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About Selenium Automation Certifications
Once in a while, I get questions about Selenium certifications such as
What Selenium automation certification should I pursue so that my resume is more valuable?
or
Can you suggest any Selenium certification that will help me in my career?
I would like to help these people in a way or another.
I am not going to suggest that they should get a certification or not because this is their decision.
Instead, I will just look at the certification topic from different points of view and try to find pros and cons for each.
First of all, you may question why the Selenium team did not think yet about creating a certification exam for Selenium test automation.
They did not do this for a few reasons.
The most important reason is that their focus is on continuing to improve the Selenium library by adding new features and fixing existing bugs for it. Which is fun and probably what they want to do in their spare time. The Selenium team is not a training or certification institute.
The second reason is that it is very hard to test someone’s abilities with Selenium test automation.
