QA throughout the project life-cycle

As a result, we have ISTQB certified professionals from Test Managers to QA engineers that are making it their priority to enhance the end quality of a product both from a non-functional point of view like performance or security to functional aspects as a very low production defect leakage.

We can achieve a high-quality standard by involving the QA members as early as possible in the software development life cycle, starting with identifying and creating a set of documentation that will be used as guidelines for enforcing the quality of the project, such as a Definition of Ready document.

This Definition of Ready document will stand as a checklist that needs to be completed for every item from the Product Backlog, during the refinement meetings, before deciding to bring that item into the next or current Sprint.

Since we have spoken about Refinement meetings, the QA role is a significant one in the development team. The QA member needs to be a part of these discussions since this is one of the very first steps in the optimization process. If done right, it can allow us to avoid future problems, thus reducing the costs of fixing an issue later in the project.

During these meetings, the QA will pay attention and work closely with the other development team members. Additionally, they will get involved in the story’s scope and discover how each service interacts with each other and what other features are intertwined with the current ones while also trying to identify potential risks. To top it all, they will come up with testing scenarios by helping the business analyst or product owner define comprehensive user acceptance criteria.