ISTQB - Certified Tester Expert Level Test Management Managing the Test Team (CTEL-TM-MTT)

Overview

This accelerated Certified Tester Expert Level Test Management Managing the Test Team (CTEL-TM-MTT) course, considers the people management skills that are a critical part of the Test Manager’s role and necessary to build, develop and lead test teams in organizations. This includes recruitment, setting goals and objectives, individual personalities and roles within teams, performance reviews, motivating and challenging the team and managing distributed teams. Being able to manage across the organization is another core part of the Test Manager’s role including being able to advocate, defend and promote the test team and its contribution to the organization, being able to communicate with stakeholders, advocating quality across the organization and being able to handle ethical issues.

In just 2 days, you’ll learn to lead the test management within an organization, project or program to identify and manage critical success factors with management commitment at CEO/Board level. You’ll also learn how to:

• Take appropriate business-driven decisions on a test management strategy and implement organization wide commitment and compliance based on quality KPIs
• Assess the current status of the test management, propose step-wise improvements and show how these are linked to achieving business goals within the organizational context of test management (organization or project/program)
• Set up a strategic policy for improving the test management and the testing, and implement that policy in an organization
• Analyse specific problems with the test management and its alignment with other roles or management areas in the project/organization, and propose effective solutions
• Create a master test plan with matching governance dashboard to meet or exceed the business objectives of the organization or a project/program
• Develop innovative concepts for test management (project) organizations which include required roles, skills, methodologies (tools) and organizational structure
• Establish a standard process for implementing test management in an organization (project/program) with standardized delivery based on quality KPIs
• Lead an organization to improve the test management process and manage the introduction of changes
• Understand and effectively manage the human issues associated with test-project management and implement necessary changes

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the ISTQB exam, and achieve your Certified Tester Expert Level Test Management Managing the Test Team (CTEL-TM-MTT) certification. Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

• The Expert Level certification is aimed at those who have already achieved an advanced point in their careers in software testing and wish to develop further their expertise in a specific area.