Quality Engineer (CQE) Introduction

•Will have a fundamental understanding of a quality system and its development, documentation, and implementation with respect to domestic and international standards or requirements.

•Will have a basic understanding of the audit process including types of audits, planning, preparation, execution, reporting results, and follow-up.

•Will be able to develop and implement quality programs, including tracking, analyzing, reporting, and problem solving.

•Will be able to plan, control, and assure product and process quality in accordance with quality principles, which include planning processes, material control, acceptance sampling, and measurement systems.

•Will have basic knowledge of reliability, maintainability, and risk management, including key terms and definitions, modeling, systems design, assessment tools, and reporting.

•Will have a thorough understanding of problem-solving and quality improvement tools and techniques. This includes knowledge of management and planning tools, quality tools, preventive and corrective actions, and how to overcome barriers to quality improvements.

•Will be able to acquire and analyze data using appropriate standard quantitative methods across a spectrum of business environments to facilitate process analysis and improvements.

Examination

Each certification candidate is required to pass a written examination that consists of multiple-choice questions that measure comprehension of the BOK. The Quality Engineer examination is a five-hour, 160 multiple-choice question examination. It is offered in the English language only.