About Certified Test Manager Training:

This course is designed for Test Managers and teaches you the tools, tricks, and procedures to make your project a success. In simple terms, Test Management is a series of planning, execution, monitoring and control activities that help you to achieve the project goals.

A Certified Test Manager gains in-depth testing knowledge and testing practices. Gaining a CTM certification lets you stand out of the crowd as you gain practical experience to use in your day to day job and this gives you a distinct advantage.

Certified Test Manager Course Learning Goals:

The CTM course aims to provide software testing as a profession to individuals and organizations.

This course aims to advance your career by highlighting your testing expertise.

This course ensures that you gain knowledge in software testing, deliver useful product and keep up to date with the software project methodologies.

What will I learn in CTM training?

After the completion of the Certified Test Manager, students learn the following:

• Learn to develop their test management skills
• Understand the standard skill set for test managers and test leads based on well-defined syllabus
• Handle the management and lead positions in software testing projects
• Understand the test process measurement
• Learn the risk analysis and methodologies
• Understand the strategies and architecture of Test automation

Prerequisite for Certified Test Manager training:

• Bachelor Degree (3 or 4 years degree)
• Essential experience in the information services field
• Individuals having three or more years of experience in the software testing field

Audience to join this class:

• Any person who has worked in software testing for at least 3 years
• Development managers and development leads  willing to become Test Managers
• Individuals with management or leadership testing role
• Individuals who completed CSTP
• Auditors and inspectors who need to evaluate the work product of the testing process

Certified Test Manager training information:

• Virtual or Live Training in the presence of online instructors  
• Quality Training Manuals for easy understanding
• Quick look at Course Contents, Contents, and Demo Videos
• Anytime access to Reference materials
• Gain your Course Completion Certificate on the Topic
• Guaranteed high pay jobs after completing certification

Certified Test Manager Course Curriculum:

Lesson 1: Test Process Management    

• Effort estimation
• Quality policies, processes, and standards
• Defining quality goals
• Process definition
• Process control
• Process documentation

Lesson 2: Test Project Management

• Test planning
• Effort estimation
• Task identification
• Scheduling
• Tracking
• Reporting
• Resource allocation (people, hardware, software, and facilities)
• Identification of roles and responsibilities
• Project controls
• Financial analysis and ROI
• Metric tracking and presentation

Lesson 3: Test Process Measurement and Improvement

• Test coverage analysis
• Incident tracking and management
• Defining and capturing test measurements
• Development metrics
• Testing the maturity models
• Establishing process goals
• Using surveys to perform assessments  
• Learn about process improvement models such as CMM/CMMI, Six Sigma, TQM, ISO
• Overview of applicable IEEE documentation standard

Lesson 4: Test Organization Management

• Resource management
• Staffing, hiring, contracting and reviewing performance
• Equipment, facilities, hardware, and software resource management
• Training and career development 
• Compensation
• Budgeting
• Presentation skills including data preparation

Lesson 5: Risk Management

• Risk analysis methodologies
• Risk identification, classification, and prioritizations
• Calculating costs and probability
• Risk reporting
• Monitoring and controlling risks
• Contingency planning and mitigation
• Risk-based test planning and management

Lesson 6: Test Automation Strategies and Architecture

• Defining a test automation strategy and plan
• Test tool evaluation and selection
• Automation strategies and approaches
• Developing skills and relevant test automation roles
• Automate the tests and convert from manual to automated
• Building a performance test team
• Process automation and metric analysis
• Test environments - test data, architecture, security, and networks.
• Categories of automated tools

Lesson 7: Software Quality Assurance

• Quality Assurance Vs. Quality Control
• Defining processes
• Implementing Quality Assurance
• Developing effective standards
• Development and Test lifecycles and methodologies
• QA concepts
• Independent Verification and Validation