Key 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%.
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