Software QA Consulting
ScienceSoft provides comprehensive consulting services to help establish an effective QA process tailored to your project’s specifics or assess and improve the existing QA processes.
Software QA consulting services help eliminate QA process constraints and achieve higher QA maturity and efficiency.
A QA consulting company since 2002, ScienceSoft helps companies quickly evaluate and improve the QA process, introduce smart test automation, efficiently test specific software types, or design a robust QA process from scratch.
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20 years in quality assurance services |
730+ successful testing projects |
ISO 9001 certified quality management system |
Cases When You Need a Software QA Consultant
Non-optimized QA process
that only fulfills baseline KPIs.
Non-effective QA process
where severe defects leak into software production while QA and testing suffer from over-budgeting and delays.
Lack of in-house QA expertise
when it comes to testing an unfamiliar software architecture (e.g., event-driven, service-oriented, space-based), a particular technology (e.g., big data, IoT, AI), or implementing DevOps and test automation.
Need to pass certification audits
such as software security compliance certification (e.g., HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR), process certification (e.g., ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 13485), or QA maturity certification (e.g., TMMi Foundation, TPI NEXT® Foundation).
QA process improvement
ScienceSoft’s QA consultants:
- Identify problems in your QA process.
- Work out a strategy for their mitigation.
- Analyze the risks bound to rolling out a new QA strategy and create a risk mitigation plan.
- Implement the QA process improvements.
- Check the effectiveness of QA process changes against the agreed set of KPIs.
Timing: 2-4 weeks.
Pricing: T&M.
QA process setup
ScienceSoft’s QA consultants:
- Analyze specifics of your software (e.g., tech stack and architecture, the requirements specification) and project (e.g., software development methodology, SDLC stage, QA team lineup).
- Outline the testing scope, testing team(s) lineup and competencies.
- Design the testing strategy and plan.
- Estimate the testing time and costs.
- Study the feasibility of introducing test automation to the project.
- Setting up the designed QA process.
Timing: 2-6 weeks.
Pricing: T&M with a cap or an hourly fee.
QA process audit
ScienceSoft’s QA consultants:
- Examine your current QA process.
- Reveal the QA process bottlenecks.
- Design an action plan for the QA process optimization.
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If needed, our QA audit can include:
- Assessment of your current QA process maturity against a custom/TMMi/TPI maturity model.
- Outlining the action points on how to upgrade your QA maturity.
Timing: 1-2 weeks.
Pricing: T&M.
Pre-certification QA aid
ScienceSoft’s QA or cybersecurity experts:
- Analyze your business specifics and outline the certifications you are required to have.
- Help elicit regulatory compliance requirements.
- Assess the compliance of your security or quality management system, software development and QA practices with the relevant certification requirements.
- Advise on the relevant improvements.
- Create a detailed roadmap to compliance.
- Re-assess your readiness for certification audit after the improvements are implemented.
Timing: 2-4 weeks.
Pricing: T&M.
Test automation introduction
ScienceSoft’s test automation professionals:
- Analyze your project and software specifics, testing strategy and plan, testing scenarios (if they are in place).
- Perform a feasibility study of implementing test automation for your project.
- Design a test automation strategy and architecture.
- Advise on the most fitting testing scenarios for test automation.
- Propose an optimal test automation framework/tool and advise on its configurations.
- Set up automated test data generation.
- Integrate continuous testing in the existing CI/CD pipeline.
Note: ScienceSoft’s DevOps engineers can help with setting up a CI/CD pipeline for your project from scratch.
Timing: 2-4 weeks.
Pricing: T&M with a cap or an hourly fee.
Consulting on testing a specific software type
ScienceSoft’s test engineers:
- Design a test strategy and plan for specific application types (e.g., SaaS apps, enterprise apps, data warehouses and BI apps), architectures (e.g., microservices-based) or technologies (e.g., IoT, big data, blockchain).
- Outline the relevant testing scope and approach, develop testing scenarios driven by the software specifics.
- Advise on the testing team lineup and required competencies.
- Assess the feasibility of test automation for the testing project.
Timing: 1-2 weeks.
