QA Program Challenges:

1. Communication at all levels: Communication plays a major role in any offshore software development and Testing and it is one of the biggest challenges if communication is not proper.

2. Unrealistic Schedule: This is a worst thing and biggest problem in most of the STLC and it impacts on Quality of the product/project. Testers should get enough time to test the application.

3. Unclear Requirements / Changing Requirements: Most of the times client won’t give/share all the documents to QA Team, or sometimes requirements are not clear and changing it frequently.

4. Unclear Expectations / Outcome: Team should know the outcome of the product and met client expectations as well otherwise it will show big impact on end user expectations.

5. Utilization of Automation Tools: It is one of the most challenging stuff but definitely it will adds value to QA

6. Delivering a product with good quality on time: If there is no proper plan in place then it is hard to deliver the product with in time with good quality.

7. Managing Metrics to provide visibility to customer: It is little bit hard/difficult to manage, mainly in Product testing but it will give a clear picture to everybody

8. Focus more on Customer Business, domain and market: Need to be aware of customer’s customer and upgrade existing process or skills to ensure they meet their customer’s expectations.

9. Lack of Resources / Expertise’s: Experience and trained Resources would be ideal, if not then proper training programs should be in place.

10. Last but not least, Internal Issues within the Team: It will show big impact on Quality of Deliverable, need to resolve such type of issues as on high priority