QA Consultants
 
Enterprise Quality Management Solution
Testing Process and Methodology GAP Assessments
Detailed Testing Process and Methodology
Test Methodology / Test Team Launch
Test Automation Evaluation & Tools Selection
Performance Testing / Quality Management Automated Solution
Application Performance Management
Quality Center of Excellence ROI and Implementation of Best Practices
Test Center of Excellence ROI and Implementation of Best Practices
Risk Management
Our Solutions

Regardless of whether, you have an established QA department, you are planning to hire your first QA engineer, or do not think you need a Quality Assurance team, we can help you develop the highest quality product at the most economical fashion.

At QA Consultants, we believe that the software quality assurance is not just testing but a series of tasks that are focused to ensure the highest standards of the delivered software products. The Software Quality assurance process should knit all the phases of the Pre Software Development and the Post Development phases.

QA Consultants works as an integrated part of your company and will help you to identify your needs, recommend the appropriate solutions, and implement them to achieve our common goal of High Quality Software.

We offer a compete line of software Quality Assurance Services and Solutions

Enterprise Quality Management Solution

This solution provides organizations with the framework to  assure effectiveness and conformance to requirements, as well as independent verification of conformance and feedback for process improvement.  Furthermore, this solution creates the methodology to assure the integrity of documentation/data control, access, release, and use of standards. Implementation Quality Management Application Management Review
Establishment of Internal Quality and Compliance Reviews
Setup of Document and Data Control Review Process

Corporate Infrastructure, Governance, and Solution Delivery Assessments
CMMI Assessment (inc. SEI System Engineering, People, Software Acquisition and System Security Engineering)
ISO 9001-2000 “Quality Management System” Assessment

Testing Process and Methodology GAP Assessments
When organizations embark on an initiative to improve and streamline their Quality Assurance and Testing they usually look to improve the following areas:
Our plan is to leverage the considerable work done to date at these organizations and focus on helping them mature their Quality Assurance & Testing processes and methodology
Detailed Testing Process and Methodology

Best of Breed QA and Testing Practices and Methodologies are available to be easily implemented into client organization, either on individual projects or holistically as part of the Process Maturing exercise

Highly Detailed Testing Process and Methodology (inc. all Templates and other reusable assets)

Our highly detailed customizable methodology and process has been proven and adopted in wide variety of environments: from largest bank in the world to a small 20 people IT department; from RUP, Waterfall and Spiral to XP and Agile development shops - it has allowed organizations to improve and streamline their processes resulting in meaningful and measurable results.

QA Consultants offers a wide range of QA & Testing solutions/capabilities for its clients.

Strategic

Enterprise Quality Management Solution – Complete Test Management, Planning, Execution and Monitoring Solution
Testing Center of Excellence – Outsourcing of the management and execution of the testing life cycle for clients (On & Off-campus)

Optimization - Test Management and Automation

Detailed Testing Process and Methodology – a turn-key structured approach to the Testing Process and Methodology (inc. all Templates and other reusable assets)
Performance Testing / Quality Management Automated Solution – Assistance with load and stress testing of Web-based and traditional systems; including scalability planning, performance analysis, and monitoring
Application Performance Management – Assistance in maturing the overall SDLC process through a rigorous performance engineering organizational enablement program

Tactical – Risk Management

Risk management planning, strategy, implementation, review, auditing – Credit Risk (Basel II), Corporate Governance Risk (SOX), Security Risk (ISO 17799), Privacy Risk (PIPEDA), Business Continuity Risk (Disaster Recovery)


Test Methodology / Test Team Launch

Establish a performance test methodology that is both practical and robust. Assistance with definition and planning of the overall test strategy, infrastructure and framework.

