Test/Lead offers solutions and techniques available to Test Leads and QA Managers in the challenges they face in managing Quality Assurance and Testing within their organizations.  This is a 2-day course.

This course will present techniques so you can:

• Review the Software Development Testing Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Distinguish between leadership and management
• Understand and conduct risk analysis
• Organize the test environment
• Learn the documentation structure of the test effort
• Measure the test effort
• Organize the project team: roles and responsibilities of members, staff selection and training

Need to train multiple people on this topic? Try Private in-house training.
For more information contact Tim Pelland or Bill Marinara at info@qaicampus.org or 1-866-724-6013.

• Process Overview

  • Review SDLC and role of testing within
  • Scope of work of Test Lead, QA Manager

  Leadership and Management Concepts

  • Leadership vs. management in SDLC
  • Influential management styles
  • Building effective relationships
  • Maintaining effective communications
  • Justifying resources (ROI)
  • Maintaining high performance teams

  Risk Analysis

  • Estimating contributing risk factors in testing
  • Scope of risk: project-wide & component basis

  Test Environment

  • Definition and organization
  • Technical requirements
  • Configuration management
  • Change management
  • Test tools
  • Technical problem management

  Testing Strategy and Documentation Structure

  • Documentation structure of the test effort
  • Addresses document points to be met
  • Stakeholder identification
  • Communication
  • Management

  Metrics and Measurement

  • What and why are we measuring?
  • Relation to testing, development and management

  Test Team Organization

  • Roles and responsibilities of team members
  • Staff selection & training
  • Team organization as it relates to test strategy, risk assessment and leadership concepts

  Continuous Learning: Building on Your Successes

  • Methods and activities that contribute to continuous learning
  • Building influence as leader and improvement of test process
  • Lessons learned from evaluation of project plan, test report, staff performance and customer surveys
  Guidelines for professional and process improvement reviewed

• Test/Quality Leads
• Test/Quality Managers
• Quality Executives
  

Public Seminars for this Seminar:

• All cancellations must be made in writing - either by mail, e-mail, or fax.
• All payments must be received by QAI prior to the start of the conference/seminar.
• If cancelled 5 calendar days, or later, prior to the start date or for no-shows - NO REFUND
• If cancelled 6-30 calendar days prior to the start date - 50 % of the conference/seminar fee will be non-refundable.
• If cancelled prior to 30 calendar days to the start date - A full refund will be issued.
• You are welcome to substitute if you cannot attend, but please notify in advance.
• You may reschedule with at least four weeks notice prior to the conference/seminar for which you are currently registered.
• Please send all cancellations and substitutions to register@qaiworldwide.org, or fax to 407-363-1112, Attn: Registrar