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Success Story of Mr Sadanand Kukde – Quality Assurance Engineer shared on 13th May 2019

Hi Yogindernath, I have done B.Tech. CSE 2017 pass out and joined Accenture last year October in the Testing domain. Since then I am following the Software Testing Genius website for all sorts of help. I found it to be the best website for Testers. I cleared the training evaluation exam with the support from this website. Another great success I got when I passed ISTQB CTFL using the question banks on your website last week. Now I will get ready for the CTAL – Test Manager exam by September. Could you pls. provide me links to sample papers. Thanks to you once again.

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sadanandkukde@gmail.com

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