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Posts Tagged ‘QA’

FDA Warning Letter For Shared Passwords (And Other Offenses)

  On December 17, 2015, the FDA issued a warning letter to Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. in Gujarat, India. Sun Pharma’s website boasts that it is the “World’s 5th Largest Specialty Generic Pharmaceutical Company” with over 2,000 products in more than 150 markets across the globe. When an organization that large winds up with a […]

This Recent FDA Warning Letter Shows You Exactly Why Quality Matters

“Quality, quality, quality.” You hear it all the time from your QA colleagues. There are so many forms to fill out, trainings to complete, procedures to read and follow, and internal audits to produce records for. Sometimes, it’s so overwhelming that we’re tempted to just tune it out. That is, until we read an FDA Warning […]

Bug Tracking Systems Aren’t Just For Bugs

Here in Perficient’s life sciences practice, we use a defect tracking system as part of our application development process. It helps us keep track of bugs and resolutions as we develop and test, but there’s nothing particularly remarkable about it…except that we use it for another purpose too: to track problems with our QA controlled […]

45+ Documents That Life Sciences Companies Can Sign With Digital Signatures

I recently attended a webinar titled “10 Killer Applications for Digital Signatures in the Life Sciences Enterprise,” in which Rodd Schlerf from ARX, the maker of CoSign, discussed how various departments in a life sciences organization can make use of digital signatures. Although the list I gathered below from the webinar is just a glimpse of […]

Testing Jimmy John’s Responsive Redesign: Lessons Learned from a QA Engineer

Enlighten was acquired by Perficient Digital in December 2015 When Enlighte (now Perficient Digital) embarked on a redesign project for Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, it was a little bit daunting.  It would be a massive undertaking, with Enlighten leading other vendors in combining multiple sites and platforms into a unified user experience for a brand […]

Apolitical Tech Lessons from the Healthcare.gov Meltdown

When Healthcare.gov launched, it drew an understandably high number of initial users. Millions poured onto the site, but they weren’t able to sign up for insurance due to technical glitches. As an impartial observer, it was interesting to watch media outlets struggle to find even one person that was able to sign up successfully. The […]

Center of Excellence – Solution Assessments

The goal of a Practice Center of Excellence (CoE) Solution Assessment is to conduct an impartial review of a particular component (or components) of an identified solution or architecture or to address a particular application design pattern strategy concern. The assessment team will identify the purpose and scope of the assessment prior to beginning the […]

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My Internship Experience – Keith

Editor’s Note: In 2020, Perficient acquired Brainjocks, a leading digital consultancy with a strong Sitecore platform focus. This blog post predates the acquisition. Working for BrainJocks was definitely one of the best experiences I’ve had. Going through college you get so caught up in taking classes and getting grades that you never think of what […]

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