We provide quality software testing solutions to maximise business potential and
minimise risk.
NCC Group provides a complete range of services designed to optimise your IT and business quality management and testing capabilities via SDLC Solutions.
Through a bespoke combination of software testing solutions, including consulting, outsourcing and offshoring, our services are designed to meet your needs, wherever you are in the development lifecycle, and make sure your time, cost and quality targets are met.
Services include (but are not limited to): - business analysis
- project management
- test consultancy
- test resources
- network and application performance analysis
- functional and non-functional testing
- test automation
- software testing and tools training
Whether you require a testing partner to guide you through the labyrinth of industry standards and sector compliance or a team of testers to help manage a demanding stage of a project, SDLC Solutions has the expertise, tools and experience to deliver a service specifically tailored to meet your organisation’s unique circumstances and priorities.
Test Consultancy
SDLC Solutions has experienced software testing consultants who can work with your in-house teams to offer practical solutions to all your testing requirements.
We are capable of catering to all size businesses and projects, whether that be one consultant for a specific short-term project, or a fully managed offshore service with testers dedicated to your programme of work.
By helping you to make informed decisions about where to put your effort, we will improve your capability to deliver.
Our consultancy services include:
Test Strategy and Planning
Since testing can consume more than 10-15% of a total IT budget, it is crucial to establish a robust test strategy at the outset, focusing on the development of best practice processes and procedures.
Automation Strategy
The adoption of automation testing can result in increased productivity and lower ongoing operating costs. However, since initial investment is high, we regularly provide advice and support to our clients on selecting the most appropriate approach and strategy.
Tools Selection
Our tools experts offer independent, objective advice on the selection of the best product(s) for your needs, as well as provide recommendations on their effective implementation.
Test Process Reviews
A review of the processes within your development and testing cycles can dramatically improve productivity levels. SDLC Solutions has an enviable track record in improving client’s test processes which often results in a reduction in ongoing testing costs and business risk.
Test Resources
SDLC Solutions can provide you with high quality software testing resources to work with your in-house test teams across the testing lifecycle (unit, system, integration and user acceptance testing).
We can provide test analysts, senior test analysts, test team leads, automation specialists, performance specialists, test managers and test architects, through a mix of 70 per cent permanent SDLC Solutions' employees and 30 per cent associates drawn from our eight preferred supplier list companies and other associate companies.
All of our ISEB qualified consultants have at least four years’ experience in testing, with many having much more than that, and all have experience in a wide variety of technologies, development methodologies and IT environments.
We provide an ongoing training and support programme to ensure our consultants and clients benefit from the most up to date and relevant skill set. In particular, our training programmes impart specialist market information, so that employees are kept abreast of all sector developments and can relate these developments to client projects.
Business Assurance & Analysis
It is vital to ensure that testing delivers value for money. However, it is equally important to make sound decisions and judgements on the quality and fitness for purpose of critical business systems; you need the assurance that critical projects will deliver high quality IT systems within the project’s time and cost constraints.
SDLC Solutions recognises the strong link between the requirements gathering phase of any project and the project's ultimate success. Research, and our own experiences, have shown that poor requirements definition affects many subsequent lifecycle activities, including poor quality test scripts or extended test execution times caused by the late discovery of defects.
By working with clients to define the business requirements at the analysis stage of the project, and by introducing key testing deliverables into the requirements definition activity, we eliminate many of the problems which can often cause time and cost extensions later in the lifecycle. Crucially, our approach encourages involvement from key stakeholders and end business users at an early stage of the lifecycle to add real value to the development process and secure buy-in from key individuals.
Building the trust and understanding between the business and IT community is vital to successful projects, and by defining business requirements and undertaking requirements based testing, our experienced consultants bridge the gap between the two communities. This results in smoother product implementation, improved product quality and a better understood solution all around.
Testing Tools
Testing tools can benefit many projects by automating routine tasks, enabling rapid testing of large numbers of business conditions, simulating application loading, or performing analysis and monitoring jobs, so it is important to get the right tool for the job and get it at the right price.
SDLC Solutions does not rely upon or recommend the use of any one testing tool or process. As an independent testing solutions specialist, our impartiality allows us to deliver the highest quality solutions to our clients without any constraints and our solutions are always tailored to meet the individual requirements of each client.
Part of any solution we propose is an evaluation of what, if any, testing tools or processes are suitable for your project. Once you are satisfied that our proposal meets your requirements, we can help you to procure the testing tools using the most appropriate pricing model, whether that is outright purchase, rental, or Software as a Service (SaaS).
And our assistance won’t stop there. We will work with you to install, configure and deploy your chosen solution and train or mentor your staff as required.
Whether you require a tools strategy, including advice on selecting the correct tools to suit your requirements and establish best practice, or simply a health check to review your current automated testing and ensure that your tools are being optimised, our specialist tools consultants are on hand to ensure you reap the benefits of an adept tools strategy.
Call +44 (0)1625 521 093 today for more information.