About AT*SQA

Purposes

The Association for Testing and Software Quality Assurance Global Certification Body, Inc., AT*SQA, is organized operated for the following charitable, educational and scientific purposes:

  1. To provide education in the field of software testing, including provision of educational and training materials, preparation and dissemination of educational materials and examination resources, and preparation and administration of certification and re-certification examinations;
  2. To support and disseminate new and relevant knowledge about research and practice in software testing;
  3. To receive, administer, distribute and expend grants, funds, gifts, donations, bequests, contributions and other receipts of money or property of every kind or nature in furtherance of the Corporation's charitable, educational and scientific objectives and purposes;
  4. To do any and all things necessary or incidental to the accomplishment of these purposes; and

AT*SQA Officers

President
Taz Daughtrey
Central Virginia Community College
Lynchburg, VA

Treasurer
Earl Burba, CTFL, CTFL-AT, CTFL-UT, CTFL-PT, CTFL-MBT, CTFL-AuT, CMT, CTAL-SEC, CTAL-TAE, CTAL Full, CTEL-TM Full
Public Consulting Group, Technology Consulting
Morrison, CO

AT*SQA Staff

Executive Director
Dave Stevens

Official List of U.S. Certified Testers

Are You on This Prestigious List?

This is the official list that U.S. employers use to verify if you have ISTQB software testing certification, ASTQB mobile testing certification and/or IQBBA business analyst certification. The only way to appear on this list is if you register for your certification exam through AT*SQA, the global ISTQB exam provider for ASTQB, the American Software Testing Qualifications Board.

Podcasts

Innovation in Software Testing Education: Lessons from an International Technology Initiative

It’s a question that has immense importance to those concerned with software quality and workforce development. How do you impart software testing knowledge and skills to individuals with varying educational levels and technology background (perhaps none)?

Article

The Software Quality Workforce of the Future: Hire or Reskill?

Fortune recently published a column by McKinsey & Company entitled "Why Legacy Companies Must Reinvent — or Die." The authors predict massive changes across industries due to "a perfect storm of hardware and software — such as sensors, deep learning, AI, next-generation chipsets, and virtual reality — that has reached sufficient maturity to enable new things (for example, autonomous vehicles) and new business models (such as virtual warehousing)."

Webinar

14 Lessons in Building Quality Software

It’s true, quality in software development projects doesn’t just happen on its own. Quality usually doesn’t happen when the project depends on a small group of heroes to ride in on their white horses and wave their shiny swords to vanquish the problems. Quality happens when careful planning is done, when the entire project team maintains a quality-conscious approach every step, when problems don’t escape from the phase in which they were introduced. A quality product is a team effort. It’s planned and predictable. It’s without heroes, and it’s faster and cheaper than a low quality effort.