Company Profile

SQS concentrates on improving the success rates and effectiveness of local and global software projects. Using our growing international skills base together with extensive knowledge of our clients' businesses we will offer 'best in class' services.
These services will cover QM, QA and Testing, and because of our unique position as an 'independent' specialist will add considerable value to corporate clients throughout the software development life cycle.

SQS-SA is a leading provider of independent system and software testing and quality management services in South Africa and is part of the SQS Group of companies, the largest testing group worldwide.

We are passionate about quality! Improving quality reduces the risk of business change and provides a more effective return on investment for IT projects.

SQS-SA and the SQS Group set the standards for managing quality to ensure that business critical systems are implemented effectively, enabling organisations to fully achieve their business goals.

SQS-SA helps customers to improve their efficiency by implementing process improvement programmes that reduce costs, achieve significant reductions in time-to-market for implementation and raise the quality of deliverables from IT projects.

As the market leader we continually seek to raise awareness of issues that affect executives in business and IT. IT is recognised as a key driver in improving the competitive positioning of many organisations and SQS-SA provides an independent and objective service to ensure organisations optimise their IT investments and the return achieved, drive increased business value obtained from IT projects, manage risk more effectively and reduce costs.

SQS-SA consultants are experts in testing with proven skills that make a quantifiable difference to IT projects. Our objective and independent viewpoint enables the most effective test processes, tools, technologies and utilities to be deployed - with built-in metrics to prove the efficiencies that are gained. SQS-SA is committed to helping you manage your business risks. Our range of technical services provides a range of services for testing web, e-Commerce, infrastructure, security and client-server applications.

Load and performance and stress testing to ensure that web based sites perform at optimum levels are uniquely combined with performance tuning services. Bottlenecks and problems are identified and solutions are implemented or suggestions for the most effective changes made. Automation is a key component of our service offering and we provide specific methodologies and procedures that can guarantee time and cost savings, and that the investment in testing tools can be realised.

With the use of specialist test tools, SQS-SA is able to leverage technology to guarantee success in test automation and enable significant time and cost savings to be made on IT projects. Testing services ensure that preplanned strategies are implemented and delivered in the most effective way. Project teams take full responsibility for the implementation and success of testing projects.

We have pioneered the concept of Quality Governance. Quality Governance is the building block that provides the foundation for transforming IT into business value and provides the effective direction of quality and control throughout the business. With a staff of about 1,400 worldwide in the consultancy, SQS has the ability and the size to effectively manage any project and deliver a real difference.

Company Profile

The SQS Group, (SQS) is the largest independent provider of software testing and quality management services. This position and its expertise stem from more than 27 years of successful consultancy operation. The company’s main competitive advantage is its strong methodology, based on decades of project experience. Over this period of time, the company has also developed extensive specialist knowledge in many vertical markets. With more than 5,000 successfully completed projects under its belt, SQS has a strong customer base, including half of the DAX 30 companies, almost one third of the STOXX-50 companies and 36 FTSE-100-companies. Among the clients, there are names like Allianz, Beazley, BP, Centrica, Commerzbank, Daimler, Deutsche Post, Generali, JP Morgan, Meteor, Reuters and Volkswagen.

Founded in Cologne, Germany, in 1982, SQS has around 1,640 employees worldwide. SQS has a strong presence in Germany and the UK and offices in Austria, Egypt, Finland, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Furthermore, SQS has a minor stake in an operation in Portugal and a partnership operation in Spain. In 2008, the group achieved revenues of € 143 million. SQS is listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) and has a second listing on the Open Market on Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt.

In the UK, SQS is the leading independent provider of System & Software Testing and Quality Management services, using proven methods to make a quantifiable difference to any project and offer customers a 'best in class' service. The UK Consultancy Service provides tailor made strategies that include planning, time scale estimates, resource planning, specifications, options for tool implementation and training and staffing requirements. SQS project teams take full responsibility for the implementation and success of testing projects using these planned strategies. An objective and independent viewpoint enables selection of the most effective test processes, tools, technologies and utilities to be deployed.

SQS Training is the education division of SQS Group and is an important facet of SQS´ activities. SQS is the world’s first training provider accredited to deliver training for the ISEB Practitioner Certificate in Test Analysis and offers the full range of ISEB and ISTQB software testing training, HP tools training and a wide range of practical and specialist courses for test analysts, test leads and test managers. Without the right practical and specific training, an organisation will not be able to realise the full potential of any internal testing program. All SQS instructors are TAP certified and SQS is a member of the Institute of IT Training.

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