Learn defect lifecycle, bug tracking, Quality Assurance (QA) & Quality Control (QC) KPIs, metrics analysis, & reporting
Master Defect Management, QA Reporting & KPIs – Elevate Your Software Quality with Actionable Metrics & KPIs
What you’ll learn
- Selecting the right QA metrics for your project.
- Interpreting trends in test result data.
- Aligning QA metrics with business objectives.
- Detecting quality issues early using metrics.
- Integrating metrics into sprint planning.
- Using KPIs to support go/no-go decisions.
- Setting metric-based quality gates.
- Using data to justify QA resource needs.
- Visualizing test progress over time.
- Monitoring automation stability with key indicators.
- Analyzing root causes of recurring defects.
- Supporting team retrospectives with hard QA data.
- Driving test strategy with measurable outcomes.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 2 lectures • 5min.
- Defect Management Metrics & KPIs –> 6 lectures • 2hr 42min.
- Testing Metrics & KPIs –> 2 lectures • 51min.
- Test Automation Metrics & KPIs –> 3 lectures • 1hr 9min.
- Bonus Section –> 1 lecture • 3min.
Requirements
Master Defect Management, QA Reporting & KPIs – Elevate Your Software Quality with Actionable Metrics & KPIs
Want to gain full control over your QA process and confidently communicate software quality to stakeholders? This course is your complete guide to defect management, QA reporting, and quality metrics — designed to help you lead your QA efforts with data, not guesswork.
“Defect Management & QA Reporting: Metrics & KPIs” is a hands-on, practical course that shows you how to track, analyze, and improve your QA process using industry-proven metrics and reporting practices. From managing the defect lifecycle to building KPI-driven dashboards, you’ll learn how to drive results in both Agile and traditional environments.
What You Will Learn
- The complete defect lifecycle from detection to closure (and everything in between)
- Key QA and QC KPIs: defect density, leakage rate, test coverage, test execution status, MTTR, and more
- How to build effective QA dashboards and reporting frameworks for stakeholders
- Techniques for root cause analysis, defect triage, and severity-priority alignment
- Strategies to avoid common pitfalls in bug tracking and status reporting
- Aligning QA metrics with business goals to show ROI of testing efforts
This course gives you not just theory—but practical templates, real-world examples, and step-by-step demonstrations to apply what you learn right away.
Who This Course is For
- QA Engineers and Manual Testers who want to bring clarity and structure to their defect tracking
- Automation Engineers seeking to integrate defect and test metrics into CI/CD pipelines
- QA Leads and Managers looking to improve visibility, traceability, and reporting practices
- Scrum Masters and Agile Teams who need reliable quality insights per sprint or release
- Business Analysts and Product Managers interested in understanding and interpreting quality reports
What Makes This Course Different
Most QA courses focus only on test execution. This one gives you the data-driven backbone of QA work — metrics, reporting, and quality control. You’ll learn how to turn bugs into valuable insights, how to build trust with stakeholders using data, and how to level up your QA career through analytics and visibility.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to track defects with confidence, build reports that influence decisions, and measure QA success with the right KPIs.
Sign up now and transform your QA efforts into a measurable, strategic force for software quality.