diff --git a/CODEOWNERS b/CODEOWNERS
index ea381be6b1f..6b0bd21c2cf 100644
--- a/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/CODEOWNERS
@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@
 /scripts/process_gperf.py                 @andrewboie
 /scripts/gen_relocate_app.py              @wentongwu
 /scripts/requirements*.txt                @mbolivar @galak @nashif
+/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/               @aasthagr
 /scripts/tracing/                         @wentongwu
 /scripts/sanity_chk/                      @nashif
 /scripts/sanitycheck                      @nashif
diff --git a/scripts/.gitignore b/scripts/.gitignore
index f38baba8439..5a488c27169 100644
--- a/scripts/.gitignore
+++ b/scripts/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 parser.out
 parsetab.py
-
+tests/.mypy_cache
+tests/sanitycheck/.pytest_cache
+tests/sanitycheck/htmlcov
+tests/sanitycheck/__pycache__
+tests/sanitycheck/.coverage
diff --git a/scripts/requirements-build-test.txt b/scripts/requirements-build-test.txt
index cb3d68f354b..7326c1b674f 100644
--- a/scripts/requirements-build-test.txt
+++ b/scripts/requirements-build-test.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ pykwalify
 
 # used for code coverage
 gcovr>=4.2
+coverage
 
 # used for west-command testing
 pytest
diff --git a/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/README.md b/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..34eea3b1240
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Sanitycheck Testing
+
+Running the tests require the environment variable ZEPHYR_BASE to be set.
+
+Sanitycheck Testsuite are located in $ZEPHYR_BASE/scripts/tests directory with all the data files in $ZEPHYR_BASE/scripts/test_data directory.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+Install all the dependencies using
+
+```
+pip install -r $ZEPHYR_BASE/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/requirements.txt
+```
+
+## Executing testsuite
+
+The testcases can be executed from the root directory using
+
+```
+pytest $ZEPHYR_BASE/scripts/tests/sanitycheck
+```
+
+## Sanitycheck Coverage
+
+The coverage for all the tests can be run using the command below. This will collect all the tests available.
+
+```bash
+coverage run -m pytest $ZEPHYR_BASE/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/
+```
+
+Then we can generate the coverage report for just sanitycheck script using
+
+```bash
+coverage report -m $ZEPHYR_BASE/scripts/sanitycheck
+```
+
+The html coverage report for sanitycheck can be generated using
+
+```bash
+coverage html sanitycheck
+```
+
+If needed,the full coverage html report can be generated in every run of "pytest" in the tests directory using configuration file (setup.cfg).
+
+## Organization of tests
+
+- test_sanitycheck.py : Contains basic testcases for environment variables, verifying testcase & platform schema's.
diff --git a/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/test_data/testcase_correct_schema.yaml b/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/test_data/testcase_correct_schema.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c44e3ec4327
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/test_data/testcase_correct_schema.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+tests:
+  logging.log_core:
+    tags: log_core logging
+    platform_exclude: nucleo_l053r8 nucleo_f030r8
+      stm32f0_disco native_posix native_posix_64 nrf52_bsim
+      qemu_riscv64
diff --git a/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/test_sanitycheck.py b/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/test_sanitycheck.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..910194e93bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/test_sanitycheck.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Intel Corporation
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""
+This test file contains foundational testcases for Sanitycheck tool
+"""
+
+import os
+import imp
+import sys
+import pytest
+ZEPHYR_BASE = os.getenv("ZEPHYR_BASE")
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(ZEPHYR_BASE, "scripts/"))
+from sanity_chk import scl
+sanitycheck = imp.load_source('sanitycheck', ZEPHYR_BASE + '/scripts/sanitycheck')
+
+@pytest.fixture(name='test_data')
+def _test_data():
+    """ Pytest fixture to set the path of test_data"""
+    data = ZEPHYR_BASE + "/scripts/tests/sanitycheck/test_data/"
+    return data
+
+def test_yamlload():
+    """ Test to check if loading the non-existent files raises the errors """
+    filename = 'testcase_nc.yaml'
+    with pytest.raises(FileNotFoundError):
+        scl.yaml_load(filename)
+
+def test_correct_testcase_schema(test_data):
+    """ Test to validate the testcase schema"""
+    filename = test_data + 'testcase_correct_schema.yaml'
+    schema = scl.yaml_load(ZEPHYR_BASE +'/scripts/sanity_chk/testcase-schema.yaml')
+    data = sanitycheck.SanityConfigParser(filename, schema)
+    data.load()
+    assert data