Software Quality Assurance (QA) represents a world of strategies aimed at a single goal: customer satisfaction. QA is a set of planned and achieved activities that help ensure that the delivered project meets the requirements and needs expressed by the customer.
What is a QA tester?
A QA tester is the person in charge of designing different test scenarios, which requires proactivity and business knowledge. Even to develop actions, sometimes improbable; you must have the ability to generate new ideas and strategies that drive the improvement of the project constantly. These features allow you to detect even the smallest incidents that can cause application crashes or poor performance. Its main function is to guarantee the correct functioning of the developed application.
What are the functions of a QA?
- Analyze requirements
- Create a test plan
- Design and execute manual and/or automated test cases
- Manage incidents found
- Take evidence
- Control the test cycle
- Drive process improvements
Benefits of quality control in software products
There’re multiple benefits to including the QA process within the development team, keeping in mind that not everything related to software quality is incidents or test cases. Some of them are:
Maintain a good user experience. By carefully testing a project, those details or incidents that can cause failures or slowness in the application will be revealed, which would affect the user experience and result in their discontent.
Save time and money. It’ll always be more convenient to detect incidents in early stages of development, this will avoid reprocessing during the project life cycle.
Customer satisfaction and trust. When carrying out the testing process to guarantee the quality of the project, the main objective will be to deliver functional products when they are required, guaranteeing positive experiences for both the client and the end user.
Reasons from having a QA in your development team
- Detection of errors in the initial stages of development
- Confidence regarding the quality level of the delivered product
- Value-added deliveries for the user
- Lower costs
- Avoid rework during the development stages of the project
At what stage of project development should you hire a QA?
In fact, a QA must ensure the quality of the project at all stages of development, from requirements analysis to final delivery and maintenance. This will help to identify defects in the early stages, facilitating the detection of critical errors and their correction, saving time and effort in testing.
In a nutshell 🌰
When we talk about a QA tester, we refer to a highly trained professional profile in the development, implementation and measurement of testing strategies with a high technological impact, with an influence on the organizational budget and on the perception of the end user towards the company that owns the project.
No doubt, it’s a profile that must be part of each and every stage of project development, in order to be able to respond to customer needs, always seeking their satisfaction and positive experience. Contact us, if you are looking to expand your team with a QA tester and take your user experience to the next level, we’ll always be happy to help you.
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