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A4Q - Alliance for Qualification

A4Q is a new independent place to strengthen quality in the field of training and certification.

17/06/2026

Great events are shaped by the people who bring them to life.

Thank you to all speakers, sponsors, partners, and participants who made the A4Q Testing Summit 2026 such a valuable space for learning, exchange, and community.

Across two days, more than 70 speakers shared insights on the topics shaping software quality today, from AI in testing and quality engineering to automation, DevOps, security, accessibility, ethics, and the evolving role of testers.

We are especially grateful to ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board, the German Testing Board, and the CFTL - for contributing dedicated tracks, and to GASQ, International Software Quality Institute, and SkillsClub for supporting this year’s summit.

Your expertise, trust, and commitment helped create a truly international gathering for the software quality community.

Thank you for being part of it.

16/06/2026

Accessibility is becoming a core quality skill.

Digital products are used by people with different abilities, devices, environments, and needs. A4Q Digital Accessibility helps professionals build validated knowledge around accessibility principles, WCAG, EN 301 549, inclusive user experience, and testing strategies.

Explore the A4Q Certified Professional Digital Accessibility:
https://allianceforqualification.com/a4q-certified-professional-digital-accessibility/

11/06/2026

AI produces test cases by the dozen. The bottleneck is now the tester who picks the ones that matter.

The skill that decides is the same skill that defined competent testing twenty years ago: picking the boundary the model missed, the partition no template covered, and the decision rule the prompt could not infer.

The ISTQB Add-On Practical Tester by A4Q is the competency credential built to assess exactly that judgement work, scored on open-text answers under exam conditions.

allianceforqualification.com/a4q-practical-tester

10/06/2026

Software testing is changing fast. The conversations from this year’s summit show where it’s heading.

All presentations from the A4Q Testing Summit 2026 are now available to watch on YouTube.

Across two days, speakers explored the questions shaping quality today:

How do we test AI systems?
Where does GenAI really help testers?
How can teams build quality into modern delivery?
And how do security, accessibility, ethics, and audit readiness change the quality conversation?

With sessions from Sagar Joshi, Rik Marselis, Klaudia Dussa-Zieger, Lilia Gargouri, Maud Schlich, Olivier Denoo, Bruno Legeard, KBTG, and many more, the programme brought together practical insights from across the global software quality community.

You’ll find the links to the Day 1 and Day 2 playlists in the first comment.

Which topic are you starting with?

04/06/2026

AI without strategy is expensive, and often ineffective.

AI initiatives fail when:
• Business objectives are unclear
• Data readiness is ignored
• Risks are underestimated
• Teams don’t know how to evaluate AI systems

AI works best when it is embedded in strategy, governance, and decision-making, not added on at the end.

Understanding how AI supports business goals is what turns experimentation into impact.

Start building this understanding with the A4Q AI Foundation learning path:
https://allianceforqualification.com/a4q-ai-foundation/

03/06/2026

The future of quality engineering is already being built.

Congratulations to KBTG, voted Best Presentation 2026 at the A4Q Testing Summit.

Their session, “Quality Level Up = The Roaming of Chai LAI”, showed how AI can move from experimentation into real quality engineering practice, with Chai LAI, SaiJAI, and PRAJAK supporting a broader transformation in testing and AI quality.

A special congratulations to Kornkanda Gerdsri, Wittaya Unjai, and Thitaporn Thapanasakul for a presentation that combined ambition, practical results, and a clear vision for what quality teams can become.

Thank you to everyone who attended, watched, and voted.

03/06/2026

Some speakers explain a topic. Others shift how we think about it.

Congratulations to Sagar Joshi, voted Best Speaker 2026 at the A4Q Testing Summit.

His session, “Why Testing AI Systems Breaks Traditional Test Strategies”, challenged testers to rethink familiar assumptions around deterministic behaviour, expected results, bias, model drift, and trust in AI-supported systems.

A big thank you to Sagar for bringing clarity, practical depth, and a strong testing mindset to one of the most important quality topics of our time.

And thank you to everyone who joined the summit and cast their vote.

02/06/2026

Forty questions. Sixty minutes. Most CTFL candidates lose points to the clock, not the content.

The candidates who pass cleanly are rarely the ones who studied longest. They are the ones who finished on time.

Three habits separate them on exam day:
- flag uncertain questions and come back,
- never leave a blank answer,
- and keep the last five minutes for review rather than for the hardest remaining question.

Share this with anyone you know preparing for the exam this summer.

01/06/2026

Working with Generative AI in testing is no longer a hypothetical.
What matters now is how to adopt it responsibly and effectively.

ISTQB® CT-GenAI supports professionals who already have a solid testing foundation and want to strengthen quality assurance in AI-assisted workflows. The focus is on understanding, justification, and thoughtful integration, not speed or experimentation for its own sake.

Explore ISTQB® CT-GenAI:
https://allianceforqualification.com/istqb-certified-tester/

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