Overview about quality assurance (QA)

According to ISO 9000, “quality assurance refers to all systematic and planned activities in quality systems that are proved to be sufficient enough to build up proper confidence in meeting quality requirements.”

Quality assurance has 2 aims: build up managers’ confidence in the internal organizations and customers’ confidence as well. If the quality requirements do not reflect all consumers’ needs, products cannot get the proper confidence of consumers.

When considering QA, it is essential to be noted that:

(1).-QA that satisfies consumers’ needs doesn’t mean just satisfying customers with international or national standards. Because in the modern production, enterprises are not allowed to provide products that do not meet the specific quality standards. However, it just meets the legal requirements and does not mean that production is effective.

(2).-It is the same for exports. Products for exporting must meet the requirements of foreign customers who place orders.

(3).- Senior managers must notice the importance of QA and ensure that all members in their organizations actively attend to quality assurance programs. Also, it is necessary to connect employees’ interests with companies’ performance.

Besides, we need to follow these principles to assure product quality:

-Accept to approach customers from the beginning and master their needs.

-Customer is God.

-Continuously improve product quality by doing the Deming cycle (PDCA).

-Producers and distributors have the responsibility in QAs.

-Next process is the customer of the previous process.

QA includes all things from production planning to product completion process, maintenance, repairing and product discard. Thus, it is important to clearly determine what should be done in each period in order to assure the quality during product life that including the assurance of highly efficient functions of products and regularly check what have been done.

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how to get a job in quality assurance (game tester)?

i am 15 years old and i would like to get a job as a game tester, i am not like most people who just want to sit at home and play games and get payed. i realise this is a real job and i know what you have to do. i am serius about this i have looked online for jobs but cannot find any. (most say you must be 18 or have to live there) i live in north carolina so ther are no gamin companies near here. so i would have to work from home. I currently only have a computer and Xbox (i don’t think many jobs are needed for xbox QA any more though so bassically just a computer) i could possibly get another system ps2 xbox 360 or wii if i had to though. i have several years of gaming experience i am great at finding bugs and i know how to report them, all i need is someone to hire me.

do u have a future shop or best buy where u live?
get a job there first, get more experience.
go to gaming conventions etc.,
eventually someone’ll pick u up

Video Game Tester Work – How to Land a Video Game QA Tester Job!