ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst
Length
3 days
Price
$2699
Inclusions
Book, Exam, Practise Questions
Available
Weekdays / Weeknights / Weekends
Course Details
Course Overview
The ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst is an instructor-led, hands-on certification training course.
This course helps candidates improve and develop their skills as technical test analysts. The course covers white-box test development, risk-based testing, and dynamic and static analysis techniques.
Candidates learn how to thoroughly test quality attributes including safety, reliability, effectiveness (performance, stress, and load), and portability testing. This course also covers how to select appropriate tools to computerise technical testing tasks such as web testing, performance, and unit testing.
This course is available in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Hobart and throughout Australia Live Virtually.
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Pre-requisites
- Candidates wishing to take the ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst course must hold the ISTQB Foundation Certificate and have at least 2 years of practical testing experience.
Exam
- Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s).
- ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst
- The certification exam can be registered and attempted within 3 months of course/module completion at our training centre on weekdays during normal business hours (excludes public holidays)
Books
- Course material for ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst provided
Delivery Method
- Instructor-led Classroom Training at our premises
- Live Virtual Online Training attend in real-time from anywhere
- In-House Training at your premises (4+ participants)
Skills Gained
- Describe the responsibilities of the test analyst in all aspects of test management.
- Understand the involvement of test analysts in the different software development life cycles
- Use test checklists to analyse requirement specifications, use cases, or user stories and identify problems.
- Participate in risk management activities
- Perform appropriate test analysis and design tasks based on the project description and the software development life cycle used.
- Recall the main test analysis and design activities.
- Recall the main components of test implementation and execution.
- Identify the steps and considerations to be taken when executing tests.
- Explain the use of testing tools
- and understand the importance of developing and implementing a defect classification scheme
- Understand the key components of exit criteria evaluation, reporting, and test closure.
- Write test cases using specification-based methods to achieve a specified level of coverage.
- Describe defect and experience-based methods
- Identify and apply appropriate test methods to achieve defined objectives
- Describe appropriate methods to test quality attributes for business domain testing.
Benefits of the ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst training course
- Classify and identify typical risks related to the security, performance, portability, and reliability of software systems
- Develop test plans detailing the planning, execution, and development of tests to mitigate performance, reliability, security, and portability risks
- Select and execute appropriate structural design techniques to ensure that tests provide a sufficient level of confidence based on code coverage and design coverage
- Propose improvements to code maintainability, security, and testability through static analysis
- Participate in technical reviews with software architects and developers, using knowledge of typical errors in architecture and code
Audience
- Experienced test analysts looking to improve their practical testing skills.
- Test managers who need a better understanding of advanced test design skills.
- Testers who want to achieve a higher level of accreditation to gain recognition among employers, clients, and peers.
Course Outline
- Test Management: Responsibilities for the Test Analyst
- Reviews
- Test Analysis and Design
- Test Implementation and Execution
- Defect Management
- Evaluating Exit Criteria, Reporting and Test Closure
- Specification-based Techniques
- Defect-based Techniques
- Experienced-based Techniques
- Applying Techniques
- Testing Software Quality Characteristics