In the beginning, our QA team would review new website designs from designers in an email. Those would then be sent back to designers with a list of improvements. The constant back-and-forth was time consuming and unstructured. To improve efficiency, we needed a tool that would allow our teams to:

• Increase the volume of QA’s performed by speeding up the process.
• Create a standardized format for all QA’s.
• Locate all QA’s in one easy to view location.
• Track and report reoccurring design issues.
• Reduce overall time of website refinement.

In my spare time I built a QA tool with WordPress and presented it to management, who immediately saw the potential and approved it. Over time, and with a little help from the back end team, we steadily improved the tool.

With the successful implementation of the new tool we also saw the quality of new websites designs improve drastically.