The cloud has changed the way applications are hosted and tested. The CU Cloud Test Practitioner (CTP) certification course focuses on essential cloud characteristics and cloud specific tests that a tester needs to know. The certification itself is independent of any specific cloud provider; however, hands-on exercises will be performed on several of these providers. A certified Cloud Test Practitioner will be able to perform various types of cloud specific tests and also understand the differences between testing the cloud and testing apps on the cloud.  The course doesn’t teach basics of general testing as it is expected that the examinee has that knowledge.

Who should attend:
Testers, test leads and managers, QEs, basically anybody who has to test or manage testing of systems that involve the cloud.

Entry criteria:
Generally, there are no pre-requisites for attending this course; however, CU does recommend that the participants have experience in testing and hold ISTQB CTFL certification.

• Support the creation of a test strategy from the perspective of the applications based on the cloud characteristics and various test types such as compliance, security, scalability, performance, resilience, disaster recovery and monitoring
• Perform calculations for estimating cost of setting up cloud environments
• Support the creation of test environment by setting up and running docker images, clustering and using Kubernetes
• Create cloud instances of various operating systems (OS) and configurations as a prerequisite to setting up the required test environments.
• Perform data migration testing
• Perform tests related to multi-tenancy testing
• Perform tests related to multi-tenancy testing
• Perform basic load and elasticity testing for cloud-hosted applications