Orlando, July 21st, 2010: QAI Global Institute (www.qaiglobalinstitute.com), the workforce development division of QAI has signed an agreement with Singapore Computer Society (www.scs.org.sg) to promote quality assurance certifications and quality best practices amongst IT professionals in Singapore, at the second annual Infocomm Professional Development Forum on 8th July '10. SCS will offer QAI's globally recognized certifications in Quality Assurance, Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) and Certified Manager for Software Quality (CMSQ) in the country, under this agreement.

CSQA is designed for practitioners with two to four years of working experience in the IT field, while CMSQ is designed for senior-level professionals with over eight years of experience in the software quality assurance field.

The CSQA certification will have CITREP status, which will aid candidates for up to 80 per cent funding under the Singapore government's Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme.

QAI has trained in excess of 140,000 professionals and certified more than 38,000 people globally in over 43 countries and looks forward to support the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore's endeavour to create 3000 quality professionals an year.

Commenting on the partnership, Navyug Mohnot, CEO, QAI said, "For over twenty years, the QAI Global Institute has been helping define the Quality profession. Singapore has been the epitome of quality in so many areas, and a role model to the world. It is therefore natural that we are extremely excited to partner with SCS to bring in the globally recognized certifications."

Adding to that, Alphonsus Pang, President, SCS said "SCS is dedicated to placing our infocomm professionals at the forefront of the infocomm industry by providing them with the necessary tools to hone their skills via our certification programmes. Our partnership with QAI Global in managing the two software quality certifications, CSQA and CMSQ will further strengthen infocomm manpower capabilities in Singapore."

About QAI Global Institute

QAI is a leading global consulting and workforce development organization addressing ‘Operational Excellence' in IT, BPO and knowledge intensive service organizations.

QAI Global Institute, the competency development division of QAI, focuses on creating international education and training products and services to address the competence development, assessments and certifications to cater to the large pool of manpower requiring skills for increased employability.

QAI is currently servicing over 200 clients in 30 countries and our regional bases are located in US, India, UK, China, Singapore and Malaysia.

About SCS

The Singapore Computer Society (SCS), established since 1967, is the premier professional body for IT practitioners and IT users in Singapore. It provides a wide range of events such as seminars and conferences, publications and access to an invaluable network of ICT professionals. It also administers various certification programmes that offer individuals the avenue to gain recognition and career development. Today, having a membership of over 23,000, the SCS is the largest local IT body with membership representative of the IT community.

For further details, please contact

Parul Singh parul.singh@qaiglobal.com	Tom Ticknor tticknor@qaiworldwide.org