Test Assurance Services
Empowering Excellence: Navigating the Future of Quality with Precision and Insight
Consultancy
TAL Work Packages
Quality & Test Governance
Test Architecture & Framework
Quality & Test Oversight
Test Delivery Management
Quality & Test Analytics
Proactive Exceptions Management
Quality & Test Governance
Establishing strategic frameworks that align quality and test management with your business and IT governance objectives.
Policy and Standards Development:
We craft tailored testing policies and standards that align with organisational goals and regulatory requirements, ensuring consistent and compliant testing practices across the enterprise.
Test Resource Management:
We efficiently allocate and manage testing resources, including in-house personnel, tools, environments, and contracted suppliers, to optimise testing efforts, maintain compliance and achieve outcomes in alignment with project priorities and constraints.
Quality & Test RAID Management:
We systematically identify, assess and manage your test-related Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies, ensuring proactive mitigation activities and resolution to support organisational-level quality and success.
Test Architecture & Framework
Designing comprehensive test infrastructure, processes and controls that integrate tools, environments and practices with appropriate human resources and skillsets for efficient testing.
Architecture Planning:
We create the strategic blueprint aligned with test policy and standards and define the roadmap, roles and responsibilities required to introduce environment and tooling strategies.
Environment and Tooling Strategies:
We devise environment design and approaches to tooling selection approaches to extend the blueprint and ensure the proposed architecture can support organisational test capabilities and goals.
Integration and Standardisation:
We aim to achieve standardisation and seamless integration of the defined test infrastructure, processes and controls across your portfolio to provide consistency of test practice.
Quality & Test Oversight
Monitoring test activities to evaluate compliance with standards and support course corrections for effective project quality control.
Test Assessment:
We appraise in-running test processes and assets against predefined benchmarks, policies and standards to identify areas of strength, any risks and any opportunities for improvement.
Test Witnessing:
We conduct direct observation of test execution cycles to verify the defined procedures and standards are carried out correctly, and that the testing is providing effective quality control.
Test Quality Audit:
We run formal audits on programme and project test efforts to assess compliance with the relevant standards and regulations and provide transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement in testing practices.
Test Delivery Management
TAL coordinates and manages testing efforts to ensure timely delivery and alignment with project objectives.
Test Strategy Development:
We craft a high-level test strategy that aligns with the project goals, the solution delivery lifecycle and business objectives. The strategy defines the scope, objectives, quality risks, test approach and timeline, resources and methodologies, ensuring a clear roadmap of activities.
Test Lifecycle and Process Management:
We execute the test strategy by aligning the designed test delivery model (test lifecycle) with the project methodology and managing the fundamental test process: test planning, monitoring and control, analysis and design, implementation and execution, evaluation of exit criteria and reporting, and test closure activities.
Resource Scheduling and Coordination:
We ensure operational delivery of the test plan by scheduling and coordinating resources, including test personnel, environments and tools, to ensure they are available and optimally utilised throughout the lifecycle. Unlike broader resource management, this component emphasises the tactical aspects of deploying resources efficiently across testing activities to meet project deadlines and quality benchmarks.
Quality & Test Analytics
Interpreting data collected from your testing activities to identify trends, patterns and anomalies in applied test strategies and enable informed decisions, prioritisation and optimisation.
Performance Metrics and KPIs:
We establish and track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to evaluate projects compliance with your test policy and standards, the quality of test process outputs and the overall effectiveness and efficiency of project test efforts.
Data-Driven Decision Making:
We leverage the power of analytics to transform the raw outputs from testing activities into actionable intelligence and empower stakeholders to make informed, strategic decisions that enhance testing protocols and outcomes.
Trend Analysis and Reporting
We examine historical and current data to uncover patterns and trends in the quality and test metrics to report on predicted challenges, advise on potential opportunities enabling preemptive action.
Proactive Exceptions Management
Integrating test metrics and quality indices analysis with risk mitigation techniques to anticipate and drive the advanced treatment of quality challenges, ensuring the optimisation and quality of project outcomes.
Analytical Forecasting:
We seek to identify trends to help predict progress timelines and defect status against plan so that areas of concern, e.g., resource shortfalls, process breakpoints and serial product failures, can be addressed preemptively, before they manifest into tangible and severe issues.
Quality Risk Assessment and Mitigation:
We thoroughly evaluate quality risk factors and devise tailored mitigation strategies to address minimise their potentially adverse impact. From adjusting project plans to deploying targeted quality assurance interventions, our strategies aim to preemptively safeguard project delivery quality and success.
Defect Management:
We systematically identify, categorise and prioritise defects early in the development lifecycle to implement corrective actions swiftly and minimise their impact on project timelines and quality. This process not only streamlines the resolution workflow but also contributes to a deeper understanding of underlying issues, enabling targeted improvements.
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