ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager

5 days

There are two options to attend to this course: With Certification – The participants must have a valid certificate ISTQB Foundation Level and at least 18 months practical experience as Test / Quality Assurance Engineer Without certification - The participants must have at least 18 months practical experience as Test / Quality Assurance Engineer

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.

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, organize and lead testing teams

Organize the communication between the members of the testing teams,

and between the testing teams and all the other stakeholders

Advanced Level Test Manager Qualification is aimed at people who have achieved an advanced point of their careers in software testing. This included people in roles such as: • Test Leader • Test manager • Test consultant • IT director • Project manager • Quality manager • Business analyst • Manager consultant