OnShore Quality Assurance
With changes in the efficiency in which business software is developed, such as RAD tools, code generators, and Agile methods, is has been noted by many organizations, that Software Delivery and Testing is now more costly and time consuming than actual Software Development. Yet as the paradigm for software development has changed rapidly, the traditional model of hiring full time testing staff, to use expensive enterprise testing tools, that require expensive infrastructure to work in the same facility as the business stakeholders (often at high occupancy rates in downtown locations) has not changed.
Application testing however, for many firms is still a "feast or famine" style of work. This with high and low cyclical work requirements, firms are still hiring full time staff towards the medium workload and relying on staffing or unmanaged QA consulting firms to supply talented and experienced help for the peak periods.
These same firms, let the expensive consultants go during the low periods (often between application releases) and suffer low productivity from the full time staff.
There has to be a better way .... and there is! the better way is to get productivity from your testing staff 100% of the time.
Only pay for your enterprise testing tools when you are using them. Use facilities that are close to the Business Application owners for input, but leverage low-cost suburban rates. Consolidate all of the testing for a group of firms into a single facility with pre-installed tools (both Enterprise and public domain specialty tools) to improve productivity. Have testing staff that are pre-trained in using the enterprise tools, and also have them up to speed on Testing Best Practices and a common Business Risk Based methodology.
To manage the ebb and flow that is inter-release management and testing, have access to a large pool of experienced talent to augment a consistent team that will stay with each application from release to release for better continuity.....
That Better Way is the QA Consulants OnShore Test Factory. (OSTF) An entire building (60,000+ sq. ft. ) configured for software testing of mission critical business applications. With redundant power sources, off site data backup, multiple levels of security and 24/7 onsite security personnel and video monitoring.
Over 30 GBit of VLan and VPN capabilities to access multiple off site applications with full encryption for security and privacy. Like a Factory, it is organized by both client project and geographically by type of testing. It uses multiple shifts of testing staff to reduce time to production,like a factory. It is 100% tooled up for testing 24/7.
Applications enter and are reviewed for readiness. They are then executed according to their respective Test Plans (as developed by their assigned QA Architect).
Defects are logged, analyzed and reported in detail. Unlike a Factory, our clients are assigned a custom URL to gain access to an Executive Dashboard, available 24/7 which shows the progress and estimated completion of every project for a respective client in almost realtime. Our clients will always know the status of their testing project, as progress is made. Any questions can be answered by their assigned QA Lead who manages their assigned testing staff directly, and, is assigned exclusively to 1 client. This enables our QA Leads to answer virtually all questions about our clients' testing projects and our progress / status.
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