Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance is both a discipline and a key step in the Software Development Lifecycle intended to validate that a product or solution satisfies the customer requirements in a systematic and reliable fashion. In the QA cycle of a project, informally known as “Test,” we would develop Test Plans, Processes and Scripts to enable testing on the functional requirements and engage the users in a final ‘acceptance test’ prior to ‘Go Live.’

However, the full scope of quality assurance serves to not only validate a system’s functionality, but to validate that the key technical performance specifications can be met. As such, we identify the scenarios, approaches and supporting tools, and generate associated documentation as required to conduct:

• Load testing, to model the expected usage of a system to determine how to optimally structure its supporting hardware infrastructure for the expected user community;
• Stress testing, to assess the robustness, availability, and error handling of a system under a heavy load of concurrent users or under a scenario of denial of service attacks, rather than on what would be considered correct behavior under normal circumstances

Members of the Prognosis leadership team have been mentored in large organizations that are CMMI Level 5 certified, thus imparting a strong sense of discipline and rigor in the approach to quality assurance in the company and for its clients.