Quality Assurance

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The Quality Assurance (QA) team member is the resident expert on the gene data, ID systems, and formats. He or she should be proficient with Google Chrome Developer tools, code-savvy editors, curl, and the command line in general (as applicable) to check his or her team’s deliverable for accuracy, bugs, or any other quality-related issues. The QA is the bridge between the coders and the Data Analyst, integrating information from both parts of the team.

In many cases, the same person holds the role of Project Manager and Quality Assurance, as these two roles go together as the ones who ensure that their team’s deliverable meets the overall project’s requirements.

Guild Members

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Milestones

The milestones do not necessarily correspond to particular weeks; instead they are sets of tasks grouped together.

Milestone 1: Annotated Bibliography

• The QA's will work with their teams to develop an annotated bibliography of papers that reporting yeast timecourse DNA microarray data.

Milestone 2: Journal Club Presentation

• The QA's will work with their teams to create and deliver a Journal Club presentation about a particular paper reporting yeast timecourse DNA microarray data.

Milestone 3: Quality Assurance of MS Access Database

• The QA team member is the link between the Coder/Designer and the Data Analyst. He or she needs to know the details of the microarray dataset being analyzed so that the database being designed and populated by the Coder/Designer is correct and useful for the Data Analyst.
• The QA will independently check that all of the data retrieved from SGD is present and accurately represented in the MS Access database.
• The QA will also provide assistance to the Data Analyst, making sure that the data analysis steps are being performed correctly and are being correctly documented.

Final Project Links
Overview	Deliverables	Guilds	Project Manager	Quality Assurance	Data Analysis	Coder/Designer
		Teams	FunGals	Sulfiknights	Skinny Genes