ISTQBCertified Tester Agile Test Leadership at Scale
The ISTQB® Agile Test Leadership at Scale (CT-ATLaS) certification equips experienced testing professionals to organize and improve quality across multiple agile teams. It focuses on shifting from traditional test management to a quality assistance approach, enabling you to foster a quality mindset, implement organizational test strategies, and drive continuous improvement for greater business agility. This certification is for those who already understand agile and agile testing and want to lead quality at scale.
574 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
5Domains
22Objectives
136Concepts
574Questions
CT-ATLAS Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the CT-ATLAS exam measures.
- Definition of Quality Assistance
- Role of Quality Assistance in Agile
- Quality Assistance vs. Quality Assurance
- Principles of Quality Assistance
- Benefits of Quality Assistance
- Quality Assistance Mindset
- Agile Testing Roles and Responsibilities
- Collaborative Quality Practices
- Quality Coaching and Mentoring
- Facilitating Quality Workshops
- Quality Metrics and Reporting
- Risk-Based Quality Assistance
- Continuous Improvement in Quality
- Value Stream Mapping Fundamentals
- Value Stream Identification
- Current State Mapping
- Waste Identification
- Flow and Quality Analysis
- Future State Design
- Facilitation Techniques
- Action Planning and Implementation
- Definition of a Value Stream
- Value Stream vs. Process
- Value Stream Mapping
- Value Stream Roles and Responsibilities
- Value Stream Metrics
- Value Stream in Agile at Scale
- Value Stream Mapping Fundamentals
- Identifying Value Streams
- Mapping Current State
- Analyzing Waste and Delays
- Designing Future State
- Implementing Improvements
- Measuring Value Stream Performance
- Value Stream Metrics Definition
- Flow Metrics Analysis
- Quality Metrics Analysis
- Metric Interpretation for Improvement
- Definition of Waste in Agile
- Categories of Waste
- Waste in Value Streams
- Techniques for Waste Identification
- Impact of Waste on Flow and Quality
- Prioritizing Waste Elimination
- PDCA Cycle Overview
- Plan Phase
- Do Phase
- Check Phase
- Act Phase
- Applying PDCA in Agile Testing
- PDCA cycle fundamentals
- Embedding PDCA into organizational processes
- PDCA roles and responsibilities
- PDCA culture and leadership
- Measuring PDCA effectiveness
- Systems Thinking Fundamentals
- Interconnectedness in Testing
- Feedback Loops
- Emergent Behavior
- Leverage Points
- Systems Mapping
- Applying Systems Thinking
- Root Cause Analysis Techniques
- Applying Root Cause Analysis
- Continuous Improvement Integration
- Causal Loop Diagram Fundamentals
- Elements of Causal Loop Diagrams
- Feedback Loops
- Loop Polarity Determination
- Diagram Construction
- Interpretation and Analysis
- Application to Agile Testing
- DevOps Principles
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Continuous Deployment
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Automated Testing in DevOps
- Shift-Left Testing
- Shift-Right Testing
- Monitoring and Observability
- DevOps Culture and Collaboration
- Value-Driven Test Strategy Definition
- Strategic Alignment with Business Objectives
- Test Strategy Creation Process
- Implementation Planning
- Governance and Monitoring
- Scaling Test Strategy Across Teams
- Business-Technical Alignment Criteria
- Value-Driven Testing Prioritization
- Stakeholder Needs Assessment
- Alignment Validation Techniques
- Continuous Alignment Monitoring
- Organizational Level Test Strategy
- Product Level Test Strategy
- Operational Level Test Strategy
- Alignment Across Levels
- Value-Driven Prioritization
- Agile Test Leadership Mindset
- Value-Driven Test Strategy
- Scaling Test Leadership
- Role of Test Leader in Agile
- Transition Challenges
- Continuous Improvement in Testing
- Agile at Scale Product Development Challenges
- Coordination and Communication Challenges
- Integration and System-Level Testing Challenges
- Test Environment and Infrastructure Challenges
- Test Automation and Tooling Challenges
- Quality Ownership and Accountability Challenges
- Alignment with Business and Customer Value
- Continuous Testing and Feedback Challenges
- Identify coordination challenges
- Define coordination strategies
- Establish communication channels
- Align test processes
- Manage dependencies
- Integrate test results
- Facilitate collaboration
- Structuring challenging test activities
- Structuring challenging test processes
- Aligning test structure with value delivery
- Managing complexity in test activities
- Integrating test processes with agile practices
- Role of stream-aligned teams in testing
- Role of specialized teams in testing
- Collaboration between stream-aligned and specialized teams
- Test activities distribution
- Impact on test strategy
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