SQA Lab

 Before

Unsecured Room
network NOT-isolated
Power NOT-isolated
Too few network ports
Too few work stations

Team: 2 Full time tester & 3 temps
Formal Process: NONE No document formal testing process

After

Secured room
100 network ports, terminated at patch panel
Four 100 MHz switches
isolated power feeds

Team:
3 Full time testers & 2 temps
2 Test Masters (SQA Engineers)
1 Senior SQA / Silk Engineer
1 Technical Lead (SQA project lead)
1 SQA Architect
2 SQA White Box Engineers (programmers)
1 SQA Document Engineer

Formal Process in place and approved
(see Master SQA Procedure)

Lab layout & network layout designed
Contractor bids solicited & approved by
by W Gunkel

Lab build out cost (approximate)
Network $10,000
Power $6,000
R2 Equipment $600,000