As a QA an important part of your tasks consists of continuous improvement of your Test and delivery process. Being a key member of your organisation you will have to participate in different workshops, meetings and trainings in order to figure out the best balance you and your team can achieve within the classic challenges of Cost Time and Scope What is PDCA ? SQA ? According to Wikipedia : PDCA (plan–do–check–act or plan–do–check–adjust) is an iterative four-step management method used in business for the control and continual improvement of processes and products. It is also known as the Deming circle/cycle/wheel, control circle/cycle, or plan–do–study–act (PDSA). Software quality assurance (SQA) consists of a means of monitoring the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure quality.[citation needed] The methods by which this is accomplished are many and varied, and may include ensuring conformance to one or more standards, such as ISO 9000 or a model such as CMMI. Based on the definitions above it is obvious that the PDCA method is — regardless of your organisation strategy — a good fit for your overall quality assurance approach to improve the delivered products. PDCA Cycles Below each cycle Plan — Do — Check — Adjust will be explained Plan The first thing to do is to collect and analyse data by collecting information from multiple projects in order to identify the positive and negative points of each project at every phase ( design, development, testing…). For each negative point, a root… Read more