Software Quality Plays major role to deliver the defect free Product/Software to the Client and Software Quality Assurance is a process to assure the quality in the software which works parallel to the software development. Software Quality Assurance is to improve work processes and efficiency, enabling companies to win customer/Client confidence and raise their credibility.
Being a part of the team, QA engineers should be involved in the product development process – right from the very beginning. They will identify risks, collect and adjust requirement by analyzing customer’s guidelines and of course ,discuss with the developer if some solution will not be accepted.
The aim is to ensure high- quality results in the product. The main task is to prevent possible bugs, saving working time and budget. The SQA goes through the whole product life cycle (SDLC).
In fact, instead of the final product, Quality Assurance SDLC focuses on testing of each stage of the development process.
A Few years back, QA started to shift to the left in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Now, QA as an individual function, organizations began to integrate it within SDLC to get the quality from the beginning. This results in achieving both quality and speed in the code releases.
Software Quality Assurance Team Activities
- Setting the checkpoint: SQA team plans checkpoints to check the progress, quality, and performance of the software.
- Measuring change impact: Change in requirement or fixes in the defect can cause other defects in existing functionality. The team works with the developer on test metrics to avoid future blockage.
- Planning multiple testing strategies: A SQA team aims to cover multiple area of software development. For instance, for eCommerce, they test security, performance, loading, stress, database testing, design and functionality.
- Submitting records and reports: Process is important for Client and managers to track the software .The QA team reports and documents executed test Plans, test cases and test cycles; defects logging; fixed defects; reopen defects and closed defects
- SQA management plan: A management plan is the most important strategy to make your SQA and dev team work together. You can decide deadlines, standard measures, and strategies to meet the client requirements.
You know, The most important key for getting the full potential of software quality assurance is a good relationship between the testers and developers. Testers and Developers, both have dependency on each other. Strong bonding and strong communication between testers and developers always results into delivering high quality Product. The aim of developer and QA teams is to deliver the highest quality products to keep the internal communication effective and productive.
Why You Need an SQA Engineer For Your Team
In history, Many times happened that small errors lead to the failure of the project. When small errors which could have been avoided by quality testing – are ignored. Do you know, often these basic errors cause unbearable financial loss. There is no matter whether the project is documented well, delivered on time, and following business requirements or not.
So, Just to avoid expensive mistakes companies are hiring QA whose main job is to prevent defects, ensuring the quality of your development process and its results. This is how big companies secure a sound position in the market. QA is responsible to provide “Green Signal” before delivering products to clients. Sign off provided by QA is the Assured checklist of the Highest quality of the Product.
Here are the primary benefits of hiring a SQA engineer:
- Client’s Confidence: Process is the most important part of SDLC and client is mainly interested in the process you follow to achieve the highest quality of the product. An SQA can provide detailed review of requirement specific documents , inspections, auditing and quality of the software. Client confidence increases if we involve them in clients in each progress during the project development and future collaboration.
- Better User Satisfaction: Expected outcome for the users can be done by Regular reporting and testing.During the final inspection and walkthrough, your SQA and dev team work together and they can fix and adjust the details. Due to this, elimination can be done which could negatively impact the user experience and satisfaction.
- Client Conflicts: SQA engineers are always helpful to meditate with clients. They can explain technical issues and also, changes into the plan respecting requirements, time, and budget. Their work ensures productive teamwork during the whole development cycle.
- Save Time and Money: An experienced QA Engineer contributes to building the application, which saves time and money for the company. Just take it this way, if bugs are not reported at the earlier stage, it will cost the company more time and money to repeat the entire process.
Conclusion
If developing an extensive software system, miscommunication can be easily happened between the developers. This miscommunication can lead to a buggy application. QA Engineer will work on each stage of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). and keep the chain intact via a proper Test Plan. Finding ambiguities in requirements specific document and contributes to the biggest value. The sooner a bug is found, it damages the less to the whole project.
She is Senior Quality Analyst at Elitech Systems. She has expertise in automated and manual Software testing, proficient in analysing a large scale project with useful insights for developers and project team.
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