CheQ Systems, Inc., the Philippines’s first independent full time Software Quality Engineering and testing services provider, recently announced its new set of training courses that will cover more advanced and more specific topics on software testing.
CheQ offers intensive and extensive training courses that extend from basic know-how all the way to strategic approaches, which could be conducted for either public or corporate audience. New courses released for Q1 and Q2 include:
• Test Design: The Next Level - A two-day course that will help participants establish the different test design approaches, built around hands-on exercises designed to enhance and reinforce the learning experience.
• Is It Testable? - A two-day course that will teach participants the best practices in building testable requirements presenting a complete process for eliciting the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and recording them clearly, comprehensibly and unambiguously.
• To Automate or Not? - A two-day course that will introduce participants to the Automated Test Life-Cycle Methodology where lecture presentations will be conducted to illustrate a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the most effective tools, techniques, and methods for automated testing.
• Managing the Testing Process - A two-day training course where participants will learn about the development and the use of a test plan and a test system, make effective use of bug and test tracking tools/databases.
These are just about a third of the new courses CheQ is set out to release in the next twelve months. More is still to come as CheQ continues to offer its regular non-tool-centric and tool-centric courses to continue its mission of optimizing people through its extensive training courses.
For training schedules, please visit http://www.cheqsystems.com/training_sched.php.
CheQ’s Chief Executive Officer and President Roel Hernandez and Research and Development (R&D) Manager Rommie Patricio participated in this year’s HP APJ (Asia Pacific Japan) Software Bootcamp held last May 30 to June 6 at the Hilton Phuket Arcadia and Movenpick Hotel in Phuket, Thailand. The venue served as the best place to create and share the knowledge and understanding of what and how HP Software is doing now, including familiarity with its new range of products and ways to strengthen its capabilities to sell in-depth and cross-platform solutions.
Aside from hands-on solution training sessions designed to develop primary and secondary skill sets, the event also dedicated common sessions for HP internal, partners, and alliances focusing on the new portfolio, and opportunities to learn how different products can be best brought together to optimize business outcomes.
The bootcamp also covered two agenda – Sales and Technical Sales (formerly known as Pre-sales). This year's Technical Sales on PC/QC class, which was attended by Rommie Patricio, focused on best practices across the HP range of centers/products and solutions in performance and quality management. The class was intended to provide practical skills to prepare the technical sales community to win deals and drive customer orders through use of compelling business positioning and value propositions, end-to-end engagement management, case study walkthroughs, ROI business case development, and hands-on skills development.
Meanwhile, CEO and President Roel Hernandez attended the two-day Partner Summit where participants got a chance to engage in networking and improve their HP partnership through accessing resources and key market opportunities and initiatives.
Also present during the event were HP Philippines representatives Noel Pasia, HP Software Sales Manager, and Modesto Quismorio III, HP Pre-Sales Consultant (Software).
CheQ Systems, Inc., the country’s first independent full-time Software Quality Engineering and Testing Services provider, invites you to its Company Presentation and HP Mercury Software Testing Tools Demo on June 24, 2008, Tuesday, at 1:30 PM.
Agenda:
CheQ Systems Company Presentation
• Testing Services
• Consulting Services
• Training Services
HP Mercury Application Delivery Product Demo
• TestDirector for Quality Center with Business Process Testing and Dashboard
• QuickTest Professional (Functional Tool)
• LoadRunner (Performance Tool)
Venue: CheQ Systems Training Laboratory
Address: 1708 88 Corporate Center
141 Sedeño Street
Salcedo Village
Makati City
We will serve complimentary refreshments!
This invite is good for two (2) representatives from your company. If you are interested to attend, we will greatly appreciate if you could confirm your attendance by June 20, 2008.
Email your seat reservation to bizdev@cheqsystems.com. Hurry! LIMITED SEATS only.
Thank you and we hope to see you there!
Requirements:
Communication Skills
o Must be excellent, can write and speak very good English
o Can understand and express thoughts in American conversational language
o Has a good grasp of American culture, arts, music, hobbies, games, etc.
Technical Skills
o A very, very good understanding of testing concepts and can implement those concepts on various environments and situations
o Has an enormous passion for testing and quality
o Preferred pluses: development experience or programming background
o Game exposure: must be a good gamer, has played at least 3 types of massive multiplayer online games, is currently playing at least once a week
Preferred for Test Lead Positions:
o At least 3 years in testing
o At least 2 years experience managing a team, at least 1 year of which in test management
Business Development Officer (Job Code: BDO)
Requirements:
The Business Development Officer will work closely with fellow Business Development personnel and the other departments in the organization in the establishment and management of client relationships. The BDO will strategically research and network to set meetings with decision-makers and influencers at potential clients, with the objective of winning new business.
