ISTQB Certification — Preparation and Career Path

# Practical: TMMi maturity self-assessment + QA career roadmap planner

from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import List

# ─── 1. TMMi Process Area Self-Assessment ────────────────────────────────────
@dataclass
class ProcessArea:
    name: str
    level: int   # TMMi level this PA belongs to
    score: int   # 0=Not Performed, 1=Partial, 2=Performed, 3=Managed, 4=Defined, 5=Optimized

    @property
    def maturity_label(self) -> str:
        labels = ["Not Performed", "Partially Performed", "Performed",
                  "Managed", "Defined", "Optimized"]
        return labels[self.score]

    @property
    def gap_to_next(self) -> int:
        return max(0, self.level - self.score)

process_areas = [
    ProcessArea("Test Policy & Strategy",    level=2, score=3),
    ProcessArea("Test Planning",             level=2, score=3),
    ProcessArea("Test Monitoring & Control", level=2, score=2),
    ProcessArea("Test Design & Execution",   level=2, score=4),
    ProcessArea("Incident Management",       level=2, score=3),
    ProcessArea("Test Organization",         level=3, score=1),
    ProcessArea("Test Training Program",     level=3, score=1),
    ProcessArea("Non-Functional Testing",    level=3, score=2),
    ProcessArea("Test Measurement",          level=4, score=0),
]

print("─── TMMi Process Area Assessment ─────────────────────────")
for pa in process_areas:
    gap = "⚠️ Gap" if pa.gap_to_next > 0 else "✅ OK"
    print(f"  {gap}  L{pa.level}  {pa.name:<30}  [{pa.maturity_label}]")

level2_pas = [pa for pa in process_areas if pa.level == 2]
achieved_l2 = all(pa.score >= 2 for pa in level2_pas)
print(f"\n  TMMi Level 2 Achieved: {'✅ Yes' if achieved_l2 else '❌ Not yet'}")

# ─── 2. QA Career Milestone Planner ──────────────────────────────────────────
@dataclass
class CareerMilestone:
    year_range: str
    title: str
    key_skills: List[str]
    certification: str

roadmap = [
    CareerMilestone("Year 0-2",  "Junior QA Engineer",
        ["Test case writing", "Jira + defect management", "STLC execution"],
        "ISTQB Foundation Level"),
    CareerMilestone("Year 2-4",  "QA Engineer",
        ["Test planning", "Quality metrics", "Three Amigos facilitation"],
        "Domain specialisation (performance/security/automation)"),
    CareerMilestone("Year 4-7",  "Senior QA Engineer",
        ["QA strategy", "Mentoring", "Risk-based testing leadership"],
        "ISTQB Advanced — Test Analyst or Test Manager"),
    CareerMilestone("Year 7+",   "QA Lead / Manager",
        ["Team building", "QA CoE ownership", "Executive communication"],
        "ISTQB Expert or TMMi Assessor"),
]

print("\n─── QA Career Roadmap ────────────────────────────────────")
for m in roadmap:
    print(f"  {m.year_range:<10}  {m.title}")
    print(f"    Skills:  {', '.join(m.key_skills)}")
    print(f"    Cert:    {m.certification}")