ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager
Build your test management skills to move into a more senior role as a testing professional. Exam is included in the course price.
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Wanting to formalise your test management skills? In this ISTQB® Advanced Test Management course, you’ll learn the practical application of risk-based testing and test management tasks, including planning and estimation. You’ll also learn how to manage stakeholders, form test teams with the relevant competencies, and skills to ensure effective resourcing and undertake test process improvement initiatives.
Recognised around the world as a best practice qualification, the ISTQB Advanced Test Management certification is well suited for experienced testing professionals looking to move into a test management role.
Audience:
The ISTQB Advanced Test Management course is suggested for candidates that have at least 3 years testing experience, ideally in a lead role. It is designed for:
- Test Team Leads and Test Managers wanting to improve their test management skills.
- Experienced Testers wanting to progress into a test management role.
- Test Managers wanting to accredit their test management skills for recognition among employers, clients and peers
Course Pre-requisites:
Candidates wishing to participate in the ISTQB Advanced Test Manager course must possess the ISTQB Foundation Certificate.
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.
- Manage testing in various software development projects by applying test management processes established for the project team or test organisation
- Identify test stakeholders and software development lifecycle models that are relevant in a given context
- Organise risk identification and risk assessment sessions within any software development lifecycle and use the results to guide testing to meet the test objectives
- Define a project test strategy consistent with the organisational test strategy and project context
- Continuously monitor and control testing to achieve project goals
- Assess and report test progress to project stakeholders
- Identify necessary skills and develop those skills within your team
- Prepare and present a business case for testing in different contexts that outlines the costs and expected benefits
- Lead test process improvement activities in projects or software development product streams and contribute to organisational test process improvement initiatives
- Plan the test activities including the required test infrastructure and estimate the effort required to test
- Create defect reports and a defect workflow suitable for a software development lifecycle
- Test Process
- The Context of Testing
- Risk-based Testing
- Project Test Strategy
- Improving the Test Process
- Test Tools
- Test Metrics
- Test Estimation
- Defect Management
- The Test Team
- Stakeholder Relationship
The exam is not included in the training. To book exam time please contact our test center.
Exam price for ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager test is NOK 3250,- + mva
About the exam:
The Foundation Level exam comprises 65 multiple-choice questions, with a scoring of 1 point for each correct answer, a pass mark of at least 65% and a duration of 180 minutes (or 225 minutes for candidates taking exams that are not in their native language).
Please note you need to hold the ISTQB Level Foundation Exam to take this test.
This course is conducted and delivered by our partner Planit.
