Client Opportunity: Our client is a Fortune 500 leader in easy-to-use database software for business professionals. A worldwide leader whose cross-platform application enables millions of customers to manage every aspect of their business, our client needed to maintain their competitive advantage in the database software market by releasing the newest version of their popular product on time.
Challenge: With the release date quickly approaching, the client realized they needed to augment their testing team. Faced with the possibility of additional recruiting, hiring and training demands to guarantee their product’s scheduled release, the client was tasked to meet this challenge without compromising their project objectives; specifically, deadlines, budget and quality.
PQA’s Impact: After carefully examining all of their options, the client chose to partner with PQA. Working together to develop an effective strategy that aligned with the client’s project objectives, PQA was able to ramp up quickly, test across a number of platforms including Windows XP, Windows Vista and MAC OSX 10.4 and 10.5 and work within the client’s bug reporting processes. With some of the most experienced and skilled professionals in the QA software testing field, PQA’s extensive testing spanned functional and automated black box testing, integration, network, localization, regression, platform, conversion, stress and performance testing, as well as bug regression and functional specifications review. In addition, PQA was readily available as required by the client at various points during the software development lifecycle. Providing proficient skills in a flexible manner, PQA updated, modified and created test cases and scenarios to cover the product’s new features ensuring their successful integration with legacy features. All of these services were provided with PQA’s quality-centric business model.
Results: The client’s product release was a triumphant milestone, completed on time and on budget. It also led to a close working partnership between PQA and the client’s SQA team. The initial engagement with this client began in 2005 – this latest project is the third successful engagement in three new releases of this Fortune 500 Company’s popular product.