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Understanding Quality Assurance

In this section, we will be understanding Quality Assurance, along with its benefits and procedures.  Therefore, let’s begin.

Quality Assurance refers to a way of preventing mistakes in existing products. Moreover, it avoids problems at the time of delivery of a product or service to customers.

Benefits of Quality Assurance (QA)

Advantages of quality assurance include:

• Firstly, there is less wastage and re-working of faulty products. Consequently, there is a reduction in the cost of the product.
• After that, QA helps you to improve employee’s motivation.
• Moreover, it breaks down ‘us and them’ barriers. In other words, it fills the gap between workers and managers.

Above all, it helps the firm gain marketing advantages which usually arises from its consistency level of quality.

Methods of Quality Assurance

Lastly, from a formal standpoint the process of QA can be broken down into four key elements:

• • Determining the cause of the problem;
  • Analyzing the amount of effort and engagement needed to fix the problem;
  • Defining the most effective way of fixing it;
  • Considering possible backfires upon making changes

 

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