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Quality Engineering Consulting
Unique approach and world-class expertise for holistic product-quality transformation — to optimize your financial performance and improve customer satisfaction
Our Quality Engineering Consulting differentiators
Quality Architect is a unique consulting talent
Quality Architecture is a unique EPAM discipline to cover solutioning in quality engineering. Quality Architects have solid hands-on engineering background, 10-20 years of experience and available in multiple locations
Flexible engagement model based on expert-week pricing
Flexible expert-week engagements to fit a custom scope. Assessment is scoped based on the number of teams/projects to be reviewed
E2E improvements delivery
Assessment consultant stays on the project for 1-3 months to enable quick wins, EPAM delivery team enables the improvements required. 20+ QE accelerators to boost the delivery
QE Consulting
Multidisciplinary teams to assess various quality dimensions
Full-stack Quality Engineering team is looking at problems through specialty lenses to build an integrated solution
Target design POC in the assessment scope
To validate the recommended approach before scaling, we create custom tangible assets: POCs, tools integrations, process guidelines, definitions, etc
Data analysis to enable informed decisions
Up to 60% of effort is dedicated to data mining & analysis. We collect data insights and prove them with stakeholders. We analyze defects, test cases, user stories, test reports, test automation, etc
Samples of client requests we helped with
Industry agnostic, we address your specific business needs
Improve the quality of top 3 revenue-producing applications
Health Management Solutions Company
Cut time-to-market with no impact on product quality from 6 months to 2 weeks
Betting Entertainment Provider
Reduce dependencies on centralized services during performance testing on a scale of 20+ projects
News & Publishing Firm
Introduce a unified delivery pipeline with enhanced test automation in multi-vendor environment
Trade Credit Insurance Provider
Enable "Faster, Cheaper, Better" KPIs on a scale of 25+ teams
Financial Services Corporation
Drive a shift in culture, tooling and methodology for higher business value and greater agility through a digital product mindset
Department Store Corporation
Our QE Consulting services
Assessment
Deep and wide assessment heavily based on hard data analysis to address specific customer ask or problem or evaluate Quality Engineering maturity.
- Scale: 1-3 teams
- Duration: 4-6 weeks
- Team: 2+ experts
Based on interviews and hard data analysis: stories, test cases, defects, codebase, and reports. Provides highly informed decisions.
Inventory
Survey-based assessment to understand the client's technology landscape and baseline Quality Engineering maturity for large-scale engagements. A preliminary step to define the next phase.
- Scale: 2-500 teams
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Team: 1 expert
Technology landscape & maturity questionnaire, custom scoring model, automatic results processing.
Continuous Deployment & Delivery for 377 Projects (Sample Results)
Continuous improvement program
Continuous improvement program (CIP) starts with a survey-based Rapid Assessment. It is followed by a backlog creation and 3 to 5 Improvement Sprints where improvements are implemented by client teams and facilitated by EPAM as needed.
- Scale: 4-50 client teams
- Duration: 3-15 months
- CIP Team: 8-28 experts
Core CIP components: Rapid Assessment, hands-on coaching, capabilities creation, customized E-Learning Program
Our approach to Assessments
Client vision & goal
- Improve product quality
- Reduce time to market
- Optimize testing ROI
- Improve release predictability
- Reduce regression efforts
- Optimize test automation efficiency
EPAM expertise
- EPAM’s best practices
- Industry best practices
- Relevant experience from clients, domain, tech stack, etc.
Inputs
- Based/focused on needs
- Applications, environments, data
- Test cases, automation frameworks and scripts, project documentation, test metrics and reports, defects
- Stakeholders
- Product Owners
- Development teams
- Testing teams
Surveys
Artifact reviews
Interviews
Process
People
Tools
Infrastructure
Deliverables
Executive report
- Executive summary
- Quick wins
- Top findings
- Roadmap
Hard data analysis details
- Provides objective insights
- Uncovers patterns and trends
- Reliable results
- Supports informed decision-making
Detailed assessment report
- Findings by each test area
- Recommendations aligned with business priorities
- Actionable implementation plan
- Cost estimates for recommendations