In developing products and services, quality assurance is any systematic process of checking to see whether a product or service being developed is meeting specified requirements.
Business Requirements are often ambiguous causing a lot of rework after code construction.
Project schedules slip due to lack of experienced test talent; software engineers are performing testing functions.
Performance and Load issues are discovered in production causing rework or unplanned hardware expenditure.
Senior management teams do not have the visibility into the “real” progress of a project (e.g. unknown test coverage).
Automation software has been purchased but is sitting on the shelf or not proving its ROI.
IV&V activities early & throughout Project Lifecycle.
Standardized test & defect management processes.
Conducting the right testing at the right time.
In-parallel test activities to speed test repeatability.
Test effectiveness optimization.
Continuing focus on reusable test artifacts.
Metrics data gathering & analysis drive improvements.
Specialized test management, design and execution expertise.
Independent, Accountable Test Partner.
Diverse business domain and technology expertise.
Conformance to customer’s standards, infusion of best practices.
Outstanding quality of service and responsiveness.