Independent Offshore QA: Adding Value to the Distributed Agile Environment

Independent Offshore QA: Adding Value to the Distributed Agile Environment

In today's distributed Agile environment, emphasis is leaning towards doing away with independent offshore QA teams given the overall project time and budget constraints; thus it is time for us to sit up and proclaim our right place in the Agile methodology.

Today as a QA Testing team we have broadened our expertise horizon to way past the traditional "Functional Quality" tag and have effectively increased our mode and impact of communication leading to bridging the offshore-onsite gap, thus promoting enhanced product quality in reduced time frame. The offshore software testing and QA is helping the new onsite developers to come up to speed. We are acting as ready to help happy mentors. With the constantly evolving IT industry, we as testers are also evolving and adapting to new technologies and approaches to increase the product quality and provide agility.
Let us now delve a little deeper and uncover the nuances of a successful onsite-offshore agile partnership.
We all know the backbone of any agile practice is collaborative communication. But here the big question is not "what" but "how"? So let's together look at the "how" options and possibilities;
* It is time for us to compliment the formal emails with different communication tools (Skype, team viewer, Google+, etc) to lend our business relationships a warmer touch. Collaboration like this can help us realise the goals of effective defect prediction/prevention and zero defect vision. Video conferences and screen sharing help us understand and respect each other's viewpoints better
After making my point about the interactive approach, it's time to increase the value of the Offshore QA in Agile; 



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Author : Knowledge Sharing Team

Knowledge Sharing Team at QA InfoTech is responsible for research on new tools & technologies for effective Software qa testing services across all industry verticals.It offers end to end QA testing services.