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Certified Quality Technician (CQT) Certification

American Society for Quality (ASQ)

Certification

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A Certified Quality Technician (CQT) is a professional who supports quality assurance and control processes by performing inspections, collecting data, and analyzing results. They play a critical role in ensuring compliance with quality standards and improving product reliability.

Cost

Exam Fee $460 Retakes $260Show moreShow less

Format

Hybrid

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A Certified Quality Technician (CQT) is a professional who supports quality assurance and control processes by performing inspections, collecting data, and analyzing results. They play a critical role in ensuring compliance with quality standards and improving product reliability.

Requirements

What you need to earn this credential

Internship/Fieldwork/Practicum Requirements

4 Years of on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Quality Technician Body of Knowledge.

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Skills & Competencies

Skills developed through this program

  • Apply quality concepts and tools to analyze processes and support continuous improvement efforts
  • Interpret statistical concepts and capability measures to evaluate process performance in quality‑driven environments
  • Manage measurement and test equipment to ensure proper control, maintenance, and calibration in operational settings
  • Apply inspection concepts and techniques to assess product or process conformity within quality assurance activities
  • Use quality‑audit components, tools, and techniques to evaluate systems in structured audit contexts
  • Implement corrective and preventive actions to resolve quality issues and prevent recurrence across organizational processes
Career Pathways

Occupations this program prepares you for

  • Industrial Production Managers11-3051.00
  • Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other19-4099.00
What You'll Learn

Key competencies developed through this program

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Mastery: developing (Level 2)(based on Certification)

  • Quality control checkpoints — monitor and document across multiple stages of production to detect deviations from prescribed standards in a mid-sized manufacturing facility.
  • Production processing schedules — review and adjust independently to balance workload, inventory levels, and budgetary constraints across active production shifts.
  • Personnel grievances and routine HR issues — address and resolve using established company policy and human resources software with reduced supervisory oversight.
  • Operational and production reports — analyze regularly to identify trends, inefficiencies, or quality problems and recommend corrective actions to department leadership.
  • Cross-functional staff meetings — facilitate to coordinate production, maintenance, and quality teams in resolving recurring processing problems on the plant floor.
  • Hiring and onboarding processes — execute for production line roles by screening candidates, conducting evaluations, and delivering role-specific training programs.
  • Industrial control software — configure and monitor to track production throughput and ensure output meets established scheduling targets in an automated plant environment.
  • New product specifications and process documentation — review in collaboration with research and technical staff to prepare the production floor for pilot runs.
  • Time management across concurrent production orders — apply structured prioritization methods to meet delivery deadlines within a multi-line manufacturing operation.
  • Personnel performance records — maintain accurately and use to inform merit evaluations and duty reassignments across a production department.

Some details on this page are auto-populated from public workforce data sources: O*NET (opens in new tab), BLS (opens in new tab), College Scorecard (opens in new tab), DOL Training Provider Results (opens in new tab), NSX (opens in new tab). Provided in partnership with LER.me Career Intelligence.

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