world Performance QA roles:

• Performance testing fundamentals: what it is, key metrics, and when it matters
• Types of performance tests: load, stress, spike, soak, and endurance
• Scripting with k6: virtual users, checks, thresholds, custom scenarios
• Real-world use cases: API load testing, frontend vs backend performance
• Metrics that matter: response time, throughput, latency, error %, system health
• CI/CD integration: triggering k6 in pipelines, threshold-based alerts
• Result analysis: interpreting k6 summary output, graphs, bottlenecks
• Tools to know: k6 Cloud, Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus
• Performance testing in Agile teams — where it fits and how to collaborate
• Reporting performance findings to devs and stakeholders
• Common mistakes and how to avoid them in performance testing
• Real project examples to help you build hands-on experience
• Preparing for interviews: common Performance QA (k6) questions and how to answer them

📄 PDF format — ready to use on desktop, tablet, or mobile

🎯 Built to help you think like a performance engineer — and test like one too

💡 Why it works:

This roadmap gives you a structured, practical path — from no experience to confidently testing real systems under load. You’ll gain hands-on skills and learn how performance testing fits into modern dev and delivery cycles.

Every step reflects what real companies expect from Performance QA professionals in 2025.

💼 Perfect for:

• QA testers transitioning into load/performance testing
• Bootcamp grads and career switchers learning performance fundamentals
• Manual testers looking to specialize in performance
• Developers or SREs exploring k6 for validation
• Anyone preparing for Performance QA interviews or real-world performance work

⚡ Think strategically. Test under pressure. Grow your Performance QA career.
No fluff. No filler.
Just clear steps → real skills → job-ready confidence.

📥 Instant PDF download — start learning Performance QA today
🚀 Make 2025 the year you break into Performance testing with k6