SQA: Coach

With audits, reviews and issue handling being the predominant responsibilities, an SQA responsibilities move towards mundane daily tasks. With time, role of the SQA is understood well and with understanding comes the predictability in the work. Organizations, SQA functions and the SQAs should seize this opportunity and raise the level of services rendered to the [...]

SQA: People Person

Let us have a look at the primary duties of an SQA.
The audits, the review meetings and the escalations to resolve any quality issues in a timely manner.
In brief, an SQA has to get things done, in time, from people with whom he does not have a reporting relationship. He has to ensure that the [...]

SQA : Organizational Culture

Interface – A surface forming a common boundary between adjacent regions, bodies, substances, or phases
SQA is an interface between the organization and its people, the human capital. The organization sets goals for process improvement, chooses a model to adhere to and then organization wide processes are rolled out. SQA must be careful in this aspect [...]

SQA : Personal Integrity

Most of the times, the job of SQA is to monitor the process which is planned to be followed in the project and report any violations in this process. The SQA report is shared with the Senior Management along with the project manager. It is this and its consequences which can be challenging and should [...]

Becoming an SQA

I was six years into it and was loosing my passion!
Looking back, I think, it was the sheer volatility of technology, which I had witnessed, had made me to loose interest in it. I had seen technology advancing with such a speed, that before I could be satisfied with my own understanding of one aspect [...]