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ISTQB® Certified Tester - Testing with Generative AI (CT-GenAI)
Course 3170
2 DAY COURSE

Course Outline

The ISTQB® Certified Tester – Testing with Generative AI (CT-GenAI) certification equips professionals with the knowledge and skills to apply Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), and AI testing tools throughout the software testing lifecycle. This globally recognized certification demonstrates your ability to use AI effectively in real-world testing scenarios.

ISTQB® Certified Tester - Testing with Generative AI (CT-GenAI) Benefits

  • In this course, you will:

    • Generate test cases, acceptance criteria, and synthetic test data using AI
    • Use prompt engineering techniques to improve test accuracy and automation
    • Identify and mitigate AI-specific risks such as hallucinations, bias, and data privacy breaches
    • Integrate LLM-powered infrastructure (RAG, LLMOps, AI agents) into test environments
    • Plan and execute an organizational AI testing strategy

  • Prerequisites

    • Candidates for the ISTQB® Advanced Level Test Automation Engineering certificate must hold the ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate (CTFL).
    • No programming experience required.

ISTQB GenAI Testing Certification Course Outline

Learning Objectives

1. Introduction to Generative AI for Software Testing

  • Core concepts of GenAI, LLMs, tokenization, embeddings, multimodal models
  • Applications of AI in the testing lifecycle

2. Prompt Engineering for Effective Software Testing

  • Structured prompts, chaining, few-shot and meta prompting
  • Applying prompts to test design and automation

3. Managing Risks of Generative AI in Software Testing

  • Addressing hallucinations, bias, non-determinism, and security/privacy issues
  • Ethical and regulatory considerations
  • Assessing environmental impact of AI

4. LLM-Powered Test Infrastructure

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and LLMOps
  • Using AI agents for automated test processes

5. Deploying and Integrating GenAI in Test Organisations

  • Creating an organizational roadmap for GenAI adoption
  • Building AI testing capabilities in teams
  • Adapting processes for AI-enabled environments
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Note about the Certification Exam

When you register for the course, you will be prompted to choose Y/N to take the exam. Please select yes, as all HHS CISO employees are required to attempt the exam if one is offered for the course. Please be advised, if your course if funded by DIR, the Certification Organization has agreed to provide DIR the pass/fail status of your exam. DIR will only share this information in an aggregated report to state leadership that reflects total exam pass or fails. No individual names of any students will be included in any reports.

DIR requires that you submit the request for your exam voucher within one month of the last day of your course. DIR requires that you take your exam within six months of the last day of your course.

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