Being a technical manager is hard enough, but managing the testing process is a unique challenge, requiring judgment, agility, and organization among other skills.

The course covers the critical processes, significant considerations, and fundamental management skills for people who lead or manage development and maintenance test efforts. It describes the development and use of the test plan, the test system, the bug tracking database, and the test tracking means. It covers the “people skills” needed to define and build your test team, hire the appropriate people, manage that team’s relationships with peers and managers, and distribute test work to other participants.

Finally, the course addresses the contextual issues of test projects, such as the economics of testing, the test effort within the project, etc.

Advanced Level Test Manager Qualification is aimed at people who have achieved an advanced point of their careers in software testing.

This includes people in roles such as:

• Test Leader
• Test manager
• Test consultant
• IT director
• Project manager
• Quality manager
• Business analyst
• Manager consultant

There are two options to attend to this course:

• Without a certification –
  
  • The participants must have at least 5 years practical experience out of which at least 3 years as Test / Quality Assurance Engineer, and at least 2 years in managing a test team.

• Would like to have an Advanced Level ISTQB^® Certification –
  
  • The participants must have a valid certificate ISTQB Foundation Level
  • Participants should have at least 5 years practical experience out of which at least 3 years as Test / Quality Assurance Engineer and at least 2 years in managing a test team.
  • They must also subscribe to the Code of Ethics in the syllabus.

Mr. Alon Linetzki - is an expert test engineer, testing coach and a testing consultant with over 23 years in testing, and over 33 years in IT. During his career, Mr. Linetzki have participated and managed various types of development projects and testing projects with a large range of technologies, size and sector domain orientation from telecommunication and finance, to banking and embedded systems.

He is the author of multiple testing classes, including: Testing in an Agile Environment, ISTQB® Agile Tester, Exploratory Testing, Measurements and Metrics for Making Good Quality Decisions, Test Process Improvement Using TPI®, Risk Based Testing, Writing Good Test Requirements, and Test Automation for Decision Makers, Introduction to Test Automation, Personal Communication and presentation Skills, Root Cause analysis in Testing and Adding business value increasing ROI in testing, and more.

Mr. Linetzki is a popular speaker in international testing conferences since 1995. He is the co-founder of the Israeli Testing Certification Board (www.itcb.org.il), and the founder and chair of SIGiST Israel (www.sigist.org.il). He is leading the ISTQB® Partner Program worldwide as part of the marketing working group. He is also one of the authors of the new ISTQB® Foundation Level Agile Tester Certification, and is involved in the next level certification of ISTQB® Advanced Level – Agile Technical Tester. Mr. Linetzki is also the ISTQB® Marketing Chair (March 2016).