# Quality Assurance and Control

Skill · Software Development and Engineering Practices

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/quality-assurance-and-control

This is the combined discipline of preventing defects before they occur (quality assurance) and detecting them in finished products or outputs (quality control). It is used across manufacturing, software development, and service industries by QA/QC engineers and specialists to ensure outputs consistently meet defined standards and customer requirements.

Related skills: [Six Sigma](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/six-sigma), [Quality Control](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/quality-control), [ISO 9001](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/iso-9001), [Quality Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/quality-management), [Root Cause Analysis](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/root-cause-analysis)

## Open roles requiring Quality Assurance and Control (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.