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Fundamentals of testing class Program.

Class description:

online class with mentor Egor Pavlovets:

In Russian or in English (only if you have full English speakers group for the course)

4 months

40 online lessons based on ISTQB FL and mentor’s real commercial projects experience

2 times a week

90 minutes each online lesson

Homeworks and Diploma project to get a certificate

Practice month

Course is running in two main threads:

Students do tasks in the assistance app StrimQa

Mentor runs online classes to cover difficult topics and to answer questions from the first thread

Rewards, if you defend Diploma project:

Mentor’s recommendation for your LinkedIn Profile

Online lesson examples:

White-box testing

Test Level and Test Types

Main objectives:

Understand fundamental theory of testing via:

ISTQB Foundation Level explained

Mentor’s own experience

Invited speakers experience

Practice theory on example mobile project

Leveraging our QA assistance app — StrimQA, built in test apps

Testing StrimQA app itself during the course

Learn QA instruments for communication, documentation, testing and debugg

Learn how to establish full testing process applied at any context

Learn how to run test cycles for test object and do test reporting

Program consist of the following modules:

1. Welcome module (1 month)

Introduction, getting all the communication pipelines and spaces established (Slack, Trello, Telegram, StrimQA etc)

Learning important pro QA habits: Put everything into the notes, Knowledge sharing, Step into Unknown, Conflictless communication, Understand developers — find a way how to help them.

Agile manifesto, values of Agile teams, Shift-left in testing

Intro into Scrum, tasks estimation, starting first ISTQB chapter

Principles of Testing, what do they mean and how can you apply them at work?

Practice: tasks creation, tasks rotation on the scrum board, tasks management, understanding StrimQa learning process, two-way traceability

2. Understanding Test Process (1 month)

Learning and discussing 2nd ISTQB Chapter

Learning and discussing 3rd ISTQB Chapter

Scrum Sprint progress review and Retrospective meeting exercises

Practice:create a well-defined and well-documented bug, bug review process, working with the “Confirmation bias”, Control questionnaire for chapters 1, 2, 3.

3. Managing Test Process (1 month)

Learning and discussing 4th ISTQB Chapter

Learning and discussing 5th ISTQB Chapter

Learning and discussing 6th ISTQB Chapter

Establishing JIRA process with the Scrum board

Practice: test-design based on the black-box and experienced-based techniques, white-box testing master class, creating different types of test cases, choosing equivalence partitioning classes, boundaries for analysis. Decision table for testers.

Practice and Diploma month (1 month)

Control questionnaire for chapters 4, 5, 6.

Creating all the stories in backlog for the month, estimating them, electing team leads for the sub-groups to enforce JIRA Scrum process in the sub-groups, daily Scrum updates, starting Diploma project

For the Diploma project:

Creating user stories

Creating Test Plan

Creating Test Strategy

Creating Test Schedule

Creating Test Cases

Creating Test reports per App version

Creating Summary Test Report

Creating Traceability Matrix

Executing all the created test documentation against the test app (3 versions), collecting the results, organizing the results, making assessments, filling traceability matrix

Defending Diploma work, getting course certificate, personal accreditation page on the StrimQa web-site, digital achievement in the StrimQa app