• Bachelors Degree, any major. MBA or a Master’s degree, a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, to all levels of an organization
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to build trust
• Good organizational and database-management skills
• Good research skills, including the use of the Internet
• Demonstrated initiative and determination to persist
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Self motivated
Job Experience:
• Marketing and sales experience (preferably in a consulting/services environment)
• Proven ability to establish a network or relationships and set-up meetings with decision-makers and influencers at IT corporations.
• Proven track record of reaching and or exceeding benchmark set in business development
• Experienced in creating and analyzing financial reports and statistics
• Ability to provide inputs to develop sales and marketing plans along the software testing industry and related industries
• Database management experience
• Ability to support high-impact “first” meetings with prospective clients with customized research identifying prospect’s issues and opportunities
Responsibilities:
• Understand current business and IT trends and competitor activities
• Identify opportunities and forecast demands of the market
• Lead all business development activities for the assigned clients by developing a comprehensive understanding of the client's business needs and building strategic, high-level relationships
• Manage customer expectations and establish process to enhance account relationship
• Ensure that opportunities are properly qualified and are focused on repeatable and manageable opportunities
• Develop account plans for the assigned accounts
• Conduct account reviews on an ongoing basis
• Develop and communicate the vision and the strategic direction for the account
• Develop proposals that are responsive to the client's business requirements
• Ensure that proposals are submitted to the clients within the specified and/or a reasonable time period
• Provide account status and forecasts to management
• Represent the organization and develop vital partnerships with key players
• Conduct market research
QA Officer (Job Code: QAO)
Requirements:
• Must be a graduate of any four-year course
• With 1 to 2 years of related work experience and training in various facets of ISO 9001 QMS especially internal audit
• Adept in ISO 9001:2000 procedures, documentation , and internal auditing
• Able to present processes in a concise and easily understandable manner/form
• Able to foster teamwork by contributing in the building of positive team spirit wherein the success of the team is above own interest
• Exhibits objectivity and openness to other's views
• Experience in a consulting industry or service-oriented industry is a plus
Responsibilities:
• Spearhead the establishment of the company’s Quality Management System
• Document and standardize processes that are aimed at improving efficiency in the delivery of services
• Monitor the correct implementation of and compliance to set standards
• Conduct Internal Quality Audits to verify strict compliance to policies and procedures
• Collect QMS records and use them to continually improve the quality of the system
• Fulfill other tasks assigned by the immediate supervisor
CheQ’s Business Development team headed by Wilma Sapalaran and the two Associates, AJ Lopez and RJ Blas, participated for the third time in the 8th e-Services Philippines (ESP): Global Sourcing Conference and Exhibition held last February 11-12, 2008 at SMX Convention Center in Pasay City. Marked as the group’s first marketing activity for the year 2008, they showcased and promoted the company’s testing, consulting, and training services in the exhibition area along with other 100 and more companies consisting of international and major local outsourcing players from different Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sectors and related industries.
This year’s international conference and exhibit with theme “Outsourcing Centers of Excellence,” was organized by the Department of Trade and Industry’s Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM), Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPA/P), and outsourcing advisory firm, Tholons, Inc. It was attended by 2,000 local and international key players in IT and IT-enabled services (ITES), Contact Centers, Software Development, Design and Engineering, Animation and Graphic Design, Game Development, and Financial and HR-related BPO.
ESP created an opportunity for CheQ to expand its market reach, to multiply its revenue, and to increase its competitive edge through meeting, networking, and establishing partnerships with emerging players locally and from countries like Great Britain, Sri Lanka, Japan, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States.
CheQ invades the game space with a bang as the company bags brand-new projects with two new US clients. One is a prominent Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) developer located in the vibrant city of Austin, Texas, and expects to release a title in the next few years. Another client, located in San Francisco, California, produces a popular brand of console games for kids of specific ages that focus on school curriculum.
What started as pilot projects headed by CheQ’s Chief Quality Officer on the second half of year 2006, have potentially become 5-year deals and will officially be kicking off Q4, just before the year ends. CheQ received a positive impact immediately after evaluating the quality of the pilot test results and survey of the test lab facilities. Having the Q (quality) bigger than its competitors, and with the unfailing passion of its management team, CheQ won the projects.
Being the country’s first independent full time Software Quality Engineering and testing services provider, CheQ offers its clients excellence and competitiveness in the delivery of services, highlighting quality, skills, and communications. Having the tools, techniques, and experts along with the international standards and best practices, CheQ leverages its existing trained and experienced workforces, who have dedicated their careers to software quality assurance.
