Software Quality Assurance Training
DOE
is committed to provide qualified staff to
assist, guide, direct, oversee and evaluate its
safety software. The Department’s
Safety Software Quality Assurance Functional
Area Qualification Standard (FAQS)
establishes common functional area competency
requirements for its personnel.
Additionally, specific Office/Facility-Specific
Qualification Standard supplements the technical
FAQS and establishes unique operational
competency requirements.
One of the first steps undertaken in July
2003 was the issuance of DOE Notice 411.1,
Safety Software Quality Assurance Functions,
Responsibilities, and Authorities (FRA) for
Nuclear Facilities and Activities. This notice
assigned roles and responsibilities for the
improvement of safety software quality assurance
(SQA).
DOE Order 414.1D supersedes DOE Notice 411.1.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Federal
Technical Capability Program Policy, P 426.1,
issued by the Secretary in December 1998,
commits DOE to continuously strive for technical
excellence and establishes the Technical
Qualification Program (TQP). The TQP, along with
the supporting technical Functional Area
Qualification Standards, complements the
personnel processes that support DOE's drive for
technical excellence. Detailed operating
requirements for the TQP and Functional Area
Qualification Standards are described in the
Federal Technical Capability Manual, DOE M
426.1-1.
To ensure that DOE personnel possess and
maintain the appropriate level of competency
required for their positions, DOE has committed
to provide training for its personnel.
Public courses on software quality engineering
were researched and compared with the
technical qualifications. The
American Society for Quality (ASQ) Software
Quality Engineering (SQE) course, that is
based upon industry accepted practices in SQE,
best matches
DOE-STD-1172-2003, Safety Software Quality
Assurance Functional Area Qualification
Standard, competencies requirements.
This course has as its foundation, ASQ’s SQE
body of knowledge that has been used to certify
hundreds of software quality engineers across
the United States since 1997.A
crosswalk
was done between the Safety Software Quality
Assurance competency Requirements and the ASQ
Software Engineering course for competencies
satisfied by this course.
DOE will update this material from time to
time. Suggestions and recommendations may be
sent to
Subir Sen in the Office of Corporate Safety
Programs.
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