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Success Stroy: Assessment of Quality Assurance Practices

by EDITOR on 14/12/06 at 6:03 pm

The Client

A financial services company with billions in assets under management, administration or custody; it is one of the leading provider’s of wealth and global asset management for individual and institutional investors and global investment services for businesses and institutions.

Client Challenge

QA Consultants was brought in to Client with the sponsorship of the CFO and CIO based on its ability to bring knowledge of testing best practices to the review of Client’s System Testing program.  The Client also recognized QA QA Consultants’ proven ability to execute based on previous engagements at Client (in various Testing units).

QA Consultants’ Objective and Approach

QA Consultants used the TQR methodology to Conduct testing quality assurance reviews of all mission critical applications as measured against the project’s critical success factors. We created assessment reports and an overall management report that detailed total project status, critical areas of risk, and areas where management review was warranted.

Results

QA Consultants completed an initial review of the system testing and a re-review of seven applications where the initial review cited weaknesses. The review findings were initially reviewed by the client test team, and then presented to executive management.