Software Test Management (QA Lead Training)

Course outline

• Introduction to Test Management.
• Understand the importance of Test Management, Leadership and Team Building.
• Difference between Test Strategy and Test Plan.
• Test Strategy preparation.
• Test Plan preparation.
• Test Effort Estimation
• Risk and Issue Management.
• QA Project plan preparation.
• Test Execution plan.
• Test Deliverables.
• Importance of Ad hoc Testing and Exploratory testing
• Risk Based Testing: How to implement a Risk Based Testing approach and when to use it?
• Daily / Weekly and Monthly Test Status Reporting.
• Test Scheduling, Resource allocation, Contingencies and Re-planning.
• How to analyze and plan QA activities during Change Management
• QC Configuration
• Quality Center, Traceability Matrix, Dashboard,Test Metrics and Reports in QC.
• Test Progress Monitoring, Defect tracking and analysis, Test Effectiveness and When to stop testing
• Test Matrics:-Making the decision to use metrics in the testing process.
• Test Summary Report
• Test Closure: Understanding the importance of a Test Closure report.
• Defect Management: The role of defect management in Project success.
• Defect Analysis.
• Root Cause Analysis, Fish Bone Diagram.
• Test Process Improvement.
• Test Automation Management
• Feasibility of Automation
• What to Automate?
• Tool Issues
• Practical on a Sample Project