For questions of further information, please contact Jim Coleman at: [email_address] Since the QA role is new to this organization I wanted people to be informed about what being a Quality Analyst entails Plus, I love to talk about Quality Assurance and that’s one thing you’ll notice in a career QA professional – the love to talk about QA. It’s always 6 sigma this, CMMi that… blah, blah, blah… Many people are in QA only temporarily (like in the Dilbert cartoon). Expert business users assigned to testing or developers moved in to fill a need. But a lifelong Quality Assurance analyst usually has a distinct personality specially suited to the work. Our job is to be naysayers and critics, and it’s not always popular. Like I tell my wife, I get paid to be critical and you can’t expect me to just turn it off when I get home. So next time you encounter a QA who wants to talk your ear off about quality assurance, you’ll know – he’s a life.