| name | verification-and-quality-assurance |
| description | Orchestrate verification and QA activities across requirements, design, implementation, and validation with traceable evidence. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep, Task, TodoWrite |
| model | sonnet |
| x-version | 3.2.0 |
| x-category | quality |
| x-vcl-compliance | v3.1.1 |
| x-cognitive-frames | HON, MOR, COM, CLS, EVD, ASP, SPC |
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
Purpose
Plan and execute verification and QA activities that prove conformance to requirements, validate user value, and document residual risk with traceability.
Trigger Conditions
- Positive: project QA planning, release readiness assessments, or end-to-end verification requests.
- Negative: focused PR review (use code-review-assistant) or targeted functionality debugging (use functionality-audit).
Guardrails
- Confidence ceiling: Provide
Confidence: X.XX (ceiling: TYPE Y.YY)with ceilings {inference/report 0.70, research 0.85, observation/definition 0.95}. - Traceability: Map tests and findings to requirements/stories; capture evidence (logs, screenshots, metrics).
- Structure-first: Maintain examples/tests reflecting verification matrices, exit criteria, and defect tracking.
- Adversarial validation: Include negative tests, boundary cases, and failure injection where applicable.
Execution Phases
- Planning & Scope
- Identify requirements, acceptance criteria, environments, and stakeholders.
- Define exit criteria and defect severity model.
- Design & Preparation
- Build verification matrix linking requirements to test types (unit, integration, system, UX, security).
- Prepare environments, data, and tooling.
- Execution
- Run prioritized tests; capture evidence and defects with severity and reproduction steps.
- Track coverage against the verification matrix.
- Evaluation & Handoff
- Summarize results, residual risks, and open defects with owners.
- Recommend release go/no-go or conditions; state confidence with ceiling.
Output Format
- Verification plan with scope, exit criteria, and traceability matrix.
- Execution log with evidence and defect list.
- Coverage summary and residual risks.
- Confidence statement using ceiling syntax.
Validation Checklist
- Requirements and exit criteria documented with owners.
- Verification matrix built and referenced during execution.
- Evidence and defects captured with severity and reproduction steps.
- Coverage and risks summarized with release recommendation.
- Confidence ceiling provided; English-only output.
Confidence: 0.73 (ceiling: inference 0.70) - SOP rewritten to reflect Prompt Architect confidence discipline and Skill Forge structure-first verification.