How to take on the challenge of modernization in quality assurance?
by Eshwar Natarajan in General
Digitization requires a comprehensive change in the organizational culture and outlook. This includes ending the propensity for tossing things over the fence. Rather, a community-oriented team culture, a quality-driven attitude, and a client driven methodology is required. With organizations pushing for digitization, it is necessary that they choose an industry standard modern approach quality assurance.
Challenges in modernization of Quality Assurance:
The most important factor involved in the quality assurance modernization process is creating awareness for testing responsibilities across the delivery team. The reason being the QA team is the final team to review functionality and code at the end of the development cycle. The numerous layers present in the development cycle makes it difficult to manage all test responsibilities without the right plan.
Also, with large organizations, such quality assurance transformations require a tremendous amount of skill in change management and adaptability with the ability to specify changes in terms of business value. For instance, a manager in the quality assurance team has to act more like a coach and help the team to offer governance to ensure an effortless collaboration between different layers of the software development life cycle. The organization may find it time consuming and a costly process to upskill the employees who do not possess the requisite skill set. This is why organizations benefit from partnering with companies that have the expertise and experience in QA modernization.
How to achieve QA modernization?
The subject matter experts at Nuage are seasoned with vast experience of helping our clients manage and upgrade their quality assurance methods and tools. Here are few methods how we can help you modernize your Quality Assurance methodology:
- Checking organization readiness: The major factor that determines the organizational readiness is the ability of technology leadership to acknowledge the value of quality. With this as the company understands the importance of modernization and reaches out for assistance we first go through their existing tools and strategies. This provides an overview which quality assurance method needs upgrading and to what extent. And then we match these results with the requirement to understand the organizational readiness for QA modernization.
- Moving to quality engineering: To get modernization right, steps need to be taken from the initial stage, thus shifting from quality assurance to quality engineering is essential. This helps collaboration of QA teams with development and delivery teams right from day one and allows early defect detection and prevention.
- Bringing in test automation strategy: Organization working with different clients and their projects creates different testing methods while going through modernization. This not only leads to redundancy but also creates a constant test framework reinventing cycle. To tackle this problem, the experts at Nuage recommend test automation when working with development of iterative applications. This improves speed, improves quality and reduces cost as well.
If you would like to collaborate with us, do write to us at info@nuagebiz.tech and our experts will guide you to seamlessly modernize the quality assurance service of your organization.