Objective-Based Quality Engineering Services
Traditional quality engineering (QE) costs are tied to the number of resources deployed at any given time. While digital SDLC practices and Agile flavors have reduced barriers changed the QA function in the SDLC, these new practices have done little to stem the loss of control over poorly certified code or account for effort lost through non-value time. Additionally, newer architecture patterns, cloud platforms and distributed nimble systems have significantly increased the cost of failure in the event of resiliency failures.
With recent SDLC transformation initiatives, the focus has been to reduce conflicts in the SDLC. However, without clear toll gates tied to objectives, there is a potential for a significant increase in cost. Many service providers have taken advantage of this and deployed a higher volume of resources for their benefit. Rather than focus on QE through a volume approach, Virtusa applies an ML-infused engineering strategy that drives resilient QE based on clients’ defined objectives.
Impetus for change in the QE landscape
- Treated as commodity
Effort charged by headcount without incentive or goal
- Undermined ROI
Leakage and non-value time charged to customer
(~20% of effort per sprint)
- Changing resiliency & reliability needs
Leakage and non-value time charged to customer
- Code/platform delivery teams not held accountable
Agile and continuous development are driving higher frequency of releases which tend to embrace too much failure, increasing quality engineering cycles
- Quality not always related to customer experience
Quality of the product is not tied actual customer experience and net promoter score for digital platforms
Virtusa Intelligent Engineering Automation Approach
As a pioneer in engineering, Virtusa has leveraged its outcome-driven capabilities to build accelerators and tailored a commercial model to deliver true of quality. We leverage a combination of AI/ML platforms to reduce automation efforts during regression automation rework along with providing organizational rewiring, if necessary, to ensure successful transformation. Our approach includes best-in-class processes, accelerators, and a proven commercial model.
Our approach includes:
Integrated Teams
- Hyper Agile Squads (SDETs)
- True shift-left in owning unit test coverage
- SLA/SLO definition and adherence
Heightened Resilience
- Higher observability
- Chaos engineering to find faults early
- SRE-aligned quality process
Extreme Automation
- Automated debt reduction
- Continuous testing platform
- Test data automation
- ML-enabled visual testing and auto-healing automation
Effort Compression
- AI-based test assets Optimization approach
- Intelligent impact based continuous automation
- Risk-based testing approach
Product Quality Assurance through Ownership-Driven Engagement Model
Our intelligent engineering tenets enable us to offer a commercial model that is charged based on quality of the product being released instead of offering traditional models which are solely based on resource cost
With Virtusa’s Intelligent Quality Engineering (QE) Automation, your organisation will realise over 40% reduced operations budgets due to initial cost takeout along with compressed effort and accelerated delivery through our proprietary accelerators.
- Reduce the run cost of QA by >40%
Significantly reduce cost of QA teams by over 40% within the first quarter and focus on increasing effort compression over the next few months to accelerate delivery
- Reduce the period MTTF (mean time-to-failure) by 95%
Significantly reduce the duration between system failures and ensure systems are highly available by identifying and fixing issues earlier in the SDLC
- Reduce regression effort by up to 70%
Reduce regression automation efforts by up to 70% with visual testing approaches to reduce the maintenance effort
- Eliminate Toil – Reduce non-value time by >80%
Automate all manual non-value tasks to focus on what really matters
Success story
Virtusa helped a multinational company that specializes in Internet-related services and products for millions of users to reduce non-value time to levels below 15%.
Virtusa applied an objective drive QE model for over four years, ensuring that all products were certified for the highest levels of resilience before releasing them to production along with canaries.
Find out what Virtusa can do for you
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