Change is Happening

A process centric and service oriented architecture is changing the way IT approaches software development and serves as a basic foundation for achieving necessary flexibility

Business Analysis

Having sound business requirements is the most important aspect in delivering useful and extendible solutions to meet business needs. Effective Quality Assurance (QA) not only can increase quality and usability of delivered software solutions, it can also help managing software development schedule and risks. Aligning QA process with Business Analysis provides a compelling combination to further assure project success.

Deliverables / Artifacts

Business Requirements & Specifications
  • Use cases
  • As-Is and To-Be state
Functional Architecture
  • Functional specifications
  • UI specifications
  • Data specifications
  • Functional interactions
  • Business models (Process models; Object and data models)
Data Architecture
  • XML schema
  • Data modeling
  • Data flow and transformation
Service Specifications
  • Composite service specifications
  • Business services
Joint Application Design & Assessment
  • Business and technology joint sessions
  • Business and technology roadmap
  • Gap Analysis and impact assessment
User Interface Design & Specifications
  • Wireframes and layout designs
  • Usability assessment and workshops
  • Navigation analysis and design
Training
  • Training material development
  • Conduct training sessions (Users; Technical; QA)

Our QA service includes:

  • White and black-box testing to ensure the solutions meet functional requirements
  • Services simulation and testing
  • Performance and stress testing to ensure scalability and resiliency
  • Automated and configuration testing to optimize overall QA testing processes.
  • QA Training

Business Analysis

There are many methodologies, artifacts and tools to help organizations to develop business requirements and specifications to feed into the software design process. The Business requirements development phase calls for skilled and seasoned business analysts who possess business domain knowledge and are capable to produce business requirements that can be consumed by IT professionals.

As business process integration experts, and a company that strives to deliver solutions from beginning to end, business analysis is an essential part of our expertise and practice. Our Business Analysis (BA) experts are seasoned analysts who can comprehend and put together requirements to reflect the business needs. They identify and optimize business processes to make the solution more efficient for end users and provide maximum automation to reduce the manual steps between systems or departments. Business analysts with functional architecture capabilities make our teams unique and most effective as they provide key services from developing business requirements to functional specifications and integrate themselves into the overall development and QA process. We also find aligning business requirements with the quality assurance process results in a more effective QA testing phase. Our business analysts often get deeply involved in QA developing test cases and test data to ensure results have business validity.

Improving communications, interactions and cooperation with other delivery teams (e.g. business, architecture, development) our Business Analysts:

  • Augment team skills to improve communication with all project participants/stakeholders
  • Provide a basis for more incisive and insightful requirements reviews, thereby broadening the understanding of the overall solution
  • Provide methods and skills to enable more in-depth understanding and confirmation of business/application/data architectures and requirements
  • Enable a process-oriented view of the business problem and proposed solution, when combined with SOA expertise, the delivered solution will better fit current and future business needs
  • Allow teams to better understand and verify the integration points and overall end to end flow of a process
  • Allow QA to provide an 'Upfront' Quality Assurance service
  • Allow QA to build better relationships will all project participants/stakeholders

Quality Assurance

Our QA team possesses the following critical skills:

  • Analyze & Solve Problems
  • Communicate Effectively (Both Written and Oral)
  • Establish & Maintain Relationships
  • Facilitation
  • Negotiate & Build Consensus
  • Ability to understand & work with models & specifications
  • Plan & manage activities
  • Ability to recognize & clarify ambiguous requirements
  • Ability to listen
  • Understand the Business

Our SOA/BPM QA skill has helped companies to effectively adopt new mindsets, techniques and tools of this new paradigm. We have augmented and trained existing QA personnel to transition from more traditional functional testing to a new world of distributed testing comprised of legacy transactions/systems, services, business processes and middleware such as XML gateway or ESB.

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