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Program Curriculum

AI Transformation with ClaudeFull SDLC Coverage — From Product Design to Operations

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Module 1Claude Code Foundations

Claude Code Engineering Mindset

  • AI that accelerates design, coding, debugging
  • Claude Code Setup — Terminal, VS Code
  • Control your Claude — Claude.md & SKILL.md
  • Structured Claude environments, enforce standards
  • Commands, Skills, Hooks, Subagents, Plugins, MCP
  • AI-Augmented SDLC
  • Accelerate requirements → design → code → tests → reviews
Applied Case Study

Expense Tracker App built entirely with Claude

  • Scaffold the project structure
  • Implement CRUD and validation
  • Iterate quickly to fix issues
  • Deliver a working application
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Module 2Requirements & System Design

Claude Accelerated Requirements Analysis

  • Raw requirements to auto generated Epics & User Stories
  • User Stories to Architecture diagrams. Visualize flows
  • Apply /plan, /context to extract structured Agile artifacts
  • Apply Skills, Commands to create HLD flows
  • MCP Integrations to pull BRDs artifacts from GitHub repos
Applied Case Study

e-Commerce "Checkout" Requirements to Agile Artifacts

  • Use Claude Code MCP to
    • ingest a full BRD
    • map the checkout process
    • identify all actors and integrations
    • generate Epics and User Stories
    • produce flow diagrams & HLDs
    • rewrite vague requirements into concrete engineering demands
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Module 3Programming With Claude

Claude Powered Autonomous Code Generation

  • Claude generates full project scaffolds with slash-command
  • Writes complete API endpoints with input validation
  • Automatically incorporates error handling & fault tolerance
  • Applies industry standard secure coding practices guardrail Hooks
  • Accomplishes repeatable, deterministic workflows using Skills, Commands
Applied Case Study

"Checkout" CRUD Flow with Spring Boot Backend

  • Apply Claude Code to output a complete backend stack
    • controllers (routing + validation)
    • services (business logic)
    • models/entities (schema + constraints)
  • Create a SKILL.md to enforce org-wide best engineering practices
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Module 4Testing & QA Automation

Claude Automated QA Workflows

  • Greenfield project BRD to comprehensive test case generation
  • Brownfield project codebase to Regression Suite generation
  • Generates coverage-rich test cases, positive, negative, edge scenarios
  • Claude Skills creates ready to execute test scripts
  • Subagents generate E2E, API, Component and Unit tests
  • Claude MCP creates complete UI automation with tests scripts
Applied Case Study

Complete Test Automation Suite for "Checkout" Flow

  • Extract test scenarios from raw requirements
  • Plan functional flows for cart → checkout → payment
  • Generate automated NFR tests
  • Create API & E2E scripts
  • Automate UI testing with Playwright MCP
  • Auto-build the full regression suite
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Module 5Debugging & Troubleshooting

Claude For Automated Root Cause Analysis

  • Auto debugs application issues
  • Identify failing components with slash commands
  • Analyzes detailed production logs
  • Claude traces upstream/downstream failures
  • Resolves complex dependency chain across microservices
  • Detects latency spikes, bottlenecks DB hotspots
  • Root cause performance diagnostic
Applied Case Study

Root Cause Analysis for "Checkout" Flow

  • Fix a production bug using Sentry MCP Logs — pull stack trace and context
  • Generate a patch & regression suite
  • Produce a full RCA document
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Module 6Code Reviews & Documentation

Claude Triggered Code Reviews

  • Claude Code triggers GitHub Action on every PR
  • Detect anti-patterns, flag security gaps
  • Claude flags deep static analysis & refactoring
  • Generate API Docs & READMEs
  • Claude Code produces clean, developer-ready documentation
  • Claude Skills documents complex codebases
  • Creates Architecture notes & integration boundaries
  • Convert Tribal Knowledge to structured, repeatable engineering guides
Applied Case Study

Auto Code Review "Checkout" PR with GitHub Actions

  • Auto-trigger GitHub Actions on every PR
  • Initiate static analysis and security checks
  • Auto-fix bugs
  • Generate API documentation for "Checkout" endpoints
  • Add coding standards & onboarding guides for new engineers
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Module 7MCP Integrations

Claude Subagents Integrated With MCP

  • Integrate Database MCP — execute structured SQL queries directly through Claude
  • Integrate Filesystem MCP — read and write entire project file structures directly through Claude
  • Integrate Kibana MCP — pull production logs, perform RCA directly through Claude
  • Integrate GitHub MCP — trigger PR reviews, manage branches directly through Claude
  • Integrate Slack MCP — send alerts, build conversational DevOps directly through Claude
  • Integrate Web Search MCP — perform grounded research, retrieve documentation directly through Claude
  • Build Custom MCP Servers — develop domain-specific MCP servers for internal microservices
Applied Case Study

Claude MCP-Orchestrated Checkout Flow Automation

  • Fetch checkout data via Database MCP
  • Query PostgreSQL for carts/orders/payments
  • Generate a React dashboard via Filesystem MCP
  • Correlate logs via Kibana MCP
  • Fix bugs via GitHub MCP
  • Send engineering alerts via Slack MCP
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Module 8DevOps & CI/CD Automation

Claude Managed DevOps

  • Claude manage Repos, branches & PRs
  • Claude handles GIT repo operations
  • Claude GitHub MCP commits & creates PR
  • GitHub Actions for CI/CD
  • Triggers Build → Test → Deploy pipelines automatically on push/PR
Applied Case Study

Auto Build → Test → Deploy Pipeline

  • Generate production-ready Dockerfiles
  • Dockerize and deploy Node/SpringBoot apps to Cloud
  • Deploy front-end to Vercel
  • Build & deploy React/ExpressJs with zero-config pipelines
  • Push images to registry, and manage secrets
  • Send deployment notifications via Slack MCP