Get the QA benefits of AI while mitigating its risks.
Protect your company – and your career – by moving your software quality team up to the ASTQB AI Assurance Pro™ standard. It’s easy with the ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator™ because it quickly upskills your team to the ASTQB AI Assurance Pro™ level. This allows you to benefit from AI’s QA capabilities while mitigating its risks. It’s good for your company, your team, and your career.
How does AI create risks in our systems?
AI can appear to be behaving correctly but still fail in ways that untrained personnel won’t notice until the damage is done. Many organizations rely on a manual review of AI outputs by department staff or product owners, but that approach often misses:
- Edge cases and unusual inputs
- Model and data drift over time
- Bias and fairness issues
- Prompt sensitivity and inconsistent outputs
- Gaps between intended behavior and real-world behavior
When AI behavior is wrong, the impact can be operational, legal, financial, and reputational. The best time to address this is before AI is deeply embedded in business processes.
Can’t our staff just look at what AI is doing to know it’s okay?
Studies show that trained, certified testers catch up to 99% of errors. Untrained “amateurs” catch less than 50%.
AI assurance requires structured testing skills plus AI-specific techniques. Organizations – and their management – need a defensible way to confirm AI behaves as intended under real conditions, and they need that capability as soon as AI is introduced, and then continually because AI models are ever-changing.
The ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator delivers:
- Training that builds practical competence, not just awareness
- Repeatable methods teams can use immediately on real AI workflows
- Objective validation of your team’s capabilities through credible certification exams
How does the ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator work?
The ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator™ is a short, intensive, onsite or remote upskilling program for working professionals, designed for cross-functional company cohorts.
It is built around measurable outcomes:
- Learning objectives tied to clear business outcomes
- Applied exercises with realistic scenarios
- Certification exams that prove retention of knowledge, as opposed to simply sitting through the training (e.g., industry-recognized certification versusthe “participation certificate)
What will ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator participants learn?
1) Testing Fundamentals
- Requirements thinking and testable acceptance criteria
- Risk-based testing to focus effort where it matters
- Test design techniques for stronger coverage
- Defect reporting that drives fast, effective fixes
2) How to Test AI Systems
- Data quality checks and data-related failure modes
- Model behavior testing across scenarios and boundaries
- Bias and fairness checks with practical interpretation
- Robustness concepts and ways to challenge assumptions
- Drift concepts and monitoring-oriented thinking
3) How to Use AI for Testing
- Accelerated test design with guardrails
- Improved coverage through structured variation of scenarios
- Test data generation and refinement
- Stronger exploratory testing with disciplined prompts and review
Why is the ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator credible?
The ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator is grounded in established, internationally recognized certification syllabi and exams delivered through the non-profit organizations ASTQB and AT*SQA, plus their accredited training providers.
The program path includes an examinable body of knowledge found in the following:
- ISTQB Foundation Level certification
- ISTQB AI Testing certification
- ISTQB Testing with Generative AI certification
These certification exams provide objective proof of capability and retention of knowledge so you can reassure management and your customers that you are maximizing quality and minimizing risk.
How is the ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator delivered?
- On-site or remote cohorts designed for working professionals
- Instruction plus applied exercises tied to real scenarios and realistic constraints
- On-site or online exams that provide objective measures of the retention of knowledge and skills
Who is the ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator designed for?
The Accelerator is designed for anyone inside an organization who influences, builds, validates, governs, or relies on AI-driven systems, including:
- Department teams
- Domain and subject matter experts
- Software and test professionals
- Product, program, and project leaders
- Data, analytics, and AI practitioners
- Security, risk, compliance, and audit roles
- Operations and process owners
AI outcomes affect business decisions, customer experiences, safety, compliance, or financial results, so everyone involved needs to understand AI assurance.
What will the ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator give our organization?
- A repeatable enterprise path to build AI assurance capability quickly
- Reduced AI deployment risk through structured testing and validation
- More consistent AI behavior in real workflows, not just demos
- Objective proof of skills through certification exams
How do we get started with the ASTQB AI Assurance Accelerator?
Contact the ASTQB support team to discuss options, volume discounts, and accredited training provider options.
