Introduction
Quality assurance (QA) is any systematic process of determining whether a product or service meets specified requirements.
QA establishes and maintains set requirements for developing or manufacturing reliable products. A quality assurance system is meant to increase customer confidence and a company’s credibility, while also improving work processes and efficiency, and it enables a company to better compete with others.
Most of the company (All Domain) spend a lot of amounts to make sure their products are with high quality. Companies set up a process to assure the quality of the product and prepare a predefine Quality Assurance checklist. Also, Company hires many Quality Assurance’s certified professionals to do the work.
In a layman term, we can say “The quality assurance is activities and management processes that are done to ensure that the products and services the project delivers are at the required quality level. It is process driven and focused on the development of the product or delivery of the service.”
Quality Assurance is very critical and the success of the product depends on this process. It applied to all most all business like Manufacturer, Healthcare, Food Industry, Information Technologies etc.
Quality Assurance Checklist
As we know, Quality Assurance is very significant and vital for every company. Several important tools and technics developed during a very minimum span of time. These tools and technics are very popular and used by various successful products. As per my understanding, the process management is at the top of everything besides it should be a thorough process.
There are some common QA checklist mentioned here –
- Establish QA facilitation
- Implement a Quality Management Process
- Conduct a process Review
- Create a Report on Project/Product Status
- Perform a process compliance review
- Identify Process Improvement areas
- Create Process training and conduct Brain Storming session
- Feedback from the various party like Client, Product Owner/Management, Development Team, and QA team
The importance of quality assurance
According to Wikipedia quality assurance definition, it is a way of preventing mistakes or defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering solutions or services to customers’. But there’s, in fact, more than that about quality assurance. There are numerous benefits of having a QA team in place, like:
- It helps meet clients’ demands and expectations most fully
- It works to build trust with customers and beat the competition in the long run.
- It is effective for saving costs by detecting and fixing issues and flaws at early stages.
- It assists in setting and maintaining high-quality standards. It shifts focus from detecting issues to their prevention.
Apparently, investing in quality assurance is not only worthwhile, but indispensable took today’s fierce competition in IT. It is certainly important to know and use QA team best practices for the desired results. So, let’s discuss how to create a good quality assurance team and run it effectively.