Certified Software Quality Assurance Professional

Course details

Vskills certification for Software Quality Assurance Professional assesses the candidate for a company’s software testing and quality assurance needs. The certification tests the candidates on various areas in software quality assurance which include basic knowledge of concepts of quality and quality models, software configuration management, various analysis techniques and metrics used for SQA, risk management, audit and control.

Why should one take this certification?
This certification is intended for professionals and graduates wanting to excel in their chosen areas. It is also well suited for those who are already working and would like to take certification for further career progression.

Earning Vskills Software Quality Assurance Professional Certification can help candidate differentiate in today's competitive job market, broaden their employment opportunities by displaying their advanced skills, and result in higher earning potential.

Who will benefit from taking this certification?
Job seekers looking to find employment in IT or software testing and quality assurance department of various software development companies in public or private sector, students generally wanting to improve their skill set and make their CV stronger and existing employees looking for a better role can prove their employers the value of their skills through this certification.

Table of Contents

Introduction

• History of Quality Movement
• Continuous Improvement
• Quality Pioneers
• Quality Management in Software
• Quality Concepts
• Customer Expectations

SQA Personnel Skills

• Essential Soft Skills
• Team Handling
• Leadership
• Communication Skills
• Time Management
• Work ethics
• Conflict Handling
• Negotiation Skills

Value Proposition

• SQA economics
• Cost Matrix, SLA and ROI

Quality Management Tools

• Base Lining
• Benchmarking
• TQM
• PDCA
• Six Sigma
• Cause-and-Effect Diagram
• CPM/PERT Chart
• Control Charts

Quality Models and Standards

• ISO standards
• CMMi
• ISO/IEC 15504
• COBIT
• ITIL

Product Quality

• Product Quality Basics
• Quality Factors
• McCall’s Factor Model
• Software compliance with quality factors
• Product Quality Metrics

SQA Overview

• Software Quality Challenges
• Software Quality Expectations
• SQA Components
• Software Testing
• Software Development Methodology
• SQA Issues

Planning and Framework​​​​​​​

• SQA Planning
• SQA Plan
• SQA Management Plans
• Output and Principles
• SQA Planning Standards
• Organizational Maturity
• Develop and implement framework
• Best practices

Integrating SQA​​​​​​​

• SQA Process Integration
• Project Initiation and SQA
• Project Planning and SQA
• Analysis and SQA
• Design and SQA
• Coding and SQA
• Testing and SQA
• Implementing and SQA
• Project Closing and SQA

Software Configuration Management (SCM)​​​​​​​

• Need and Objective
• SCM Tasks
• SCM Plan and Tools
• Software Configuration Management
• Base lining
• Software Configuration Control
• Software Configuration Auditing

Verification and Validation​​​​​​​

• V&V Basics
• Audits, Reviews, and Inspection
• Static Analytic Techniques
• Dynamic Techniques
• Integrating V&V
• Test coverage

Analysis Techniques​​​​​​​

• Analysis Basics
• Quality Tools
• Balance Scorecard
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

Metrics​​​​​​​

• Metrics Concepts
• Metric Requirement
• Metric Types
• Factors Affecting Metrics
• Metric Relevance

Risk Management​​​​​​​

• Risk Concepts
• Risk Types
• Risk Management Process
• Risk Based Testing
• FMEA
• SOX

Software Auditing

• Software Auditing Basics
• Software Audit Types
• Internal Controls

Advanced SQA

• SQA Tools
• CASE Tools
• Test Automation
• Testing Estimation
• Mobile Application Testing

Updated on 01 February, 2019