ISTQB CT-QDO
ISTQB® CT - Quality in DevOps
Опис
The ISTQB® Certified Tester Quality in DevOps (CT-QDO) certification introduces modern quality assurance and testing practices within DevOps environments. It helps testers, quality engineers, developers, and operations professionals understand how quality can be integrated across continuous delivery pipelines, collaborative workflows, and automated deployment processes. Participants learn how to support fast feedback, resilient systems, and shared responsibility for quality through continuous testing and quality engineering practices.
Chapter 1: Foundations of Quality in DevOps
- Understand the key concepts, principles, and culture of DevOps.
- Learn about the “wall of confusion” and how collaboration improves software delivery.
- Explore DORA metrics and how delivery and operational performance are measured.
- Understand how quality assurance supports the three ways of DevOps.
- Recognize the benefits, risks, and common pitfalls of DevOps adoption.
- Differentiate DevOps team roles, patterns, and anti-patterns.
- Gain insight into Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and resilience practices.
Chapter 2: Quality Assurance in DevOps
- Learn how to implement quality assurance activities within DevOps workflows.
- Compare testing objectives in DevOps, Agile, and sequential development models.
- Understand continuous testing and its role in CI/CD pipelines.
- Explore how pull requests support collaboration, feedback, and quality improvement.
- Understand quality assurance practices in continuous discovery.
- Learn how experimentation and A/B testing support product quality and decision-making.
Chapter 3: Continuous Testing and Feedback
- Understand how automation supports traceability between the test basis and testware.
- Learn the benefits of automated test data management and test environment management.
- Explore how regression testing integrates into CI/CD pipeline activities.
- Recognize the value of manual testing, exploratory testing, and crowd testing in DevOps.
- Learn how quality hunting events support a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
- Understand API testing and contract testing approaches in modern architectures.
Chapter 4: DevOps Tooling and Technical Practices
- Understand the capabilities of tools supporting quality assurance and testing in DevOps.
- Explore release strategies such as canary releases, rolling releases, and blue-green deployments.
- Learn the concepts of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated environment provisioning.
- Understand feature toggles and how they support controlled software releases.
- Recognize branching strategies used in collaborative development workflows.
- Explore Chaos Engineering practices and how they improve resilience.
- Understand the role of Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) in configuration management and security.
- Learn the fundamentals of containerization and consistent application deployment.
Цільова аудиторія
The ISTQB® Certified Tester Quality in DevOps (CT-QDO) certification is designed for professionals who want to strengthen their understanding of quality assurance, testing, and collaboration within modern DevOps environments.
This certification is ideal for individuals working in organizations that adopt continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, and quality engineering practices. It helps professionals understand how testing and quality assurance evolve in DevOps cultures focused on fast feedback, resilience, automation, and shared responsibility for quality.
Whether you are already working in DevOps environments or transitioning from traditional or Agile software development approaches, CT-QDO provides practical knowledge and terminology to support continuous testing and reliable software delivery.
This certification is ideal for professionals who want to:
- Understand how quality assurance and testing support DevOps principles and practices.
- Improve collaboration between development, testing, operations, and business stakeholders.
- Strengthen their knowledge of continuous testing, CI/CD pipelines, and quality engineering.
- Learn how automation, monitoring, and feedback loops contribute to resilient systems.
- Explore modern practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), feature toggles, containerization, and Chaos Engineering.
- Support faster and more reliable software delivery through risk-based and collaborative quality approaches.
The certification is particularly relevant for software testers, test engineers, quality engineers, developers, DevOps engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), automation engineers, and test managers working in modern software delivery environments.
In addition, professionals such as Scrum masters, Agile coaches, product owners, release managers, business analysts, and quality managers will benefit from a deeper understanding of how quality assurance supports continuous delivery and operational resilience in DevOps organizations.
Advance your career, strengthen your DevOps quality skills, and contribute to reliable, resilient, and high-quality software delivery with ISTQB CT-QDO.
Вимоги
- Have successfully passed the ISTQB® CTFL Certification exam and hold the certificate.
- First experiences working in a DevOps environment are recommended, but not required.
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