ISTQB Certified Tester - Advanced Level Test Manager
ISTQB Certified Tester – Advanced Level Test Manager
This three-day course aims to provide an understanding of software testing that goes beyond the ISTQB Foundation level. The course provides a basis of knowledge that enables analysis of various situations in order to present practical solutions.
The information gained on the course provides a framework for test managers to build upon within their organisations.
Spreadsheets, templates and utilities will be provided enabling managers to be more efficient and effective within their organisations.
Designed for:
Test managers, test team leaders, development managers, QA managers, project managers and anyone wishing to gain the ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager certificate.
Prerequisites:
Those wishing to take the ISTQB Advanced Level Certificate exams must hold the ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing and have completed the ISTQB Advanced Level Core Module.
If you wish to sit the course without taking the exam, there are no prerequisites.
Duration:
3 days
Course Content:
- Basic aspects of software testing
- Test management documentation
- Test plan documentation templates
- Test estimation
- Scheduling test planning
- Test progress monitoring & control
- Business value of testing
- Distributed, outsourced and insourced testing
- Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA)
- Test management issues
- Standards and test improvement process
- People skills – team composition
Evaluation:
This course will provide the delegate with the necessary knowledge and skills to sit the ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Certificate multiple choice exam.
Skills gained:
- Determining relevant factors to influence exit criteria
- Adopt a risk-based approach to testing
- Learn how to enhance your own incident management process
- Establish better ways of communicating
- Define the overall testing goals and strategy for the systems being tested
- Estimate, plan, monitor and control testing on any project
- Describe and organise the necessary testing activities
- Select, acquire and assign the adequate resources to the tasks
- Select, organise and lead testing teams
- Build effective and highly motivated test teams
- Understand and apply test process improvement models
- Organise the communication between the members of the testing teams, and between the testing teams and all the other stakeholders
- Justify the decisions and provide adequate reporting information
