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QA Automation Showcase for a Django E-Commerce Application
Tech Stack
Application
Testing
Quality & CI
Environment
Why I Built This
Rather than treating an online store as a simple CRUD application, I approached it as a production system where every purchase, account update, and checkout flow had to behave consistently. The goal was to build a QA showcase that demonstrates how automated testing can validate both the underlying business logic and the complete customer experience—from browsing products to completing an order—while ensuring every change can be deployed with confidence.
Summary
An e-commerce application built to demonstrate modern QA automation practices in a real-world Django environment. The project focuses on ensuring reliability through automated testing, continuous integration, code quality checks, and performance validation.
My Role & Focus
Designed and maintained a full QA automation strategy covering multiple layers of testing, including unit, integration, API, UI end-to-end, smoke, and performance testing.
Key Achievements
- Built end-to-end browser automation tests using Playwright with a structured Page Object Model approach.
- Achieved 99% test coverage across core e-commerce functionality.
- Implemented a CI pipeline with GitHub Actions to run tests, linting, and compatibility checks on every commit.
- Performed performance testing with Locust, validating a stable 41ms average response time under load.
- Configured Lefthook pre-commit hooks to enforce code quality rules using Ruff and automated test execution.
What I tested — and why it mattered
| Test Type | Tool | What I Tested |
|---|---|---|
| Business Logic | pytest | Product inventory, pricing calculations, shopping cart behavior, form validation, and database models to ensure business rules remain correct under different scenarios. |
| API Validation | pytest + Requests | REST endpoints, authentication, request validation, and response consistency to verify reliable communication between the frontend and backend. |
| End-to-End User Flows | Playwright (Page Object Model) | Complete customer journeys including account creation, product browsing, cart management, and checkout through a real browser session. |
| Critical Page Health | Playwright | Smoke tests verify that the application's critical pages load successfully and remain accessible after every deployment, providing fast feedback during CI. |
| Backend under load | Locust | Concurrent virtual users browsing products and interacting with the store while measuring response times, stability, and failure rates under sustained load. |
Proof, Not Just Claims
Screenshots from the actual test runs — the terminal output, the coverage report, and the load test dashboard behind the numbers above.