Transforming
Software
Quality
Assurance
&Testing
2012
Who we are
With a focus on business objectives, driven by pragmatic innovation and a customer centric model of operations, we at Last Mile are committed to help you transform and drive change within your Quality Assurance and Testing organization. Founded by people with a passion for quality, experience in having driven change and innovation in large organizations in the past, is a consulting and training organization, offering services in the area of domain led software quality assurance and software testing. Our engagements are focused on helping you build the strong foundation to scale your testing organization to meet the challenges of end to end process alignment; reduced time to market; improved quality; whilst at the same time managing the costs. Our consulting and training services are geared towards assisting you to build, scale and optimize your testing organization irrespective of whether you are doing it in-house or outsourcing it.
What We Do
Accelerate Transformation
Accelerate Learning
The Last Mile Center of Excellence:
Improve performance and quality through the customizable Last Mile TCoE framework that can help setup and mature your test organization quickly leading to lower costs, improved productivity, better resource utilization, accelerated deliveries.
The Last Mile Sales Enablement:
Increase your chances of GTM by designing solutions that maximize business value. Our bid and solution design practice provides end customer focus and drives solutions that showcase organisational capabilities in the domain.
The Last Mile Competency Management:
Achieve your business goals through workforce development and planning. Assess your existing skills base; and right-size and right-skill your organization based on your business needs.
The Last Mile Process Management:
Benchmark, improve & innovate processes, mitigate your business risks. Identify, align & tailor the right Last Mile benchmarks like TMMI, and TPI. Ensure that there is end-to-end alignment at all stages of the lifecycle from development through to operations.
The Last Mile Program Management:
Improve Business performance through flawless execution and mature governance. Manage your key test programs aligning them to business objectives, driving the engagements with mature delivery processes, higher quality and reducing delivery risks.
The Last Mile Automation Framework:
Focus on business scenario descriptions and increase the speed of automation, through Last Mile’s Automation Framework that can support open source and popular COTS automation tools.
The Last Mile Corporate Connect:
Last Mile's experiential programs, designed for middle and senior QA and testing management, is aimed at mentoring and fostering the right attitudes, providing them with the right tools to excel at their roles, irrespective of the complexity of the engagement.
The Last Mile Campus Connect:
Last Mile's unique e-learning and contact learning courses bridge the gap between industry expectations and campus education, providing students with a better opportunity at placements and corporates with an opportunity to reduce their training costs.
T2TL Course Outline: 1) Introduction 2) Test process 3) Static Testing 4) Test Planning 5) Test Techniques 6) Risk-Based Testing 7) Test Strategy 8) Test Case Design 9) Test estimation 10) Metrics and Reporting 11) Defect Management 12) Domain 13) Test Environment Management 14) Test Automation 15) Quality Management 16) People Skills
Transformation Programs:
Evolution of a Testing Professional
Management Career Path:
Technical Career Path:
Tester to Test Lead Transformation
Program Description:
The Tester to Test Lead Transformation program is designed to addressthe role progression of a Tester to a Test Lead. This course is aligned to the typical roles performed by Testers and Test Leads in the IT industry. It focuses on all aspects of the Test Lead Role covering Techniques, Processes and
Standards, Tools & Automation, Management and Soft Skills that eventually leads to transformation into a Test Lead role. This program is of duration of 40 hours of classroom sessions and 30 hours of offline assignments with a recommended delivery period of 5 weeks that will allow the participants to practice, implement and experience the concepts addressed in the sessions.
Post completion of the course, participants will be able to:
Understand the role of a test analyst in a project
Analyze test requirements and identify the tests to be done at various stages in the test lifecycle
Use static testing techniques to uncover defects including missing requirements, incomplete requirements, testability of the requirements etc.
