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What We Do

Our specialist knowledge and contacts allows us to pick winning teams of professionals whose skills encompass the entire test spectrum. Qual IT understands the importance of quality testing throughout the software development lifecycle and can provide ongoing test support for your software applications.

Our Test solutions are developed through deploying services that provide assurance in areas such as test strategies, test plans and processes, resource and timeline estimates. This is made possible by carefully selecting experienced resources to work with your organisation to complete the testing tasks.

Core Testing

Core testing assists your business when moving through times of change. Qual IT works with clients to tailor a pragmatic approach that encompasses the most appropriate test roles, test types and test techniques to ensure your systems function as expected and continue to work seamlessly to your end users.

  • Test Management
  • Component
  • Functional, non functional and business acceptance
  • System and Integration
  • Operational Acceptance
  • Data Migration
  • OS/Cross Browser website
  • Test Automation
  • Test analysis and design

Non-Functional Testing

Non-functional testing is the technical side of the testing profession and can involve a wide range of specialist testing skills, techniques and tools. Qual IT is able to advise, guide, and support the following non-functional testing.

  • Reliability
  • Availability
  • Sociability
  • Audit ability
  • Failover/recovery
  • Security
  • Usability
  • Interoperability
  • Performance, Load and Stress
  • Scalability
  • Maintainability

W3C Compliance Testing

Qual IT has developed and provides a service to assist public and corporate organisations to regularly test and confirm the level of compliance of their websites with the W3C standard.

Qual IT's service uses a combination of trained test consultants and our testing tool, which can be modified to operate at level A, AA or AAA compliance, to ensure that your web site complies with a comprehensive set of international standards.

Performance and Load Testing

We have a dedicated Performance Testing Team at Qual IT which is backed by a great depth of experience testing all types of applications and websites, using all available toolsets. It is critical when undertaking this testing that clear, defined goals or expectations are agreed to meet business requirements. This will help you make the right testing tool selection to achieve the best outcome for your business. We can partner up to guide you through this selection process.

Performance Testing of Applications and Websites.

We can provide a complete end to end service. We can bring along our own licensing and together with our experienced consultants, ensure your application or website is performance tested efficiently and effectively.

Implementation of Performance Testing.

We understand that getting a performance testing regime up and running within your own environment can be a huge challenge. We can provide independent advice on the selection of Performance Test tools. Once a tool has been selected, we can implement or assist with your implementation of your testing process.

Performance Testing Training / Support

We can provide ad-hoc support or mentoring around Performance Testing, in both the theory and practice of performance testing. We also offer hands on training service with particular toolsets.

Ongoing Performance Monitoring

We can implement an ongoing performance monitoring solution for your application or website. This allows you to monitor the end user experience to ensure that performance expectations are consistently being met for your user base.

Infrastructure Testing

Qual IT's Infrastructure testing service provides you with reassurance that the production environment has been built to specification and meets your business needs as well as giving you confidence that your business applications are still going to be working at deployment time. We can help you build generic test suites that can be reused, and targeted tests tailored to your operational acceptance criteria.

Infrastructure testing covers:

  • Operating System upgrades for server and/or workstation
  • Server migration and virtualisation
  • Firewall upgrades
  • Network
  • Exchange upgrades
  • User provisioning
  • Data centre migration
  • DR solutions
  • Failover solutions
  • Standard application changes (e.g. MS Office)
  • Regular patches and security fixes
  • Measuring bandwidth

Qual IT's infrastructure testing services provide you with:

  • Confirmation that the environment has been built to specification and meets requirements, including:
  • Disaster recovery (DR) and failover requirements
  • Configuration, installation requirements and Data migration
  • Rules, policies and security (e.g. Group Policy)
  • Confidence that the business applications are still working at deployment time
  • Knowledge, we help you build generic test suites that can be reused, and targeted tests tailored to your business requirements.

Mobile Testing Services

According to some industry analysts, mobile internet usage will overtake desktop internet usage by 2014.

The sheer variety of devices, operating systems, carriers, networks and other variables present a significant challenge for any IT team intending to implement a mobile solution, as does limited experience in the marketplace.

Qual IT can help you meet those challenges with our mobile test practice, and dedicated, experienced, mobile test team.

Our approach is based on a structured mobile-testing process that targets the key areas of usability, functionality and security.  Using our dedicated mobile testers, laboratory facilities and tools, we first focus on the major operating systems and devices to produce a stable application.  We follow this with a structured crowd-source testing approach to reach less common platforms and handsets to maximise our test coverage.

 

We have experience of the following mobile testing scenarios:

  • Testing existing websites to ensure they behave on mobile platforms
  • Testing websites specifically designed for mobile platforms
  • Testing bespoke enterprise applications
  • Testing B2C mobile applications (such as those available through the Apple store or Android market)

  The following mobile testing services are available:

  • Functional testing
  • UI and accessibility testing
  • O/S, device, carrier, network testing
  • Performance testing
  • Handset socialisation
  • Mapping and location scenario testing

Features of the Qual IT mobile testing approach are:

  • Actual mobile hardware and platforms for the major configurations
  • Mobile emulators to cover other configurations
  • Structured crowd-source approach (Qrowd) maximises test coverage
  • Configurable multiple virtual environments (Qloud)

 

SAP Testing Services

 

Whether you're implementing SAP for the first time or upgrading your existing SAP system you'll want to make sure that your final solution delivers the business value you're expecting.

Due to SAP's unique layered architecture, deployments can be notoriously complex, often involving customisation, integration with your other systems and complex data migration. You may also be considering cloud-based SAP services.

A targetted SAP testing approach can help reduce delivery risk, cost and project timescales and ensure a high quality product that meets your business needs.

Qual IT's SAP testing team have the skills and SAP domain experience to deliver a testing service that will give you the confidence that your SAP implementation will go smoothly.

Our team has experience across a number of industries including financial services, public sector, utilities and agriculture.

We identify the critical business processes and interfaces and develop a test strategy that targets the configurations and bespoke changes that could impact your current workflow requirements.

 Qual IT's targetted SAP testing approach includes:

  • Structured, repeatable test process.
  • Test strategies and plans.
  • FICO, CRM, HR, BW, BI modules.
  • SAP environment and release management.
  • Range of service delivery models (managed test service, consulting, staff augmentation).
  • Suite of re-usable regression tests. Performance testing.

Features of the Qual IT approach are:

  • Experience across a range of industries
  • Our SAP testers understand the products and can deliver more effective testing, more quickly.
  • Use of test tools to facilitate communication, collaboration and speedy delivery.