Quality Assurance

Intro mo quality assurance

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What is QA?

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The main benefits of QA include gaining a customer's satisfaction and

confidence. This leads to higher sales and better customer loyalty over time.
Quality assurance processes have become so critical that many companies
have created their own dedicated department.

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Quality Assurance involves pre-planned, regular reviews and independent audits to

verify that work is being carried out consistently in accordance with defined
procedures and to provide confidence to stakeholders the project will satisfy relevant
quality requirements and standards.
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Doing so will highlight areas where they can improve their work, increase
efficiency, and hold their team accountable. Not only does this strengthen a
brand’s reputation, but it also cuts down on the potential exponential
costs associated with fixing QA issues down the line.
Quality reviews are a key tool for quality assurance but could also be used for quality
control. The way they will be conducted will be set out in the Quality Plan. Four
overall objectives for review:
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These methods can vary depending on the requirements of the company;
however, you can count on using at least one of the following during the
process:

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This can include everything from consumables to cleaning supplies to
software. The SPC method monitors ongoing progress through charts
and strives for continuous improvement. The steps involved in this
quality assurance method include discovery, investigation,
prioritization, further analysis, and charting. This can be done internally
using project data, team input, and studies conducted by QA and
operations teams. Decisions are based on facts and figures and will
likely follow the scientific method approach.

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For physical products, that means whether the product will break down
under pressure or in various usability scenarios.
For virtual products, failure testing focuses on a program’s resiliency
against a number of possible high-stress scenarios. Issues such as
cybersecurity and transaction capacity are all evaluated.

Overall, failure testing aims to assess a prototype or finished

product and decide if it’s ready to go to market.

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TQM also supports teams by relying on data and analysis to plan and
implement future updates. It’s most popular for improving assembly-
line efficiency. Regardless of which quality assurance method you use,
having an execution plan is very important. It will help you keep track
of all of the steps involved in the QA process as they happen. Teams
can also track improvements over time and study trends as they
progress.