Well-established approaches and methodologies as well as testing management capabilities are well complemented with broad range of Quality Assurance and Testing client service delivery assets

QA Consultants has extensive experience in Quality Management practices and manyreusable assets from many past delivery efforts.

• Strong strategic relationships with proven quality management tool vendors (Mercury, Compuware, IBM –Rational, etc.)
• A proven methodology that is founded on industry standard principles and multiple client successes
• Reusable assets (test plans, cases, scenarios, automation scripts, tools, etc.) from many clients engagements
  
• Experience in large scale quality and testing of complex multi-platform solutions

Key Player: VP of Quality Assurance (fortune 500 company)

Goal: Dramatically reduce testing time on projects and increase quality of business applications.

Contributing Reason: Lack of experienced resources for testing and overall quality assurance.

Capability: Leverage QA Consultants services and Outsourcing to test & quality assure every major business application.

Benefit statement: He told us that he needed a way for his staff, while developing timelines for major applications and current workloads, to leverage dedicated services on a contract basis to implement a Quality Assurance methodology to their existing environment, integrate testing into each application delivery and train their internal & external staff in the use of Quality testing through mentoring & knowledge transfer.

Actual Benefit: The initial estimate for testing all of the major applications was 18 months. With the help of QA Consultants services, testing and integration of a formal QA methodology, efforts began immediately. As a result, the Quality Assurance group reduced testing time by 30% to just over one year, trained existing staff to continue the next phases by transferring the knowledge to full time staff and increased performance of the systems by 32%.

Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, QA Consultants team of over 300 consultants has a wide range of experience and business knowledge and has a solid track record in Financial Services, Consumer & Industrial markets, the Technology sector, Communication and Content, Telecommunications, Government and Healthcare sectors. Innovative firms such as Canadian Tire, Symcor, Aviva Insurance, ADP, Loyalty, Shoppers Drug Mart and many others have outsourced their testing efforts to us.

Our key to success is based on fully understanding our client's business needs and then handpicking the most competent delivery team to meet those clearly defined objectives. During the delivery process, the QA Consultants team transfers knowledge and provides mentoring to ensure that upon successful completion of the engagement, our client is fully self-sufficient.

To foster QA innovation in Q2 2010, QA Consultants has opened its new 20,000+ sq. ft. On-Shore Test Factory. (www.testfactory.ca) facility to help our clients reduce costs associated with Software Testing, primarily Personnel, Facilities, Software Testing Tools as well as Hardware and Infrastructure. Many clients are concerned that their testing initiatives are too expensive, taking too much of their valuable office space, often complicated with long distance relationships and are bogged down with expensive tools and hardware. This can sometimes be known as Off-shore fatigue.

This innovative and precedent-setting facility is located in Toronto, Canada and provides state of the art technology and resources that are 100% dedicated to software testing. The On-Shore Test Factory"! allows our clients the ability to leverage our economies of scale to reduce the cost of modern software testing, while providing the highest quality output of production ready software.

Unique advantages in utilizing QA Consultants solutions include:

• Rates that are highly competitive
• Quick (under 72 hour) turnaround time for availability of consultants to your project
• Individuals with proven experience in quality assurance
• A broad range of industry knowledge based on over 15 years in business
• Excellent communications skills at all levels
• Flexible short and long term contract abilities
• Project leaders with 14 years quality assurance knowledge
• Our massive 20,000+ sq.ft. On-Shore Test Factory facility in North Toronto, provides state of the art technology, 100% dedicated to software testing at near Off shore prices.
• Utilization of Test Factory can yield significant reductions in cost:
  • Personne
  • Facilities
  • Software Tools
  • Hardware and Infrastructure
• Complies information security policies, standards, processes and procedures in accordance with the ISO17799 and ISO 27001 and COBIT industry standards
• Compliance with relevant regulatory acts, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards
• Effective Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plan to ensure the performance of our obligations our clients under various scenarios including, without limitation, computer system breakdown, fire, pandemic, quarantine, and natural disasters
• All staff are covered by Errors & Omissions insurance

QA Consultants delivers on average over 250 testing projects per year and has always been measuring their success by the success of their clients.

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QA Consultants is focused only on Quality Assurance and Testing.
The QA Consultants team has:

• Well-established approaches and methodologies for assessing an organization’s quality assurance and testing management capabilities.
• In-depth experience working with and developing quality assurance and testing organizations in every domain.
• A team of professionals who have re-engineered existing quality assurance and testing strategies and methodologies to integrate with Best of Breed Testing practices and techniques.
• Experience in developing custom solutions for companies in every vertical with the organization, processes and tools to successfully execute QA & Testing.
• Deep knowledge of current state QA practices backed by significant project related experience at vast majority of organizations in North America.