quality assurance
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of quality assurance
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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“Had we known more, we could have done more with this,” Shannon Deckard, director of quality assurance and chief inspector at UPS Airlines said in the hearing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Each of his seven AI agents has its own identity and tasks, from writing code to reviewing it and conducting quality assurance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Ben alleges that some departments, such as the quality assurance team, were particularly affected, with some staff suffering physically and mentally as a result of the "stress and pressure".
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025
In 2022, a small group of quality assurance workers at Raven Software, an Activision Blizzard-owned game studio in Wisconsin, unionized — marking the arrival of the first labor union at a major U.S. gaming company.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
How is their customer support functioning, and what methods are they using in their quality assurance?
From The Online World by De Presno, Odd
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