ISTQB Certified Tester – Advanced Level Test Manager

The 5 day ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager course builds on the ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing. The Advanced Level establishes a platform from which further skills and knowledge may be acquired at the Expert Level.

Learn how to manage a testing project and apply a risk-based approach to testing and examine how this approach correlates with test estimation, planning, monitoring and control.

Among other learnings, you will be able to accurately report to stakeholders, lead test process improvement initiatives, build effective test teams and generate and implement meaningful test plans.

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.

Skills Acquired: 

Manage a testing project by implementing the mission, goals and testing processes established for the testing organization; Organize and lead risk identification and risk analysis sessions and use the results of such sessions for test estimation, planning, monitoring and control; Create and implement test plans consistent with organizational policies and test strategies; Continuously monitor and control the test activities to achieve project objectives; Assess and report relevant and timely test status to project stakeholders; Identify skills and resource gaps in their test team and participate in sourcing adequate resources; Identify and plan necessary skills development within their test team; Propose a business case for test activities which outlines the costs and benefits expected; Ensure proper communication within the test team and with other project stakeholders; Participate in and lead test process improvement initiatives.

Designed for: 

Testers, Test Analysts, Test Engineers, Test Consultants, Test Managers, User Acceptance Testers and Software Developers.

This certification is also appropriate for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of software testing, such as Project Managers, Quality Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts, IT Directors and Management Consultants.

Prerequisites: 

Those wishing to take the ISTQB Advanced Level Certificate exams must hold the ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing and have sufficient practical experience to be considered Advanced Level qualified. If you wish to sit the course without taking the exam, there are no prerequisites.

Course Content: 

Testing Process; Test Management; Reviews; Defect Management; Improving the Test Process; Test Tools and Automation; 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.

Cost: (AUD): $2650 exc GST (Excludes $350 exc GST Exam Fee)

Duration: (days): 5

Course Dates: TBA

ISTQB Certified Tester – Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst

The 3 day ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst course builds on the ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing. The Advanced Level establishes a platform from which further skills and knowledge may be acquired at the Expert Level.

This course covers risk-based testing, white-box test design techniques, and static and dynamic analysis techniques. You will examine quality characteristics including; reliability, security, efficiency (performance, load and stress) and portability testing. You will also learn to select appropriate tools to automate technical testing tasks such as web-based testing, unit testing and performance testing.

Delegates are provided with exercises, learning tools and sample exam questions.

Skills Acquired: 

Recognise and classify the typical risks associated with the performance, security, reliability, portability and maintainability of software systems; Create test plans which detail the planning, design and execution of tests for mitigating performance, security, reliability, portability and maintainability risks; Select and apply appropriate structural design techniques to ensure that tests provide an adequate level of confidence, based on code coverage and design coverage; Effectively participate in technical reviews with developers and software architects applying knowledge of typical mistakes made in code and architecture; Recognize risks in code and software architecture and create test plan elements to mitigate those risks through dynamic analysis; Propose improvements to the security, maintainability and testability of code by applying static analysis; Outline the costs and benefits to be expected from introducing particular types of test automation; Select appropriate tools to automate technical testing tasks; Understand the technical issues and concepts in applying test automation.

Designed for: 

Testers, Test Analysts, Test Engineers, Test Consultants, Test Managers, User Acceptance Testers and Software Developers.

This certification is also appropriate for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of software testing, such as Project Managers, Quality Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts, IT Directors and Management Consultants.

Prerequisites: 

Those wishing to take the ISTQB Advanced Level Certificate exams must hold the ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing and have sufficient practical experience to be considered Advanced Level qualified. If you wish to sit the course without taking the exam, there are no prerequisites.

Course Content: 

The Technical Test Analyst’s Tasks in Risk-Based Testing; Structure-Based Testing; Analytical Techniques; Quality Characteristics for Technical Testing; Reviews; Test Tools and Automation.

Evaluation: 

This course will provide the delegate with the necessary knowledge and skills to sit the ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst Certificate multiple choice exam.

Cost: (AUD): $1795 exc GST (Excludes $350 exc GST Exam Fee )

Duration: (days): 3

Course Dates:  TBA

ISTQB Certified Tester – Advanced Level Test Analyst

The 4 day ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst course builds on the ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.

