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This certification points to practical testing in Agile teams, close work with developers and product owners, and clear use of test design, exploratory testing, and continuous feedback. Find vetted freelancers holding CTFL-AT fast and with precision.
About the certification
What CTFL-AT means
The ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester, often called CTFL-AT or ISTQB Agile Tester, shows that a tester can work effectively in an Agile team. It focuses on how testing supports fast delivery, shared responsibility, and frequent change. For companies, it is a clear sign that the freelancer understands both testing basics and the rhythm of Agile work.
Skills it validates
- Working in cross-functional Agile teams
- Supporting test activities throughout short iterations
- Applying test design with evolving user stories
- Using exploratory testing and feedback loops
- Collaborating with developers, analysts, and product owners
- Understanding the tester’s role in continuous delivery
Typical holder profile
People with CTFL-AT usually come from manual testing, QA, or business analysis and want to prove they can test in Agile settings. They are often useful when a team needs someone who can adapt quickly, ask the right questions early, and keep test work aligned with changing requirements. In Germany, this profile fits both local project teams and remote delivery setups where clear English communication and structured collaboration matter.
Topics behind the certificate
The syllabus covers Agile principles, the tester’s place in Agile development, and the ways testing changes when teams deliver in small increments. It also includes test planning in Agile, risk-based thinking, acceptance criteria, test techniques, and the use of test automation at a practical level. A freelancer with this background should be comfortable discussing user stories, Definition of Done, and how to keep quality visible without slowing the team down.
What it tells companies
When you hire someone with the Agile Tester extension, you are looking at a professional who can support quality from the start, not only at the end of a sprint. That matters in product teams, change projects, digital channels, and any environment where requirements move quickly. The certificate does not replace hands-on experience, but it helps confirm a solid shared language for Agile testing.
Before pursuing it
The Foundation Level Extension is aimed at people who already know the basics of software testing and want to specialise in Agile contexts. It is a good next step for testers who work with Scrum or other Agile methods, as well as for teams that want a common approach to quality in iterative delivery. Renewal rules can depend on the broader ISTQB scheme and local certification rules, so professionals should check the current ISTQB guidance before planning maintenance.
Meet FRATCH ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT)
Peter Jetter
Principal Management Consultant, Business Coach & Business Trainer
Last position:
external SPC & SAFe Trainer, Scrum Master at Siemens Energy
support SAFe adoption at team, ART and Portfolio level with consulting, coaching and training. Establish hierarchical enterprise backlog and Kanban Systems integrating portfolio, value stream and team level. Make e2e value stream flow across organisational boundaries visible and measurable. Teach "stop starting, start finishing" and Limit WiP.
Christoph Sawicki
Test Manager
Last position:
Test Manager at Logistics
- Coordination and planning, execution, documentation, and analysis of test cases
- Development of test concepts considering best practices (e.g., test pyramid) with a focus on reliable, automatable test runs
- Implementation and maintenance of test cases according to the test concepts
- Technologies: Citrix Workspace, Shopify, Jira, Xray, MS Teams, MS SharePoint, Confluence, MS Office 365
Evrard Amindjou Tsafack
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Last position:
Senior Embedded Software Tester at Bosch GmbH
- Ensure the system maturity and operational readiness throughout the entire lifecycle of automotive products according to ASPICE and internal quality processes
- Analyze system behavior and system performance to identify inefficiencies, integration issues, and gaps in diagnostic coverage
- Support development milestones by validating system interactions, configurations, and boundary conditions
- Derive test specifications from software and system requirements
- Implement test cases using RobotFramework and Python
- Work closely with system, software, hardware, and calibration teams to ensure stable and high-performing system behavior before release
- Perform end-to-end system performance analyses through endurance tests and automated result evaluation using Python and RobotFramework
- Introduce KPI-based system monitoring and performance analysis and set up automated evaluation and feedback pipelines
- Organize and facilitate cross-functional debugging and integration workshops
- Successfully integrated and validated system and software components for mass-production truck platforms, achieving sustainable improvements in performance quality, test quality, and integration stability
Matthias Ottowski
Project Manager
Last position:
IT Project Manager at IT service provider
Implementation of anti-money laundering requirements in accordance with AMLA/KYC for an international large bank in Munich
Services provided:
- Clarification of the assignment, definition of the work package structure for the AMLA/KYC implementation project
- AI-supported project planning using my own AI workflow for project management
- Creation of the project management plan
- Resource and capacity planning
- Development of collaboration structures between IT service provider and bank client
- Alignment of responsibilities (RACI matrix)
- Management of 5 project members (core team)
- Project control, project monitoring, project reporting
- Communication management
- Escalation management
- Stakeholder management (11 stakeholders)
- Permanent member of the steering committee