Pricing: T&M.
Training on QA
ScienceSoft’s QA consultants:
- Provide QA training sessions for your in-house project and QA teams.
- Ensure proper knowledge transfer to your in-house professionals.
- Explain the value of proposed improvements.
- Advise on how to incorporate the recommended changes into the daily activities of team members.
Timing: 1-2 weeks.
Pricing: Fixed price.
If your request exceeds the scope of our QA consulting services, consider our software testing services.
ScienceSoft's Highlights: QA & Testing
- 33 years in software testing services.
- 20 years in quality assurance consulting services.
- 75+ QA and testing engineers on board.
- ISTQB-certified QA consultants.
- ISO 27001-certified information security management system.
- Experience in 30+ industries, including manufacturing, retail, wholesale, logistics, professional services, healthcare, financial services, oil & gas, and telecoms.
- ScienceSoft USA Corporation is listed among The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2022 by Financial Times.
Stage 1
Project get-in
The consultants study the relevant documents, interview stakeholder subgroups, and examine the existing QA procedures.
Sample deliverables:
- QA assessment report including the QA maturity level assessment.
Stage 2
Analysis and planning
The consulting team identifies problems in QA process, possible solutions to them, and risks and limitations related to solution implementation. Relying on the solution and risk analysis, the team develops an action plan with specific tasks and timelines, identifies the target KPIs and designs a roadmap to fulfill them.
Sample deliverables:
- QA strategy
- Mitigation plan to manage new QA strategy implementation risks
- Tailored KPI lists
- Roadmap to a new QA strategy
- Feasibility study of test automation
- Test automation strategy
- Test strategy and plan for specific application types, architectures, technologies, etc.
- An optimal test automation framework/tool
Stage 3
Implementation
Upon the customer’s approval, the team implements the proposed solutions (or a part of them), supervises the process, prevents possible issues and addresses the actual ones (if any). ScienceSoft’s QA consultants ensure knowledge transfer to the customer's QA team.
Sample deliverables:
- QA process improvements.
- Test scenarios driven by the software specifics.
- QA training materials.
- QA knowledge base.
Stage 4
Support
ScienceSoft’s QA consultants supervise your team for some time, ready to step in and address possible problems.
Sample deliverables:
- FAQs for the in-house team.
our Customers Say
Tools Our QA Team is Proficient with
API testing tools
Automated UI testing tools
Performance testing tools
Security testing tools
Automated mobile testing tools
CI/CD tools
Test management and defect tracking software
Remote communication tools
Shorter software time-to-market
Reduced QA and testing costs
Minimized defects leakage
Streamlined collaboration and QA awareness within the project team
Balanced manual and automated testing efforts
Optimized test coverage
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QA KPIs will greatly depend on your QA maturity level, software and project specifics, QA process challenges you face. ScienceSoft provides a tailored set of KPIs, which you can use further during QA process self-assessments. |
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Our Sample QA & Testing Projects
QA Consulting and Test Automation for a Multinational Automotive Software Company
- QA process examination and maturity estimation (TMMi model).
- QA strategy and test plan design.
- Test automation tool selection and configuration, test script development.
- Training on QA aspects of coding for the in-house development team.
QA Consulting and Test Automation for a Global Provider of Security Audit and Compliance Services
- Optimization of test case design.
- Automated data migration testing, regression and performance testing.
- Training for the in-house testing team on the newly introduced testing practices.
QA Consulting and Testing Services for an Insurance Company
- QA strategy and test plan design.
- Automated API and regression testing.
- Manual DWH and UX/UI testing.
- Training for the in-house QA team on how to fit testing into the Scrum development process.
QA Consulting and Testing Services for a Provider of Intelligent Transportation Systems
- QA strategy and test plan design.
- Coordinating the two in-house testing teams working from different geographical locations.
- Training for one of the in-house teams on adherence to Scrum methodology, on-field and localization testing specifics.
Preparation for Certification, Manual and Automated Testing for a High-Tech Services Provider
- QA strategy and test plan design.
- Thorough manual functional testing to help the Customer’s software pass Microsoft software tests.
- Automation of the regression test suite.
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