Although Technical IT Quality Assurance demands a specialised set of skills, to be effective the corresponding team must be closely aligned with the project and enterprise disciplines that drive and govern delivery, cost, and business and technical risk.

JK Vine Consulting provides SDLC alignment across the following disciplines:

  • Functional Test Alignment
    • Use of Functional Testing Techniques and Principles (including Risk-Based Testing, Traceability and Coverage). This approach readily allows intra-test stream coverage gap-identification
    • Use and Reuse of Use Cases and Test-Cases
    • Functional Test aligned: estimation, budgeting, reporting, environments, data strategies, and delivery timelines
  • Architecture Alignment
    • Prioritised verification of architectural risks and hot-spots
    • Collaboration on Non-Functional requirements: decomposition, acceptance criteria and optimal traceability
    • Early feedback on design issues or concerns identified during Technical Quality Assurance
    • Early feedback on design (and/or Non-Functional Requirements) issues or concerns identified during Technical Quality Assurance
  • Environment Services
    • Environment Build and Deploy principles and processes
  • Business Alignment
    • Business-aligned reporting
    • Business aligned test priority
    • Early collaboration on delivered business risks
  • Development Services
    • Tuning resources aligned with test team
  • Operations Support Aligned
    • Stage-gate establishment for Operations Support criteria
    • Capacity modelling from test is transitioned to Operations Support
    • Updated procedures and lessons from Technical Quality Assurance effort
  • Technology Risk Alignment
    • Early collaboration on likely delivered business risks
  • Enterprise Alignment
    • Align with Enterprise/Competency tooling and standards
    • Assist provision enterprise-aligned capability uplift
    • Aligned transition to Enterprise test processes and artefacts