- Project representation internally and externally
- Project reporting, management of decision-making bodies
- Project volume: 506 person-days (development effort)
- Risk management
- Quality management
- Organization and running of workshops
Methods: PMI PMBOK, EVM, GWG, DORA, BAIT, KANBAN, AML, AMLR, AMLA, GWG, KYC
IT environment: JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, Kantata Kimble, AI LLM Copilot, ChatGPT, anti-money laundering systems (in-house developments and SMARAGD)
Martin Moser
Test Automation for Stock Trading Software
Last position:
Test automation for trading software at Martin Moser IT Consulting GmbH
- Set up GUI test framework for testers and developers to easily create GUI tests
- Implemented automated GUI tests with QF-Test for stock trading software and PDF file comparisons
- Created comparison runs between different versions
Used technologies: QF-Test, Java, Jython
Adem Susam
ISTQB® Certified Tester, Advanced Level - Test Analyst
Last position:
IT Consultant (Test Manager) & CEO at Trikolon Consulting GmbH
- Development and implementation of test concepts for complex, multi-layered systems
- Creation of regular management reports and presentations for stakeholders and clients
- Technical and disciplinary leadership of international test teams (coordination, coaching, resource planning)
- Responsibility for quality assurance across multiple test levels (unit, integration, system, and acceptance tests)
- Design of test cases and test plans in Azure DevOps; ensuring traceability and coverage
- Use of BDD approaches (Gherkin/Cucumber) to prepare test automation
- Building a test automation architecture with Playwright and integrating new tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Performing API tests (REST) and tests for mobile/PWA applications
- Setup and maintenance of test environments across multiple stages (integration, QA, UAT, pre-production)
- Test data management (synthetic and production-like data), ensuring consistency and reproducibility
- Collaboration with DevOps teams for containerization (Docker/OpenShift) and CI/CD integration
- Working under SAFe & Scrum, closely coordinating with product owners and DevOps teams
- Active participation in PI plannings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Promoting an agile QA culture through coaching and knowledge sharing
- Introducing scalable test automation with Playwright → significant reduction of manual testing efforts
- Increasing test transparency through clean defect and reporting management in Azure DevOps
- Improved release quality through an end-to-end QA strategy and automated regression tests
- Strategic leadership of Trikolon Consulting GmbH and responsibility for finance, personnel, and business development
Holger Guschigk
Test Automation Engineer, Quality Assurance Consultant
Last position:
Test Automation Engineer, Quality Assurance Consultant at T-Systems
- Poliks – State Police System for information, communication, and case management and other state variants (ViVa, Bravo, customs)
- Developed a test framework for test automation to replace an existing proprietary test client for new developments, focusing on easy maintenance and simple extensibility for new technologies
- Designed the architecture
- Implemented the architecture
- Created a proof of concept by migrating existing test cases into the new test framework
- Platform: C#, .NET, Jira, XRay, Confluence, Playwright, Selenium, UI Automation, Appium, HTML, Git, VMWare, Windows 11, Linux
Thomas Jahn
Test Manager
Last position:
Test Manager at Hamburger Energienetze GmbH
- Method: none
- Environment: ERP, S4/Hana, Confluence, Jira, Xray, SAP Solution Manager, Tosca
- Created the test concept for the migration from ERP to S/4HANA
- Created manual test cases and test plans for the acceptance test
- Coordinated tests between the business testers
- Test automation with Tosca
- manual testing
Nicole Fotso
SAP FI Consultant & Tester
Last position:
SAP FI Consultant & Tester at DZB Bank
- Analysis and optimization of business processes in financial accounting
- Customizing in SAP FI (e.g., company codes, chart of accounts, payments)
- Integration with other modules such as CO, MM, SD
- Advising on legal requirements (e.g., GoBD, UStG)
- Support for monthly and year-end closing
- Creation of test plans (system test, integration test, UAT)
- Definition of test cases (e.g., postings, payment runs, dunning runs)
- Selection of appropriate test data and scenarios
- Manual testing of posting processes (e.g., customer invoices, payment runs)
- Validation of automatic postings (e.g., in MM credit memo)
- Checking interfaces (e.g., to subsystems or non-SAP solutions)
- Documenting defects in the test tool (e.g., Jira, ALM)
- Analysis and feedback to developers or customizing team
- Retesting after defect fixes
- E2E tests with SAP Solution Manager (SolMan)
- Using tools such as SAP CBTA or Micro Focus UFT
Carsten Büche
Test engineer
Last position:
Test engineer at DAT (German Automotive Trust GmbH)
- Conducted manual testing for claims creation, forwarding, repair cost calculation, parts selection and logging on the Gold.dat.de platform
- Automated key processes using ASKUI, including login, claim creation, calculations and parts selection
- Simulated user interactions (e.g., drag-and-drop) with ASKUI
- Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for early error detection
- Executed over 50 test scenarios and identified critical defects
- Reduced test time by 50% through automation
- Improved platform quality and user experience
Sebastian Chece
Load & Performance Testing - Test Automation
Last position:
Public institution responsible for educational institutions in NRW
- Consulting on processes and execution of load tests, performance tests and technical tests of various applications: web portal, file cloud, email, video conferencing, learning/course platform
- Creating the load test framework
- Programming test scripts (JMeter, Selenium)
- Developing batches to support the evaluation
- Executing load tests and evaluating results, including clear reporting, recommendations for action, and bottleneck analysis
