The role of the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) within an organization has always been critical one. This is also a role which has seen a rapid evolution over the last decade or so. We have seen the SQA role move from being primarily responsible for process compliance to now being actively involved in strategic organizational governance. This technical paper charters the path of the SQA role within an organization commencing with explaining its traditional responsibilities and activities and culminates with what we believe would be the future focus of this extremely important role

KeyWords : Software quality assurance. Process compliance