ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Manager

Next date: 27.04.2026
Duration: 4 days
Level: Advanced
Price: €2,100 per person plus VAT
Location: online
In-house available: Yes

Summary

In this course you learn how to weave testing into the software development lifecycle and how to meet what is asked of testers. The focus lies on planning and steering the processes of test management, and the knowledge is close enough to practice to be used in your own company at once. The course prepares you thoroughly for the ISTQB certification exam.

Requirements: a 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 Manager” you need, besides passing the exam, the base certificate “ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level” and at least 18 months of practical experience in software testing.

Following the current ISTQB syllabus, the seminar covers, among other things:

The test process

Test planning, control and monitoring, test analysis, test design, test implementation, test execution, evaluating exit criteria and reporting, and closing out the test activities

Test management

Test management in context. Risk-based testing and other ways of setting priorities and allocating effort. Test documentation. Estimating effort. Test metrics. What testing is worth. Distributed testing, outsourcing and insourcing. Applying industry standards

Reviews

Management reviews and audits. Managing reviews. Metrics for reviews. Managing formal reviews

Defect management

The defect lifecycle next to the software lifecycle. What belongs in a defect report. Judging how mature a process is from what the defect reports say

Improving the test process

The test improvement process. Improving the test process with TMMi, with TPI Next, with CTP and with STEP

Test tools and automation

Choosing tools: return on investment, the selection process, open source next to bespoke, the tool lifecycle, tool metrics

People skills and the make-up of a team

Individual skills. The dynamics of a test team. Giving testing a place in the organisation. Motivation. Communication

Learning objectives

After completing the course you will be able to …

you can plan, steer and monitor test projects on your own
you can spot risks in a project early and manage them
you can develop test strategies in step with what the company is trying to achieve
you can lead test teams well and build up their skills
you can keep improving the test process and show the company what testing is worth

Who it is for

Who is the ISTQB® test manager seminar for? The course “ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Manager” (CTAL-TM) builds on the foundation course (CTFL) and is aimed at people who already have several years of practical testing experience. It serves both to put firmer theory under what you already know and to look deeper into how testing is done. It is most useful to:

What is included

Certified, experienced trainers. Personal attention: at most 12 participants per trainer. Free support hours for questions after the course. Online course with no technical requirements. The exam can be sat with us

Interested? Book the course now

ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Manager

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