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    Coursera Instructor Network

    Software Sales

    Skills you'll gain: Sales Strategy, Selling Techniques, Sales Presentation, Sales Process, Market Analysis, Sales, Technical Sales, Customer Relationship Building, Customer Relationship Management, Market Opportunities, Competitive Analysis, Market Dynamics, Company, Product, and Service Knowledge, Digital Marketing

    4.8
    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    31 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Pearson

    Strategic Software Testing

    Skills you'll gain: Software Testing, Test Automation, Test Planning, Acceptance Testing, Test Case, Functional Testing, Scenario Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Performance Testing, Usability Testing

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Intuit

    Bookkeeping Basics

    Skills you'll gain: Bookkeeping, QuickBooks (Accounting Software), Financial Statements, Accounting Software, Financial Accounting, Ledgers (Accounting), Accounting, Accounting Records, Balance Sheet, Income Statement, General Ledger, Small Business Accounting, Ethical Standards And Conduct, Cash Flows

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    6.3K reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    IBM

    IBM Full-Stack JavaScript Developer

    Skills you'll gain: Software Development Life Cycle, Kubernetes, Istio, Software Architecture, Node.JS, Application Deployment, Restful API, React Redux, Database Design, CI/CD, Cloud-Native Computing, Responsive Web Design, NoSQL, OpenShift, Git (Version Control System), Cloud Applications, Ajax, Javascript, Azure DevOps, Engineering Software

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    8.3K reviews

    Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

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    University of Minnesota

    Introduction to Software Testing

    Skills you'll gain: Software Testing, JUnit, Verification And Validation, Unit Testing, Test Case, Test Automation, Development Testing, Test Planning, Code Coverage, Software Quality Assurance, Functional Testing, Testability, Integration Testing, Test Data, Issue Tracking

    4.4
    Rating, 4.4 out of 5 stars
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    805 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Vanderbilt University

    Claude Code: Software Engineering with Generative AI Agents

    Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Anthropic Claude, Multimodal Prompts, Version Control, Generative AI Agents, Git (Version Control System), Generative AI, Software Quality Assurance, Software Development, Mockups, Test Automation, Software Documentation, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development Life Cycle, Software Architecture, Automation, Software Testing, Software Design, Software Development Methodologies

    4.8
    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    51 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Starweaver

    Customer Relationship Management

    Skills you'll gain: Loyalty Programs, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software, Customer Retention, Customer Success Management, Sales Management, Marketing Automation, Marketing Strategies, Business Development, Performance Management, Performance Measurement, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Predictive Modeling

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    242 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    IBM

    Introduction to Test and Behavior Driven Development

    Skills you'll gain: Test Driven Development (TDD), Gherkin (Scripting Language), Code Coverage, Behavior-Driven Development, Software Testing, Unit Testing, Test Automation, Test Case, Test Data, Integration Testing, Restful API, Microservices

    4.8
    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    235 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Board Infinity

    Introduction to Software Quality Assurance

    Skills you'll gain: Software Quality Assurance, Software Development Life Cycle, Quality Assurance, Software Documentation, Functional Testing, Software Testing, Acceptance Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Test Case, Maintainability, Verification And Validation, Unit Testing, Software Design, System Testing, Integration Testing, Waterfall Methodology, Agile Methodology, Regression Testing

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    IBM

    Software Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance Strategies

    Skills you'll gain: Test Planning, Behavior-Driven Development, Risk Management, Release Management, Test Driven Development (TDD), Application Deployment, Stakeholder Management, Data Validation, Software Testing, CI/CD, Software Development Life Cycle, Software Quality Assurance, Systems Analysis, Software Systems, Product Lifecycle Management, Systems Thinking, Data Modeling, Process Flow Diagrams, Business Process Automation, Digital Transformation

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    7 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Yale University

    Introduction to Medical Software

    Skills you'll gain: Clinical Trials, Software Development Life Cycle, Medical Devices, Usability, Software Development, Medical Privacy, Human Computer Interaction, Regulatory Affairs, Verification And Validation, Regulatory Requirements, Quality Management Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Risk Management, Software Design, Health Technology, Software Testing, Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), User Research, Probability & Statistics

    4.8
    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    279 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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    Microsoft

    Microsoft Back-End Developer

    Skills you'll gain: CI/CD, C# (Programming Language), Load Balancing, Continuous Integration, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Scalability, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Authentications, ASP.NET, Debugging, SQL, Application Deployment, Microsoft Copilot, .NET Framework, Relational Databases, Database Management, Graph Theory, Back-End Web Development, Program Development, Data Structures

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    193 reviews

    Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular software courses

  • Software Sales: Coursera Instructor Network
  • Strategic Software Testing: Pearson
  • Bookkeeping Basics: Intuit
  • IBM Full-Stack JavaScript Developer: IBM
  • Introduction to Software Testing: University of Minnesota
  • Claude Code: Software Engineering with Generative AI Agents: Vanderbilt University
  • Customer Relationship Management: Starweaver
  • Introduction to Test and Behavior Driven Development: IBM
  • Introduction to Software Quality Assurance: Board Infinity
  • Software Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance Strategies : IBM

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