Software teams today face increasing pressure to deliver high-quality applications at speed. Continuous testing, test automation, and traceability are no longer optional — they’re must-haves for scaling development. Tools like Xray provide the structure and visibility teams need, but their success ultimately depends on how effectively people use them.
That’s where Xray Academy comes in. It’s the official learning platform for Xray, designed to help testers, administrators, QA managers, and automation engineers turn features into impact. Whether you’re adopting Xray Cloud, working with Xray Server/Data Center, or exploring Xray Enterprise, Xray Academy provides the training you need to master test management.
What is Xray Academy and why does it matter for Test Management?
Xray Academy is a dedicated e-learning hub built to empower teams with the knowledge to use Xray effectively. It goes beyond product documentation by offering role-based courses, practical examples, and certifications that validate your skills.
The value of the Academy is twofold:
- For individuals, it provides guided learning, ensuring testers and admins can confidently set up, manage, and scale their testing practices.
- For organizations, it standardizes knowledge across teams, accelerates onboarding, and ensures that best practices are consistently applied.
In short, Xray Academy helps bridge the gap between having a powerful test management solution and knowing how to extract its full value.
How Xray Academy helps teams using Xray Cloud, Server/Data Center, and Enterprise
Every deployment of Xray comes with unique considerations. That’s why Xray Academy tailors its content for Cloud, Server/Data Center, and Enterprise editions.
- Xray Cloud: Courses guide you through setting up projects, organizing test repositories, running test executions, and using advanced reporting features. With Cloud’s frequent updates, the Academy ensures you’re always aligned with the latest features.
- Xray Server/Data Center: For teams working on-prem, courses address the specific setup and configuration needs, along with reporting and migration best practices.
- Xray Enterprise: The Academy also covers advanced capabilities like the Test Case Designer, test case versioning, and dynamic test plans — critical for organizations managing complex testing at scale.
By aligning training with deployment type, the Academy makes sure every team can apply best practices within their environment.
Xray Academy courses for testers: building a strong testing foundation
For testers, mastering the basics is essential. Two courses stand out in the Academy’s catalog:
- Xray Essentials (Cloud or Server/DC): This course introduces the fundamentals — creating and organizing test cases, linking them to requirements, managing test sets, and executing runs. It’s the perfect starting point for anyone new to Xray.
- Implementing Xray: Going beyond the basics, this course focuses on best practices. You’ll learn how to design a testing strategy in Xray, ensure complete test coverage, and align your test management approach with agile and DevOps workflows.
Together, these courses give testers the skills to confidently design, organize, and execute tests in Xray, ensuring testing isn’t just done — it’s done right.
Xray Academy courses for admins and QA managers: configuration and reporting best practices
Test administrators and QA managers play a different role: they configure, oversee, and measure testing at scale. Xray Academy provides tailored courses to meet those needs.
- Xray Setup (Cloud / Server/DC): Focused on administrators, this course explains how to configure Xray inside Jira. From setting up issue types and custom fields to mapping requirements and defects, it ensures your Xray implementation is configured for long-term success.
- Migration from Server/DC to Cloud: Many organizations are moving to Cloud. This course highlights how to plan and execute migration, avoid pitfalls, and minimize downtime.
- Xray Reporting (Cloud / Server/DC): For QA managers, this course is invaluable. It covers built-in reports, dashboards, and traceability views that provide the visibility needed for decision-making.
- Enterprise Essentials (Cloud): Advanced users can dive into enterprise-grade features like the Test Case Designer and dynamic test plans, ensuring test coverage remains strong even in complex environments.
With these courses, admins and managers can streamline configurations, enforce consistency, and extract insights that improve software quality across the board.
Xray Academy for Test Automation: integrating frameworks and scaling CI/CD
Test automation is central to modern QA, and Xray Academy dedicates entire courses to helping automation engineers integrate their frameworks.
- Test Automation with Xray: This course covers how to connect popular frameworks (like JUnit, Cucumber, and Robot Framework) with Xray. You’ll learn how to import results, manage test cases, and align automation with your overall testing strategy.
- Test Automation 101 (Playwright, JUnit, and others): These courses focus on specific frameworks, showing not just how to use them but how to tie them back into Jira and Xray for unified test management.
- Parameterized Tests (Data-Driven Testing): This advanced course introduces smarter ways of scaling automation by applying datasets across multiple test cases, ensuring coverage with fewer redundancies.
For teams already working with CI/CD pipelines, Xray Academy helps extend automation beyond execution. By linking results back into Jira, you gain traceability, visibility, and confidence that each release meets the required quality standards.
How to get started with Xray Academy and why continuous learning matters
Getting started with Xray Academy is simple:
- Visit Xray Academy.
- Explore the Course Catalog by role or product edition.
- Start with Xray Essentials, then branch into specialized courses depending on your responsibilities.
But the real value of the Academy lies in continuous learning. Testing practices evolve. New features are released. Automation frameworks shift. By making the Academy part of your team’s routine — whether for onboarding new hires or upskilling existing members — you ensure your organization stays ahead.
For individuals, certificates from the Academy are more than digital badges. They’re proof of expertise in test management with Xray, boosting credibility in a competitive job market. For teams, they mean standardized skills and confidence that everyone is working with the same best practices.
Ultimately, investing in knowledge is investing in quality. Xray Academy equips you not just to use Xray but to use it strategically — improving coverage, reducing bottlenecks, and delivering better software at scale.
Whether you’re a tester learning the essentials, an admin configuring projects, a manager analyzing coverage, or an engineer scaling automation pipelines, there’s a course tailored to you.
With Xray Academy, you don’t just manage tests — you master them.
