11 Best Performance Testing Courses on Coursera
We compared 11 Performance Testing courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 11
- Price range
- $9.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 11 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "performance testing" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Software Testing and Automation
Offered by Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
The course “Software Testing and Automation’ provides a comprehensive introduction to software testing, covering both foundational principles and modern testing practices used in industry. Learners begin by understanding...
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Advanced Gatling for Stress Testing Web Applications
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
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Automation, Advanced Testing, and AI
Offered by Microsoft
Advance your expertise by transitioning into technical test automation and AI-augmented quality assurance. In this course, you will write automated UI test scripts using Playwright and SQL queries for robust database val...
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Automation and Modern Testing Tools
Offered by Board Infinity
Build on your testing foundation by exploring automation and modern quality assurance practices that shape today’s software industry. This course introduces learners to automation basics, specialized testing techniques,...
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CI/CD for Test Automation: Jenkins & GitHub Actions
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
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Software Testing and Quality Engineering
Offered by Edureka
This Specialization provides a comprehensive, hands-on pathway to mastering modern software testing and quality engineering practices. Learners progress from foundational testing concepts and STLC fundamentals to unit te...
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Shipping Rust
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
Take a Rust crate from a "works on my machine" laptop build to a production-grade artifact that ships through a gate no one can bypass. The course walks through a real 3-crate ETL workspace — etl-core, etl-cli, and etl-b...
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Software QA & Test Automation Engineering
Offered by Coursera
Master comprehensive QA automation through this industry-expert led specialization that takes you from foundational web automation to advanced testing architectures. You'll gain hands-on experience with essential tools i...
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Selenium WebDriver 4 with Java - Zero To Hero
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
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Tools and Skills for .NET 8
Offered by Packt
This specialization provides learners with a structured journey to mastering .NET 8 development, progressing from essential tools to advanced security and modern software architecture. The first course covers core develo...
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Improving Network Performance I
Offered by Google Cloud
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you'll work on practical elements of performance testing, with an eye to improving network bandwidth in your environment by using differ...
$9.99listed price
Best Performance Testing Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software Testing and Automation | Coursera | Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Advanced Gatling for Stress Testing Web Applications | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Automation, Advanced Testing, and AI | Coursera | Microsoft | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Automation and Modern Testing Tools | Coursera | Board Infinity | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | CI/CD for Test Automation: Jenkins & GitHub Actions | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Software Testing and Quality Engineering | Coursera | Edureka | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Shipping Rust | Coursera | Pragmatic AI Labs | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Software QA & Test Automation Engineering | Coursera | Coursera | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Selenium WebDriver 4 with Java - Zero To Hero | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Tools and Skills for .NET 8 | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Improving Network Performance I | Coursera | Google Cloud | $9.99 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 11 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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