Opquast certification: ‘Mastering Web Quality Assurance’

Opquast training has already allowed over 11,000 professionals to have their web skills certified. Our training breaks from the traditional ‘disciplinary silo’ approach. Learn foundational multidisciplinary UX and web QA skills and establish a web culture for successful projects where the customer experience is the central focus.

‘Mastering Web Quality Assurance’ course summary

A 14-hour online training course, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
For professionals invested in web projects: strategy to operations, marketeers to project managers, editorial to technical staff
For all levels, from beginners to advanced
A multi-disciplinary approach: ecodesign, inclusion, UX, SEO, e-commerce etc
Community defined web quality and UX rules based toolset covering design to post implementation

The training objectives

Cross disciplinary skills for more effective team work
Learn a common vocabulary, framework and a mindset, for better web Q.A. and U.X. reflexes
Understand fundamental user requirements for the web
Avoid major accessibility issues, project risks and commmon user annoyances
Learn web design foundations for user diversity

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Joachim RobertWeb Integrator

When I changed careers, I wanted to bring meaning to my new assignments. Because I felt the need to consider the end user first, I took the Opquast training and then the certification. Thanks to what I learned, I succeeded in my interviews and convinced those who became my team. Opquast gave me the keys to understand quality, but also to find missions that make sense.

Student benefits

Consolidate and gain certification for web project and digital experience skills
Learn new behaviours and a mindset based upon an agile customer centric web Q.A. approach
Gain a multidisciplinary broadbase of foundational knowledge for successful web and digital transformation programs
Integrate immediately with web teams and digital functions and contribute to the web design process
join a community with passion and resources dedicated to making the web better for all

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Course content: the web quality reference system

Opquast has been working on web quality since 2000. The web quality guidance rules are defined by the Opquast community and have been utilised to support tens of thousands of web projects and have been tried and tested via millions of web interactions by Opquast community’s customers, including the leading CMS communities such as WordPress, Drupal and Prestashop.

The Opquast reference system comprises of the web quality rules, the multidisciplinary web management models and the online platform with supporting training materials.

240 web quality rules
realistic and verifiable, validated by the community

Multidisciplinary approach and models
SEO, accessibility, performance, security, UX, ecodesign, e-commerce, Privacy and Mobile

Online platform and training materials
autonomous e-learning system with quizzes, an online glossary, full mock exams, supporting articles and videos and a 200-page certification pdf guide

The Opquast web quality rules checklist is available under open license CC-BY-SA
Web quality rules are the subject of consensus in consultation with a wide community of experts, agencies, companies, and higher education establishments
The rules feature in the book, “Qualité Web” published by Eyrolles (English release late 2020)
Opquast brings together several thousand certified and a large number of schools, universities, training centers, and public actors

Download the PDF - 150k skills repository

Actual course video extract –

Here’s a video excerpt of Élie Sloïm, CEO and founder of Opquast, co-author of the VPTCS model.

This is the VPTCS model, which means Visibility Perception Technical Content and Services. This model reads in chronological order relating to three major phases: Before, during and after the user visits the website. With this model, you are not only interested in the interface but in the user experience as a whole. The UI or user interface is covered by the three central sections of the model. Perception Technical and Content. Visibility leads us to take an interest in why and how the user arrived . But that is not enough. You also have to understand why he's coming and what he wants to take with him when he leaves. Then we have to look at the services part. This model allows you to understand part of the UX and above all, it allows you to explain simply the difference between ux and ui and that is very important. The vptcs model led to the birth of the Opquast best practices. We have created discussion forums which are asked to discuss each rule to establish a consensus list of rules. We have over 200 best practices they are widely used by web professionals and have a very long lifespan.

Business Benefits

Minimise business and technical risks: such as loss of customer confidence, poor SEO and performance, data privacy breaches etc.
Decrease costs by reducing errors upstream and also decrease the quality control effort.
Create solid foundations for digital transformation:Introduce trained ‘quality custodians’ and empower your human assets to proactively manage your digital assets.
Extend your customer base with a fully inclusive ‘user focused’ quality assurance strategy
Increase brand credibility with increased quality: Opquast’s approach ensures customers receive positive brand signals throughout their web interactions.
Create a strong and cross-disciplinary web team culture

Testimonials

Arnaud MalonIT Project Manager

It was really a great experience. We came out sharp, ready to polish new quality sites, new applications and digital campaigns. We all learned a lot. We spent a month discussing the quality a lot: suddenly, in addition to the emulation between the different members of the team, I really feel that we have shared something, and that we have made progress all together.

Serena PontorieroEngagement Manager

The training gives us a cross-perspective on the different professions of the web. We touch everything. Despite a non-technical profile, I gained a better understanding of web aspects that are not part of my core business skills, for example, developer tasks, such as minifying scripts, which can speed up page loading. All this contributes to a more efficient web and, therefore, a more responsible web. It's crucial for a project manager to have all these parameters in mind.

Read the full testimony of Serena Pontoriero

Brice MachuIT & Digital Marketing Trainer

We decided to deploy the OPQUAST platform within our CESI training courses (Developer, Web Designer, Project Manager in Digital Marketing). We believe that this kind of certification can bring a lot of value to a profile, but above all, it allows us to better organize ourselves in the project life cycle, while placing the user at the center.

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Useful information

Duration, prices, program, prerequisites, teaching methods, assistance, accessibility, and individualization: find all the information in the training program (PDF-173kb) .