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Certified Quality Professional (CQP)
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1,030 students

Certified Quality Professional (CQP)

Your Pathway to Becoming a Trusted Quality Leader
Created byMohamed Othman
Last updated 12/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand and apply the full Quality Value Chain from design engineering to planning and execution with continuous improvement.
  • Master TQM principles and learn how culture and process discipline drive sustainable quality excellence.
  • Capture and translate the Voice of the Customer (VOC) into CCRs and measurable CTQs that align with business strategy.
  • Build a complete documentation hierarchy defining and structuring policies and procedures and work instructions.
  • Design scalable business process architectures and develop accurate process flows using proper notation and swimlanes.
  • Apply key quality tools [ Pareto / Histograms Scatter Plots and RCA ] to diagnose issues and support decisions.
  • Distinguish quality roles QA / QC / audit and document control besides understand how each function contributes to the QMS.
  • Evaluate and reduce the Cost of Poor Quality understanding prevention and appraisal as well as failure costs and their impact.
  • Monitor and improve performance using KPIs and effectiveness metrics and process control practices from the course.

Course content

9 sections50 lectures11h 36m total length
  • Introduction to Certified Quality Professional Course0:54

    Welcome to the Certified Quality Professional (CQP) program!

    You are about to begin a transformational learning journey designed to build your capability in quality systems, process excellence, and organizational performance.

  • Course Introduction17:40

    The Certified Quality Professional (CQP) course is designed to give learners a complete, practical understanding of how quality works inside real organizations. The program simplifies complex quality concepts and builds them step by step from foundations like TQM and Customer focus to advanced topics such as the Quality Value Chain VOC analysis as well as  ISO documentation and process architecture.

  • Meaning Of Quality : Five Approaches of Defining Quality23:41

    This lecture introduces the five major ways experts define “quality” transcendent / product-based / user-based manufacturing-based and value-based. You will learn how each approach shapes the way organizations design evaluate and improve their products or services and why understanding these perspectives is essential for building effective quality systems.

  • Quality Definitions15:00

    This lecture explains the core definitions of quality from an organizational and ISO perspective. It covers what meeting requirements truly means also why quality depends on consistency and how customer expectations and performance standards and specifications shape the meaning of quality. Learners will gain a practical understanding of how quality is evaluated and communicated inside real organizations.

  • Quality Dimensions29:01

    This lecture explores the eight dimensions of quality. Students will learn how these dimensions help organizations design better products and services as well as measure performance more accurately and understand what truly matters to customers.

  • Quality History32:04

    A concise look at the evolution of quality management highlighting major contributors like

    • Deming / Juran / Crosby / Ishikawa and how their philosophies shaped modern quality practices used around the world today.

  • Quality Paradigms14:06

    This lecture explains how quality has shifted from traditional stability-focused models toward modern paradigms driven by adaptability and innovation. You will explore the difference between operational excellence ("fitness for use") and adaptation excellence ("fitness for exploration") in rapidly changing environments.

Requirements

  • No prior certification is required. The program is structured to guide learners from fundamental quality concepts to advanced professional practices even if they are starting with minimal background.
  • Basic understanding of organizational processes or operations : Familiarity with how work flows inside companies will help you relate faster to quality concepts.
  • Curiosity about improving processes and solving problems. Learners who have an interest in quality and continuous improvement will benefit greatly as the course covers essential frameworks such as TQM and the Quality Value Chain in depth.
  • Comfort with structured thinking and documentation. Because the course involves building process flows analyzing root causes, designing documentation hierarchies, and interpreting quality data, participants should be prepared to work through structured examples and simple analytical exercises.
  • Optional but beneficial : prior exposure to ISO systems. Experience with ISO 9001 or internal audits is not required but learners with such exposure will grasp alignment topics faster especially when discussing process documentation and governance

Description

The Certified Quality Professional (CQP) program is a practical, industry aligned qualification designed to build confident professionals who understand how quality truly operates inside organizations. This course brings together the essentials of Lean Six Sigma as well as ISO management systems, process architecture and operational excellence into one complete learning experience.

Participants learn how quality is structured, governed, measured, and improved starting from documentation fundamentals all the way to advanced analytical tools. Through a clear roadmap, learners explore how to design processes and interpret data beside reduce the cost of poor quality ( COPQ ) and build systems that enable consistent and customer focused performance.

The program blends theory with real-world application ensuring that every concept directly connects to daily work in quality departments.

What You’ll Gain

1. You will master the full documentation hierarchy.

  • Understand how policies, processes and work instructions connect and support organizational governance.

  • Apply ISO 9001 : 2015 principles to structure and maintain documented information effectively.

2. You will gain the ability to design end-to-end business processes using process architecture principles.

  • Build clear process flows using swimlanes, inputs / outputs and logical sequencing.

  • Optimize processes to reduce ambiguity and enhance operational efficiency.

3. You will learn how to apply the Quality Value Chain model.

  • Map how value is created from inputs to outputs and delivered through processes and services.

  • Align organizational functions to ensure consistent delivery of customer-focused value.

4. You will understand modern Quality Paradigms, including prevention over inspection.

  • Shift from reactive correction to proactive prevention through structured quality planning.

  • Apply data-driven and continuous improvement paradigms to strengthen organizational performance.

5. You will become proficient in using core quality tools.

  • Identify root causes and visualize patterns using tools such as Pareto / Scatter diagrams and Histograms.

6. You will be able to quantify and reduce the Cost of Poor Quality.

  • Distinguish between prevention / appraisal / internal failure and external failure costs.

  • Build strategies that shift cost toward prevention reducing long-term operational losses.

7. You will understand how quality functions operate including QA / QC / audit and document control.

  • Recognize the responsibilities and interactions of each quality function within the organization.

  • Design or optimize quality teams based on organizational size and maturity and regulatory demands.

Outcome

You will graduate with a complete, integrated understanding of quality systems from foundational principles to advanced application. Combine quality governance, tools, processes, and methodologies into a unified professional capability and apply your knowledge to lead and sustain quality excellence in any environment.

Who this course is for:

  • Professionals seeking a complete understanding of quality systems and frameworks.
  • New and mid-level quality officers aiming to formalize their skills with a structured certification.
  • Engineers and technical staff transitioning into QA / QC or process improvement roles.
  • Managers and supervisors responsible for performance and compliance.
  • Process owners and document controllers involved in SOPs or workflow design and Policies.
  • Individuals preparing for roles in continuous improvement / Lean or Six Sigma environments.
  • Auditors, inspectors, and analysts working with ISO 9001 or similar quality standards.
  • Anyone looking to build a strong foundation in quality tools.