Software QA

Consulting Services

You may have found your business in the same situation as many others that develop web applications. You’ve done everything you felt you were supposed to do, followed the recommendations of your team and development methodologies, and invested in tools and other resources. Yet, you still find yourself mired in QA problems resulting in production defects, long testing cycles, and overworked QA staff. You’re not alone. Perfecting a software development cycle with proper and efficient QA processes is difficult and takes time and practice. There are often a lot of failures along the way and opportunities to learn. This process is even longer if you try to do it all on your own.

TestApproach’s QA Audit & Process Improvement Services can help decrease the time it takes to make your development cycle work effectively for you. Our decades of combined experience means we have seen every problem out there and its solution. Independent members of our team have felt the difficulty of incomplete processes, can recognize the symptoms, and have the expertise to offer viable solutions specific to your business.

QA Consulting Services

Even if you feel that your QA processes are ideal, an independent review can help identify areas of improvement. Likely, you have auditors that review your processes involved with data security and finances, so why not audit your QA processes as well? QA consulting team and qa engineers can evaluate your processes of communication, testing, customer service, and accountability for efficiency and effectiveness to enhance, optimize, and improve performance. We can offer you solid, time-tested advice for your specific needs. The results are an immediately improved process with shorter development timeframes, more effective scope management, efficient budget, quality assurance, and higher quality end product. Our full time project managers will help you to get running your system smoothly.

Test Governance & Compliance

  • Test Methodology
  • Test Process Management
  • Test Organizational Structure
  • Test Metrics
  • Knowledge Management

Test Engineering

  • Test Requirements
  • Test Strategy
  • Test Cases & Test Data Design
  • Test tools
  • Test Execution & Defects Reporting
  • Test Environment

Test Management

  • Test Estimation
  • Test Planning & Monitoring
  • Defect Management
  • Test Communication & Reporting

Test Governance & Compliance

  • Test Methodology
  • Test Process Management
  • Test Organizational Structure
  • Test Metrics
  • Knowledge Management

How it Works – Our Team Will

– Evaluate current QA processes
– Identify future goals
– Find team strengths and weaknesses
– Create a baseline of efficiency and productivity
– Identify and document quality gaps
– Create a plan to improve efficiency
– Assess plan implementation and monitor improved productivity during quarterly visits
– Software QA consulting services

What we need from you

– Assessment Interviews with QA personnel, Development Managers, PMO, Architects, BAs, and CTO
– Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases
– Project Plans
– Business and Functional Requirements
– Traceability Matrix
– PMO Reports
– Build Metrics
– Execution Reports
– Metrics
– Entry and Exit Criteria
– Test Closure Report

The following assessment categories are audited

Test Governance & Compliance

– Test Methodology
– Test Process Management
– Test Organizational Structure
– Test Metrics
– Knowledge Management

 

Test Engineering

– Test Requirements
– Test Strategy
– Test Cases & Test Data Design
– Test tools
– Test Execution & Defects Reporting
– Metrics
– Test Environment

Test Management

– Test Estimation
– Test Planning & Monitoring
– Defect Management
– Test Communication & Reporting

 

 

How it works:

Our highly experienced team of experts will evaluate your current processes, future goals, and your strengths and weaknesses against QA best practices that are specific to your industry and structure. We then create a baseline of your efficiency and productivity so we can monitor improvements and progress. Last, we identify and document the quality gaps in your QA process, methodology, or general approach and create an action plan to remedy the problems. After the initial assessment, we’ll have quarterly visits to help assess the action plan implementation and monitor your team’s improved productivity against the baseline.

Our goal is to identify deficiencies and broken processes to help you and your team realize ways to improve and optimize your QA team. We will build a complete picture on how your Software Development Life Cycle is operating. For example, poor requirements can have a domino effect on your team and overall quality.

Very often our assessments identify following common gaps:

– Lack of a centralized mechanism to trace requirements to test cases, test instances, and/or defects

– Limitations in end-to-end traceability and on-demand reporting resulting from the use of separate tools for Test Management and Defect Management

– The unnecessarily large volume of testing executed due to lack of test optimization and/or risk-based testing practices

– Limited throughput due to lack of test automation

– Weak defect and execution metrics reporting and lack of strategic quality metrics

Our Deliverables

Broken Processes and Quality gaps report
Baseline Establishment
Progress Monitoring Report
Process Improvement Report