Software Engineering & Testing

Executing software projects successfully and building high–quality products requires software professionals to understand the unique characteristics of software and the approach used for building and maintaining software. This must be followed by a well–defined engineering process to build and validate the software.

QAI provides services to organizations, to enhance their productivity, quality, and hence reduce the overall cost of all software development activities. This is enabled by knowledge and implementation experience of the consultants and industry specific best practices of software engineering and testing, thereby providing customers an enhanced Return on Investment (ROI).

QAI aligns with the organizational business strategy and the current level of maturity in project delivery to give client–specific solutions.

Key Challenges

	Absence of formal methods of design or programming leading to subjectivity of specifications,
	Need for new development methodologies for different types of projects,
	Deliver high quality within given time and budget constraints,
	Increase productivity,
	Manage changing requirements,
	Ensure effective process implementation across the organization,
	Absence of quantitative assessment of the process implementation effectiveness,
	Identify key process improvement opportunities.

How QAI Can Help

QAI's Software Engineering and Testing practice is equipped with varied offerings. The team integrates these offerings to match client specific requirements, to bring the best value addition, appropriate to each engagement. The offerings include:

	Consulting for software engineering and testing process implementation and improvements,
	Competency building through training workshops, elearning, learning and development paths, and finishing school programs,
	Knowledge sharing forum for different organizations and individuals through seminars, conferences, and social networking sites for the software testing community,
	Certification programs,
	Assurance and assessment of organization process maturity.

QAI's wide range of training, consulting and appraisal services helps organizations improve process thereby, improving customer satisfaction by delivering quality products on time and within budget. QAI not only gives advisory consulting i.e. provides list of action items but also helps organizations implement the action items by augmenting their quality team and working with them on an ongoing basis to help in process definition and implementation.