vCentric has a proven track record of establishing and running dedicated test labs for their Global 1000 clients. The teams at vCentric use disciplined, mature quality processes that have been honed over 10000 person hours of project work in the field of onsite/offshore testing, with a clear focus on areas critical to the success of such efforts. vCentric has developed methodologies for end-to-end testing of complex systems, and has adequate exposure to testing of systems using a client’s in-house methods. vCentric provides robust review, testing and change control processes, ensuring cost-effective, fast and quality deliverables through a global delivery model consisting of onsite, near-shore and onsite / offshore execution.

vCentric’s infrastructure facilitates quick ramp up/down of resources based on client needs, requirements, and results in significant overall time and cost reductions. Clients can also make use of time zone differences to conform project schedules, achieving round the clock productivity.

vCentric satisfies all requirements identified by the Gartner Group as crucial to a top-notch offshore vendor,

including:

  • Proven track record

  • Experienced on-site project management

  • Solid quality program

  • Disciplined methodology

  • State-of-the-art offshore Infrastructure

  • Matching client skills and project requirements

  • Adequate number of qualified resources

  • Ability to mirror users' processes and standards

Benefits of vCentric Offshore Testing Centers (OTC)

The benefits that vCentric brings into an OTC relationship with their client would be on 3 key parameters: quality, productivity, and cost savings.

Quality

  • Domain & product knowledge

  • Proven, unique methodology perfected over 200 person-years of testing projects

  • Comprehensive test coverage

Productivity

  • Multi-platform, multi skilled resources

  • Testing core competency with experience on diverse testing projects

  • Complementary time zones

  • Rapid internalization of client processes

  • Timely ramp up/down of resources

  • Re use Repository

Cost Savings

  • Immediate & medium term savings in software life cycle costs

  • Significant improvement in business requirements delivery

  • Cost and effort savings in setup & stabilization of operations

  • Reassign client resources to core business functions

  • Savings in cost/time/management of recruiting/training/retaining resources

  • Flexible staffing based on load variations

  • Low overhead costs

  • Compressed time to market - early returns on IT investments

Testing Services

As business environments become more and more dynamic, there is a need to shrink the product release cycles while managing costs and risks. vCentric addresses these issues through a complete range of testing services. vCentric offers independent testing services spanning the entire software release lifecycle. This includes formulating the test plan & test cases, execution, defect reporting, defect analysis, risk assessments and recommendations. vCentric’s quality assurance services helps clients deliver software with confidence and compete better in the market.

Partnering with vCentric helps clients leverage upon vCentric’s experience in testing business applications (as shown below) on a range of platforms and technologies. vCentric provides testing services in the focused domains of financial services, manufacturing, hi-technology, education, and healthcare; while supporting technologies such as .NET, J2EE, Mainframes and Open Source.

Core Testing Expertise

  • System testing: testing of complete application environment

  • Integration testing: testing of modules Performance testing: measuring response times and throughput rates under a variety of conditions

  • Functionality testing: testing either modules or the complete product to determine whether it will function as planned and as actually used

  • Stress testing: examining the behavior of the system at, and beyond, the limits of its resources by subjecting it to excessively high loads

  • Recovery testing: testing applications or entire systems to ensure successfully recover from hardware and software failures without undue loss of data or data integrity

  • Security testing: ensuring that security mechanisms cannot be breached either maliciously or accidentally

  • Regression testing: rerunning test cases which a program has previously executed correctly in order to detect   errors spawned by changes or corrections made during software development and maintenance

  • Incremental testing: continuous testing of an application as new functionality is recommended

  • GUI testing: testing to ensure compatibility and stability of GUI.

Skills Expertise

vCentric helps organizations improve software product quality through manual as well as automated test cases using industry standard software testing tools that are best suited for the product and which significantly reduce testing cycle time. The following is an indicative list of our tool expertise:
Automated Functional & Regression Testing     WinRunner, SilkTest, RationalRobot, QuickTest, Test Complete

Load Testing - LoadRunner, SilkPerformer, WebLoad, OpenSTA  
                                  
White Box Testing - Boundschecker, Purify, PureCoverage   
                                     
Unit Testing- Jprobe, Junit                

Defect & Change Tracking - ClearQuest, GNATS, Bugzilla, d-tracker, TeamTrack, SourceForge,  Test Director, Visual Intercept     
                                         
GUI Testing - Mercury WinRunner, Silk test            
                            
Memory Leak - Jprofiler                                               

Configuration Management - CVS, VSS     
                                         
Project Management - MS Project   

                                        
Testing Process

vCentric has a precisely defined and exhaustive methodology for ensuring thorough and effective QA Testing of the products, applications and processes. With over a decade of experience in providing testing services, vCentric develops customized test plans matching each client’s needs and mentors clients on the use of methodology and tools to ensure continued best practices.
Dedicated Offshore Test Lab

vCentric helps companies in setting up dedicated test labs for software product companies to derive maximum value from testing. To mitigate risks and minimize costs, many software product companies are turning to independent test organizations to support their testing needs on-site to offshore. vCentric has the expertise and global footprint to help software product companies design and build test teams and programs. Our offshore delivery centers allow us to design an independent test lab for clients that reduce cost and maximize efficiency.

 
 

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