SERIOS GROUP LIMITED

Testing as a Service

Our Testing as a Service model is fully customisable to provide functional and non-funtional test solutions. We offer expertise across the entire software testing lifecycle and work collaboratively with your team.

Typically, our TaaS offering commences with an 8-week engagement with iterative 2-week deliveries and/or a long-term partnership engagement.

Features

• Test Planning
• Test Cases
• Test Scripts
• Automated Test Frameworks
• Performance Testing
• Functional Testing
• Non-Functional Testing
• Defect Metrics and Reports
• Test Completion Report

Benefits

• Effective and repeatable testing
• Reduced time for testing
• Early identification of defects
• Reduction in Production defects
• Reduction in the number of people required to complete testing
• Reduction in testing costs
• Shift-Left Test Approach

£45,000.00 a unit

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at David.Milnes@seriosgroup.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

307844846333962

Contact

David Milnes
07590851105
David.Milnes@seriosgroup.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: Seriös Groups Testing as a Service offering implements fixed price solutions with full ownership and accountability resting with us. We carry out planning, test case design, execution and work with you to plan user acceptance testing to enable a smooth transition to production. We produce all supporting documentation including test plan, test cases, test evidence, defects and test completion report all with traceability back to requirements.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: We work collaboratively with your team, providing up-skilling and training for solutions we provide. We are cloud and tool agnostic so can provide the training your team require to not only support the solution going forward, but also to implement what they have learnt on future projects.; ; Additional training required over and above the solution provided will be agreed and charged appropriately.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Seriös Group have vast experience in providing Data Migration and Integration Testing. Whether we're testing a migration solution we're implementing or a third parties implementation, we plan, prep and execute all required tests to ensure a smooth move to or between cloud service providers.; ; We have proven experience migrating from on-premise to cloud and migrating from one cloud service provider to another. We are also experts in building data integrations and pipelines where organisations have a multi-cloud strategy.; ; We also have our proprietary Seriös ONE Launchpad Data Platform Accelerator that allows us to set up your architecture in your preferred cloud provider at the click of a button using Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: All of our solutions are built to the highest of standards with quality being at the forefront of everything that we do as a business. ; ; We provide full test planning and test completion reporting across functional and non-functional phases to give you confidence that your solution meets the agreed requirements. We also posses the expertise to deliver test automation and performance test frameworks in CI/CD pipelines.; ; The level of testing, tooling and phases will incur additional costs but will be fully transparent with agreed fixed price deliverables.

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported: Hosting or software provided by your organisation
• How the support service works: We offer one, two, and three-year partnership engagements where you can leverage our skills and expertise in Data Solution Architecture & Engineering or Insights & Analytics or Test & QA. Partnerships can be used to develop new solution capability, to support existing solutions or for ad-hoc advice, guidance and consulting. Seriös Group partnership engagements will help build internal capability and deliver faster.

Service scope

• Service constraints: We work collaboratively with your team, providing up-skilling and training with onsite or remote workshops but we do not provide staff augmentation.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: During the engagement, our team is available 09.00hrs to 17.00hrs (GMT), Monday to Friday, excluding UK (ENG) Bank holidays. Additional cover can be made available upon request.; ; We use Jira Service Management for all support requests and we endeavour to respond to all requests within 24hrs where possible with clear priority and SLA definitions agreed in advance. Our team also work collaboratively via email and over MS Teams.; ; Beyond the initial engagement, Seriös Group offer 1 - 3 year partnerships giving access to our expertise on-demand. Required SLAs are agreed and charged appropriately.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Phone support: No
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: During our engagements we use our expertise pool to put a team in place that will deliver the agreed outcome within the agreed timeframe. This team is supported by a Seriös Group Product Manager, Principle Data Solution Architect, Test Manager and Service Delivery Manager. The entire team is in constant communication with our client teams and are there to support and provide up-skilling during the engagement, at no additional cost.; ; Beyond the initial engagement, Seriös Group offer 1 - 3 year partnerships giving access to our expertise on-demand.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Alcumus ISOQAR Limited
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 25/01/2024
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Not applicable
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • ISO 9001
  • FSQS Registered

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Equal opportunity

  Our Equal Opportunities and Modern Slavery policies outline the standards we hold to ensure both legal compliance and best practice. These policies are supported by our flexible working, recruitment and training and development policies, all of which outline the standards we uphold to ensure equal opportunities within the workplace.; ; We regularly review policies and practices to ensure they promote equity and fairness. We ensure managers receive training on equal opportunities, equality, diversity and inclusion and unconscious bias.; ; The workforce consists of people from various backgrounds; to ensure employees have equal opportunities, we ensure managers are equipped to manage teams inclusively to ensure equal access to progression. We ensure company-wide access to training through providing dedicated training time and by providing fully funded qualifications and certifications, to remove any financial barriers to progression. Our career pathways and training plans support the up-skilling of employees at all levels to ensure all have equal opportunities to train, develop and progress within the Company.; ; We conduct regular benchmarking activities to ensure fair pay in line with the market. We ensure salaries remain over and above the national minimum and living wage to ensure financial stability, remaining mindful of our local area, some of which is considered economically deprived. We ensure that employees are paid in line with our salary structure, which is structured to ensure regular reviews, promotes fairness and aims to remove any potential bias or gender pay inequality.; ; We assess individual training requirements, consider health and wellbeing and reasonable adjustments where required, ensure people have equal access to training and development opportunities and ensure people have the tools and resources required to progress and ensure a clear route to progress. This promotes inclusivity in the workplace as we endeavour to provide the same levels of access to training and development to all.

  Wellbeing

  At Seriös Group, we promote healthy living through a diverse range of embedded workplace practices and employee benefits. ; ; We offer our employees instant access to private medical insurance, to provide access to private healthcare and ensure improved access to mental health services. The private health insurance also provides rewards to people for remaining active, which helps to encourage healthy living.; ; We believe in flexible, hybrid working to ensure a work environment that suits individual preferences and encourages work-life balance. Within the office, a varied workspace has been designed to ensure the working environment is inclusive, suitable, and adaptable for all as we recognise people possess different working styles and preferences. The office contains a combination of standard desks and quieter spaces, with adjustable standing desks and relaxed seating areas, with additional offerings of free fruit and drinks, to ensure an environment that is comfortable, inclusive and promotes overall wellbeing at work.; ; We are advocates for work-life balance and ensuring time to recharge, offering 36 days holiday entitlement which includes time off between Christmas and New Year, in addition to offering a sabbatical policy which allows up to 4 weeks of paid leave at one time.; ; We offer enhanced pay during periods of sickness absence and provide enhanced family leave policies to ensure people are supported financially during periods of absence.; ; We have dedicated first aiders and mental health first aiders to always ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people. We provide resources and host awareness sessions to raise awareness, remove stigma and provide helpful resources.; ; Our employees can additionally take advantage of other workplace schemes such as the cycle to work scheme and our active involvement in events which all promote healthy living, such as Tough Mudder, charity basketball and the Great North Run, which we participate in annually.

Pricing

• Price: £45,000.00 a unit
• Discount for educational organisations: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at David.Milnes@seriosgroup.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.