TMAP: Quality for Cross-Functional Teams

Providing the required knowledge and skills for building quality in IT systems

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The TMAP: Quality for Cross-Functional Teams is a 3-day course explaining the TMAP approach for building quality into software systems. In today’s IT-world teams are expected to deliver business value with quality under short timescales. TMAP supports the “built in quality” approach. As quality engineering is the entire team’s responsibility, it goes beyond testing.

The course includes exercises and practice exam questions to highlight key aspects of the syllabus and to help participants understand and practice the concepts and methods presented.

Course Objectives

To provide the required knowledge and skills important for building quality into IT systems. It also helps them to provide the information needed for the stakeholders to establish their confidence that the pursued business value is delivered. Focusing on the members of DevOps and Scrum teams.

Who will benefit?

The TMAP: Quality for Cross-Functional Teams course is the three-day course, suitable for anyone working as a member of high-performance IT deliver team (such as DevOps and Scrum) or working with such teams.  Roles including business analysts, product owners, developers, operations people, quality engineers, testers, scrum master, and others can benefit from this course.

With the TMAP certification, testing professionals at all stages of their careers can benefit from the breadth and depth of knowledge offered.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites, however basic knowledge of information technology, working in teams, testing, and an Agile way of working is required.

Skills Gained

A candidate who achieves TMAP: Quality for Cross-Functional Teams certification will have the knowledge and practical experience on the following subjects:

  • The VOICE model for achieving business value in IT delivery
  • IT delivery models, emphasizing DevOps
  • Cross-functional teams and the principles of continuous quality engineering
  • The whole-team approach and its significance for both Dev and Ops
  • Continuous everything, including test automation and CI/CD pipeline
  • Total cost of quality considerations
  • Indicators, reporting mechanisms, and effective alerting
  • Quality measures for a comprehensive evaluation
  • Personal, interpersonal, and team skills development
  • Diverse test varieties, such as performance, usability, and security testing
  • Experience-based testing methodologies, including exploratory and mob testing
  • Test design principles, covering boundary value analysis, path coverage, condition-oriented testing, code coverage, and mutation testing
  • QA & testing topics like reviewing and pull requests, along with continuous improvement strategies

The Exam

The TMAP: Quality for Cross-Functional Teams Certificate is awarded to those who pass a written 1.5-hour multiple-choice exam of 40 questions that is set, moderated, marked and invigilated by iSQI.

The exam is taken online.