How IT Consultants can help in Quality Assurance

IT consultants join your team at any point in the project and proactively respond to your business needs. The Test solution packages that the IT consultants offer encompass the whole test phase of a project or selected test phases required for a specific project. Services include: qa

  • Requirements Development – delivered in order to eliminate contradicting, ambiguous or incomplete requirements up front.
  • All Stages of Testing – from test strategy to execution.
  • Performance Testing – review of architecture and the planning and delivery of performance test efforts.
  • Functional Testing – planning of test execution phases and resources and deliver test track coverage.
  • User Acceptance Testing – provision of business functional analysis and the generation and execution of user acceptance testing.

Documentation

IT Consultants have access to use and modification of various test documents and templates. Dependent upon the needs of a given project or client environment these can be utilized by IT consultants, applied to corporate templates where required, and utilized within the client environment. This includes:

  • Test Strategy – outlining the approach and environment details.
  • Test Plans – production of test plan documentation, approach and schedule.
  • Test Cases – detailing high-level test scenarios.
  • Test Matrix – to ensure coverage in the testing of applications.
  • Test Scripts – detailing step-by-step instructions regarding the testing of applications.
  • Checklists – to facilitate the smooth running of testing.

Inspection & Review

From running complete projects or team extension models, IT Consultants aim to tailor their services to best suit customers’ needs, with the aim of working closely with you so that they can be flexible in the service offering they provide and adding value to your business. Inspection and review services can be provided by your IT Consultant.

IT consultants also offer the following services:

  • Inspection Review – formal inspection of test practices for specific projects currently in progress, delivering recommendations regarding the continuation of the work.
  • Process Review – formal review of general test processes and procedures delivering recommendations for future projects.
  • Deliverables Review – formal review of project testing deliverables providing improvement suggestions and recommendations regarding feasibility.
  • Project Review – formal review of completed project work providing recommendations regarding test practices and procedures.