Testing Certifications

I have seen a recent craze amongst software professionals to get certified. Seems as if everyone in the industry wants to prove his/her competitiveness by earning some relevant certification. Both the development and testing professionals are in a race to get certified. While the MCP certification is a valuable add-on to the resume of a developer and a DBA (working on Oracle) prefers being an OCP, software testing professionals are going in for CSTE or ISTQB certifications. While the former is an established certification and is highly valued specially in the Americas, ISTQB is rapidly gaining recognition and is already a much sought-after certification in India. Keeping this trend in mind, I am going to start posting regular posts to help software testers attain ISTQB certification. I am myself an Advanced Level certified tester and hope that my knowledge and experience in this industry will be of help to profesionals aspiring to attain this certification.