(BA006) Testing and Quality Assurance for the BA and QA Professional

Learn how QA responsibilities are distributed between the BA and QA professional over the project lifecycle. As you follow a project from initiation through to deployment and operations, you’ll learn and experience how BA and QA artifacts and activities fit together over the SDLC as you apply the V-Model. (The V-Model is widely used model outlining the relationship between product development and QA activities.) You’ll develop techniques to improve requirements-writing skills to create testable requirements, and acquire hands-on experience using essential V&V (Verification and Validation) techniques. The course includes use-case scenario testing, creation of the QA Plan, functional and non-functional (system) testing, QA metrics, Acceptance Testing, Decision Tables and Structured Walkthroughs, and incorporates BABOK 3, Six Sigma and Structured Testing guidelines.

Available on demand
Location: Live Online Event or In-Person at your Location

Duration: 2 days
Presented in English by Howard Podeswa

Learning Objectives

What is this training about and why is it important?

By applying the Quality Assurance techniques in this course, you will be able to improve project outcomes, by:

  • Verifying throughout the life cycle that the project does not stray from customer expectations.

  • Performing extensive and well-targeted tests on the software before it is released to unearth errors that have been introduced during analysis and development.

Projects are frequently behind schedule and over-budget due to the numerous revisions often required until the software matches the needs of business stakeholders. Most of these revisions can be traced to errors or omissions either in the business requirements documentation, or due to bugs in the code. Not only do errors and omissions increase project costs and turnaround times, they erode customer confidence. This course teaches you how to avoid these errors before they occur and how to detect remaining errors before they reach customer.

What you will learn and how you can apply it

  • Gain hands-on experience using essential testing techniques

  • Understand the relationship between testing techniques and requirements documentation

  • Create testable requirements

  • Understand the BA and QA Professional’s role in testing

  • Understand the definition and goals of testing

  • Apply the principles of structured testing

  • Define different types of testing and know when to use each type of test on a project

  • Apply the V-Model

  • Create a QA plan

  • Perform a Structured Walkthrough to test requirements documentation

  • Perform Validation and Verification of requirements, design and coding deliverables

  • Review and ensure the quality of the testing strategy using Structured Testing

  • Design Functional and System (Non-functional) tests including black box test case techniques

  • Design an Acceptance Testing strategy

  • Describe QA metrics

  • Apply Six Sigma techniques to testing

  • Ensure complete test coverage with effective use of decision tables

Audience

  • Business Analysts

  • QA Professionals: QA Analysts, Testers, and their managers

  • Business users and developers who need to be able to test computer systems from a business and user perspective