Quality Assurance - Overview

What do we understand by quality assurance?
In line with international standards, we at SEM
understand quality assurance as the sum of all planned
and systematic measures to ensure sufficient confidence
that the defined product quality and
cost-effectiveness of an
enterprise can be achieved.
What is the goal of quality assurance?
Quality assurance should contribute to ensuring
that project goals are achieved. An important goal along
this road is the early identification
of errors and error sources in order to avoid the
high cost of error elimination in subsequent project
phases. QA affects all project members and must be an
integral part of project execution. Quality should not be
checked only at the end of the process, but should be
generated throughout the course of the development work.
What does this mean in specific terms?
- Every project must have its own QA
manager (not the same person as the
project manager)
- Every project must have a QA plan
(normally drawn up by the QA manager) which
documents the QA specifications, procedures and
necessary measures.
- All the results of each
project must be checked / reviewed
as set down by the stdSEM procedure.
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