5. Practicing the following instruments during the course:

Communication: Slack, Telegram, Business communication

Testing and debugging: Android SDK tools, Web Developer Tools, Postman

Working place: Google Workspace, Trello, JIRA

Test management: Zephyr, Google Sheet

Other: Swagger Editor

Photo	Name	Mentor's review
	Dmitriy Shved Certificate ×	Dmitriy has shown a real leadership in the group and was getting credits from other students every Retrospective meeting! Besides, good attitude to push everyone to successfully completed group tasks, Dmitriy, also, shown very solid approach of completing his Diploma project. Practically confirmed that all the Theory we have learned during the 5 months class is useful within creating a System level of testing for the mobile application.
	Andrei Astapenka Certificate ×	Andrei took a role of Scrum master in the group and spent his personal time to organize JIRA project, Confluence space for entire group. He is really fast started and very fast learner. Good background in learning foreign languages makes Andrei very strong candidate right now. ISTQB Theory was practically confirmed during the Diploma project, bugs found, documented and System level of testing has been established.
	Dzmitry Maksimenko Certificate ×	Dzmitry has proven his QA Theory knowledge at the final exam as well as successfully completed Practise part of the Diploma project. Dzmitry has provided other students with good clarity of the requirements we were using in our final project context and build awareness about the small bugs, which could hide easily between the strings and letters. Very details oriented QA engineer with strong technical background!
	Aleksandr Manko Certificate ×	Aleksandr has proven his QA Theory knowledge on the exam and developed a unique approach in Practice task completion. He was the first student, who decided to take all the advices from the ISTQB FL Syllabus and Test Process and created everything according to it, including high level scenarios with further break down to the specific test cases and with good level of traceability. With such approach, Aleksandr will become a valuable QA engineer very fast!
	Olga Ermolovich Certificate ×	Olga was very scared first time going through the test QA interview during the class, however, her introvert nature helped her to accumulate a lot of knowledge and despite the timezone difference, working with class after midnight, Olga was able to prove all the required Theoretical QA knowledge and practically confirm with the Diploma project her solid ability to build Test Process for mobile apps. Catch your opportunity to onboard Olga to your team!
	Denis Sobolev Certificate ×	No matter how bad internet connection was during our classes, Denis, was able to review every lesson in the recording and bring all the questions in text and to the next lesson, working within our class in pretty tough conditions, Denis successfully completed all the tasks, theoretical exam and Diploma project. Denis has solid approach in every work product he is working on, will become a valuable QA engineer in your team!
	Telman Weber Certificate ×	Telman has added maturity to our QA group, his questions about QA Theory are always very complex and created from very deep analysis. Telman is good QA engineer at current level and after our 5 months class will definitely achieve his next career goal! All the time students were giving Telman kudos for asking good questions they were not thinking about and provoking mentor to cover very deep topics much better. Besides, professional talents, Telman, is very kind, polite and confident person, who can deliver all the required work products and results with respect and on time in multicultural environment. Telman, I wish you luck to get your next career goal achieved!
	Alex Khromava Certificate ×	Alexandra, as working professional QA engineer added to our students group so much proficiency and helped Olga so much to uncover her QA talents. It is so great we were able to combine our QA class with students from such different countries, cultures and genders. Besides, being friendly student, Alexandra added very good degree of discipline in the class and proved her deep QA knowledge, like every lesson we had! Alexandra is great communicator and after our class, I'm sure, she will achieve her next career goal!

Photo	Name	Mentor's review
	Maxim Sedak Certificate ×	Maxim worked hard to get all the tasks done, moreover, he helped me a lot to drive group of 5 students as a QA team within Diploma month: 4 full 1-week sprints with tickets review, JIRA Scrum process. Maxim has good leadership skills and if developed, will become perfect QA Lead in feature!
	Veronika Protashchik Certificate ×	Veronika did excellent job to drive the second group of 5 students as QA team during the Diploma months, configured all the required JIRA flows to complete 4 full sprints with her group. Veronika has outstanding motivation and Google Sheets skill: created fully auto-generated traceability matrix using formulas, check her Diploma work on interview, very impressive!
	Liudmila Kuzmich Certificate ×	Liudmila is hard worker. Created almost 3 times more test cases it was required for Diploma project and no surprises, found much more bugs in our test application :D Liudmila's attention to details makes her perfect candidate into your QA team!
	Aleksei Markevich Certificate ×	Aleksei knows how to optimize work products, and he optimizes everything! Moreover, he has strong devOps and networking background, which makes him ideal match for your QA team. Aleksei is responsible and fast working engineer, with all the knowledge he has it is 1 week question to transform him into the test automation engineer.
	Andrew Chernomorov Certificate ×	Andrew is test automation engineer who required to get better QA Fundamentals understanding, on my course, he realized, how it is important to learn QA theory and practice to build better QA processes and Test levels. Now, Andrew is full-stack QA engineer, able to write any test documentation and to build test automation!
	Nadezhda Korchyts Certificate ×	Nadezhda has good communication and presentation skills, completed all the homeworks with excellence, demonstrated good understanding of ISTQB Foundation Level theory and shown good Diploma work with Test work products: Test Plan, Test Strategy, User Stories, Test Cases, Test Runs and Test reports for every test app version, Requirements coverage traceability matrix, Testing Summary report.
	Viktor Ladanovskyi Certificate ×	During the course, within all 5 months, Viktor shown himself as fast learning and very responsible student: all homework tasks were completed on time and with the superior quality. On the Diploma exam Viktor was prepared to any ISTQB Foundation Level-based theoretic questions, perfectly answering all of them. Graduation work, presented on the exam had all the required QA work products completed with style and attention to details!
	Violetta Tsybulskaya Certificate ×	Violetta has advanced time management skill, every minute is planned! I would say it is a talent to plan time in such a good way. With help of that talent, having extreme time deficit, Violetta did all the tasks perfectly, learned and proved ISTQB QA theory, created all the required work products in Diploma project and defended her work on exam.
	Anton Santarovich Certificate ×	Anton was the main poll-guy in our QA class, everytime we need to make any decision, Anton already created a poll in an appropriate Slack channel. Also, he has completed all the homeworks with excellence, demonstrated good understanding of ISTQB Foundation Level theory and shown good Diploma work with Test work products: Test Plan, Test Strategy, User Stories, Test Cases, Test Runs and Test reports for every test app version, Requirements coverage traceability matrix, Testing Summary report.
	Kristina Malahova Certificate ×	Kristina has medical background and that helped her a lot to learn new terms in QA engineering domain. She was growing as QA engineer during the course every week. And I was really surprised, how well-prepared Kristina came to the final exam. She proved solid understanding of ISTQB Foundation Level theory and defended every work product in her Diploma project with excellence.
	Zarina Kudelko Certificate ×	Zarina is hardworking student, able to study on two QA courses in parallel! I thought it will affect her homework and diploma tasks. But I was wrong, Zarina is really responsible and fast learning student, she has completed all the homeworks with excellence, demonstrated good understanding of ISTQB Foundation Level theory and shown good Diploma work with Test work products: Test Plan, Test Strategy, User Stories, Test Cases, Test Runs and Test reports for every test app version, Requirements coverage traceability matrix, Testing Summary report.

