Roles of QA in Requirement Analysis Phase of SDLC

Requirement Analysis:

It is the first phase of Software Development Life Cycle and so important too, since defects can be found early through this phase.Generally it will be done by both dev team and the qa team. Both teams will analyze the requirements documents from the client.
This document will be prepared by Business Analyst who is having thorough rapport with the client regarding their requirements.

Documents

This Requirement document contains the following files,

1) Functional Specification
2) Mock ups
3) Data Layouts

Roles of QA

1) Take the FS as a baseline document and analyze each and every page of it
2) If any clarification needed on any particular functionality or any suggestions to implement the features or any logical issues, then raise a defect or clarification against the Functional Specification document
3) Track the defect or clarification raised against the FS
4) If it is addressed, check whether it is updated in the base line document
5) Check whether the updated functional specification is available for all stake holders with the latest version
6) Check whether the version history is updated with change date and the author name who made changes in the document
7) Sign off from RA phase