Software Testing Certified Expert – STCETM

STCETM leads the candidate to be a certified member of Software Testing Community to learn Software testing in a practical and detailed way. This certification will help individuals to demonstrate their expertise, involvement and gen in the field of Software Testing. This credentials will help you to attest and justify yourself as a competent Software tester.

The Software tester

  • Finds defects which may get created by the programmer while developing the software.
  • Helps prevent defects
  • Ensures that business requirement specification and system requirement specifications are satisfied
  • Analyses all the documents and understand what needs to be tested.
  • Defines approach for testing
  • Reports the test lead about what all resources will be required for software testing.
  • Designs test cases and prioritize testing activities.
  • Executes all the test case and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect.
  • Carry out regression testing every time when changes are made to the code to fix defects.

This certification

  • Provides an excellent platform for the Software tester to showcase their knowledge in organization.
  • Focusses on covering the concepts, mitigation tools and techniques, roles and responsibilities of Software tester.
  • Give you in-depth knowledge in the Software testing domain and thereby encourages you to implement effective strategies for Software      testing in Projects.
  • Assessment of skills of the Software tester to check whether they have skills and competence to develop and execute test methodologies      as well as create test designs, test processes, test cases and test data.

Answers to all your questions

The training on the credentials will answer all the questions and will clarify all the doubts of individuals below:

  • 1. What are their roles and responsibilities a Software tester in their organization?
  • 2.What value addition will be done by achieving this credential?
  • 3.How to perform testing successfully?
  • 4.What are the domains in which we should prepare ourselves?
  • 5.How learning Software Testing can improve our competency as Software Tester?
  • 6.What will be the key areas they we should be focusing upon while learning Software testing?
  • 7.Any recommendations based upon your experience that can add value to prepare and execute test cases?
  • 8.What are the skills that I should possess other than Software testing skills to successfully handle my team?
  • 9.How do I manage the testing of my project?
  • 10.How do I prepare test cases and how do I execute them?

And many other questions


This certification will enhance your credibility within your team, organization and also with your clients.

Work Experience 3+ years of experience
Training Mandatory
Target Audience Aspirants who wish to become a Software Tester OR
Someone who is working as a Software Tester OR
Software Testers who wish to gain knowledge, add value and get accreditation for their skills and talents as a software tester.
Credentials STCETM

Requirement Criteria

Work Experience: In order to appear for this certification exam you do need to have 3 years of professional work experience in any domain and in any industry. Also, the candidate needs to be STCPTM certified.

Training Requirement: You need to mandatorily attend the training from our Authorized Training Associates to appear for the STCETM certification examination. You will be awarded with Associate ICCA Credits (AIC’s) through our Authorized Training Associates.

Who should apply for this credentials?

  • Anyone and everyone who intends to become a Software Tester who has the capability and skills to manage testing in project or
  • Someone who is already working as a Software tester or someone who wish to work as a Software tester

Examination Pattern

The STCETM Exam is based on the Body of Knowledge for Software Testing. The certification contains 200 multiple-choice questions to test the participant’s concepts from the Body of Knowledge for Software Testing. Each question has equal weightage. There is no negative marking for any question.

The Panel of Council Associates will interview the candidate on the concepts of Software Testing. The candidate has to clear the interview to demonstrate his/her expertise in the field of Software Testing.

Exam is been closely monitored and proctored by the Authorized Examination Associate been appointed by ICCA Council. You will have a choice to select your convenient Authorized Examination Associate as per your preferred location.

Exam Details

Duration 4 hour or 240 minutes
Question type Multiple choice questions
Pattern of Exam Objective based exam
Mode of Exam Online or Paper based
Total questions in Exam 200
Passing marks 120
Passing percentage 60%
Interview Weightage 100 Marks
Interview Duration 1 Hour
Passing percentage 60%

Result

The result is declared within maximum 15 working days from the date of exam. Upon successfully clearing the examination candidates can be honoured by the credentials STCETM

Candidates are requested to use naming of credentials on their respective profiles and social networking media as per the guidelines mentioned in the Software Testing Body of Knowledge - Code of ethics.

Result Within 15 working days
Soft copy Within 15 working days
Hard Copy Within 30-45 working days
Credential Badge Within 30-45 working days
Name in Candidate Registry Within 45 working days

Note : You will receive an email once we receive your Answer sheet. The soft copy and hard copy certificates will be issued after receipt of the Answer sheets as mentioned in the chart.

You can also apply for a Credential Badge with additional cost of 30 USD and we will deliver the same within 30-45 Days.

Your name will be added in the ICCA Skilled Associates Registry within 45 working days.

Exam Price

Exam Fees for Non-Associate :600 USD

Individual Associate Fee : 50 USD

Exam Fees for Associates 500 USD

You SAVE by becoming Associate, 100 USD

For corporates, we offer bulk discounts. Please contact us at exams@iccacouncil.org

To become ICCA Council Associate, please click here.

Here is what you will miss out if you do not gain knowledge through this certification

Focus
         To deliver the best of our skills and produce excellent work. We deliver valuable to the stakeholders sooner.

Courage
         This gives us the courage to undertake greater challenges.

Respect
         Respect towards our profession

Opportunities.
         It will bring more opportunities in terms of job, compensation and exposure

Recognition
         This is a well-known platform for certifications world-wide to demonstrate your skills and credentials

Differentiator
         Stand out from crowd

Ethics
         It will encourage you to trail ethical practices

Knowledge
         It will broaden your perspective towards routine day to day assignments and will help you to foster your knowledge

Growth
         It will help you grow in your career and organization monetary wise, knowledge wise and in terms of responsibilities

Contribute
         It will encourage you to contribute to the society