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Essentials of Test Leadership
Course Length: Flexible
Location: Online
Start Date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2021-12-31
Price: $500 CAD
Course Description:
Workshop Benefits
This workshop will present techniques to help you:
- 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
- Realize the methods and activities that will contribute to continuous learning
Workshop Content
Section 1: Process Overview
Review SDLC and role of testing – Scope of work of Test Lead, QA Manager
Section 2: Leadership and Management Concepts
Leadership versus. Management in SDLC – Influential management styles – Building effective relationships – Maintaining effective communications – Justifying resources (ROI) – Maintaining high performance teams
Section 3: Risk Analysis
Estimating contributing risk factors in testing – Scope of risk: project wide and component basis
Section 4: Test Environment
Definition and organization – Technical requirements – Configuration management – Change management – Test tools – Technical problem management
Section 5: Testing Strategy and Documentation Structure
Documentation structure of the test effort – Addresses document points to be met – Stakeholder identification – Communication – Management
Section 6: Metrics and Measurement
What and why are we measuring? – Relation to testing, development and management
Section 7: Test Team Organization
Roles and responsibilities of team members – Staff selection and training – Team organization as it relates to test strategy, risk assessment and leadership concepts
Section 8: 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
Who Should Attend
- Test/Quality Leads
- Test/Quality Managers
- Quality Executives