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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