Build test automation that is useful, maintainable, and connected to business value.
Protect your company’s software quality efforts by moving your QA team up to the ASTQB Test Automation Pro™ standard. The ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator™ helps teams build practical automation knowledge across testing fundamentals, automation engineering, and automation strategy. This helps your organization avoid wasted automation effort, improve coverage, reduce repetitive manual work, and make better decisions about what should and should not be automated. It is good for your company, your QA team, and your career.
The ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator™ gets your teams up to speed in as little as one week with intensive training focused on test automation engineering and test automation strategy.
The ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator program is offered by ASTQB-accredited training providers who offer approved courses for ISTQB Foundation Level, ISTQB Test Automation Engineering, and ISTQB Test Automation Strategy. See the list of ASTQB-accredited training providers.
Why do test automation efforts fail?
Test automation can deliver major quality and efficiency gains, but only when it is designed, implemented, and managed correctly. Many organizations invest in tools and scripts before they have a clear strategy. That often leads to:
- Automated tests that are brittle and expensive to maintain
- Poor choices about which tests should be automated
- Automation that does not fit the team’s development process
- Frameworks that work for a few people but do not scale across teams
- High maintenance costs that reduce the return on automation
- False confidence from automated checks that do not cover the right risks
When automation is treated only as scripting, teams can create a large set of tests without creating real business value. The best time to fix this is before automation becomes hard to change, hard to trust, and hard to explain to management.
Can’t our team just automate more tests?
More automation is not always better automation. Useful test automation depends on good testing knowledge, solid engineering decisions, and a strategy that connects automation to risk, coverage, feedback speed, and return on investment.
Teams need a defensible way to decide what to automate, how to design automated tests, how to maintain automation assets, and how to measure whether automation is helping the organization. The ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator builds that capability through internationally recognized ISTQB certification paths.
The ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator delivers:
- Training that builds practical competence, not just tool awareness
- Repeatable methods teams can apply to real automation work
- Objective validation of your team’s capabilities through credible certification exams
- A shared vocabulary for testers, automation engineers, developers, managers, and DevOps teams
How does the ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator work?
The ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator™ is a short, intensive, onsite or remote upskilling program for working professionals, designed for company cohorts that need stronger test automation capability. It is offered by ASTQB-accredited training providers.
It is built around measurable outcomes:
- Learning objectives tied to real automation outcomes
- Applied exercises with realistic test automation scenarios
- Certification exams that prove retention of knowledge, as opposed to simply sitting through training
- A path toward the ASTQB Test Automation Pro™ designation
What will ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator participants learn?
1) Testing Fundamentals
- Requirements thinking and testable acceptance criteria
- Risk-based testing to focus automation where it matters
- Test design techniques for stronger coverage
- Defect reporting that supports fast, effective fixes
- How automation fits into the broader testing process
2) Test Automation Engineering
- How to build useful and maintainable automated tests
- How to design and support test automation architecture
- How to choose appropriate automation approaches and tools
- How to manage automation assets, dependencies, and environments
- How to improve reliability, maintainability, and execution efficiency
3) Test Automation Strategy
- How to decide which tests should be automated
- How to connect automation to risk, coverage, and return on investment
- How to guide automation across Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and traditional delivery models
- How to manage adoption, governance, maintenance, and scaling
- How to explain automation value to managers and stakeholders
Why is the ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator credible?
The ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator is grounded in established, internationally recognized certification syllabi and exams delivered through ASTQB-accredited training providers.
The program path includes an examinable body of knowledge found in the following:
- ISTQB Foundation Level certification
- ISTQB Test Automation Engineering certification
- ISTQB Test Automation Strategy certification
These certification exams provide objective proof of capability and retention of knowledge, helping you reassure management and customers that your automation work is based on sound testing, engineering, and strategy.
How is the ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator delivered?
- On-site or remote cohorts designed for working professionals
- Instruction plus applied exercises tied to realistic automation challenges
- On-site or online exams that provide objective measures of knowledge retention
- Team-focused delivery options for organizations building automation capability across QA groups
Who is the ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator designed for?
The Accelerator is designed for people inside an organization who build, manage, guide, support, or rely on test automation, including:
- Manual testers moving into automation
- Automation engineers
- QA analysts and software testers
- Test leads and QA managers
- Developers who support automated testing
- Agile and DevOps team members
- Project, product, and program leaders
- Consultants who advise teams on automation practices
Automation affects release speed, quality, cost, and confidence. Everyone involved needs to understand how to make automation useful, sustainable, and aligned with business goals.
What will the ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator give our organization?
- A repeatable enterprise path to build test automation capability quickly
- Better automation decisions based on risk, value, and maintainability
- Stronger test automation architecture and implementation practices
- More reliable automation across teams and delivery pipelines
- Objective proof of skills through certification exams
- A path toward ASTQB Test Automation Pro recognition for qualified professionals
How do we get started with the ASTQB Test Automation Accelerator?
Contact the ASTQB support team to discuss options, volume discounts, and accredited training provider options.
