About AzIT

The Arizona Information Technology Skills Training Initiative (AzIT) has been created to increase the number of skilled and qualified workers in the field of information technology. AzIT helps ensure that companies representing a broad range of industries will have sufficient numbers of employees trained in the software analysis and development techniques integral to successful business operations. A strategic partnership that includes the U.S. Department of Labor, the Arizona Department of Commerce, IBM Corporation, Mesa Community College, and Northland Pioneer College, is responsible for AzIT's creation. AzIT is aligned with the President's High Growth Job Training Initiative aimed at preparing workers throughout the country for careers in high-demand, high-growth industries.

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AzIT offers a series of three self-paced training courses, each consisting of 10-13 web-based, interactive modules that focus on the building blocks for engineering quality into software development. Each module is highly organized and user-friendly, with clearly defined objectives, definitions of key terms, lesson summaries, key questions about in-depth lesson content, homework assignments, and recommended reading.

The courses are:

• Engineering Quality in Software Development is a series of Web-based training modules that teach you about techniques you can use to improve software quality from requirements discovery to effective design and implementation, as well as unit test and code inspection. (more information)

• Software Quality is a series of Web-based training modules that teach you about topics critical to efficient development of high-quality software and techniques you can use to improve software quality. (more information)
• Software Testing is a series of Web-based training modules that teach you about aspects of testing, from writing test plans and implementing tests to test management. (more information)
• There is one last additional training module, Testing Software Using Rational Functional Tester (RTF), that will teach you about aspects of implementing a GUI test automation using IBM's Rational Functional Tester. This material will not be included on IBM's certification test. (more information)

 

The primary occupations targeted by the AzIT initiative are:

Software Testing Occupations

1. General Testing
2. Functional Tester
3. Performance Tester
4. Integration Tester
5. Regression Tester
6. System Tester
7. Test Team Lead
8. Test Manager
9. Test Architect

Software Development Occupations

1. General Software Development
2. Builder/Packager
3. System Programmer
4. System Developer
5. Application Developer
6. Software Designer
7. Software Debugger
8. Software Architect
9. User Interface Developer
10. Database Developer
11. Software Integrator
12. Development Tools Developer
13. Senior/Chief Programmer