How to Effectively Manage Your QA Testing Team?

As test teams become distributed across the globe co-ordinating the test effort for products underdevelopment can only be effectively managed with a good Test management tool. Implementing a test management tool to help your software test team track and manage their test cases is essential if you want to have any chance of tracking the quality of a product before it is released to your customers. With a test team that is spread out in disparate locations you can bring the team together virtually by implementing a test management tool that delivers a central repository for all your QA artifacts. As such a test management tool will store test cases, test results, test logs, test evidence and test plans that will be accessible to everyone on the test team. This increases test team productivity, enables you to get the best people to run the required test cases and allows you to track tester performance. With well designed dashboards a good test management tool will highlight project slippages, areas of poor performance, areas of poor quality within the product under test. What really matters though is being able to pin point the quality of the product on a day to day basis in order to give the project management team an accurate estimate of the likely release date of the product. The only way to effectively achieve this is by implementing and utilizing a test management tool within your QA team.