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ISTQB® Certified Tester Expert Level Test Management Managing the Test Team (CTEL-TM-MTT)

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The Managing the Test Team (MTT) module is one of three components of the ISTQB® Expert Level Test Management (CTEL-TM) certification. Full CTEL-TM certification requires passing separate exams for this module, Strategic Test Management , and Operational Test Management .

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The Managing the Test Team (MTT) module is one of three components of the ISTQB® Expert Level Test Management (CTEL-TM) certification. Full CTEL-TM certification requires passing separate exams for this module, Strategic Test Management, and Operational Test Management. ISTQB® Expert Level certificates are valid for seven years.

Content focuses on the people management skills used by Test Managers to build and lead teams. Topics include recruitment, setting objectives, performance reviews, and managing distributed teams. Participants learn to communicate with stakeholders, advocate for quality, and handle ethical issues while promoting the test team's role within the organization.

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What You Will Learn

On the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB®) website today, the three Expert Level Test Management certifications:

  • ISTQB Certified Tester Expert Level Strategic Test Management

  • ISTQB Certified Tester Expert Level Operational Test Management

  • ISTQB Certified Tester Expert Level Managing the Test Team

often point to the same consolidated Expert Level syllabus document.

According to the official syllabus (current version v1.0), CT-STE is structured into five main chapters:

Chapter 1- Test Missions, Policies, Strategies and Goals

Chapter 2- Managing External relationships

Chapter 3- Managing Across the Organization

Chapter 4- Testing Considerations for Domain and Project Factors

Chapter 5- Evaluating Effectiveness and Efficiency

Certification & Exam

After you complete an accredited CTEL-TM–MTT training, you prepare to take the official exam for the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Expert Level Test Management certification. 

To become eligible for the CTEL-TM–MTT certificate you must:

  • Already hold the CTFL (Foundation Level) certificate and the CTAL-TM (Advanced Level Test Manager) certificate. 

  • Have at least five years of practical testing experience, including at least two years of industry test-management experience.

  • Pass the CTEL-TM–MTT exam which covers people-management of test teams, stakeholder communication, ethics, building and leading the test team, plus managing across the organisation. 

After you meet those prerequisites and pass the exam, you receive the CTEL-TM–MTT certificate, confirming your expert-level competence in managing test teams within an organisation.

What You Will Achieve

The expert test manager is able to perform each of the following tasks:

  • Lead the test management within an organization, project or program to identify and manage critical success factors with management commitment at CEO/Board level

  • Take appropriate business-driven decisions on a test management strategy and implement organization wide commitment and compliance based on quality KPIs

  • Assess the current status of the test management, propose step-wise improvements and show how these are linked to achieving business goals within the organizational context of test management (organization or project/program)

  • Set up a strategic policy for improving the test management and the testing, and implement that policy in an organization

  • Analyze specific problems with the test management and its alignment with other roles or management areas in the project/organization, and propose effective solutions

  • Create a master test plan with matching governance dashboard to meet or exceed the business objectives of the organization or a project/program

  • Develop innovative concepts for test management (project) organizations which include required roles, skills, methodologies (tools) and organizational structure

  • Establish a standard process for implementing test management in an organization (project/program) with standardized delivery based on quality KPIs

  • Lead an organization to improve the test management process and manage the introduction of changes

  • Understand and effectively manage the human issues associated with test-project management and implement necessary changes

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CTEL-TM-MTT is the Expert Level Test Management exam part called Managing the Test Team. It focuses on people and leadership topics that a Test Manager needs, like building, developing, and leading test teams, plus working across the organisation and handling ethical issues.

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