Testing & QA
Practice Overview
Achievo’s QA and Performance Practice excels in the area of Quality Testing and Management, as well as in the domain of Performance Testing and Optimization.
Our mission is to help our clients run their applications in the most efficient way – this requires thorough testing prior to deploying to production. That’s where we come in.Quality should be viewed beyond the function of testing. As such, our Quality Assurance Management process emphasizes quality measurement throughout the entire System Development Lifecycle (“SDLC”). Why? Because as most people know, the cost of correcting defects increases dramatically as we move toward the end of the SDLC.
Experience
Achievo’s consultants possess extensive testing experience and knowledge in the following areas:
- Financial & Banking Applications
- Firmware and Device Drivers
- Client / Server Software
- Web Base Applications
- Embedded systems
- Mobile devices
C.O.E.
QA Process Assessment and Center of Excellence Team development
Many organization face the challenges of process standardization with their QA practice across their entire enterprise. Quality, being a subjective view, its processes and standards are also subject to criticism and challenges. With a diversified QA / Testing team, this challenge becomes bigger, as standards & processes are diluted with subjective views and experience by people with different backgrounds.
The final solutions are often tailored towards a single project, and does not represent the organization’s quality strategy as a whole.
One obvious way to resolve this is to introduce a team that governs Quality processes, standardized tools and methodologies. Typically known as the QA Centre of Excellence (“C.O.E.”). Achievo’s QA and Performance practice is specialized in assisting organizations in developing an elaborate QA C.O.E. which can leverage best practices across the organization while reducing testing times and ultimately save costs.
Why Achievo?
We can help you develop your COE through our 7 step process:
| 1 |
QA Process Assessment |
to understand your current QA practices (how you do it today) |
| 2 |
Organizational QA capability analysis |
to look at the people and tools that are available within your company |
| 3 |
Gap analysis and reporting |
to compare assessment results against industry best practices |
| 4 | Recommendations | to present recommendation and associated options specific to your organization with the underlying goal to leverage your existing investments in technology, infrastructure and people. /td> |
| 5 |
Process design |
this is called “blueprinting”, where we design the processes, quality checkpoints & governance guidelines within your SDLC. |
| 6 |
Implementation |
to activate the C.O.E. Governance process |
| 7 | C.O.E. Pilot | to work with you to pick 1 or 2 key projects to use as a pilot to run through the C.O.E. Processes. |
Functional
Everyone in testing knows that functional testing is one of the more critical components of the SDLC. However the key to successful functional testing is having access to people that have in-depth knowledge and an understanding of best practices – without this you can have erroneous or incomplete results.
Achievo provides QA services to some of the words largest companies and as a result we have experience with various testing methodologies (ie: requirements based, risk based, regression, etc.). So regardless of your approach, we can help by:
- Identifying defects earlier in the Software development process
- Offering quick, efficient testing through global resources, automation tools, and experienced professionals
- Developing repeatable test plans allowing you to spend less time and money on testing process
- Eliminating testing cycles, leading to reduced overall product testing costs
UAT is focused on the people that use the application every day – ultimately, does it meet YOUR expectations?
How do you distinguish thinking like testers one day and then thinking like users the next? How do we identify discrepancies between system requirements and user requirements? Working with your project team at an early phase, we work closely with your users to understand what are their expectations. Tools are used to ensure traceability is in place to map out user requirements and its associated system requirements and test cases.
Achievo can provide expertise assistance in the following areas:
| Accessibility | Usability | Regression | Automation |
Performance
Performance testing is about your applications operational efficiency. The challenge that most companies face is understanding the type of performance testing needed – load, stress, spike, network traffic, benchmarking – or even IF they should be performed.
The solution comes down to people – experts who can not only execute performance testing but more importantly are able to analyze and recommend performance testing approaches based on architectural design.
Achievo can help with:
- Load and Stress Testing
- Performance Benchmarking
- Spike and Synchronization Testing
- Network Bandwidth Verification
- Performance Diagnostics Testing
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Soak and Reliability Testing
- Performance Tuning
Why It Works
We are QA and Performance Testing Experts. With consultants coming from different corporate backgrounds, our work is based on industry specific best practices. Our recommendations are proven and practical because our knowledge stems from the collective experience of multiple projects.
The advantage working with many different clients is that we bring extensive experience and domain knowledge plus a solid understanding of market leading testing tools.
Why Achievo?
With 10+ years of experience in the QA and Performance arena, we have extensive practical working experience in many different SDLC models including:
- Waterfall
- Spiral
- Agile / Iterations / Incremental
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