Data-Driven Quality Assurance & Quality Control: Metrics/KPI
Explore QA & QC Metrics & KPIs, defect trends, automation & manual testing KPIs, and quality measurement strategies
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About this course
Build a Metrics-Driven QA Practice with Confidence – Learn to Measure, Improve, and Communicate Software Quality
In modern software development, data is power — and that includes Quality Assurance. Whether you're testing manually, leading automation, or managing QA teams, the ability to collect and interpret the right QA metrics is what separates guesswork from strategy.
"Data-Driven Quality Assurance & Quality Control: QA Metrics" is a complete, practical guide to understanding and applying the most critical metrics in QA and QC. You’ll learn how to identify key trends, track testing performance, and present your results in a way that makes sense to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What This Course Covers:
Core QA & QC Metrics and KPIs : Understand the key differences and how both play a role in measuring quality
Automation & Manual Testing KPIs : Learn metrics for both types of testing—execution rates, pass/fail ratios, flakiness, automation coverage
Defect Metrics & Trends : Discover how to use data to identify patterns, root causes, and quality risks
Quality Measurement Strategies : Apply frameworks for tracking test coverage, product readiness, test case effectiveness, and more
Process Improvement Through Metrics : Use historical data to drive retrospectives, reduce technical debt, and optimize test cycles
QA Dashboards & Reporting Techniques : Learn new things that will help you to build compelling, visual summaries using tools like Jira, Excel, or TestRail
What you'll learn
- Monitoring and analyzing the progress of test case execution
- Creating actionable insights from defect trends
- Spotting inefficiencies or slowdowns in QA processes
- Measuring defect concentration and how often bugs escape to production
- Identifying gaps in test scenarios using metrics
- Estimating the return on investment from test automation efforts
- Using metric-driven approaches to improve test planning
- Combining manual and automated metrics
- Measuring productivity of QA teams over time
- Set QA & QC KPIs and tailoring them to project needs
- Using test metrics to support compliance and audits
- Using metrics to evaluate quality level on a project
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