ISTQB Software Testing Qualifications

[scorza]

I was wondering if anyone has done the Advanced or Intermediate level ISTQB Certifications? I've landed myself a Test Manager assignment at work and would kinda like to use the opportunity to get a proper certification.

The info here: http://www.bcs.org/category/13482 recommends doing the Intermediate course but states it's not mandatory. Just wondering if anyone has done it and recommends going straight from Foundation to Advanced or is the Intermediate one worth doing first?

 

[TommyV]

I'm ISEB certified, it's a shame the industry is steering towards ISTQB.

Depending on your experience, I'd work from the ground up. If you've got experience the foundation will be nigh on pointless for yourself.

This is coming from 3.5 years experience in the testing with, with Intermediate ISEB + Prince 2 foundation.

If you don't mind me asking, what company do you work for? It seems a lot of companies consider different levels of testing qualifications as 'standard' for recruitment in to particular roles, like mine when I first joined it didn't require any, but noq it requires an ISEB foundation as the bare minimum.

 

[scorza]

I'm ISEB certified, it's a shame the industry is steering towards ISTQB.

Are they not the same thing? I have the Foundation certificate, it has both ISEB and ITSQB printed on them. I thought ISEB was the UK organisation that implemented the international ITSQB standards here? According to the BCS website, the old ISEB Practitioner levels are being replaced by ITSQB Advanced Levels however.

Depending on your experience, I'd work from the ground up. If you've got experience the foundation will be nigh on pointless for yourself.

This is coming from 3.5 years experience in the testing with, with Intermediate ISEB + Prince 2 foundation.

Been working in Software Engineering for 10+ years now, so spent a fair amount of time testing . The Foundation exam was actually still quite useful for me though, and it seems to be a hard pre-requisite for the other certifications.

If you don't mind me asking, what company do you work for? It seems a lot of companies consider different levels of testing qualifications as 'standard' for recruitment in to particular roles, like mine when I first joined it didn't require any, but noq it requires an ISEB foundation as the bare minimum.

I work for a European SI, most of our recruits are graduates, so we don't really require the ISEB Foundation cert - I've no idea what we look for in non-grad recruits. On most internal testing job adverts ISEB Foundation is listed as desirable not essential. I've noticed an alarming number of testing jobs on the outside that do require the right testing certification as you say. I suppose there's a lot of value to be had getting everyone speaking the same language.

 

[Smit]

No need for intermediate IMO

The advanced level courses (2 out of the 3 are simple enough), I haven't even seen the Technical Test Analyst one though so not sure how difficult that one is. The Advanced Test Analyst and Advanced Test Management ones are a piece of cake.