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A healthy QA culture results in strong, confident teams. And with a powerful team in place, you can produce exceptional products and achieve greater success when going to the market. While the task of building great culture belongs to the QA Team Manager, it’s up to each member of your software QA team to participate and contribute towards a healthy workplace culture.

In the last quarter of 2020, a survey of 200 global companies by BGC revealed that 82% of respondents underwent a decrease in revenue, while 78% faced operational challenges, and 68% dealt with service provider-based issues. The easy solution to overcoming these challenges lies in outsourcing QA services to adjust to current business conditions.

Uncertainty in modern economic operations has forced many companies to take drastic measures. In the last quarter of 2020, a survey of 200 global companies by BGC revealed that 82% of respondents underwent a decrease in revenue. Simultaneously, 78% faced operational challenges, and 68% dealt with service provider-based issues. With the looming risk of frequent budget cuts and staff layoffs, you must adjust to current business conditions, especially those related to digital IT strategies and offshore and onshore providers to ensure your company continues to develop amidst the present economic crisis. In this article, we delineate the process of outsourcing QA and explain why outsourced software testing services can lead to company growth.

Think of QA onboarding like adding a new employee to your team. The sooner they can learn about your company - from your product and work culture to existing processes and project requirements - the sooner they can provide the deliverables you need. Fortunately, many QA vendors have been in the industry for decades and can get up to speed quickly. That being said, there are specific onboarding procedures expected from you so that your offshore QA testing team can start testing sooner and produce expected testing results faster.

QA performance metrics are essential for eliminating inefficient strategies and improving internal processes. They also enable managers to track the progress of their QA team over time and make data driven decisions about future projects.

Your employee retention rate is as important in QA because it can significantly impact the quality, effectiveness and speed of your software quality assurance efforts. So, how do you approach retaining your QA employees? Or is the importance of staff retention not even on your radar?

It doesn’t take long to form a habit. With a trigger within your QA environment and a reward waiting at the finish line, bad habits are just as easy to develop as good ones.

The continued growth of your company depends on a quality product. In fact, ensuring product quality is the primary role of your engineering organization. It should then come as no surprise that your CEO and executive team are interested in keeping their finger on the pulse when it comes to quality and growth.

QA managers are tasked with continuously finding ways to improve quality assurance and overall software integrity, but are also asked to find ways to increase productivity of team members. But, between rounds of testing and writing up issue reports, there never seems to be enough time to carry out these changes. Increasing productivity of your QA team doesn’t have to be difficult. Targeting easy wins allows for more time to implement additional tactics that improve team productivity. And since there are a lot of tasks that QA teams tackle, increasing QA productivity can help successfully drive a company’s revenue growth. Here are 6 ways to increase productivity within your QA testing team: