As Information Technology becomes increasingly important to maintain a competitive edge, businesses are seeking new ways to optimize their processes and IT infrastructure. This has increased the importance of the vital functions of Testing and Development. Organizations today are encountering an array of challenges including:

• The need to optimize costs – on an average, 25-30 percent of application development cost is spent on testing
• The absence of unified processes for testing across different business units or projects, resulting in potentially insufficient product quality
• The need to shorten overall application and product development lifecycle time in order to meet business needs and the increased complexity of applications
• The inconsistency in quality of testing in multi-vendor and onsite-offshore environments

Our Verification and Validation (V&V) Advisory solutions can help address the testing issues by employing an end-to-end testing lifecycle offering, addressing process, people and tools. Rooted in deep process expertise, domain knowledge, and hands-on experience in Six Sigma techniques such as Design of Experiments (DoE), our V&V services can help increase productivity, enhance delivery confidence, and reduce time-to-market and cost effective regression cycles.

• Testing Transformation: End-to-end transformation and cost optimization of the testing function through a three-dimensional approach that focuses on the principles of demand alteration, operational efficiency enhancement and a right-fit delivery and governance model
• Test Process Definition and Implementation: Defines test processes in line with best in class practices including lifecycle-specific (Agile, RUP, etc.) and business unit specific customization
• Test CoE/Testing Shared Services: Facilitates designing and launching a streamlined organization structure for a V&V function using the Test Factory Model
• Design and Implementation of Test Metrics and Dashboard
• Tools and Automation Consulting: Facilitates test management tool selection and implementation, as well as the assessment and redesign of test automation strategy
• Test Data Management Consulting: Defining and implementing a test data management framework
• "Lean"ing Testing/Test Optimization Consulting: Analysing and creating as-is test process/function baselines to identify test optimization potential, defining a roadmap and business case for test suite optimization. End to End Six Sigma/Lean tools-driven test design optimization for functional, non-functional and regression testing.
• Rapid Test Q: A customizable ready-to-deploy Quality Management System for testing process