The mission of software testing is to minimise the risk associated with potential software failures by finding defects in a system under test. However, finding defects in a system generally requires a substantial amount of resources (time, money, people etc.). One role of a test analyst is to perform a risk based analysis of a system to maximise the defect finding capacity of a test procedure, while using a minimal amount of resources.

Test case design techniques are an efficient way for test analysts to minimise the number of test cases necessary, while maintaining an adequate level of system coverage. Each technique provides a straightforward set of procedures for designing test cases. The systematic nature of each technique allows test analysts to track and report progress in terms of both quantitative and qualitative coverage metrics.

This practical course is an in-depth exploration of the test analyst’s role within the testing process adapted to any lifecycle model – for example; V-Model, Agile, and RAD. Spreadsheets, templates and utilities will be provided enabling testers to be more efficient and effective within their organisations.

Skills Acquired: 

Perform the appropriate testing activities based on the software development lifecycle being used; Determine the proper prioritisation of the testing activities based on the information provided by the risk analysis; Select and apply appropriate testing techniques to ensure that tests provide an adequate level of confidence, based on defined coverage criteria; Provide the appropriate level of documentation relevant to the testing activities; Determine the appropriate types of functional testing to be performed; Assume responsibility for the usability testing for a given project; Effectively participate in formal and informal reviews with stakeholders, applying knowledge of typical mistakes made in work products; Design and implement a defect classification scheme; and Apply tools to support an efficient testing process.

Designed for:

Testers, Test Analysts, Test Engineers, Test Consultants, Test Managers, User Acceptance Testers and Software Developers.

This certification is also appropriate for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of software testing, such as Project Managers, Quality Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts, IT Directors and Management Consultants.

Prerequisites:

Those wishing to take the ISTQB Advanced Level Certificate exams must hold the ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing and have sufficient practical experience to be considered Advanced Level qualified. If you wish to sit the course without taking the exam, there are no prerequisites.

Course Content:

Testing Process; Test Management: Responsibilities for the Test Analyst; Specification Based Test Techniques –
Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis, Decision Tables, State Transition Testing, Use Cases, Classification Tree Method, Pairwise Testing, Domain analysis, User story testing;
Defect and Experienced Based Test Techniques –
Error Guessing, Checklist-based, Exploratory Testing;
Testing Software Characteristics –
Accuracy, Suitability, Interoperability, Usability, Accessibility; Reviews; Defect Management; Test Tools.

Evaluation:

This course will provide the delegate with the necessary knowledge and skills to sit the ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst Certificate multiple choice exam.

Cost: (AUD): $2125 exc GST (Excludes $350 exc GST Exam Fee)

Duration: (days): 4

Course Dates:  TBA

ISTQB Foundation Certificate

This three-day course is the first internationally accepted industry accreditation for software testing. This course covers the fundamentals of software testing.

Designed For:

Developers, Testers, Test Analysts, Test Engineers, Test Consultants, Test Managers, Project Managers, Quality Managers, and anyone who has an interest in the testing field.

Learning Outcomes:

Perform effective testing of software throughout the software lifecycle; Understand techniques, standards and principles of testing; Gain a greater understanding of the use of test tools in the testing process; and Establish the test process fundamentals.

Course Details & Content:

Fundamentals of testing; Testing throughout the software lifecycle; Static techniques; Test design techniques; Test management; and Tool support for testing.

Evaluation:

All candidates must complete an independently administered and assessed exam at the completion of the course.

Course Benefits:

To gain an internationally recognised qualification for software and system testing; To enable professionally qualified testers to be recognised by employers, whilst improving their career path and development; To promote consistent and good testing practice within all software engineering disciplines leading to greater company productivity and results; To enable software suppliers to hire fully qualified testers and thereby gain commercial advantage over their competitors by advertising their tester recruitment policy; and To provide an opportunity for testers or those with an interest in testing to acquire an industry recognised qualification on the fundamentals of testing in the software lifecycle.

Cost: (AUD):  $1999 exc GST (Includes Exam Fee)

Duration: (days) 3

Course Dates:  TBA