The story of our testing outsourcing services began with our own internal needs. After successfully testing a large number of applications across various industry verticals, technology platforms, scale of applications we realized that we have quite a bit of reusability, domain knowledge, tools expertise, vendor partnership. Hence we started offering software testing as an outsourced service.

If you are looking for a partner to extend your testing team or to build a dedicated testing center or to evaluate your testing needs or to get testing process related consulting, we assure you our quality oriented service.Standardization and Outsourcing for Improved QA Process:Payoda’s software testing expertise can help you setup a testing center of excellence to achieve higher productivity, process standardization and cost savings. We help by providing a strategic direction based on organization and project needs, standardizing the testing processes and tools.

Our approach provides a scalable and robust QA delivery model based on best practices and reusability. Whether it’s skill augmentation or it’s setting up a testing center of excellence, you can be assured of our QA process expertise to provide you with the optimal way to achieve higher quality standards. Best practices for testing in an Agile environment: Agile is a very disciplined software development process. Being involved in a large number of product engineering projects that were developed following agile methodology, out test engineers have perfected the agile testing process. So what is agile testing? It is a continuous and iterative testing process where we test early and the team works very closely with the developers. The testing team is also closely involved with business stakeholders to understand their real needs on a frequent basis.

Some of the best practices involve using automated acceptance testing to minimize the amount of manual labor involved. This is very important in order to avoid slipping schedules. Documentation usage is lightweight and focus is more on communication and automation.

At Payoda, we have worked on Agile processes involved teams located in multiple continents at the same time. With good amount of discipline and talent, Agile can result in great quality software that can be launched rapidly.Optimal SQA – the need of the hour:In today’s highly competitive marketplace, the need for higher quality software with budget constraints is very high. Hence software testing outsourcing has noticed a very high jump over the past 3 years.

At Payoda, we are continuously working towards optimal SQA by following best practices and also be innovative in what we do. Tightly coupling testing along with the SDLC can minimize the deviation and hence optimize costs significantly (upto 25%). One of the time consuming aspects of the QA process is Regression testing. At Payoda we have noticed a consistent reduction in regression testing time by 10% with the usage of automation testing tools such as Selenium. Unit testing using tools such as PHPUnit, JUnit, NUnit during the development stage reduces the number of show-stoppers and in turn reduce testing time by 5%.

Another time saving best practice is the usage of the reusable testcases across multiple projects.