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A4Q Practitioner in Agile Quality 2.0

Agile software development allows organizations to respond to changing market dynamics quickly and get to market faster. Using agile approaches to deliver quality at speed can result in products that delight customers and create real business value.

The A4Q Practitioner in Agile Quality (PAQ) immerses participants in agile practices with an emphasis on quality. A Practitioner in Agile Quality can use agile as an effective pathway to accelerate the delivery of quality software.

» Build better quality software – deploy faster.
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» Exams are available worldwide.

A4Q PAQ is for any practitioner in agile who wants to gain recognition with a recognized certification in agile quality.

The A4Q PAQ certification is for anyone, and everyone, in the team who needs to continuously deliver better products, services and user experiences using agile including:

Members of Agile, Scrum or DevOps teams (Product Owners, Scrum Masters) wanting to build better quality products

Development members (Testers, Developers, Business Analysts) wanting to understand and apply agile quality approaches

Managers seeking to drive quality and efficiency in agile delivery

Hands-on experiential learning

A4Q PAQ is a practical focussed, accelerated learning course – developing and attesting to hands-on skills (including exploratory testing exercises using the “Ticketz” application).

The A4Q PAQ training course extends existing agile, testing and software quality management theory inspiring and building confidence through exercises and experiential learning aligned to the PAQ Competency Framework.

Agile Quality Mindset – Put into practice all the soft skills appropriate to the Agile Quality Mind Set
Faster Delivery – Optimize delivery through implementing automation practices where feasible
Scalability – Identify additional quality risks and changes required to effectively scale processes based on team size and/or distribution.

Build Quality In, Quality Engineering Principles – Implement the team activities to ensure the product quality objectives for each persona are met from inception (shift left) throughout the product lifecycle.

Course Content

Roles & Responsibilities
Product Backlog
Business Value & Priority
Refinement
Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Ready and Done
Test Strategy
Quality Strategy
Risk Assessment
Estimation & Velocity

Anti-Patterns / Patterns
Code Quality
Refactoring
Automation
CI/CD Pipeline
TDD/BDD
Exploratory Testing
MVP and MMF
Acceptance Criteria versus Fit for Purpose

Retrospectives
People, Process,
Product Evaluation
(Continuous) Improvement
Culture
Follow up on Results
Team & Collaboration
Retrospectives
Overviews – DevOps, Scaling
Agile, End to End (E2E in agile)

A4Q Practitioner in Agile Quality 2.0: Exam Details

The A4Q PAQ exam is in the form of a Competency Assessment that verifies the practical application of Agile principles.
The assessment takes place at the end of the course, or it can be separately scheduled to be taken via remote proctor. Candidates who pass the assessment are awarded the A4Q PAQ certificate. Any candidate failing will have an opportunity to schedule a re-sit with their training provider.

The assessment is ‘hands-on’ on where candidates are given a product backlog release which includes user stories, associated design documentation plus a ‘multi-drop’ application seeded with defects. Candidates will be given instructions as to what is expected of them during the practical assessment and the opportunity to create the work products required.

Prerequisites:

This is a practitioner’s course. Candidates are expected to have met one of the agile knowledge prerequisites which can be demonstrated by holding certifications such as iSQI® Certified Agile Essentials (CAE), iSQI® Certified Scrum Master Pro ISTQB® Foundation Level Agile Tester OR have two years professional experience working in Agile.

Due to the practical experiential learning approach to this course, there is assumed knowledge which, if not met, will make it difficult for candidates to complete the course and assessments within the timeboxed course.

Candidates are expected to be able to already apply basic practices and techniques, such as:

Agile Manifesto principles and Scrum events
Basic test terminology
Knowledge of the basic SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

The exam for the A4Q Practitioner in Agile Quality 2.0 is available at:

GASQ
iSQI

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