ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst
Build upon your Foundation-level skills with advanced test design techniques learnt with real-world emphasis. Exam is included in the course price.
Boost your career and skillset with advanced test design techniques learnt with real-world emphasis.
This practical course is design for testing professionals wanting to build upon their foundation knowledge and develop their test analysis and design skills. You’ll learn how to apply test design techniques in real-world situations gaining competency in the principles essentials for test design specification and performing outcome-driven test activities.
Audience:
The prerequisite for this course is the ISTQB® Foundation Certificate and it is suggested that candidates have at least 2 years practical testing experience. It is designed for:
- Experienced Test Analysts wanting to advance their hands-on testing skills.
- Test Managers wanting a better understanding of advanced test design skills.
- Testers wanting to accredit their advanced level skills for recognition among employers, clients and peers.
Course Pre-requisites:
Candidates wishing to participate in the ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst course must possess the ISTQB Foundation Certificate and at least 2 years practical testing experience.
About the instructor:
About Sue Atkins
As a self-confessed bug-magnet, quality advocate and risk nut, Sue Atkins has been active in the world of software testing and process improvement for over thirty years.
She has experience of software development from both the waterfall and Agile perspectives across a diverse range of sectors – from banking and telecoms to healthcare and retail.
Sue has a passion for training and loves to help others grow their skills in all dimensions of testing, quality and process improvement. She has spoken at a number of conferences, is co-chair of the Scottish Testing Group and was a member of the programme committee for EuroSTAR 2022 – Europe’s largest Testing Conference.
- Describe the responsibilities for the test analyst in all aspects of test management
- Understand test analysts involvement in different software development lifecycles
- Use review checklists to analyse requirements specifications, use cases or user stories and identify problems
- Participate in risk management activities
- Perform the appropriate test analysis and design tasks based on the project description and the software development lifecycle being used
- Recall the main activities of test analysis and design
- Recall the main components of test implementation and execution
- Determine the steps and considerations that should be taken when executing tests
- Explain the use of test tools
- Understand the importance of designing and implementing a defect classification scheme
- Understand the main components of evaluating exit criteria, reporting and test closure
- Write test cases using specification-based techniques to achieve a defined level of coverage
- Describe defect-based and experienced-based techniques
- Determine and apply appropriate test techniques to meet specified goals
- Exemplify the appropriate techniques to test quality attributes for business domain testing
- Test Management: Responsibilities for the Test Analyst
- Reviews
- Test Analysis and Design
- Test Implementation and Execution
- Defect Management
- Evaluating Exit Criteria, Reporting and Test Closure
- Specification-based Techniques
- Defect-based Techniques
- Experienced-based Techniques
- Applying Techniques
- Testing Software Quality Characteristics
The exam is included in the course price
About the exam:
The participant must attain the ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing qualification as a pre-requisite to taking the exam. The exam is a remote proctored exam.
The ISTQB Advanced Test Manager exam is a 2-hour multiple choice exam with the pass mark being 65%. There is an extra 45 minutes allowed for candidates whose first language is not English.You must hold the ISTQB Foundation certificate in software testing in order to sit this exam.
This course is conducted and delivered by our partner Planit.
