QA Consultants
 
Why QA Consultants?
Our Capabilities
How QA Consultants Can Help
Why We Succeed
Success Story
Corporate Overview
Why QA Consultants?

Well-established approaches and methodologies as well as testing management capabilities are well complemented with broad range of Quality Assurance and Testing client service delivery assets

Intellectual Property Methodologies Delivery Tools

• Prepackaged approach to delivering work

• Includes various assets and different processes and accelerators accumulated over the years from client engagements and investment projects

• Established approaches and past experience.

• Organized, documented set of procedures and guidelines

• Work breakdown structures

• Activities

• Techniques

• Deliverable templates and samples

• Packages that significantly enhance and automate at least a portion of the delivery process

• Procedures

• Processes and calculations

• A vehicle to automate complex activities
Our Capabilities

software qa and testing

 



QA Consultants has extensive experience in Quality Management practices and manyreusable assets from many past delivery efforts.

  • Strong strategic relationships with proven quality management tool vendors (Mercury, Compuware, IBM –Rational, etc.)
  • A proven methodology that is founded on industry standard principles and multiple client successes
  • Reusable assets (test plans, cases, scenarios, automation scripts, tools, etc.) from many clients engagements
  • Experience in large scale quality and testing of complex multi-platform solutions
How QA Consultants Can Help

software testing process

Streamline the QA process
Increase productivity
Reduce the cost of QA
Improve the overall quality of deliverables
Accelerate time-to-market (streamline the regression testing process)
Leverage industry leading practices to develop the workforce and skills necessary for long-term success


Suggested Approach Options

1. Testing Outsourcing

• Ensuring the high quality of the final product
• Project based and fixed priced

2. Challenge Specific Approaches

Address the needs on a one-by-one basis
• Mature the QA organization by instilling Best Practices
• Automation Testing
• Test Data Approach
• Streamline Regression Testing. Etc.

3. QA Consultants’ Teaming Approach

Shadow the existent Testing team and mature their QA and Testing skills by helping them deliver on-time and on-budget with a high level of quality


QA Consultants will leverage existing experience and knowledge of our client’s operations, resources, and IT infrastructure

 

Success Story

ISO 9000Key Player: VP of Quality Assurance (fortune 500 company)

Goal: Dramatically reduce testing time on projects and increase quality of business applications.

Contributing Reason: Lack of experienced resources for testing and overall quality assurance.

Capability: Leverage QA Consultants services and Outsourcing to test & quality assure every major business application.

Benefit statement: He told us that he needed a way for his staff, while developing timelines for major applications and current workloads, to leverage dedicated services on a contract basis to implement a Quality Assurance methodology to their existing environment, integrate testing into each application delivery and train their internal & external staff in the use of Quality testing through mentoring & knowledge transfer.

Actual Benefit: The initial estimate for testing all of the major applications was 18 months. With the help of QA Consultants services, testing and integration of a formal QA methodology, efforts began immediately. As a result, the Quality Assurance group reduced testing time by 30% to just over one year, trained existing staff to continue the next phases by transferring the knowledge to full time staff and increased performance of the systems by 32%.

Corporate Overview

Quality Assurance and Testing

Founded in 1994, QA Consultants is focused on helping our customers and partners achieve new heights in their Quality Assurance and Testing efforts. Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, QA Consultants work with over 100 affiliated consultants with a wide range of experience and business knowledge. The company has a solid track record in Financial Services, Consumer & Industrial markets, the Technology sector, Communication and Content, Telecommunications, Government and the Healthcare arena. QA Consultants provides proven results and core competences in technologies such as Mercury, Compuware, Segue and Rational.

QA Consultants focused its efforts on enabling various organizations to become much more proficient in their quality assurance and testing efforts. The key to success fully understands the client’s business needs and then hand picking the most competent delivery team to meet those clearly defined objectives. During the delivery process, the QA Consultants team will transfer knowledge and provide mentoring to ensure that upon successful completion of the engagement, the client is fully self-sufficient.

Unique advantages in utilizing the QA Consultants skills and knowledge include:

  • rates that are highly competitive
  • individuals with minimum of five years experience in quality assurance
  • a broad range of industry knowledge based on over 12 years in business
  • excellent communications skills at all levels
  • flexible short and long term contract abilities
  • project leaders with 15 years quality assurance knowledge
  • customer receives detailed reviews of each team member
  • 72 hour turnaround time for consultant placement

QA Consultants provides a variety of skills related to business knowledge from numerous business sectors. Our organization strives to provide the best value at reasonable rates in the quality assurance arena. Quality assurance and testing is our core business, delighted customers are our trademark. Your success is how we measure ours.


Why We Succeed

QA Consultants is focused only on Quality Assurance and Testing.
The QA Consultants team has:

  • Well-established approaches and methodologies for assessing an organization’s quality assurance and testing management capabilities.
  • In-depth experience working with and developing quality assurance and testing organizations in every domain.
  • A team of professionals who have re-engineered existing quality assurance and testing strategies and methodologies to integrate with Best of Breed Testing practices and techniques.
  • Experience in developing custom solutions for companies in every vertical with the organization, processes and tools to successfully execute QA & Testing.
  • Deep knowledge of current state QA practices backed by significant project related experience at vast majority of organizations in North America.

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