Why Outsource Q/A and Testing? Why outsource to an external QA partner like LeverPoint when
you already have a dedicated software team? Here are the reasons:
QA Demands Resource Peaks and Valleys: Both application development and testing happens
in cycles. A release comes up and suddenly the demand for testing jumps up. The testing demand
goes down once the release goes into production. To cut the overall cost of testing, a prudent organization will staff itself for the valleys leaving the difference between peaks and valleys to
be filled by external partners.
Good QA is People intensive: Most organizations end up making trade-offs between test completeness, maintenance cost, release schedule, and availability of resources. Even a simple application of 2000 lines can have a very large number of possible code paths. The people and automation to provide full test coverage for it may be more than most imagine. With the cost of
test services lower, test coverage can be much larger.
Good QA is Resource intensive: LeverPoint supports many clients which allows our Portability
Lab to contain a much wider variety of platforms than what a typical IT team has in-house. Quality Assurance is hardware and software intensive. The costs to verify your software on all operating systems, databases, application servers, web servers, devices, hardware and platforms can quickly escalate. Consequently, most companies severely limit the number of platforms they test on.
Improves Speed to Market: With a 12-hour difference in time zones, LeverPoint is doing your
testing while your developers are asleep - compressing your time-to-market.
Career QA Personnel: Our dedicated team considers QA as their career and is passionate about improving software quality. They are experts on the leading testing software and practices. They
have excellent expertise on leading commercial and open source tools from Rational, Mercury and Apache and have customized these tools, extending their capabilities.
