“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” - William A. Foster
In recent years, Quality Assurance (QA) has developed a well-defined set of methodologies, and techniques, and has grown into a field of its own. Though QA was considered a sub-discipline of test or product management in the past, the growing need for companies to automate and streamline their testing processes evolved the importance of QA.
The Quality Assurance professional must be skilled not only in what was before recognized as software testing, or other testing areas like integration testing, but in variety of very special skills. These skills range from scripting languages (for writing automation scripts), system and web administration, and certain aspects of project management, to unit testing. Companies in the medical industry (Illumina, B&D), banks and big insurance companies (Citibank, American Specialized Health), and engineering companies have constant openings in this field. Though job descriptions vary, all of them require familiarity with software processes and testing techniques, consequently enabling shorter and more reliable test turnaround times.
The Software Quality Assurance certificate will provide effective tools and knowledge for those involved in all stages of Software Development and testing process: Unit testing, Feature testing, Integration testing and Regression testing. The certificate program will teach the skills necessary to ensure that testing is well documented, processes established, and results are correctly interpreted and are repeatable. The required and elective courses are well-rounded, enabling those enrolling in the Software Quality Assurance certificate to satisfy the requirements for job openings in any of the above mentioned areas of QA.
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- Understand and apply Software Development Process (both traditional and Agile)
- Develop practical understanding and differences between black box and white box testing
- Learn and apply different stages of testing: Unit testing, Integration testing and Regression testing
- Understand and apply the Fundamentals of Software Release Management
- Gain practical knowledge of the web architecture, web protocols and web performance testing
- Learn how to run web load tests (when to test, how to plan tests, how to interpret the results)
- Understand Unit test details and how to apply it in the SW development process
- Data collection and interpretation of User Experience Metric
- Learn Agile methodologies for Project Management