{"id":14320,"date":"2019-11-28T19:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T13:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cigniti.com\/blog\/?p=14320"},"modified":"2022-07-22T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:19:07","slug":"hospitality-qa-qe-trends-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/hospitality-qa-qe-trends-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology landscape of Hospitality – emerging trends and best practices"},"content":{"rendered":"
Customer experience is all set to become the key brand differentiator, leaving product and price behind. Industries worldwide are investing in the latest technologies that will enable them to garner the highest customer satisfaction ratio. Hospitality industry<\/a>, being a purely customer-facing domain, should take the lead here.<\/p>\n Gartner predicts that by 2020, more than 40% of all data analytic projects will relate to an aspect of customer experience. By undertaking digital transformation, companies are modifying their operational and value delivery processes. About 31% of the companies have already invested in technology such as Artificial Intelligence to stay ahead in the competition.<\/p>\n Edmund Tan, Director of Quality Assurance and Support recently spoke on our podcast about the emerging trends and best practices for implementing quality assurance within the hospitality domain. This blog is an excerpt from their insightful discussion.<\/p>\n How does the technology landscape dovetail within the hospitality domain?<\/strong><\/p>\n Given the growing prominence of customer experience for brands, there are several emerging trends that technology is defining for the hospitality domain:<\/p>\n While embracing these technologies, it is also imperative that companies ensure optimal quality management of their applications.<\/p>\n What are the best practices for implementing quality assurance across enterprises?<\/strong><\/p>\n In order to effectively solve the challenges related to quality assurance and management, consider the following key points:<\/p>\n How quality engineering efforts can enable a strategic and results\u2013oriented approach<\/strong><\/p>\n Ed points out that all customers look for three main factors in any product, service, or technology \u2013 accuracy, reliability, and security. Exercising a quality engineering<\/a> strategy enables an early and often feedback loop by bringing in the mindset of end users.<\/p>\n As the emerging technologies are still fairly new, there is a lot of apprehension and concerns surrounding them related to security, reliability, and data. A quality assurance or quality engineering team solidifies the foundation of an application through testing, empowering businesses to maintain the desired levels of quality standard. QE seeks to measure and repeat these tests to perform a series of qualitative and quantitative analysis of the process.<\/p>\n What challenges does the hospitality sector face during its QA transformation journey?<\/strong><\/p>\n QA transformation<\/a> is initiated to resolve the existing challenges of silos and non cross-functional team structure. Ed recalls, \u201cas a result of having those silos, the teams were creating processes that were very much customized to their particular product and only their products, so they couldn\u2019t be standardized across the organization. Alongside, you have the challenge of folks believing that they were training their replacements. While that isn\u2019t always the case, it was human nature to believe that, so we had a lot of resistance to sharing of information and sharing of access to different things.\u201d<\/p>\n Communication is another key challenge that organizations face during their QA transformation journey. Transparency is utmost critical for bringing in such a kind of change.<\/p>\n Also, ownership becomes an ongoing debate. When silos are down and barriers are broken, when such migrations and transitions happen, no one really wants to stand and take ownership for their actions.<\/p>\n For addressing these challenges, support of an experienced QA partner really goes a long way. Onboard such a partner who has extensive experience with these types of transformations, is adept with different tools and communication methods, and makes sure that the transition gets completed as smoothly as possible. Here, top management layer also plays an integral role in facilitating open conversations and communication channels.<\/p>\n What are the key things to look while selecting a QA vendor?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ed lists three things that organization should look for:<\/p>\n Cigniti\u2019s IP differentiation<\/a> has helped clients across hospitality domain to leverage top-notch, state-of-the-art QA and QE services. Cigniti\u2019s IP focuses on improving the overall maturity of the test automation practices<\/a>, test automation scripts that are being built, along with improving the overall end-user experience.<\/p>\n\n
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