The Benefits of Managed Testing & Managed Quality Assurance (QA) Services

The role of Quality Assurance is paramount in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

This is because the consequences of releasing poorly tested or buggy software into the market range from lost customer goodwill to legal issues and revenue losses.

Software Testing is pivotal to ensure applications and systems perform as specified and expected. When rolled out in a timely manner, they can help your company meet business objectives and provide seamless continuity.

The Challenges?

However, for many organizations, achieving the desired level of quality in their software is often met with significant challenges.

• Apart from the need to invest in various types of resources to set up an in-house QA team that may or not be required year-round, and with all the necessary infrastructure and processes – organizations often find that it’s challenging to focus on their core business.
• They also worry about their mobile apps, websites, or other software, meeting industry standards for quality.
• As a result, there’s often a struggle to establish a testing function that can deliver high quality while remaining cost-effective and agile.

The Solution?

Hire Managed Testing Services and benefit from professional QA work at a lower cost and with increased efficiencies.

Managed Testing Service (MTS) providers handle end-to-end QA with:

• QA Resources
• Deliveries and Releases
• Program Management
• Insightful QA Leadership

This provides more time and independence to focus on your core business offerings, and results in:

• Superior Product Quality
• Less Time-to-Market
• Optimum ROI
• Improvement in your Bottom-Line

What Benefits Do Managed Testing Services Provide? 

With the right MTS and Managed QA Services Partner, you can be assured that quality is in the hands of professionals:

• Your MTS team will address major testing challenges and achieve optimum quality outcomes for your software.
• QA professionals provide the necessary tools, processes, infrastructure, and environment required to carry out testing tasks efficiently and consistently through all phases of a project.

Managed Testing Services provide extensive industry and technology expertise and experience. Some of the important ones include:

• Business Understanding &  Domain Expertise

MTS providers offer QA teams that demonstrate business knowledge, domain expertise, and technology understanding. This is vital to ensure QA activities are carried out correctly and that industry-standard and domain-specific best practices and guidelines are adhered to.

MTS teams of this kind can bring about long-term quality by consolidating testing needs and providing well-planned and well-executed testing services suited to the business landscape and domain.

• Unbiased 3rd-Party Validation

MTS teams provide a reasonable and unprejudiced perspective of different processes and systems that are associated with the products/application being tested. This enables companies to eradicate inconsistent business processes and defects.

• Well-Equipped & Skilled Teams

MTS providers can draw from well-defined and established test processes. They have a body of rich work experience and testing IPs such as frameworks or test case libraries.

They also have a talent pool of resources with both broad and niche skillsets.

MTS providers are also invested in continually upgrading to the latest and best testing tools and technologies. This further strengthens the quality of their work.

• Flexible & Responsive Teams

MTS providers can scale their teams up or down based on evolving requirements. This helps to keep costs in check so your organization functions in a lean and agile manner.

The market is constantly changing, and a QA team can responsively adapt to market dynamics. They can reduce the time-to-market for new features or versions of your software. And with their seasoned QA skills, MTS teams offer efficiency and a turnaround time that could prove invaluable to your market launch or go-live plans.

• Reduced Overall Costs

Organizations have reduced QA costs by 30 percent or more just by leveraging Managed QA Services.

They accomplish this by leveraging the services of offshore testing teams that plan for testing activity in the most efficient and optimized manner.

You can accomplish nearly 20 person-hours of work in a single calendar day compared to the 8 or 9 working hours you get per person.

Apart from bringing down costs with offshore testing centers, organizations also achieve greater productivity with each business day resulting in shorter timelines to product launch.

In a nutshell, Managed Testing Services can:

• Reduce risk, cost, and delivery time associated with software delivery and releases.
• Increase quality and efficiency for end-to-end testing processes.

Want to learn more?

Get in touch with BTC to learn how your organization can benefit from flexible and scalable QA Services aimed at helping you #DoBetterwith software quality, inside-out.