Picture	Name	Mentor's review
	Alexander Andreev Certificate ×	Became one of the best students in the group. Helped other students to master Google Workspace and Google Sheets, made the best test documentation with the Google Sheets. Completed all the homeworks on time, completed all Theory. Also, Alex done with his diploma really fast and on very good level. Alex will be really good QA engineer in future!
	Maksim Stulau Certificate ×	If there is a unique clot of perseverance and work in nature - then this is Maxim! :) Despite any difficulties, Maxim was one of the first to defend his diploma and get a QA internship in an IT company. Keep it up!
	Ksenia Horoshailo Certificate × Feedback about the course	Ksenia distinguished herself by her desire to master the educational material and complete all her homework on time, without looking at the huge workload at job and other requirements, this is what real motivation means.
	Irina Verbitskaya Certificate ×	What makes Irina stand out is the ability to follow everything that she read in the ISTQB training program, Irina has demonstrated an amazing ability to apply theoretical material immediately in practice, in her Diploma work!
	Anastasia Yanovskaya Certificate ×	Nastya's path to QA turned out to be not easy, many professions have been tried, but the pursuit of excellence in her favorite hobby has become a very useful and important quality for a novice tester, Nastya's attention to detail is great!
	Nikita Demko Certificate ×	Nikita did a very good job with his thesis and showed himself to be an easily and quickly trained specialist, good English and natural modesty will make Nikita an irreplaceable friend, comrade, colleague in any IT project as a tester.
	Evgeniy Ryabenkiy Certificate ×	Zhenya surprised with his own vision of writing test cases, plans, which turned out to be really very effective and interesting, he was among the first to do all his homework and thesis, keep it up!
	Inna Korol Certificate ×	Inna is a linguist, so she can not only tell you how to say something correctly and incorrectly, but also apply her linguistic skills at work! Can do many different things at once and bring them all to the end!
	Irina Paulavets Certificate ×	Irina demonstrated, in addition to excellent results of homework and a diploma, also critical and analytical thinking, the ability for good self-organization. As a linguist, Irina can become a very valuable expert on your QA team!
	Ilya Zozulia Certificate ×	Ilya has shown himself to be a strong student, learns the material well, did an excellent thesis, and will be able to become a good tester in your team!
	Anton Movchan Certificate ×	A distinctive feature of Anton - being constantly on the road and on important matters, he was among the first to defend his diploma, demonstrated incredible concentration, hard work and perseverance in achieving results!

Picture	Name	Mentor's review
	Yauheni Niahanau Certificate × Feedback about the course	Became one of the best on the course by completing thesis project at its best!
	Svetlana Skrebniova Certificate × Feedback about the course	Svetlana proved to be talented manager and became part of the great success of the group!
	Anna Sherstneva Certificate × Feedback about the course	Anna is an excellent student of our group, thanks to training in the ISTQB test exam, by the end of the course she became a certified ISTQB tester!
	Dmitry Fateev Certificate × Feedback about the course	Dmitry showed a very deep thoughtful work, demonstrated the coolest test design and test cases creation skills.
	Evelin Savelyeva Certificate × Feedback about the course	Evelina is an example of hard work and perseverance. Despite the difficulties, she managed to enter the hall of fame our group with an excellent graduation project on hand!
	Andrey Pigo Certificate × Feedback about the course	Andrey proved himself to be a real fighter, in spite of any life difficulties he managed to complete the course and start looking for work as a Junior QA!

StrimQA online course: Fundamentals of testing

Fundamentals of testing class Program.