Test Management
SQS offers its clients Test Management services to provide, support and improve on all aspects of testing and quality management across the entire software development lifecycle (specification, design, system and documentation).
The consultancy service uses a best-practice approach for high-quality delivery, based on a groupwide methodology derived from the experiences and skills of more than 1,500 test consultants. The methodology continues to evolve with the changing methodical and technological trends.
The Test Management Service consists of
- Test Scope Specification (What)
- Test Strategy Definition (How and When)
- Test Strategy Execution, Monitoring and Control
- Test Completion (Handover)
Test Management interfaces with the following processes, partly controlling them and executing replanning if changes are required:
- Project or programme management
- System specification and design
- Change management
- System implementation (e.g. by third-party project partners)
- Defect management
- Risk management
- Operative testing processes (by developers, independent testers, users, and operations and support)
- Test automation
- Test environment management and test data management
- Operations and support
Approach:
- We integrate ourselves with the culture and the specific nature of each client
- We are dedicated to quality across the whole lifecycle, and look to apply test and quality assurance practices across the whole software lifecycle
- We focus our testing strategies and plans not only on genuine risks in the IT project itself but also on the potential risks to the business from using the delivered product
Software testing is not a core activity of most companies. SQS’s independent managed testing service has the following benefits to such companies:
- Reduction in costs and personnel requirements for testing
- Increase in system quality
- Known costs, transparent pricing model
- Releasing of specialist employees from testing tasks, allowing them to concentrate on their core competences
- Further standardisation of software production processes and conformity to established best practices
- High flexibility for unscheduled regression tests
- Objectivity