- Managing tasks and collaboration to achieve meaningful load test results
Anusha Labhi Shetti
Test Automation Consultant
Last position:
Test Automation Consultant at EON Energy
- Design, develop, and maintain automated tests using Playwright with Python scripts, Typescript and Spring Boot
- Create test classes annotated with Spring Boot Test
- Create test scripts to cover functional, regression, and integration testing
- Ensure test automation coverage for web applications
- Collaborate with developers to identify testable requirements
- Troubleshoot automation test failures and resolve issues
- Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
- Monitor and report test automation metrics
- Implement test data management and mocking strategies
- Ensure test reliability, stability, and maintainability
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Mohamed Elsayed
Test Manager & Defect Manager
Last position:
Test Manager & Defect Manager at BMBF
- Planning and coordinating test activities and supporting the specialist team
- Reviewing requirements, user stories, and test cases
- Preparing test environments and test data
- Creating test sets and executing tests in XRay
- Performing defect analysis, deviation management, and reporting results
- Coordinating with other functional and technical project teams
Rainer Koloc
Course “Data and AI Analyst”
Last position:
Course “Data and AI Analyst” at International University
Orhun Suezer
Consultant
Last position:
Independent Consultant
- Security, PMI and Agile project management projects and trainer
- Variety of projects with worldwide premium OEMs, Tier1s and Tier2s
- e.g. Panasonic Europe, Cymotive, Veoneer, Cyres, VW, BMW, Ford
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ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years
Position duration
2.3 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
82%
Master's degree or higher
29%
Certifications per freelancer
8
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
96%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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The ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) validates that a tester understands how quality work fits into Agile delivery. It confirms knowledge of Agile team collaboration, testing in short iterations, and adapting test work as user stories change. For companies, it signals a tester who can support quality without relying on heavy, late-stage test cycles.
Yes, CTFL-AT is the common short name people use for the ISTQB Agile Tester extension. You may also see the full title written out as ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester. Searchers often use either form, but they point to the same certification.
The ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester is a good fit for manual testers, QA specialists, and anyone supporting product teams in Agile delivery. It also helps business analysts and team members who need a better grasp of test work in Scrum-style projects. The strongest value comes when the person already knows testing basics and wants to work more effectively in Agile teams.
A freelancer with CTFL-AT should be able to work with user stories, acceptance criteria, and rapid feedback from the team. They should know how to combine structured test thinking with exploratory testing and close collaboration. In practice, this means they can help keep quality visible while the team continues to deliver quickly.
The core Foundation Level covers general software testing concepts. The Agile Tester extension adds the specific ways testing is done in Agile teams, where planning, communication, and test design must keep up with change. If a company runs iterative projects, the extension is often more relevant than a general testing certificate alone.
Preparation for CTFL-AT usually means studying the Agile testing syllabus and understanding how testing works in iterative delivery. Candidates benefit from practical team experience, because the exam content is rooted in real Agile collaboration rather than theory only. A solid grounding in basic software testing is expected before moving into the extension.
The ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester sits within the ISTQB scheme, so renewal and maintenance rules can depend on the current certification policy and local conditions. Professionals should check the latest ISTQB guidance rather than assume the process is fixed everywhere. Companies should treat the certificate as evidence of current domain knowledge, but still review recent project experience.
In Germany, ISTQB Agile Tester profiles are especially useful in product teams, digital transformation work, and projects that combine local stakeholders with distributed delivery. It matters when teams need testing support that fits Scrum or similar ways of working and when clear communication in German or English is part of the job. It is a practical signal for both on-site and remote collaboration.
The average hourly rate for freelancers with ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) in Germany is 97 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 773 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers with ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) in Germany, 82% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 29% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers with ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) in Germany have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers with ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) in Germany are German (100%), English (96%), and French (30%).
The most common industries among freelancers with ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) in Germany are Information Technology (96%), Banking and Finance (65%), and Professional Services (57%).
The most common business areas among freelancers with ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) in Germany are Quality Assurance (100%), Information Technology (96%), and Product Development (74%).
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