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nFocus Ltd

SDET/Test Automation Engineer Academy

An Academy that hires, trains and then deploys technical testers (Junior SDETs/Test Automation Engineers/Quality Engineers) into cloud projects and programmes.

The Academy has received major industry recognition with nFocus being named 2023 Services Company of the Year at the UK IT Industry Awards jointly hosted by BCS and Computing.

Features

  • An intensive recruitment process that starts with 400 applicants
  • Cherry picking the brightest and best Computer Science graduates
  • Selecting people with a testers mindset and high technical aptitude
  • 13 weeks of intensive training with professional qualifications
  • Only the very best pass with each module scored
  • They are then deployed to projects with a technical mentor
  • Provided standalone or as part of an automation service
  • Clients can hire these personnel permanently after two years
  • Addressing an industry-wide scarcity of technical testers
  • Supporting clients’ values by developing and hiring from underprivileged areas

Benefits

  • Testers who create robust automated tests from day one
  • Academy graduates outperform personnel with multiple years experience
  • Speeds up recruiting cycles with proven personnel ready to go
  • Increases the velocity of test automation with ready-access to talent
  • Reduces the strain on budgets utilising low-cost proven personnel
  • Reduces the reliance on expensive test automation contractors
  • Supports clients values of recruiting and developing junior talent
  • Supports clients’ values by developing and hiring from underprivileged areas

Pricing

£280 to £480 a unit a day

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

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 info@nfocus.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

5 4 5 3 4 5 6 0 8 8 8 7 4 3 2

Contact

nFocus Ltd Ryan James
Telephone: 0370 242 6235
Email: info@nfocus.co.uk

Planning

Planning service
No

Training

Training service provided
No

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
Yes
How the setup or migration service works
Test Automation provides more quickly repeatable testing cycles to enable more information during the migration to the cloud or between cloud services.
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
This entire service is to provide high quality low cost test automation engineers to undertake quality assurance activities.

Utilising these personnel to develop automated regression packs to ensure tests can be run quickly and efficiently with each release.

Security testing

Security services
No

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
No

Service scope

Service constraints
N/A

User support

Email or online ticketing support
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Support levels
We have a single level support structure which includes account management from a Director level personnel.

Each Junior SDET is mentored by a Test Automation Architect or greater level of seniority. Each Junior SDET also has a wellbeing team member to support them.

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

nFocus has implemented measures to create new jobs and new skills. In 2021, we recognised a scarcity of testers with technical testing skills. We used an independent organisation to undertake market research to validate the scarcity and having received compelling evidence, we created our Academy.
Our Academy takes graduates and gives them 13 weeks of intensive training in the scarcity with professional qualifications. They’re then deployed into our client projects with a technical mentor to support them.
Our Academy has been hugely successful. We have created 40+ jobs for graduates in just over two years. Our Academy has also been recognized by the UK IT Industry Awards in late 2023 whereby nFocus was named ‘Services Company of the Year’ across the whole of the IT Industry for our Academy work. Given the awards body is run jointly by the British Computer Society and the technology brand Computing, we feel incredibly validated and proud of what we’ve accomplished. We intend to continue 2-4 intakes of our Academy per year moving forwards.
We feel this satisfies the requirements in that it has created employment and training opportunities, particularly for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors. We also feel it supports educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications. By promoting our services utilising this approach, we feel it also influences customers and communities through the delivery of the contract to support employment and skills opportunities in high growth sectors. We have had significant feedback from graduates during the recruitment process that they have a huge barrier to employment on the basis they have no experience. As such, we feel our Academy also fulfils the requirement of creating employment opportunities for those who face barriers to employment.

Pricing

Price
£280 to £480 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations
Yes

Service documents

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 info@nfocus.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.