Building a niche in today’s offshore QA testing services
Access to talent and reduced cost of operations were two main go-to factors for ISVs in deciding on offshore QA testing services in the past. This situation has changed quite rapidly in the recent years, thanks to the ever-increasing requirements from the quality discipline in the agile delivery model. DevOps has in certain cases merged the quality function with developers, made everything think of and embrace quality in possible ways, and made testers re-think and re-define their roles in drastic ways. With the overall changing landscape, offshore quality testing services providers are now forced to build a niche in their offerings to continue to remain competitive in what they do. At our end for example, automation continues to be an ever-increasing focus area where we are empowering even the non-programmers to take on test automation (both at coverage and productivity levels), through easy to adopt open source and in-house enhanced test frameworks. We are extending such frameworks to take up more than core functional automation, moving into non-functional test areas too. Other non-functional test attributes such as accessibility, usability, linguistic testing are all attributes we have been extending and enhancing our offerings on.