Security QA Learning Roadmap 2025

🎯 From beginner to job-ready — step by step

This Security QA roadmap is your visual guide to mastering application security testing. Whether you're starting your career in QA or transitioning into a security-focused role — this PDF shows you what to learn, in what order, and how to apply it in real-world projects.

✅ What You’ll Get

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

• Security QA fundamentals: what it is, key responsibilities, and its role in SDLC
• OWASP Top 10: understanding, identifying, and testing for critical vulnerabilities
• Secure test case writing: structure, attack vectors, and abuse cases
• API security testing: tokens, auth flaws, rate limiting, injection attacks
• Manual vulnerability discovery: XSS, IDOR, SQLi, CSRF, SSRF, and more
• Security bug reporting: clear, actionable, and CVSS-aware
• Tools you’ll use: Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Postman, Snyk, SonarQube, etc.
• Writing test plans with a security focus
• Testing in Agile and CI/CD environments — where Security QA fits
• Threat modeling basics and how to collaborate with developers
• Common mistakes in security testing — and how to avoid them
• Real-world examples from secure testing projects
• Preparing for interviews: common Security QA questions and how to answer them

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

🎯 Built to help you think like a security tester — and work like one too

💡 Why it works:

This roadmap gives you a structured, realistic path — from no experience to confidently testing real apps for security issues. You’ll gain both practical skills and context on how Security QA fits into product teams and release pipelines.

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

💼 Perfect for:

• Aspiring QA testers exploring the security side of testing
• Bootcamp grads and tech switchers aiming for AppSec or Security QA roles
• Manual testers transitioning into security-focused testing
• Junior security enthusiasts building a career through QA
• Anyone preparing for interviews or hands-on security testing tasks

⚡ Think clearly. Test securely. Grow your Security QA career.
No fluff. No filler.
Just clear steps → real skills → job-ready confidence.

📥 Instant PDF download — start learning Security QA today
🚀 Make 2025 the year you break into Security QA