ISTQB® Test Automation Engineer

Your benefit

Improve your ability to design, develop and maintain test automation solutions. Learn concepts, methods, tools and processes to implement and deploy a test automation architecture. Ensure continuous control and maintenance of your test automation framework. 

Goal

A Test Automation Engineer contributes many vital aspects to the automation of the software test in an organization:

• Create a test automation architecture (TAA) to lead your test automation to success.
• Design, develop and maintain test automation solutions that meet your business needs.
• Support the transition of testing from a manual to an automated approach.
• Find the right tools for your test environment.
• Monitor your automation success with reports and metrics.
• Improve your automation to ensure sustainability of the automation effort.

Test automation is a complex and taxing task that requires a good background in testing and in software development.
The course enables you to implement an efficient and lasting test automation by providing a structured framework that addresses all the problems that arise in automation efforts. Learn how to integrate test automation into your business and project goals by defining a generic test automation architecture (gTAA) that will support and streamline the automation efforts of your company.

The course will show how to realize a project-specific test automation architecture (TAA) from the gTAA.
You will learn about success factors and obstacles for turning your manual tests into automated tests, and about how to set up your test automation solution (TAS) and your test automation framework (TAF) for the concrete testing activities in your test project. The course will discuss the maintenance and evolution of your testing effort, using metrics, reports and improvement activities.

Content

• Purpose, objectives and ouccess factors for Test Automation
• SUT factors, tool evaluation and design for testability and automation
• The generic test automation architecture
• Design and development of the test automation architecture (TAA) and the test automation solution (TAS)
• Selecting the Test Automation approach and planning rollout
• Deployment Risks and Contingencies of the TAS
• Test Automation Logging, Reporting, and Metrics
• Transitioning manual testing to an automated environment
• Verifying the TAS
• Continuous improvement, options and implementation

Things are best taught by people who have done it: your trainer has more than twenty years of experience in test automation, and has been working in a lot different aspects of test automation, in industry as well as in research, in large and in small automation projects. .

Bonus

Delegates, registering for a public training course, will receive a free copy of the Study Guide “Test Automation Fundamentals“ by Manfred Baumgartner, Stefan Gwihs, Richard Seidl, Thomas Steirer und Marc-Florian Wendland as part of their student kit.

Prerequisites

The course contents are based on profound knowledge of the contents of the courses ISTQB^® Certified Tester Foundation Level. We therefore recommend to participate in the “ISTQB^® Certified Tester Foundation Level“ training course prior to attending, or to repeat the contents of the current version of the syllabus.

Participants will profit from knowledge out of any of the core ISTQB^® Certified Tester Advanced Level modules Test Manager, Test Analyst and Technical Test Analyst.

During registration, you can book your participation in the corresponding certification examination.
For admission to the exam, you need the ISTQB^® Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate.

With this booking you agree that we may forward your data to the examination company GASQ Service GmbH, Keltenring 15, 82041 Oberhaching, Germany.
The examination fee is not included in the course fee and will be quoted separately.

Non-native speakers may be eligible for a time bonus for the exam - please contact us for details.

If you are interested in taking the exam at a later date, we will inform you of the options available to you.

Exams in conjunction with Virtual Classroom seminars

You can flexibly take the exam after your Virtual Classroom training as an online remote exam. You will receive a voucher code that you can use to book your personal exam at a date and time of your choice.

The latest detailed description of the technical requirements and the software used for an online exam can be found at the exam provider GASQ.