Certified Tester Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS)
The ISTQB® Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS) certification focuses on how to organize and improve quality and testing across multiple teams in an agile organization. It also covers how to approach quality and testing at a strategic level in order to achieve higher business agility in an organization. CT-ATLaS covers how to scale testing and quality assurance efforts by fostering a quality mindset and culture across the organization. This includes shifting from a traditional test management approach typically used in sequential development models to a quality assistance approach which builds on Lean and Agile principles and values. It also includes how to adopt common Lean and Agile techniques and processes for analyzing and solving problems and how to use them to improve testing and quality in the organization.
Audience
As Agile Test Leadership at Scale focuses on the organizational level, it supplements the Advanced Level Agile Technical Tester focusing on technical practices. It also supplements and is complementary to the ISTQB® Advanced Level Test Management certification, which focuses on projects and not on the organizational aspects. In addition, Advanced Level Test Management covers traditional approaches and hybrid approaches whereas Agile Test Leadership at Scale focuses only on agile approaches. The Advanced Level Agile Test Leadership at Scale certification is aimed at people who work in an organization which is pursuing agility at scale or business agility, and who already understand agile and agile testing. This certification will be a great benefit for people working in roles such as: Test Manager, Head of Testing, Test Analyst, Quality Engineer, Quality Assurance, Quality Coach, Member of an Agile Team, Member of the leader group of multiple Agile Teams, Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master. To obtain this certification candidates must hold either a valid Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate 4.0 (CTFL 4.0) certification OR a valid Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate prior to the CTFL 4.0 plus a valid Certified Tester Foundation Level Agile Tester certificate, and have sufficient practical experience. Refer to the relevant Exam Board to determine the specific practical experience criteria.
Content
No. of Questions: 40- Total Points: 71
- Passing Score: 47
- Exam Length (mins): 120
Exam Structure
Business Outcomes
- An Agile Test Leadership at Scale certificate holder can:
- Foster a value-driven quality mindset and culture
- Co-create and implement an organizational test strategy that develops quality and testing capabilities
- Continuously improve test processes at an organizational level addressing test challenges in the context of Agile at scale product development
More Information
Chapter 1 Quality Assistance
Chapter 1 introduces quality assistance as an approach to quality management that is crucial to developing and sustaining a value-driven organization. It covers how quality assistance fits with known software testing concepts such as test management, quality control, and quality assurance. Agile Test Leadership at Scale focuses on enabling others in the organization to perform quality and testing responsibilities to foster a quality mindset and culture at the organizational level. Chapter 1 emphasizes four important skills needed to build competencies and scale quality and testing within an organization.
Chapter 2 Improve Quality and Flow in a Value-Driven Organization
Chapter 2 establishes methods to identify and optimize development and operational value streams. It describes what a Value Stream is, the notation used to create a Value Stream Map, and the importance of understanding the Lean methodology behind it. The chapter continues with guidance on analyzing value streams from a testing perspective and suggests relevant metrics. It concludes by highlighting how eliminating waste contributes to improving Quality and Flow in a Value-Driven Organization.
Chapter 3 Continuous Improvement of Quality and Testing
Chapter 3 expands on the improvement methods from Chapter 2 and introduces additional techniques to support consistent and sustainable problem solving. It explores approaches such as the PDCA cycle and introduces system thinking and root cause analysis to identify quality and testing issues in value streams. It also explains the causal loop diagram technique and how to consistently apply problem-solving methods across an organization.
Chapter 4 Organizational Test Strategy in a Value-Driven Organization
Chapter 4 introduces how to build and implement an Organizational Test Strategy. It also highlights DevOps practices and their importance within the test strategy. It offers techniques for validating whether testing aligns with core business and technical needs. The chapter explains the role of Agile Test Leadership in a value-driven organization and its associated responsibilities.
Chapter 5 Test Processes in a Value-Driven Organization
Chapter 5 is dedicated to analyzing test processes in a Value-Driven Organization and explores the challenges of testing within Agile at scale. It covers agile practices to coordinate testing across agile and non-agile teams, defines key metrics for test and flow transparency, and explores which test activities should be handled by stream-aligned teams versus specialized service teams.
The Future
The ATLaS Task Force is committed to continuously improving the certification. Suggestions are welcome via the Contact Us page (please select the correct category in the form).
