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Certification

Quality Control Systems Managers

Certification Description
The Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence is a professional who leads and champions process-improvement initiatives' everywhere from small businesses to multinational corporations' that can have regional or global focus in a variety of service and industrial settings.
A Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence facilitates and leads team efforts to establish and monitor customer/supplier relations, supports strategic planning and deployment initiatives, and helps develop measurement systems to determine organizational improvement.
The Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence should be able to motivate and evaluate staff, manage projects and human resources, analyze financial situations, determine and evaluate risk and employ knowledge management tools and techniques in resolving organizational challenges.

Certifying Organization
American Society for Quality
https://asq.org

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes
● Renewal Required? Every 3 Years
● Renew through Re-Examination? Yes
● Renew through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)? Yes
● Does applicant have a choice of at least two options from above for renewal (CEU, CPD, or exam)? Yes

Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Website

Certification Description
NAHQ is proud to offer the only professional certification to more than 7,400 active CPHQs nationwide. The CPHQ credential signifies professional and academic achievement by individuals in the field of healthcare quality management.

Certifying Organization
National Association for Healthcare Quality
http://nahq.org/

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? No
● Work Experience Required? No
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes
● Renewal Required? Every 2 Years
● Renew through Continuing Educational Units (CEU)? Yes
● Renew through Re-Examination? No
● Renew through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)? No
● Does applicant have a choice of at least two options from above for renewal (CEU, CPD, or exam)? No

Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality Website

Certification Description
The objective of the AAMI Credentials Institute is to be the trusted source for quality professional development and credentials for healthcare technology-oriented professionals and entities in higher education, industry, and healthcare delivery. To achieve this objective, the ACI offers a certification in quality systems management. As healthcare becomes more complex, certification becomes an assurance of the competence of practitioners. Certification strengthens the public confidence in safer healthcare systems staffed by quality oriented providers. Quality system professionals seek this certification as a way of demonstrating their professional accomplishment, mastery of skills, and experience in core competencies.

Certifying Organization
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
http://www.aami.org/index.aspx

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes
● Renewal Required? Every 3 Years
● Renew through Continuing Educational Units (CEU)? No
● Renew through Re-Examination? No
● Renew through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)? Yes
● Does applicant have a choice of at least two options from above for renewal (CEU, CPD, or exam)? No

Certified Quality System Manager Website

Certification Description
National Academies of Emergency Dispatch® (NAED) ED-Q certification is the cornerstone of quality assurance for centers using the Priority Dispatch Systems™ for all medical, fire, and police protocols.

Certifying Organization
International Academies of Emergency Dispatch
http://www.emergencydispatch.org/

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes
● Renewal Required? Every 2 Years
● Renew through Continuing Educational Units (CEU)? Yes
● Renew through Re-Examination? Yes
● Renew through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)? No
● Does applicant have a choice of at least two options from above for renewal (CEU, CPD, or exam)? No

Emergency Fire Dispatch - Q Certification Website

Certification Description
National Academies of Emergency Dispatch® (NAED) ED-Q certification is the cornerstone of quality assurance for centers using the Priority Dispatch Systems™ for all medical, fire, and police protocols.

Certifying Organization
International Academies of Emergency Dispatch
http://www.emergencydispatch.org/

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes
● Renewal Required? Every 2 Years
● Renew through Continuing Educational Units (CEU)? Yes
● Renew through Re-Examination? Yes
● Renew through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)? No
● Does applicant have a choice of at least two options from above for renewal (CEU, CPD, or exam)? No

Emergency Medical Dispatch - Q Certification Website

Certification Description
National Academies of Emergency Dispatch® (NAED) ED-Q certification is the cornerstone of quality assurance for centers using the Priority Dispatch Systems™ for all medical, fire, and police protocols.