Work Products / Deliverables

• Customized performance test methodology
• Performance Metrics 
• Performance Test Strategy and Test Plan
• Streamline the QA process
• Improve Testing Efficiency
• Reduce Test and Quality cycle by 50% to 75%
• Reduce the cost of QA
• Improve the overall quality of deliverables
• Accelerated Time to Market
• Increase Visibility of Testing

We offer a compete line of software Quality Assurance Services and Solutions

Test Automation Evaluation & Tools Selection

Perform ROI Analysis and assist organizations in the evaluation of their needs for test automation, identification of candidate tools, creation of RFI’s and RFP’s, package selection process. 

Work Products / Deliverables

• Needs assessment report
• Evaluation criteria / matrix
• Package selection methodology and assistance
• Up-to-date detailed comparison of over 150 Testing and Debugging Tools
Performance Testing / Quality Management Automated Solution

Assistance with load and stress testing of Web-based and traditional systems; Including scalability planning, performance analysis, and monitoring.
This solution also delivers a structured, well-defined and scaleable automated testing process that enables the client to develop modular, low maintenance scripts, as well as provides an audit trail of test execution and allows the client to maximize its resource utilization for validating execution results and resolving discrepancies.

Work Products / Deliverables

• Best Practices and Methodologies
• Load Testing
• Stress Testing
• Performance Test Tools
• Automated Functional Regression Library Configuration and Setup


Application Performance Management

Assistance in maturing the overall SDLC process through a rigorous performance engineering organizational enablement program.

Work Products / Deliverables

• Optimization of cross-organizational performance test activities from Inception through
• Transition
• Predictive Correlation Model
• Normalized Performance Coefficient Model
• Environment Capacity Measures
• Normalized Performance Correlation Model
• Objective performance measures relative to application under test (OpMeasurement Analytics)
• Scalability planning
• Performance analysis.


Quality Center of Excellence ROI and Implementation of Best Practices

Implement best practices and industry standards that have been utilized and proven across multiple client engagements.
This solution is designed to address the inherent inefficiencies and "leakages" that exist in QA and Testing processes as they relate to the exchange of information between people to people; people to system and system to system. 

Work Products / Deliverables

• Optimize enterprise application quality
• Enable fact-based decisions  through real-time quality KPIs
• Automate the quality process activities and roles, including the Business Analysts
• Single solution for the entire test management process
• Customizable workflow and traceability
• Single real-time view of project status (quality, performance, project, and process)
• Same expectation of Quality across the organization


Test Center of Excellence ROI and Implementation of Best Practices

• Provide leadership in the improvement of testing practices
• Provide a consistent testing approach across all programs
• Reduce the cost of managing testing programs
• Meet application testing resource needs in a timely manner and manage the Enterprise
• Testing Office using more client resources
• Create forward-looking dashboard to forecast Product testing workload and KPIs
• Institute interdependencies between multifarious test initiatives  to support enterprise “view” of status and reporting
• Establish measurable and “actionable” metrics to augment  continuous improvement in testing
• Build a reusable knowledge repository of quality assurance and testing best practices 

Work Products / Deliverables

• Test Governance
• Test Project Planning
• Issues Management
• Defect Management
• Vendor/SLA Management
• Methodology Presentations

• Test Tools
• Test Management
• Defect Management
• Data Generation and Mining
• Issues Management
• Configuration Management
• Automation

• Test Methodology
• Test Estimation
• Test Coverage
• Test Planning
• Test Case/Script Repository
• Test Calendar Repository

• Testing Experience
• Conversion
• System Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Production Readiness
• Performance
• Training


Risk Management

This solution deals with risk. It includes planning for risk, assessing risk areas, developing risk-handling options, monitoring risks to determine how risks have changed, and documenting the overall risk management program.  It is composed of five fundamental elements: risk identification, risk analysis, risk assessment, risk handling, and risk monitoring.

Work Products / Deliverables

• Risk management planning, strategy, implementation, review, auditing
• Financial risk => hedging, derivatives, futures
• Credit risk => Basel Accord II compliance
• Corporate governance risk => Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance
• Security risk => IT security and/or physical security, ISO 17799
• Privacy risk => PIPEDA and provincial standards, regulations
• Business continuity risk => disaster recovery


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