setting up a Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) involves, understanding the client's business domain and technology space followed by a portfolio assessment on the application landscape. Onshore / offshore testing services support is identified based on clients’ applications. Testing and governance processes are base-lined to boot strap the Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE). Continual process improvements are implemented by measuring metrics (Process, Product and Performance specific).

United Software Associates consolidated testing service offerings from Test COE are intended to provide the customer the cutting edge services and solutions developed by United COE for testing in terms of time-to-market, robustness, quality and cost effectiveness.

Testing COE services span from

• Business models to suit everyone
• Testing resources deployment on customer site with Customer management (Full On site Model)
• Test cycle management by customer (Full off shore model management by customer)
• Complete off shore testing Management (Full off shore model management by United)
  • Time and Material
  • Fixed cost
• On shore / off shore team management (Combination)
• Remote Server model
• Customized as per need

We frame the strategy for the Quality Assurance (QA) paradigm as a whole and set in motion the portfolio assessment process with core focus on the Test Process Improvement (TPI) framework. This is followed by strategy definition for the delivery model and Quality Assurance (QA) optimization.

• Strategic plan formation for product/application testing
• Risk Based testing
• Test scope identification
• Types of test data coverage
• Platforms coverage
• Issues management
• Risk monitoring and mitigation
• Automation testing to cover up and many more

Test Process Value Addition

STLC (Software test Life Cycle) process customizations:

Identification and deployment of processes based on the business need, domain, product and applications, complexity, technologies and time frame availability is done.

Process Setup:

involves identifying and defining testing and Quality assurance (QA) procedures, standards, templates and checklists. Client stakeholders are familiarized on the base-lined processes and roll-out process frameworks.

Process Assessment:

Involves getting insights into the client's existing testing and quality assurance processes which are assessed against the Test Process Improvement (TPI) model followed by appreciation of already implemented best practices and identification of subtle improvement areas.

Process Optimization:

involves identifying and defining testing and Quality assurance (QA) procedures, standards, templates and checklists. Client stakeholders are familiarized on the base-lined processes and roll-out process frameworks.

• Test Solutions to suit development methodology and products
• Test methodology design testing (Unit, Integration, System and Regression)
• Approaches to specifications based testing
• Agile testing
• Project constraints impact test coverage
• Solutions and strategies customization

Test governance

Full test cycle management and governace by United to ensure that operational, strategic and product and application specific constraints are effectively and efficiantly handled by our expertised personnel. Hence we handle all areas given below –

• People
• Processes
• Technologies
• Deliverables
• Education
• Customer involvement
• Transparency
• Metrics based performance
  • Process measurements and metrics
  • Product quality measurements and metrics
  • COE deliverables’ measurements and metrics

Test Tools evaluation

Tools are evaluated by getting clear insights into the client's technology initiatives, followed by a feasibility study to identify appropriate tools for process, projects and product automation. Recommendations are given on the right tools that fit the client's business and technology needs. Many freeware’s are also available in the market to suit budgets and requirements of testing and test management.

Specialists testing services

Advanced testing services based on the customer's requirements and if benchmarking the product and application performance across the globe needs to be done these services are provided by United as specialiststesting services.

They cover

• Performance testing
• Load testing, stress testing, scalability testing and performance monitoring services
• Soak testing
• Automation testing
• Usability testing
• Migration testing
• Security testing
• Business continuity testing

Specialized offerings in testing

• Web testing
• ERP testing
• Packaged application testing
• Product integration testing
• Database testing
• Data migration testing
• Technology migration
• SOA testing
• Game testing
• Cloud testing
• Localization and globalization testing
• Accessibility testing

Automation Consulting

We shall focus on getting a thorough understanding of the client's business domain, application stability and roadmap on technology re-engineering. This is followed by a comprehensive technical assessment and determination of the right automation tool that best fits client needs and budget. Many freeware’s are also available in the market to suit budgets and requirements of Automation testing.

Automation offerings using

• Win Runner
• QTP
• Ruby framework WATIR
• WebLoad
• Load Runner
• Testcomplete
• OpenSTA
• Selenium
• eTest Suite

Summing up

In a rapidly changing and ever competitive environment, supporting your software testing activities through our facility in India is proven to add a lot of value and save cost of your operations in a smooth hassle-free way.

Our customers leverage our best practices, learning curve, reusable assets and comprehensive test repository to increase productivity and reduce costs.

From our side we are committed to make sure that you“You always win with us !”.