What does a software tester do?
Plans, develops, documents and carries out tests at different levels, from individual software programs to whole systems. Verifies that programs and systems work according to user requirements, established guidelines and regulations.
Source: Swedish Public Employment Service occupation data (JobTech Taxonomy), Systemtestare och testledare, SSYK 2514. Translated by True Upskill.
A software tester plans and carries out tests of programs and systems and verifies that they work according to the requirements. This page lists over 10 courses from 8 providers, arranged by the skills the Swedish Public Employment Service says the job asks for. 5 programmes carry the job title or a close one in their name, and they come first on the page.
Programmes that lead to the job
ISTQB certification
ISTQB Certified Test Management, Advanced (CTAL-TM)
↗ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level (CTFL)
↗ISTQB Certified Test Analyst, Advanced (CTAL-TA)
↗ISTQB Foundation Level Agile Tester (CTFL-AT)
↗ISTQB Performance Testing (CT-PT)
↗ISTQB Test Automation Engineer, Advanced (CTAL-TAE)
Test automation
Continuous integration
Test methods
What language are the courses taught in?
The catalog records a teaching language for 5 of them, and 1 of those are Swedish. 4 are recorded as taught in English.
The rest record no language at all, so the course page, and then the provider, is where to settle it.
The catalog shows only what providers have filled in themselves. Where the field is empty the course card says nothing rather than guess. A Swedish course name says nothing certain about the teaching language either.
Which programmes lead all the way to software tester?
5 programmes carry the job title or a close one in their name, and they come first on the page.
The titles here are tester, software tester and test automation engineer. A test automation engineer writes code that tests code, and several of the programmes take that direction. The course page tells you how long the programme runs and how it is organised.
What skills does a software tester need?
The Swedish Public Employment Service occupation data lists, among others, the ISTQB certificate, test automation, Jenkins, unit tests and software testing. The courses on this page are arranged in four skill areas after them.
ISTQB is the international certification scheme for testers, with a foundation level and advanced levels in areas such as test management, test analysis and test automation. The catalog has courses at several of the levels.
Who provides the testing courses?
8 providers offer at least one course on this page. The largest are Informator Utbildning (9 courses), Nackademin (3) and IT-Högskolan (2).
Every provider puts its own name on every certificate it issues, and the name on the course card leads to the provider page.
How were the courses on this page chosen?
The skills come from the Swedish Public Employment Service occupation data, which describes what the job asks for. Under each skill are the courses in the catalog whose name is about that skill, and each course appears under one heading.
Matches are read from the course title and not from the provider description, because a description mentions much that the course is not about. A word counts only where it starts a word in the title, and titles that only resemble the subject are excluded by name.
A heading with no courses is not shown, and the list is never filled out with courses that do not belong. The counts change when the catalog does, because every figure is read from the catalog when the page is shown.
Are the courses online or on site?
The catalog records a format for 8 of the courses here: 2 online and 6 blended. Over 10 courses record no format.
Where the provider has filled in the format it is on the course card. Where it is empty, the provider is the person to ask.
Do the courses qualify for Swedish student finance (CSN)?
4 courses here belong to vocational college (yrkeshögskola), and the rest are shorter courses from commercial providers and industry bodies.
Student finance from CSN belongs to vocational college and other regulated forms of education. Whether a course is open for applications, what it costs and when it next starts are questions for the provider.
What does a verified certificate prove?
That the provider named on the certificate issued it to the person named on it, and that an employer can check it directly with the provider.
Together they have issued over 200 certificates. 7 courses have issued at least one, and the rest have not issued any yet.
Where these numbers come from.
- Swedish Public Employment Service occupation data (JobTech Taxonomy) The description of the job, the occupational group in SSYK 2012 and the skills under each heading. Open data under the CC0 licence, fetched for this page and stored here. The English wording is our translation.
- The True Upskill catalog The courses, providers and certificate counts are read from the catalog when the page is shown, after duplicate course pages are removed.
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