Upon the successful completion of the course, the attendee should be able to:

• Manage testing in various software development projects by applying test management processes established for the project team or test organization.
• Identify test stakeholders and software development lifecycle models that are relevant in a given context.
• Organize risk identification and risk assessment sessions within any software development lifecycle and use the results to guide testing to meet the test objectives.
• Define a project test strategy consistent with the organizational test strategy and project context.
• Continuously monitor and control testing to achieve project goals.
• Assess and report test progress to project stakeholder.
• Identify necessary skills and develop those skills within your team.
• Prepare and present a business case for testing in different contexts that outlines the costs and expected benefits.
• Lead test process improvement activities in projects or software development product streams and contribute to organizational test process improvement initiatives.
• Plan the test activities including the required test infrastructure and estimate the effort required to test.
• Create defect reports and a defect workflow suitable for a software development lifecycle.