Certifying Organization
International Academies of Emergency Dispatch
http://www.emergencydispatch.org/

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes
● Renewal Required? Every 2 Years
● Renew through Continuing Educational Units (CEU)? Yes
● Renew through Re-Examination? Yes
● Renew through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)? No
● Does applicant have a choice of at least two options from above for renewal (CEU, CPD, or exam)? No

Emergency Police Dispatcher - Q Certification Website

Certification Description
Typical candidates for this certification have at least six months of field experience with application lifecycle management or quality center, or have taken the recommended training courses. It includes IT professionals, QA leads, and engineers, who use HP ALM to support all phases of the quality and test-management process.

Certifying Organization
Hewlett Packard Certification and Learning
https://certification-learning.hpe.com/TR/Index.html

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes

HP ASE - Application Lifecycle Management Implementation v12 Website

Certification Description
Typical candidates for this certification are QA and performance engineers who plan and develop scripts, create and run scenarios, and analyze load test results with HP LoadRunner. This certification is designed for individuals with at least six months of field experience in load-test implementations and the appropriate training.

Certifying Organization
Hewlett Packard Certification and Learning
https://certification-learning.hpe.com/TR/Index.html

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes

HP ASE - LoadRunner v12 Website

Certification Description
Typical candidates for this certification include testers, automation engineers, service specialists, and technical personnel who implement test automation with HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

Certifying Organization
Hewlett Packard Certification and Learning
https://certification-learning.hpe.com/TR/Index.html

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes

HP ASE - Unified Functional Testing v12 Website

Certification Description
Typical candidates for this certification include IT professionals, QA leads, and engineers, who use HP ALM to support all phases of the quality and test management process. It is also intended for HP ALM junior administrators, who assess their knowledge of the ALM processes and administrative tasks.

Certifying Organization
Hewlett Packard Certification and Learning
https://certification-learning.hpe.com/TR/Index.html

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes

HP ATP - Application Lifecycle Management v12 Website

Certification Description
Typical candidates for this certification include testers, automation engineers, services specialists, and technical personnel who implement and integrate GUI, API, and BPT test automation by creating, enhancing, running tests and analyzing run results with HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT). Six months of UFT experience is recommended.

Certifying Organization
Hewlett Packard Certification and Learning
https://certification-learning.hpe.com/TR/Index.html

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes

HP ATP - Unified Functional Testing v12 Website

Certification Description
This certification targets entry-level developers and testers. This certification involves a stand-alone foundation level test. It is intended for developers and integration testers with distributed, message-based testing experience using IBM Rational Integration Tester V8. The certification will primarily focus on the applicability to MQ and Webservices environments.

Certifying Organization
IBM Corporation
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? No
● Work Experience Required? No
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes

IBM Certified Associate Developer - Rational Integration Tester V8 Website

Certification Description
This certification targets intermediate level specialists and involves a stand-alone intermediate level test. It is intended for specialists with quality management experience using IBM Rational Quality Manager V4. These Specialists install, configure, and deploy Rational Quality Manager. This includes common usage, different deployment environments, and setup of a collaborative, team environment.

Certifying Organization
IBM Corporation
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes

IBM Certified Specialist - Rational Quality Manager V4 Website

Certifying Organization
American Academy of Project Management
http://www.certifiedprojectmanager.org

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? Yes
● Work Experience Required? Yes
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes
● Renewal Required? Every 2 Years
● Renew through Continuing Educational Units (CEU)? Yes
● Renew through Re-Examination? No
● Renew through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)? No
● Does applicant have a choice of at least two options from above for renewal (CEU, CPD, or exam)? No

Master Quality Manager Website

Certification Description
The certification exam SAP Certified Application Associate - Quality Management with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP5 verifies the basic knowledge in the area of the SAP Quality Management. This certificate proves that the candidate has a basic overall understanding within this consultant profile of the QM solutions, and can implement this knowledge practically in projects under guidance of an experienced consultant. It is recommended as an entry-level qualification to allow consultants to get acquainted with the fundamentals of SAP Quality Management.

Certifying Organization
SAP America, Inc.
https://www.sap.com/index.html

Certification Details
● Education and Training Required? No
● Work Experience Required? No
● Oral or Written Exam Required? Yes

SAP Certified Application Associate - Quality Management with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5 Website

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