Faculty Training Institute has announced the availability of its Diploma in System Quality Assurance & Testing in Johannesburg.
FTI's approach to this programme will be similar to that of other diploma programmes where the course, although run over a number of months, will be broken into smaller sessions, where working professionals will be able to continue with their everyday tasks and complete this course at the same time.
The course will be run over five-months part-time and in a similar format to that of the highly successful market leading programmes for business analysts and project managers.
“There is a global trend towards viewing system quality assurance and testing as a job best done by professionals, and we have designed this programme to be a comprehensive grounding in quality and testing theory and practice for experienced practitioners looking to becoming testing professionals,” says course convenor Essack Mohamed.
This programme is primarily aimed at the test analyst, although anyone involved in testing and quality assurance or software-based business systems will benefit from the programme, which combines theory and practical work in a series of part-time seminars and labs sessions over a five-month period.
“Currently, in many companies, testing is not yet viewed as a professional role in its own right. Instead, testing effort is relegated to individuals, like business analysts, users and developers, as a by-product of their normal activities, and is conducted after software is already constructed. Given the complex nature of modern computer-based business systems, this can never yield reliable, stable systems,” says Mohamed.
“System quality can only be embedded when every individual in a project is accountable for the quality of the work they do and the artefacts they produce, whether these are documents, designs, databases or software components. But this will still yield poor quality solutions if the quality effort is not planned and managed across the life cycle, and if the quality of work done is not tightly linked to proper requirements analysis. Increasingly, this responsibility falls to the competent and professional test analyst, who not only understands the requirements process, but is also able to design a multifaceted, comprehensive testing programme that ensures these requirements are delivered at the end of the project.”
FTI's approach to this programme, common across all its diploma programmes, is to first develop individuals who have a deep understanding of the knowledge domain and their role in it, and only then equip them with the product or methodology training specific to their organisations.
The philosophy has been an effective one for FTI. After two decades in the training business, it has enabled the company to grow its client base to more than 150 companies across South Africa, and to have graduated more than 5 000 delegates from their various diploma programmes in systems analysis, business analysis, project management and testing.
Click here for further information on the Diploma in System Quality Assurance & Testing.
For more information on our courses or to view our latest course schedule, please visit http://www.fti.co.za.
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Faculty Training Institute
Faculty Training Institute (FTI) is a private training company that specialises in offering world-class career-oriented training courses for professional knowledge workers, mainly in the corporate world. Focusing on mid-career rather than entry-level training, FTI specialises in project management, business analysis, systems analysis, technical writing, IT management, enterprise architecture, and technical writing training. It offers a variety of training options, including public or in-house, part-time or full-time courses.
FTI was founded in 1989 by five experienced lecturers from the Department of Information Systems at the University of Cape Town, who perceived a gap between the technical or entry level training offered by most private training companies, and the longer degree programmes offered by tertiary institutions. During the past 20 years, FTI has expanded its successful product offerings from the initial two diploma courses into growing range of diplomas and short courses that serve the career needs of corporate South Africa.
In October 2006, FTI was awarded Charter Endorsed Education Provider status with the International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA). It is one of a handful of training organisations worldwide which has achieved this status. Web: http://www.fti.co.za
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