Use the right set of test techniques to generate detailed test cases that conform to the standards
Understand the importance of test process and lifecycle model in context of projects
Prioritize test cases, test data, test coverage based on risks especially for domain test cases
TL2TM Course Outline:
1) Introduction to Test Management 2) Strategizing Testing 3) Test Estimation 4) Test Planning 5) Metrics Management 6) Change Management 7) Managing Dependencies 8) Test Reporting 9) Project Control 10) Customer & Stakeholder Management 11) Incident & DefectManagement 12) Test Environment Management 13) Quality Management 14) People Management 15) Managing Communications 16) Tools & Automation 17) Driving Continuous Improvement
Test Lead to Test Manager Transformation
Program Description:
The Lead to Manager Transformation program is designed to address the role progression of a Test Lead to a Test Manager. This course is aligned to the typical roles performed by Test Leads and Managers in the IT industry. It focusses on all aspects of the Test Manager Role covering Techniques, Processes and Standards, Tools & Automation, Management and Soft Skills that eventually leads to transformation into a Managerial role. This program is of duration of 80 hours for classroom trainings and 48 hours for offline assessments with a recommended delivery period of 3 months that will allow the participants to practice, implement and experience the concepts addressed in the sessions.
Post completion of the course, participants will be able to:
Understand the roles and responsibilities of a Test Manager during the execution of the test program; and the typical challenges faced
Effectively define a risk based test strategy & approach for various types of test projects (either Waterfall or Agile) and develop an effective and implementable project plan
Create a set of tasks & manage their dependencies Effectively estimate a test engagement
Effectively manage change in a test program
Understand and plan for effective stakeholder management
Develop a good understanding of the TMMi model and the various processes that need to be in place to effectively manage a testing program
Understand the roles and responsibilities of key personnel in a test program and be able to drive the team towards a common goal Understand the principles of Resource Planning, Team Management,
People Management, Team Communications and Leadership Techniques to be applied to different situations
Understand the behavioral aspects of a tester (Tester's Mindset) and be able to channelize the team towards a common goal
TL2TA Course Outline:
1) Context of Testing 2) Strategizing Testing 3) Test Techniques 4) Test Estimation 5) Test Planning 6) Metrics Management 7) Project Management, Control & Reporting 8) Customer, Stakeholder Management & Managing Communications 9) Quality Management 10) Tools & Automation 11) Driving Continuous ImprovementsTest Lead to Test Architect Transformation
Program Description:
The Lead to Architect Transformation program is designed to address the role progression of a Test Lead to a Test Architect. This course is aligned to the typical roles performed by Test Leads and Managers in the IT industry. It focusses on all aspects of the Test Architect Role covering Techniques, Processes and Standards, Tools & Automation, Management and Soft Skills that eventually leads to transformation into an Architect role. This program is of duration of 72 hours of classroom sessions and an additional 48 hours for assignments with a recommended delivery period of 3 months that will allow the participants to practise, implement and experience the concepts addressed in the sessions.
Post completion of the course, participants will be able to:
Understand the roles and responsibilities of a Test Architect
To be able to clearly articulate a technical test strategy for a project / program
To be able to identify customer requirements and be able to position responses that meet operational imperatives of cost, time-to-market, and quality
To understand the various KPIs / OLAs and translate them into SLAs To be able to evaluate the business requirements and articulate the
test design to meet functional and non-functional characteristics of the software (involves knowledge of RBT, Test Design Techniques, different non-functional tests)
To be able to arrive at an estimate of the effort required for test activities
To be able to derive the environments required to undertake the tests To be able to plan, execute and report on the various activities To be able to communicate and effectively manage the diverse
stakeholders (management, test leads / test execution teams, development teams, customers)
Skills to analyze and resolve issues during test execution Metrics Management and its thorough understanding
Automation frameworks, its understanding, implementation; tools that can help at different stages including managing environments, design, incident management, specific tools for non-functional Understand and Implement Process improvements – TMMi / TPI /
STEP / etc
Program Delivery
This program will be predominantly delivered by instructors. Learning will be experiential with role plays, case studies and assignments to ensure a
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