Course overview
The ISTQB Advanced Agile Technical Tester course extends the broad understanding of testing acquired at Foundation Level to enable the role of Agile Technical Tester to be performed.
This three-day tutor-led course includes lectures, exercises and practical work, as well as exam preparation. The examination is after the course either online or at your local Pearson VUE testing centre, so allowing adequate time for revision. It is fully-accredited by UKITB on behalf of ISTQB and has been rated SFIAplus level 5 by the BCS.
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Course highlights
- Duration: 3-day intensive training (9 am – 5 pm)
- Format: available in Virtual format
- Content: covers the full ISTQB Advanced Agile Technical Tester syllabus—including TDD, BDD, test automation, continuous testing, service virtualisation, and code quality
- Exam preparation: tutor-led review of exam format and scenario-based multiple-choice questions
- Accreditation: fully accredited by UKITB on behalf of ISTQB
- SFIAplus level: rated Level 5 by BCS
- Assessment: 40 multiple-choice questions over 90 minutes (113 minutes for non-native English speakers) with a 65% pass mark; exam included
Why you should attend
- Strengthen your role as a technical tester in Agile teams
- Gain hands-on skills in automation, CI/CD, and code quality
- Master acceptance and behaviour-driven development techniques
- Improve integration testing using service virtualisation
- Enhance career prospects with a respected ISTQB Advanced certification
Who should attend
Perfect for experienced testers, test engineers, test consultants, developers, Scrum Masters, and QA professionals who already hold:
- ISTQB Foundation Certificate (CTFL)
- ISTQB Foundation Agile Tester (CTFL‑AT) or CTFL v4.0
Next steps in your testing career
Holders of this certification may progress to further ISTQB qualifications, such as Advanced Level Test Manager, Technical Test Analyst, or Test Automation Engineer within the Core stream. Specialist certifications such as Security Testing provide opportunities to deepen expertise in specific domains.
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Agile is now the dominant approach to software development, but as projects grow in complexity, basic skills are no longer enough.
The ISTQB Advanced Agile Technical Tester course builds on the Foundation Agile Extension and equips professionals with deeper technical skills needed to support high-quality, large-scale Agile delivery. Click here to watch our webinar
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.
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Entry requirements
To gain this certification, candidates must have sufficient practical experience and hold either:
- A valid Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate 4.0 (CTFL 4.0) certification
- A valid Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate prior to the CTFL 4.0
- A valid Certified Tester Foundation Level Agile Tester certificate
Exam
To receive Advanced Level certification in the module “Agile Technical Test Analyst”, candidates must hold a valid Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate and Certified Agile Foundation Extension certificate:
- 40 multiple choice questions, which contain a list of possible answers
- Duration of 90 minutes (or 113 minutes for candidates taking examinations that are not in their native language)
- A candidate must score at least 65% to pass (26/40)
- Exam is included in the price
Course objectives
After successfully completing the course and passing the exam, delegates should be able to demonstrate the following business-based outcomes:
- Apply Agile techniques to ensure tests that provide adequate coverage
- Define testable requirements within Agile Team
- Create and implement various Agile Test approaches using appropriate techniques
- Support and contribute to test automation activities in an Agile project
- Support continuous integration in an Agile Team
- Support Agile Team in continuous delivery and deployment
- Learn the service virtualization concepts
- Work with, and share information with, other team members using effective communication styles and channels
In addition, Advanced Agile Technical Testers should be able to demonstrate their skills in the following areas once they have completed the course and passed the exam:
- Analyse user stories and epics using requirements engineering techniques
- Describe the requirements engineering techniques and how they can help testers
- Create and evaluate testable acceptance criteria for a given user story using requirements engineering and test techniques
- Describe the elicitation techniques
- Apply test-driven development (TDD) in the context of a given example in an Agile project
- Understand the characteristics of a Unit test
- Understand the meaning of the mnemonic word FIRST Apply behaviour-driven development (BDD) in the context of a given user story in an Agile project
- Understand how to manage guidelines for a formulation of a scenario
- Analyse a product backlog in an Agile project to determine a way to introduce acceptance test-driven development
- Analyse the creation of a test approach using test automation, experience-based tests and back-box tests created using other approaches (including risk-based testing) for a given scenario in an Agile project
- Explain differences between Mission critical and non-critical
- Analyse user stories and epics to create test charters, and interpret their results
- Understand the use Experienced-based techniques
- Understand the importance of refactoring test cases in Agile projects
- Understand practical task-list for Refactoring Test cases
- Analyse code as part of a code review to identify defects and technical debt
- Understand Static code Analysis
- Apply data-driven and keyword-driven test techniques to develop automated test scripts
- Understand how to apply test automation to a given test approach in an Agile environment
- Understand the test automation
- Understand differences between various test approaches
- Understand the factors to consider when determining the level of test automation needed to keep up with the speed of deployment
- Understand the challenges of test automation in agile settings
- Apply continuous integration (CI) and summarize its impact on testing activities
- Understand the role of continuous testing in continuous delivery and continuous deployment
- Understand the concept of service virtualization and its role in Agile projects
- Understand the benefits of service virtualization
Amrutha | Test Analyst | –
Very Informative course. John is very knowledgeable and explains things in ways which are easy to follow.
Alexander Rhodes | Automation Tester | Full Fibre Limited –
John was great, material was good. He answered all Q’s productively, made sure we understood and were happy before moving on.
Material itself, I know it’s a newer course but more past papers/sample exams would be great appreciated as I believe it’s one of the main methods to know how prepped you are for the actual exam. Having one, makes doubts about the ability to just remember the answers for a specific paper or if you genuinely understand it. That and the current document needs proof-read, a few typos etc. but nothing major individually about it.