ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Automation Engineering (CTAL-TAE) v2.0

Summary

The ISTQB® certification as a Test Automation Engineer (CTAL-TAE) gives you the specialist knowledge to build and improve test automation. The course prepares you thoroughly for the certification exam and offers methods close to practice for automation strategies that last. It suits people working in quality assurance or test automation who want their skills recognised internationally.

Requirements:

A solid knowledge of software testing and practical experience of IT projects are needed to attend, so that the material can be grasped in depth. To gain the certificate “ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Automation Engineer” you need, besides passing the exam, the base certificate “ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level”. The course follows the current ISTQB® syllabus and covers, among other things:

Topics covered

The seminar teaches the official ISTQB® syllabus. Our trainers also bring as many worked examples as they can, so that putting it into practice afterwards comes easily.

The topics:

• The fundamentals of test automation
• What test automation is for
• The groundwork before automating
• Test automation strategies
• The processes, concepts and methods of test automation
• The generic test automation architecture (gTAA)
• Designing the test automation architecture (TAA)
• Developing the test automation solution (TAS) and planning the rollout
• Keeping the test automation solution (TAS) and the system under test (SUT) compatible and in step
• The risks of putting it in place, and how to reduce them
• Moving from manual tests to automated ones
• Reviewing the test automation solution (TAS)
• Improving the test processes continuously
• Test automation tools

Learning objectives

After completing the course you will be able to …

• you can design, build and improve a test automation solution
• you can weigh up tools and strategies against what a particular case requires
• you can fit automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and measure how they perform
• you can make well-founded decisions about improving the automation over time