Case study of
Case study of
Case study of

Northwestern University

QA testing for NIH Toolbox digital assessments and apps

Year

2023

Timeline

Ongoing Support

Services

QA

Mobile Testing

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overview

NIH Toolbox is a digital assessment platform supporting research workflows with cognitive, motor, sensory, and emotional health measures. Our QA work focused on validating mobile and web behavior, instrument logic, scoring flows, remote sessions, and reliable testing across device builds.

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The Challenges
The Challenges

NIH Toolbox needed careful QA across complex assessment flows, devices, languages, and administration modes while staying clear for examiners and participants. The challenge was to verify instrument behavior, data accuracy, accessibility, remote workflows, and release readiness without slowing delivery or reducing confidence.

the Result

The QA effort improved release confidence across NIH Toolbox, making assessment flows clearer, defects easier to isolate, and mobile behavior more reliable for examiners, participants, research, and support teams.

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Multi

Device coverage.

QA

Release support

App

Workflow testing.

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Credits

QA Engineer

Optima Quality Solutions

Project Support

NIH Toolbox Team

Product, Research, and Engineering Team

Northwestern University

CEO, Optima Quality Solutions

Yuri M.

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