13 customisable OKR examples for Qa Team

What are Qa Team OKRs?

The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.

Writing good OKRs can be hard, especially if it's your first time doing it. You'll need to center the focus of your plans around outcomes instead of projects.

We understand that setting OKRs can be challenging, so we have prepared a set of examples tailored for Qa Team. Take a peek at the templates below to find inspiration and kickstart your goal-setting process.

If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.

Building your own Qa Team OKRs with AI

While we have some examples available, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. You can use our free AI generator below or our more complete goal-setting system to generate your own OKRs.

Feel free to explore our tools:

• Use our free OKR generator
• Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives, including a GPT-4 powered goal generator

Our customisable Qa Team OKRs examples

You will find in the next section many different Qa Team Objectives and Key Results. We've included strategic initiatives in our templates to give you a better idea of the different between the key results (how we measure progress), and the initiatives (what we do to achieve the results).

Hope you'll find this helpful!

1. OKRs to improve efficiency of QA triaging

2. OKRs to establish and optimize a QA design team for the mobile gaming division

3. OKRs to improve QA progress tracking across all projects

4. OKRs to increase quality assurance effectiveness and efficiency

5. OKRs to ensure readiness for GA release of product on Linux

6. OKRs to develop a cloud-based SAAS loyalty product

7. OKRs to achieve 100% test case updation across all modules

8. OKRs to implement automation testing across development platform and code

9. OKRs to build a high-quality MVP product for the targeted market segment

10. OKRs to build a Python tool for efficient tracing of community cohort members

11. OKRs to successfully implement the "asdf" system

12. OKRs to improve efficiency and effectiveness in QA and training workflows

13. OKRs to enhance app performance for a smoother user experience

Qa Team OKR best practices to boost success

Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.

Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇

Tip #1: Limit the number of key results

The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.

We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.

Tability's audit dashboard will highlight opportunities to improve OKRs

Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins

Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.

Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.

Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparency

Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row

Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.

As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.

Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.

How to turn your Qa Team OKRs in a strategy map

The rules of OKRs are simple. Quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly, and yearly OKRs should be tracked monthly. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:

• It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
• It will highlight poorly set OKRs
• It will surface execution risks
• It improves transparency and accountability

Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.

Tability's Strategy Map makes it easy to see all your org's OKRs

If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.

More Qa Team OKR templates

We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.

• OKRs to successfully launch an online POD store on Shopify using Printify
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• OKRs to develop relevant KPI examples for service designers in businesses
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• OKRs to elevate team agility and uphold quality
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• OKRs to establish a secure environment for our flying training school
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• OKRs to enhance leadership skills through online learning and practical application
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• OKRs to secure venture capital funding for Plika's Latam expansion
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OKRs resources

Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.

• To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
• Blog posts: ODT Blog
• Success metrics: KPIs examples

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