ISTQB Certified Tester Agile Technical Tester (CTAL-ATT)

Who is the course for?

The ISTQB  Agile Technical Tester Advanced Level is principally aimed at test practitioners who have achieved an advanced point in their careers in software testing and are expecting to be actively involved in agile teams and technical testing, including requirements engineering, test automation and deployment and delivery, and who want to increase their knowledge and skills beyond the levels covered by the Foundation and Intermediate qualifications.

This includes people in roles such as testers, test analysts, test engineers, test consultants, test managers, user acceptance testers and software developers. This Advanced Level qualification is also appropriate for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of software testing, such as project managers, quality managers, software development managers, business analysts and management consultants.

 About ISTQB and the ‘Certified Tester’ Scheme 

Founded in 2002, ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) is a not-for-profit association comprising 66 national boards (including the UKITB) to provide worldwide coverage

ISTQB has defined the Advanced certification as part of their ‘Certified Tester’ scheme that, with over 240,000 certifications, has become the de facto world-wide standard for software testing qualifications. 

The ‘Certified Tester’ scheme: 

• provides a set of professional qualifications widely-recognised by employers, customers and peers; 
• enables software suppliers to hire and train certified testers and thereby gain commercial advantage over their competitors by advertising their tester recruitment and development policies; and 
• enables comparison of testing skills across different countries, testers to move across country borders more easily, and multi-national/international projects to have a common understanding of testing issues.

Next Steps: Follow-on Courses After ISTQB Advanced Agile Technical Tester Course

After achieving the ISTQB Advanced Agile Technical Tester certification, you’re prepared to take the next step in your software testing career by exploring further modules within the Certified Tester Scheme.

Core Stream Modules
These modules are technology, methodology, and application domain-agnostic, building directly on the knowledge acquired at the Foundation Level.

• Advanced Test Analyst
• Advanced Technical Test Analyst
• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager

Specialist Stream
For those looking to specialise further, this stream offers courses focusing on specific quality characteristics, test approaches, test activities, or industry-specific testing knowledge.

• Acceptance Testing
• Mobile Application Testing
• Model-Based Tester
• Security Tester
• Test Automation Engineer

Holders of the ISTQB Advanced Agile Technical Tester certification are encouraged to explore these options to stay current with the latest practices and to enhance their professional development in the field of software testing and QA.

Learn more about the ISTQB Advanced Agile Technical Tester Course

As we all know, Agile is very much mainstream and the foremost method used to develop major application for business.

In the beginning Agile was treated as a very much let’s get it done method, but lacked the controls and approach needed for quality deliveries. Until now, we have relied upon the ISTQB Foundation Agile Extension course to give us some basic Agile Testing skills (which it does very well). However, the recent launch of the ISTQB Advanced Technical Agile Tester course takes us very much beyond the Foundation and helps imbue the learning and skills required to help develop larger, more complex Agile applications.