The ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Management (CTAL-TM) certification equips participants to manage software testing across the development lifecycle.
It covers strategic test planning, riskbased testing, team management, test tools, and process improvement.
Certification Exam included
Note: The training and the certification exam are conducted in English. A maximum period of 1 month after the course end date should be considered to take the exam.
Objetivos
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Manage testing across lifecycle models
- Define riskbased test strategies aligned with organisational goals
- Plan, monitor, control, and complete testing through clear metrics and controls
- Estimate effort using metric and expertbased techniques
- Design defect workflows and manage defect resolution effectively
- Build and lead skilled test teams, managing roles, competencies, and motivation
- Communicate stakeholder value through business cases, test metrics, and reporting
- Drive process improvement, leverage test tools across contexts
Destinatários
This course is designed for:
- Test managers
- Test leads
- QA managers
- Project and product owners
- Scrum masters
- Senior testers
Condições
For Individuals
• 10% of the total amount paid at the time of registration; the remaining amount must be paid up to 7 days before the course starts.
• Non-resident trainees in Portugal: 50% payment at the time of registration.
• Possibility of benefiting from the Cheque Formação+Digital up to €750 (subject to eligibility).
• VAT at the applicable legal rate is added
For Companies
• Portuguese companies: payment within 30 days upon invoice (VAT at the applicable legal rate is added).
• EU and non-EU companies: VAT-exempt amounts and payment in full upfront.
Pré-Requisitos
Participants should have:
- ISTQB Foundation Level certificate (v4.0 or earlier)
- Recommended minimum six months’ experience in software testing or development
Programa
- Managing the Test Activities
- Managing the Product
- Managing the Team
Managing the Test Activities
- The test process: planning, monitoring, controlling, completion
- Context of testing in waterfall, agile, hybrid models
- Test stakeholders and their roles
- Riskbased testing: identification, assessment, mitigation, metrics
- Project test strategy: objectives, approach aligned to organisation
- Improving the test process: retrospectives & continuous lessons learned
- Test tools: tool introduction, selection, organisation
Managing the Product
- Test metrics: define, collect, interpret for control and reporting
- Test estimation: metricbased and expertbased techniques
- Defect management: workflows and statistics for process improvement
Managing the Team
- The test team: competency mapping, roles, performance development
- Stakeholder relationships: costbenefit analysis, business case for testing
- Motivational factors: leadership, team dynamics, hygiene and motivators
