Software Quality Assurance

In recent years, Quality Assurance (QA) has developed a well-defined set of methodologies and techniques resulting in a field of its own. Though QA was considered a sub-discipline of test or product management, the growing need for companies to automate and streamline their testing processes evolved the importance of QA.

Companies in the medical (Illumina, B&D), financial (Citibank), insurance (American Specialized Health), and engineering industry are constantly recruiting Software Quality Assurance Engineers. 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 Quality Assurance professional must be skilled not only in software testing, integration testing or other testing areas, but also in DevOps tools and methodology. These skills range from writing automation scripts using scripting languages, system and web administration, certain aspects of project management to unit testing.

The Software Quality Assurance certificate will provide effective tools and knowledge for those involved in all stages of Software Development and testing processes such as Unit testing, Feature testing, Integration testing and Regression testing. Students will learn the skills necessary to ensure well documented testing, establish processes, and correctly interpret and reproduce results.

General knowledge in programming or a background in Computer Science or professional experience in software development is desirable but not required.

Key Program Topics

• Software Development Process (both traditional and Agile)

• Black box and white box testing

• Different stages of testing: Unit testing, Integration testing and Regression testing

• Fundamentals of Software Release Management

• Web architecture, web protocols and web performance testing

• Running web load tests

• Unit test details and applications in Software development process

• Data collection and interpretation of User Experience Metric

• Agile methodologies for Project Management