The core purpose of Quality Assurance is to prevent mistakes and defects in the development and production of applications and/or features in each of major/minor releases. It’s important to ensure that application functions as intended. It helps deliver high-quality software to delight your customer.

Responsibility:

• Testing the software.
• Planning, designing, and executing tests, analyzing results, and reporting issues.
• Ensuring that the software meets customer requirements and expectations,Identify and fix defects or errors before the software is released.
• Communication between team members by providing a common language and framework for discussing software quality. By that, QA helps ensure that team members are on the same page.
• Design/execute/Analysis tests to verify that the software meets the required specifications and functional requirements.
• Continuously improve the testing process, incorporating feedback from users and other stakeholders.
• Ensures developers are developing codes according to given standards and include proper documentation and unit tests.
• Ensures that the software adheres to industry-specific regulations and standards, such as internal or best practice  security protocol or  General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and so on.
• It is including unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testingand root cause analysis.