03 — Test Management & Strategy
Someone has to own the release decision.
Test management is not administration. It is the discipline of saying, with evidence, whether a release is safe — and holding that line when the schedule shortens.
The problem
Why customers call us.
Testing is spread across a functional team, an integrator, a nearshore supplier and a business department. Everybody reports green. Nobody can say what is actually covered, and the steering committee decides on a feeling.
What we take responsibility for
Test strategy, governance and coordination.
- Test strategy, scope and risk-based prioritisation
- Quality gates with entry and exit criteria that mean something
- Test planning across parties, phases and environments
- Defect management and UAT coordination with business stakeholders
- Reporting that leads to decisions rather than to more questions
- Operating model — who tests what, when, and who signs off
What you get
Deliverables.
- Test strategy document
- Risk-based scope
- Quality gate definition
- Test plan
- Reporting structure and cadence
- Defect and UAT process
- RACI for the testing organisation
Platforms and tools
What we work with.
- Tricentis qTest
- Jira · Xray · Zephyr
- Azure DevOps
- SAP Cloud ALM
- Confluence
How we start
Three steps.
01
Quality Engineering Health Check — strategy, estate, tooling and team in two to three weeks
02
Target operating model and quality gates
03
We run it, or we set it up and your test manager takes over
From our work
An example.
We introduced qTest as the central test management system for a logistics group — structure, permissions, reporting and the migration of existing content.
A related migrationQuestions we get asked
Straight answers.
We already have a test manager. What do you add?
Often an outside view and the willingness to say no. Sometimes capacity during a peak. If your test management works, we will tell you that too.
Do we have to switch tools?
No. We work in what you have. Tool changes only happen when the current one is the actual problem.
How do you report?
Coverage, risk and open defects against the release date. Not test case counts — those tell nobody anything.
Discuss this service
Tell us how many parties are involved and what the next quality gate has to prove. We will come back with a strategy outline.