This course provides Test Analysts with advanced skills in test analysis, design, and execution.  This hands-on course provides Test Analysts with the ability to define and carry out the tasks required to put the test strategy into action.  The course will teach attendees how to analyze the system, taking into account the organization’s and user’s quality expectations.  They will learn how to evaluate system requirements as part of formal and informal reviews, leveraging their understanding of the business domain to determine requirement validity.  Attendees will learn how to analyze, design, implement, and execute tests, using risk considerations to determine the appropriate effort and priority for tests. Attendees will learn how to implement a testing effort that supports the explicit and implicit testing objectives.

This certification is aimed at anyone interested in the topic of software testing, who has already been working in the sector for a few years and wants to develop their skills further. It is particularly suitable for:

• Software testers
• Test analysts, test developers, test managers
• Software developers
• Project managers, quality managers, development managers, economic analysts

Successful ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level exam and 18 months of experience in software testing, as well as English language skills as both the course material and the exam are in English.

Accredited by ASTQB June 2021. This course follows the ISTQB Advanced Level Syllabus Test Analyst v3.1.1.

This hands-on course provides test engineers with the ability to define and carry out the tasks required to put the test strategy into action and is ideal for testers and test teams preparing for certification.

By the end of this course, an attendee should be able to:

• Perform the appropriate testing activities based on the software development lifecycle being used.
• Determine the proper prioritization of the testing activities based on the information provided by the risk analysis.
• Select and apply appropriate testing techniques to ensure that tests provide an adequate level of confidence, based on defined coverage criteria.
• Provide the appropriate level of documentation relevant to the testing activities.
• Determine the appropriate types of functional testing to be performed.
• Work effectively in a usability testing team.
• Effectively participate in requirements/user story reviews, reviews with stakeholders, applying knowledge of typical mistakes made in work products.
• Improve the efficiency of the test process with the use of tools.

This e-learning course includes:

Three months of unlimited access to the online course

Learning Objectives

Through presentation, discussion, and hands-on exercises, attendees will learn to:

• Explain how and why the timing and level of involvement for the Test Analyst varies when working with different lifecycle models
• Summarize the activities performed by the Test Analyst when conducting analysis activities
• Explain why test conditions should be understood by the stakeholders
• For a given project scenario, select the appropriate design level for test cases (high-level or low-level)
• Explain the issues to be considered in test case design
• Summarize the appropriate tasks for the Test Analyst when conducting test implementation activities
• Summarize the appropriate tasks for the Test Analyst when conducting test execution activities
• For a given situation, participate in risk identification, perform risk assessment and propose appropriate risk mitigation
• Analyze a given specification item(s) and design test cases by applying equivalence partitioning
• Analyze a given specification item(s) and design test cases by applying the boundary value analysis
• Analyze a given specification item(s) and design test cases by applying decision table testing
• Analyze a given specification item(s) and design test cases by applying state transition testing
• Explain how classification tree diagrams support test techniques
• Analyze a given specification item(s) and design test cases by applying the pairwise testing
• Analyze a given specification item(s) and design test cases by applying use case testing
• Analyze a system, or its requirement specification, in order to determine likely types of defects to be found and select the appropriate black-box test technique(s)
• Explain the principles of experience-based test techniques and the benefits and drawbacks compared to black-box and defect-based test techniques
• Identify exploratory tests from a given scenario
• Describe the application of defect-based test techniques and differentiate their use from black-box test techniques
• For a given project situation, determine which black-box or experience-based test techniques should be applied to achieve specific goals
• Explain what test techniques are appropriate to test the functional completeness, functional correctness and functional appropriateness
• Define the typical defects to be targeted for the functional completeness, functional correctness and functional appropriateness characteristics
• Define when the functional completeness, correctness and appropriateness characteristics should be tested in the software development life cycle
• Explain the approaches that would be suitable to verify and validate both the implementation of the usability requirements and the fulfillment of the user's expectations
• Explain the role of the Test Analyst in interoperability testing including identification of the defects to be targeted
• Explain the role of the Test Analyst in portability testing including identification of the defects to be targeted
• For a given set of requirements, determine the test conditions required to verify the functional and/or non-functional quality characteristics within the scope of the Test Analyst
• Identify problems in a requirements specification according to checklist information provided in the syllabus
• Identify problems in a user story according to checklist information provided in the syllabus
• For a given scenario determine the appropriate activities for a Test Analyst in a keyword-driven testing project
• Explain the usage and types of test tools applied in test design, test data preparation and test execution failure

ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Analyst

In order to take the ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Analyst exam you will need the ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate. You should have at least 18 months of practical experience in the field of software testing.