Centralizing Focus for Excellence with Quality Engineering

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Centralizing Focus for Excellence
with Quality Engineering
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Centralizing Focus for Excellence with Quality
Engineering
The high incident rates of failures under legacy
software development methodologies caused several
companies to go obsolete. The staggering number
of failures and lost revenues created an intense
need for a robust mechanism to control and ensure
quality. Quality Engineering, by shifting testing
to the left, has answered that need quite
efficiently. It broke the shackles that hindered
free flow of critical information between
different teams. QE has bulldozed the walls
around siloed software development teams. It has
laid out a smooth, straight pipeline and a
continuous feedback cycle for continuous
integration and continuous deployment. Instead of
checking a product on quality parameters after a
code is developed, quality engineering promotes
building excellence into the code itself. With
the emergence of digital technologies, the demand
for agility and quality is on a rapid climb in
the market. To match that pace, it is critical to
shift the mindset as well as organization culture
into dropping the reactive approach and adopting
a proactive outlook. Quality Engineering services
not only enable faster time to market, but also
reduce testing costs while improving customer
satisfaction and product quality. By
guaranteeing maximum test coverage through
shift-left strategy, quality engineering
facilitates continuous integration and
deployment. As businesses, users, and user
experience attract the key focus more than the
defects, establishing a Quality Engineering
Center of Excellence or QE CoE becomes essential.
A QE Center of Excellence offers a complete view
of what, when, where, why, who, and how in an
SDLC. It optimizes the use of available people,
tools, and processes, promotes reusability, and
reduces efforts and testing costs.
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Centralizing Focus for Excellence with Quality
Engineering

• Why you need a QE CoE?
• Gartner defines a Center of Excellence as a
  physical or virtual center of knowledge
  concentrating existing expertise and resources in
  a discipline or capability to attain and sustain
  world-class performance and value.
• A QE CoE encompasses every aspect of a product
  development life cycle, including management,
  design, operations, and legal. By bringing
  resources from IT management, product management,
  software and systems engineering, and system
  operations under one roof, such centers of
  excellence leverage the skills and expertise of
  the best to ensure reliability, security, and
  safety of services.
• Quality, time, and costs are the three major
  benefits that a QE CoE brings to the table. But
  these three benefits are only the tip of the
  iceberg. Since, a QE CoE is pillared on the
  overall mission and vision of a business, the
  iceberg of QE CoE benefits is much deeper than
  what appears on the surface. They affect the very
  core of business processes by changing the
  fundamental way of executing processes.
• It removes inter-departmental friction With the
  implementation of a QE CoE, the old ways of
  downstream or upstream workflows are abolished.
  Key individuals from each department are brought
  together to work cohesively on a common
  objective. This not only eradicates the
  possibility of a blame-game that ensues in case
  of a failure, but also boosts collaboration
  between dev, ops, and test.

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Centralizing Focus for Excellence with Quality
Engineering

• Promotes knowledge sharing and management While
  quality engineering enables knowledge mapping
  through software and system models, a quality
  engineering center of excellence pushes these
  models beyond their existing capabilities.
  Manifold structured as well as unstructured data
  is computed and analyzed for identifying and
  mitigating errors at their occurrence.
• It is aligned with the business objectives A
  center of excellence is driven to achieve quality
  in a project that ultimately helps propel the
  business forward. By aligning itself to the
  business goals. QE CoE leads an organization
  closer to its projected vision.
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  enter-of-excellence-qe-coe/

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