ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Manager

Product Description

Being a technical manager is hard enough, but managing the testing process is a unique challenge, requiring judgment, agility, and organization. The course covers the essential tools, critical processes, significant considerations, and fundamental management skills for people who lead or manage development and maintenance test efforts. It describes the development and use of the test plan, the test system, the bug tracking database, and the test tracking spreadsheet. It covers the “people skills” needed to define your test team, hire the appropriate people, manage that team’s relationships with peers and managers, and distribute test work to other participants. Finally, the course addresses the contextual issues of test projects, such as the economics of testing, the test effort within the project.

Advanced Level Test Manager Qualification is aimed at people who have achieved an advanced point of their careers in software testing.
There are two options to attend this course:

With Certification: At least two years of testing experience

Basic diploma of Foundation level

Proven Experience in testing –Employees-employee letter, independents – a letter from customers

Document “Code of Ethics” Sign

Without Certification:

At least 2 years of testing experience practical experiment as Test/Quality Assurance Engineer

Objectives

• Define the overall Testing goals and strategy for the systems being tested.
• Plan schedule and track the tasks
• Describe and organize the necessary activities
• Select, acquire and assign the adequate resources to the tasks
• Select, organize and lead testing teams
• Organize the communication between the members of the testing teams and between the testing teams and all other stakeholders
• Justify the decisions and provide adequate reporting information where applicable.

Topics

Introduction to Test Manage syllabus

Basic Aspects of Software Testing

Testing the Software Lifecycle

Specific Systems

Metrics & Measurements

Testing Processes

Test planning and control

Test Implementation & Execution

Evaluating Exit Criteria and Reporting

Test Closure Activities

Test Management

Test Management Documentation

Test Plan Documentation

Test Estimation

Scheduling Test Planning

Test Progress Monitoring & Control

Business Value of Testing

Distributed, Outsourced & Insourced Testing

Risk- Based Testing

• Introduction to Risk Based Testing
• Risk Management
• Risk Management in the Lifecycle

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Test Management Issues

Reviews

The Principles of Reviews

Introducing Reviews

Success Factors in Reviews

Incident Management

Standards and Test Process Improvement

Improving the Test Processes

Test Tools & Automation

Test Tool Concepts

Test Tool Categories

People Skills – Team Composition