Quality Software Development Advanced certifies software development team leaders who have the necessary skillset to enable their team in developing high-quality code. It provides a solid knowledge and understanding of how to create and improve the work processes and tools in which teams can build high quality, maintainable software in an organizational context. This qualification certifies that a professional has a solid knowledge and understanding of the best-practices in modern software development and how these lead to predictable and productive software development.

PeopleCert in collaboration with the Software Improvement Group (SIG), have developed this qualification to certify programmers who have the necessary skillset to produce high quality code and knowledge of best practices (types of tools to apply, procedures to follow) to ensure that a software development team produces maintainable software.