How to approach QA transformation: Challenges & best practices

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How to approach QA transformation
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How to approach QA transformation Challenges
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As enterprises are becoming more
consumer-focused, they are formulating strategies
that takes care of the needs of their customers.
The businesses today are centering their
attention on delivering maximum user
satisfaction. In the time when quality weighs
above everything else, businesses need to ensure
that they live up to the benchmarks set by
their customers. With this shift toward
customer-driven strategies and goals, enterprises
are embarking on an evolutionary journey in which
they are mending their ways of product
development and service delivery.   Having
realized the criticality of integrating quality
assurance within a software or products
development lifecycle, the customer-facing
enterprises are making testing and QA their
priority. However, the journey to QA
transformation has its own pitfalls and
roadblocks. As per a recent Forrester Research,
an overwhelming 97 per cent of executives
surveyed admit that customer experience is
critical to the success of their enterprise. News
and research reports on these lines are
undeniably creating anxiety around rapid
technology upgrades, highlighting the need for
building Quality with speed.  An interesting ITP
session is lined up at StarWest on the
topic?A Pragmatic Approach to QA
Transformation  Challenges, Learnings, Outcomes 
Best Practices where Kevin Barry AVP, Head of
Software Quality Assurance, Pure Insurance Group
of Companies, will be speaking at the event along
with Kalyana Rao Konda, President, Cigniti
Technologies.?Register for the session and catch
up with us to discuss the QA challenges and best
practices for your enterprise.  Enterprises are
inclining towards QA Transformation or Test
Transformation to redefine their quality and
testing goals to align them effectively with the
business objectives. It implies that a set of
processes and methodologies will be defined on
the basis
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The Need for a Testing Practice Centre of
Excellence Testing Practice Centre of
Excellence (TPCoE) has been considered amongst
the most prominent trends in the software testing
space. Though it has been around for some time,
it is predicted by experts that it will continue
to rule the space even in the coming future.
TPCoE brings with it defined processes,
methodologies, frameworks, dashboards, and
workflow models, that, when implemented, will
instill change and transformation across the
enterprise. For instance, if the organization
decides to take the Agile Transformation
approach, there will be an obvious change in the
way each function would be required to operate
and collaborate horizontally and vertically. The
underlying idea is to invariably align
every practice with the business/organizational
objectives ensure that every practice and
methodology adopted gets accepted Guarantee the
change is endorsed by every person within the
system. The?People?Angle  Technology will
definitely dominate the overall process, but it
is critical to focus on the?human?element while
taking up the transformation journey. It is
evident that if technology overrides
the?people?aspect, the entire QA transformation
objectives will go for a toss. 
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With the trending digital technologies and need
for Digital Transformation, the perspective of
enterprises is getting much more user-centric.
This has redefined the way QA Transformation
process is being perceived and strategized.
Let us consider some essential principles of QA
Transformation, which can also be considered as a
practical approach towards implementing the same
in a global enterprise.  Read Full Blog at
https//www.cigniti.com/blog/enterprise-qa-transf
ormation-approach-challenges-practices/
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