If the company is following the SDLC Model, the process 
will be like this

1. Requiremnts gathering (SRS)
2. Analysis design(Low level design,high level design)
3. Coding and Developement
4. Testing and Reporting
5. Release
6. Maintanence

Muralidharan

dharanmu@yahoo.com

in waterfall model of sdlc,the testing process includes two 
steps:
1.)white box testing:
        * basis path testing
        * control structure testing
        * procedure and structure testings
2.)black box testing:
        * boundary value analysis
        * testing functional requirements

if company is fallowing the SDLC model the process will be 
like this 

concept phase (HLD)
analysis phase(DLR)(technocal approch documnet)
Design Phase(Test approch document)
Constuction Phase(Test outline documnet)(code reviews)
Testing Phase(test cases)( QA test execution matrics)
Deployment Phase