What is the difference in responsibilities of Programmers and QA analyst?

Answer

The differences in responsibilities are listed below:

• QA is concern for Process Quality and Programmers are concern for Product Quality.
• QA ensure that the processes used for developing the product of high quality where as programmers used these processes so that end product is of good quality.
• Processes are decided by QA. Programmers are supposed to follow the processes so that they can produce a good quality product.
• Any issue found during execution of process by the programmers is communicated to the QA so that they can improve the process.