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One methodfor the whole team.

ISTQB certification and hands-on courses for testers, engineers, and leaders, from one of the first ASTQB-accredited training providers in the United States.

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The certification view we give training clients: who is certified, where the gaps are, and the effect on defects.

What we do.And how you will know it worked.

A team without a shared method pays for it on every release. We certify the whole team in one.

  • Since 1994 · Dallas, Texas
  • Salesforce certified consulting partner
  • ASTQB-accredited training provider
  • ISTQB CT-AI accredited

01

ISTQB certification

Today

Testers learn on the job, and every team tests a different way.

With Rex Black Inc.

ISTQB Foundation through Advanced, so the whole team shares one vocabulary and one method.

What you get

  • ISTQB Foundation for testers and the engineers who work with them
  • Advanced Test Manager, Test Analyst, and Technical Test Analyst
  • Exam preparation with practice exams
  • Instructor-led, on site or remote

How you know it is done

Pass rates and a skills map for each person, reported after every cohort.

02

Testing AI (CT-AI)

Today

Your team is now expected to test AI features, with no training in how.

With Rex Black Inc.

ISTQB Certified Tester AI, from one of a small number of accredited providers in the United States.

What you get

  • ISTQB Certified Tester AI (CT-AI)
  • Hands-on labs on testing machine learning and generative AI systems
  • Guidance on applying it to your own AI features

How you know it is done

Your team leaves able to build and run an evaluation suite on your own product.

03

Engineering and cloud courses

Today

Skills lag behind the tools your team is moving to.

With Rex Black Inc.

Courses in test automation, AI, data, and cloud, built around the tools your team uses every day.

What you get

  • Test automation in the frameworks your team uses
  • AI and data literacy for engineers and product owners
  • Cloud and DevOps foundations
  • Custom courses built around your codebase and workflows

How you know it is done

Skills assessed before and after, so you can see what changed.

Measured results

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100+

Professionals Certified

Fortune 500 Enterprise

Certification at Scale

Multi-division ISTQB, PMP, and AWS certification programs with measurable capability uplift and improved retention.

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How it runs.Study, measure, build, own.

  1. 01

    Study

    Who tests what today, which skills each role needs, and where releases are slipping.

  2. 02

    Measure

    A skills assessment per person, so training goes where the gaps are.

  3. 03

    Build

    Cohorts scheduled around your releases, with certification exams at the end.

  4. 04

    Own

    Results reported per person and per team, with the next cohort planned from the gaps.

Questionswe hear first.

Are you accredited?

Yes. Rex Black Inc. is an ASTQB-accredited training provider and is accredited to teach ISTQB Certified Tester AI.

Remote or on site?

Both. Courses run live with an instructor, on site at your offices or remote for distributed teams.

Can you train testers, developers, and managers together?

Yes. Mixed cohorts work well for Foundation, because the whole team ends up with one vocabulary. Advanced courses are split by role.

How do you show it worked?

Pass rates and a skills map per person after every cohort. Where you want it, we also track defect trends before and after training.

Evaluating us? Start here · 6 reads

Training and certifying a team, what to read before the first call.

Four stops for engineering and L&D leaders: when training is the right answer, how we measure skills and plan certifications, a certification program we ran, and the questions to ask before you sign.

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Learning path · 27 reads

Software testing, from first test to test leader.

Four levels, read in order: what testing is and how to start, the techniques working testers use every day, how professional teams plan and run testing, and how leaders build and measure a test function.

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Learning path · 8 reads

Cybersecurity basics, from staying safe online to testing for security.

Three levels, read in order: what security protects and the habits that stop most attacks, how testers find weaknesses before attackers do, and how organizations manage security risk across their own code and their vendors'.

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Learning path · 11 reads

AI and agents, from your first prompt to running agents in production.

Four levels, read in order: how AI models work and how to use them well, how teams choose between workflows and agents and pick the right model for each task, how production agents are built and tested, and how leaders sequence adoption.

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Learning path · 10 reads

Building for the web, from how a page loads to replatforming a store.

Four levels, read in order: how the web works and what makes a site good, how to test performance and mobile experiences, how teams decide what to build and migrate platforms safely, and where commerce is heading.

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Learning path · 9 reads

Business systems, from what a CRM is to integrations everyone trusts.

Four levels, read in order: what CRM and ERP systems do and how they connect, how revenue teams agree on one trusted number, how to audit and rescue integrations and implementations, and how leaders decide what to build.

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Document · Job Description

A job description for the test automation engineer you actually need.

A detailed job description for an Automated Test Engineer, structured around the four dimensions that make the role succeed: technical skill, results tracking, team contribution, and career growth.

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Guide

The ISTQB Advanced Level path, mapped

The Advanced Level landscape keeps changing, CTAL-TA v4.0 shipped May 2025, CTAL-TM is on v3.0, CTAL-TAE is on v2.0. This guide maps all four core modules, prerequisites, exam formats, sunset dates, and which module a given role should take first. Links directly to the authoritative istqb.org syllabi.

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Primer

Careers in Software Quality: Roles, Skills, and First Steps

What testers, test automation engineers, quality engineers, and test managers actually do, the skills each role uses, and practical first steps for students and career changers, including the ISTQB Foundation certification.

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Interactive demo

Compare AI Models

Run the same prompt against up to 3 of 13 current models (Anthropic, plus open-weight models from OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek, Mistral, Alibaba, MiniMax, and Z AI hosted in US data centers) side by side. See real cost, real latency, and real output quality, in real time. Built so you can stop guessing which model fits which job.

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Document · Job Description

A test manager JD that names the real job.

A concise Software Test Manager job description that names the four things the role is actually responsible for: hands-on leadership, credible quality assessment, cross-functional coordination, and staffing.

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Primer

Errors, Defects, and Failures: What a Bug Really Is

Everyone says 'bug', but testers use three precise words: error, defect, and failure. Learn the difference, why it matters, and how severity and priority decide which problems get fixed first.

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What does it cost when every team tests a different way?Let's put a number on it.

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