hello everyone welcome to istqb certified tester foundation level training this is your trainer manish verma and before we get started to the actual content and see what exactly istqb is and what benefits you will get i would like to mention about some of the free tutorials that i keep posting on my youtube channels the testing academy and rcv academy so please subscribe to those channels and you will get a lot of free resources and free tutorials on software testing um test automation and many programming languages as well so let's get started and see what exactly uh why you should go for ist qb certification so istqv certification is international recognition of acquired competencies so it is highly recognized internationally and very well recognized certification which will help you to progress in your career and then it is authorized as once you get the certification you will be authorized to use the certified tester logo depending on what what level of certification you have done so if your foundation level certified you can use the authorized logo for the foundational level certification you resume in your linkedin profile and it is highly visible and highly recognized so doing the certification ensures that you have the core level of competencies uh to work in certain projects and in software testing as such then there is whole of the career path support so it has a different levels of certification right from the foundational to the expert level so you can keep progressing your career with with that whole career path support accordingly and it has higher appeal in the labor market so that's why you should go for this certification it's a very very very valuable certification and highly recognized certification worldwide now going to the next level which is uh the ist qb product portfolio um so asdb as as we discussed in a previous slide that it has different level of certification so if you see this product portfolio the first level uh is the foundation level which we are talking right now and which is this training all about so foundational uh level certified tester and then there is an extension to that foundational level that is agile tester so there is a training that i have created for agile tester as well that's available on udemy as well once you are done with these with the foundation level you can go for the advanced level and then accordingly once you are done with the advanced level you can go for the expert level as well then there are there is agile path of the certification when you have foundation and advanced level and then there is a specialist path as well when you have a model based tester automation tester or gaming industry tester certain certifications at the foundational level and then you have the advanced level for those specialist certification as well which is test automation engineer and security engineer so this is uh some this is a brief about the isdgb product portfolio and how you can grow yourself throughout your career uh with the with the different product portfolio supported by ist qb uh going next is uh what are the foundational level contents which is very important so this is as per the 2018 syllabus and in the foundation levels uh syllabus of 2018 there are a couple of additions that have been done um and this picture here shows what all uh important um things need to be covered uh in the foundational level in different chapters you have fundamentals testing uh testing throughout the software development life cycle static testing test techniques test management and tool support for testing so these are the key six chapters that uh were similar in the previous syllabus as well uh which is 2011 but in 2018 there were there are a couple of new editions uh which have been covered in this syllabus as well so you uh this this course uh contains all the contents that is relevant for 2018 as well as 2011 um syllabus content uh so the next is uh i want to talk about a little bit about myself so i have more than 14 years experience in it industry i have worked extensively in the test automation manual testing um and then test management so from last couple of years i have been uh mostly involved into the test management uh and uh test lead sort of roles um i have acquired a lot of credentials from istqb i've done isdb certified tester foundational level then i have a done advanced level test analyst test manager and i also hold professional scrum master certification as well as i'm a scaled agile practitioner so all these credentials give me a lot of exposure to cover all the aspects that are required in this syllabus and i have came up with a lot of real life examples in this um in this course to make to to prepare yourself um to the best possible way so that you can pass your isdb certification foundation level certification exam thank you