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Software QA Consulting

ScienceSoft provides comprehensive consulting services to help establish an effective quality assurance process tailored to your projectā€™s specifics or assess and improve the existing QA processes.

Software QA Consulting - ScienceSoft
Software QA Consulting - ScienceSoft

Software QA consulting services help eliminate quality assurance 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.

22 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 NEXTĀ® Foundation).

How QA Consultancy by ScienceSoft Helps

ScienceSoftā€™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.

Get QA improved

ScienceSoftā€™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.

Get QA setup

ScienceSoftā€™s QA consultants:

  • Examine your current QA process.
  • Reveal the QA process bottlenecks.
  • Design an action plan for the QA process optimization.
  • 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.

Get QA audit

Pre-certification QA aid

ScienceSoftā€™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.

Get pre-certification help

Test automation introduction

ScienceSoftā€™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: ScienceSoftā€™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.

Get test automation setup

Consulting on testing a specific software type

ScienceSoftā€™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.

Get help with testing specifics

Training on QA

ScienceSoftā€™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.

Get QA training

If your request exceeds the scope of our QA consulting services, consider our software testing services.

our QA & Testing Projects

ScienceSoft's Highlights

  • 35 years in software testing services.
  • 22 years in quality assurance consulting services.
  • 75+ QA and testing engineers on board.
  • ISTQB-certified QA consultants.
  • ISO 27001-certified information security management rooted in tried and trusted practices, state-of-the-art techs and skilled professionals.
  • Experience in 30+ industries, including manufacturing, retail, wholesale, logistics, professional services, healthcare, financial services, oil & gas, and telecoms.
  • ScienceSoft is a 3-Year Champion in The Americasā€™ Fastest-Growing Companies Rating by the Financial Times.

Software Testing Consulting Step by Step

ScienceSoftā€™s consultants follow a comprehensive approach to software quality assurance consulting. Below we describe the key stages of our software testing consulting services.

Stage 1

Project get-in

Stage 2

Analysis and planning

Stage 3

Implementation

Stage 4

Support

our Customers Say

We started working with ScienceSoft on testing our core application called Careware. The application is quite complex and has many ERP and mobile elements in it. We have worked with the team in very close cooperation ever since and value the professional as well as flexible attitude towards testing.

After looking through numerous candidates, we set our choice upon ScienceSoft and, over the course of our close cooperation, we havenā€™t regretted the decision. In terms of ā€¦ automated testing services, they fulfilled our expectations and became very valuable for the projects. We would definitely recommend working with ScienceSoft as a long-term partner.

ScienceSoftā€™s QA team efficiently developed the testing documentation on the basis of exploratory testing results and helped us with the software requirements specification. We would like to acknowledge that the team was devoted not only to delivering the QA services but also making the collaboration smooth and convenient to us.

Tools Our QA Team is Proficient with

Software Testing Consulting with ScienceSoft: Gains

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

Level 3-4 QA maturity as per the TMMi model

Optimized test coverage

QA KPIs We Track

  • Percentage of software requirements covered by test cases.
  • Average and total number of created/updated test cases.
  • Total number of executed test cases per certain period (e.g., iteration, build).
  • Average and total number of found defects.
  • Testing time and costs variance (the ratio between actual and estimated testing time and budget).
  • Defects leakage (percentage of issues found by software users or during user acceptance testing).
  • Severity of defects leaked into production.

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.

Reap the Benefits of Our Quality Assurance Consulting

  • Zero

    severe defects in software production due to defect detection early in the SDLC, balancing manual and automated testing efforts for optimized test coverage.

  • -20-40%

    testing costs due to KPIs-based control over QA and testing performance; QA best practices, reusable test documentation and test cases/scripts.

  • -18%

    testing time due to accurate implementation of the shift-left approach and test automation, the QA and testing activities that are fine-tuned to your project and software specifics.

  • -15-20%

    software maintenance costs due to minimized defects leakage, proactive QA during software evolution (e.g., regular regression and performance testing).

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