QA Self Assessment.

QA maturity is about whether your quality assurance is genuinely set up for your context, or only formally so. A formal certification does not automatically translate into operational depth. Equally, high-level QA work does not become visible from the outside if nobody documents it. The tool below gives a quick first read: a target profile from typical industry settings, your self-rating next to it, and the gap between target and actual becomes visible immediately.

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Why use it

Four situations where a maturity picture helps.

01

When leadership asks for a status

"Where do we stand on QA?" is a question that, without structure, ends in PowerPoint clouds. A maturity picture turns gut feeling into language that lands in the boardroom.

02

Before an audit or certification

Before someone from outside checks, an honest internal view pays off. Where do we have gaps between what we claim and what we can document? Self-view is the best preparation.

03

When QA responsibility changes hands

New QA role, new team lead, new domain? A target-vs-actual conversation per quality axis is the fastest way to clarify a mandate and align expectations before they drift apart.

04

In an investment or roadmap workshop

Where do we invest, where do we hold back? With eight axes, "we need more quality" becomes "raise maintainability from 2 to 4, effort six person-weeks". From that level of granularity, actual decisions become possible.

Demonstrator

A quick picture as a discussion anchor.

The tool here is intentionally lightweight and built around a five-minute self-rating. Pick a target profile, slide the bars to where you see your setup today, and take the resulting picture into the next team meeting. The full Quality Health Check is what we run in advisory work. There it comes with stakeholder interviews, code and process analysis and a prioritised plan.

What you take from the picture

From "how is QA?" to an investment conversation.

A language that lets you defend the QA position to leadership, auditors or customers. The eight axes from ISO/IEC 25010 are established terminology and are understood in audits.
A target profile that matches your context: regulated industry, SaaS, AI component or legacy modernisation each carry different requirements. The picture serves as a discussion basis, the final target is yours to set.
A visible gap between target and actual that surfaces the right questions on the team: where is the risk, where is the next investment worth it, what can we deliberately keep small?
A reusable format for quarterly review, audit briefing or QA-handover onboarding. The same spider in two iterations shows whether the gap is genuinely closing.
When it gets serious

From a quick picture to a defensible position.

If the quick picture shows several axes below target, or if the team cannot even agree on the picture, that is a clear signal. The topic is then bigger than a five-minute slider. This is where the Quality Health Check picks up, with stakeholder interviews, code and process analysis and a prioritised plan that translates the tool's picture into actual steps.

Make maturity visible.

If you want to deepen the picture from the self-check with us, talk to us. Quality Health Check as an advisory format or test management training as a capability build-up.

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