How do you differentiate a QA who is holding a Lean Six Sigma Belt and a QA who doesn't hold any certification. Or why should a QA go for Lean Six Sigma certification? 

 

 

Excellent question, Amith.

Let me put it this way - A Quality Assurance professional who has Lean Six Sigma competence creates opportunities for growth outside the Quality Assurance domain. 

 

Many of the Lean Six Sigma tools were initiated in the Quality domain but a true and successful LSS professional applies the learning for generating better business results than ever before. 

If you see the evolution of Lean Six Sigma in the image below, you will notice how things have progressed in this domain over the years. Hope this helps. Do ask a follow up question if you want to understand more. 

 

Hi,

 

As an QA , one of our prime task is to control the defect % and keep it in control. In simple way, we can audit the transaction and consolidate the defect % and work on creating plan to control it by coaching on the opportunities. May be after six Sigma training or going through the methodologies used, several tools will come into our mind which help us to think and act in a different way. First we plot all defects and find the vital 20% and work on it which inturn reduce the defect number drastically. We can do AAA to understand all auditors along with other support functions are in same page and to rely on the audited data or not. We can use affinity diagram to categorise causes and work simultaneously. Likewise if we have all the concepts known, at every juncture during solving problem, one of the concept will come into our mind and we effectively use it. I believe this helps to stand different from a an QA who don't hold a six Sigma certification.