What it takes to build a successful testing career
 

1. Understand the perception of testers and testing. Detailed discussion on common perception about software testers by project teams:
 

• Understanding role of the tester

• Ability to think like a tester

• Testers have to serve many clients within a project

• Understand the value of your product not just the software requirements

• Understand testing mission and drive your testing to meet the mission objectives

• Understand defects from a developer's perspective - are you “bad news”

• Question everything - but not out loud

• Find important bugs first

• Convince others that “testing completely” may not be feasible

• Testing is not process improvement

• Testing will not assure quality - advocate and understand this concept

• Building a successful relationship with stakeholders and project teams

2. Importance of subject matter expertise

 

3. Importance of professional acumen and conduct

 

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
 

• Detailed discussion of software development process

• Relationships and dependencies among testing process and SDLC phases

• Artifacts related to SDLC

• The realities of software testing

 

Principles/ Fundamentals of software testing
 

• Dynamic vs. static testing

• Black box testing

• White box testing

• Gray box testing

• Testing techniques

• Detailed discussion

• N on various testing techniques

 

How to write effective test documentation
 

• Planning your test effort

• Writing and tracking test cases

• Reporting what you find

• Measuring your success

 

Tools and software testing. Discussion of testing tools being used in the industry
 

• Test management and productivity tools

• Test automation tools

 

How to Get a Job Boot Camp
 

• What employers are looking in testers

• Most commonly asked testing interview questions

• Resume reviewing

• Tips and tricks on searching for a job

• Mock interviews