ISTQB® Advanced Level Test Manager

This Advanced Level course builds on the knowledge and skills acquired at the Foundation Level.
In this course, you will learn how to manage a testing project by implementing the mission, goals, and testing processes established for your organization.

Major skills acquired through this course are:

● Organize and lead risk identification and risk analysis sessions and use the results of these sessions for test estimation, planning, monitoring, and control.

● Propose a business case, outlining the costs and benefits expected, for test activities.

● Create and implement test plans consistent with your organization’s test policies and test strategies

● Ensure proper communication within the test team and with other project stakeholders and to participate in and lead test process improvement initiatives.

● Identify skills and resource gaps in your test team, be able to participate in sourcing adequate resources and identify and plan skills development within your team.

Course Outline

Testing Process
– Test Planning, Monitoring, and Control
– Test Planning
– Test Monitoring and Control
– Test Analysis
– Test Design
– Test Implementation
– Test Execution
– Evaluating Exit Criteria and Reporting
– Test Closure Activities

Test Management in Context
– Understanding Testing Stakeholders
– Lifecycle Activities and Work Products
– Alignment of Test Activities with Other Lifecycle Activities
– Managing Non-Functional Testing
– Managing Experience-Based Testing

Risk-Based Testing and Other Approaches
– Risk-Based Testing
– Risk-Based Testing Techniques
– Other Techniques for Test Selection
– Test Prioritisation and Effort Allocation in the Test Process

 Test Documentation and Other Work Products
– Test Policy
– Test Strategy
– Master Test Plan
– Level Test Plan
– Project Risk Management
– Other Test Work Products

Test Estimation
– Test Estimation

Defining and Using Test Metrics
– Defining and Using Test Metrics

Business Value of Testing
– Business Value of Testing

Distributed, Outsourced, and Insourced Testing
– Distributed, Outsourced, and Insourced Testing

Managing the Application of Industry Standards
– Managing the Application of Industry Standards

Reviews
– Management Reviews and Audits
– Managing Reviews
– Metrics for Reviews
– Managing Formal Reviews

Defect Management
– The Defect Lifecycle and the Software Development Lifecycle
– Defect Report Information
– Assessing Process Capability with Defect Reporting Information

Improving the Testing Process
– Test Improvement Process
– Improving the Testing Process
– Improving the Testing Process with TMMi
– Improving the Testing Process with TPI Next
– Improving the Testing Process with CTP
– Improving the Testing Process with STEP

Test Tools and Automation
– Tool Selection
– Tool Lifecycle
– Tool Metrics

People Skills – Team Composition
– Individual Skills
– Test Team Dynamics
– Fitting Testing Within an Organisation
– Motivation
– Communication