Course Overview
The ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management certification is designed for experienced testing professionals responsible for managing testing activities, leading test teams and delivering quality outcomes across software projects.
This course equips delegates with the practical knowledge and management skills required to define test strategies, apply risk-based testing, monitor progress, manage defects, improve testing processes and demonstrate the business value of testing.
The certification is recognised internationally and provides a strong foundation for test leadership and management roles.
Who Should Attend?
- Test Managers
- Test Leads
- Senior Test Analysts
- QA Managers
- Scrum Masters
- Project Managers
- Product Owners
- Test Consultants
- Quality Managers
- Experienced software testing professionals seeking leadership roles
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Manage testing activities across different software development lifecycles
- Define and implement effective project test strategies
- Organise and apply risk-based testing approaches
- Monitor and control testing using metrics and reporting
- Estimate and plan testing activities effectively
- Implement effective defect management processes
- Develop and motivate test teams
- Improve testing processes through retrospectives and structured improvement initiatives
- Communicate the business value of testing to stakeholders
Course Modules
Module 1: Managing the Test Activities
Learn how to plan, monitor, control and continuously improve testing activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
Topics include:
- The Test Process
- Test planning
- Test monitoring and control
- Test completion
- The Context of Testing
- Test stakeholders
- Stakeholder analysis
- Hybrid software development
- Sequential and Agile lifecycles
- Test levels and test types
- Planning, monitoring and control activities
- Risk-Based Testing
- Product and quality risks
- Risk identification techniques
- Risk assessment
- Risk mitigation
- Risk-based prioritisation
- Heavyweight and lightweight risk techniques
- The Project Test Strategy
- Selecting a test approach
- Analysing project context
- Organisational test strategy
- SMART test objectives
- Exit criteria
- Improving the Test Process
- IDEAL improvement model
- TMMi®
- TPI NEXT®
- Analytical improvement approaches
- Root cause analysis
- Retrospectives
- Test Tools
- Tool introduction
- Tool selection and evaluation
- ROI analysis
- Tool lifecycle management
- Tool-supported metrics and reporting
Module 2: Managing the Product
Learn how to control product quality through effective metrics, estimation and defect management.
Topics include:
- Test Metrics
- Project metrics
- Product metrics
- Process metrics
- Test monitoring and control
- Test reporting
- Stakeholder reporting
- Test Estimation
- Test effort estimation
- Time and cost estimation
- Factors affecting estimates
- Metric-based estimation
- Expert-based estimation
- Wideband Delphi
- Planning Poker
- Three-point estimation
- Defect Management
- Defect lifecycle
- Defect workflows
- Defect triage
- Cross-functional defect management
- Agile defect management
- Hybrid development challenges
- Defect reporting
- Defect metrics and analysis
- Process improvement through defect data
Module 3: Managing the Team
Develop the leadership and people management skills required to build high-performing testing teams.
Topics include:
- The Test Team
- Professional competence
- Methodological competence
- Social competence
- Personal competence
- Skills analysis and assessment
- Competency development
- Coaching and mentoring
- Leadership skills
- Team motivation
- Team dynamics and performance
- Stakeholder Relationships
- Cost of quality
- Defect prevention costs
- Appraisal costs
- Internal failure costs
- External failure costs
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Business value of testing
- Supporting stakeholder decision-making
Examination
The course prepares delegates for the ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management examination.
- Multiple-choice examination
- Internationally recognised certification
- Based on the ISTQB® CTAL-TM v3.0 syllabus
- ISTQB® Foundation Level certification prerequisite
- Certification valid for life
Course Duration
4 Days Instructor-Led Training
Will be available as:
- Virtual Classroom
- Classroom Training
- On-site Corporate Delivery
- Private Company Workshops
What Clients say
“The exercises were very interesting, and I have learnt a lot of new things which I can implement in my day-to-day work”
Amith Murali, Senior Test Analyst, Davy
“Really like all the interaction and the use of the Miro boards – the jigsaw questions (fit the answers to the right place) were very good. It made the content really interesting, and I was able to put it into context”
Catherine Kelly, HEO of Business Liaison and QA Management in IT, Public Sector