Audacia Consulting
QA Software Testing
Audacia's software testing expertise includes software testing across every stage of the development lifecycle of large-scale, complex, mission-critical technology projects.
Our software testing teams consist of experienced ISTQB certified testers, with business analysis skills to ensure capability in understanding complex logic, collaborating across teams to deliver high-quality software systems.
Features
- Automation first approach to software testing
- API Automation - Full automation of back-end endpoints
- UI Automation - Main system workflows automated
- Manual exploratory testing on key areas & new features
- Regular automated tests run to catch any regression bugs
- Non-functional tests for security, accessibility & performance
- DevOps approach of continuous deployment
Benefits
- Automation approach increasing speed of delivery & improving feedback cycles
- Ensuring systems are accessible, performant, scalable & secure
- Continuous deployment approach for reliable and consistent deployments
- Accessibility testing following WCAG standards
- Team of experienced ISTQB certified QA testers
- Experience testing large scale, complex software systems
Pricing
£450 a unit a day
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
5 6 9 5 4 6 4 9 5 8 7 8 4 1 4
Contact
Audacia Consulting
Philip White
Telephone: 0113 543 1300
Email: info@audacia.co.uk
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- Audacia adopt an agile methodology for the planning and delivery of projects. Working closely with all key stakeholders, we’ll gather and analyse requirements, identify success factors and establish a detailed plan for delivery. Plans are adaptable throughout to meet changing requirements to ensure that the project delivers robust, scalable and futureproof solutions which satisfy all success factors.
- Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- Audacia provide comprehensive & tailored training to ensure effective upskilling at all levels. This includes accurate and concise documentation in a variety of formats, in person training sessions and knowledge transfer workshops.
- Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
-
Audacia's Cloud migration services help leading organisations to adopt Cloud technologies to improve availability, reliability and security through managed Cloud environments.
Our teams have extensive experience migrating applications from onsite, external data centers or remote services to Microsoft Azure or AWS to improve the security & performance of applications.
Our migration services includes Cloud readiness assessments, the development of Cloud migration strategies with end-to-end delivery planning, risk assessment & mitigation, plus the configuration & optimisation of new 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
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Audacia's testing expertise covers all stages of the application lifecycle of large-scale, complex, mission-critical technology projects.
Our testing teams consist of experienced ISTQB certified testers, with business analysis skills to ensure capability in understanding complex logic.
Audacia adopt an automation first approach to both functional and non-functional testing. Functional testing includes both API & UI automation, alongside manual testing where required. Comprehensive non-functional testing covers usability, accessibility, security and performance to ensure operational effectiveness and scalability.
Testing technologies: Browserstack, OWASP Zap, Selenium, JMeter, Postman, Rest Sharp, Cypress
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Security testing
- Certified security testers
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
-
- Buyer hosting or software
- Hosting or software provided by your organisation
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
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Audacia’s support and maintenance contracts ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of applications, services and data when they are needed.
Audacia have a dedicated team made up of experienced technical operations specialists to carry-out 2nd/3rd line Production Support to address issues discovered when systems are live, with service management following ITIL equivalent practices for support and maintenance.
All team members have experience in delivering and supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications for clients across multiple industries.
Audacia are able to tailor SLAs to specific customer requirements.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- No.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Tailored to client requirements.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Support can be tailored to match project requirements, e.g. standard business hours support or 24/7 365.
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
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Centre for Assessment
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 01/11/2022
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- We don't use contractors and therefore these are excluded from our certification.
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Audacia has a dedicated working group to take initiative and drive action on improving our environmental impact. Example initiatives are:
• Implementing emissions impact dashboards in Azure to monitor and report against the sustainability of projects
• Appointing new suppliers for hardware recycling that is refurbished and sold or donated to charitable organisations or groups, with profits donated to charities working with disadvantaged young people
• Transitioning to greener energy suppliers
• Procurement of energy efficient hardware
• Implementing environmentally friendly products and supplies for use across the business
This internal working group meet on a monthly basis to review steps taken toward sustainability objectives and report against what has been achieved.Equal opportunity
Audacia recognise our responsibility to create, support equal opportunities and representation. Audacia has a dedicated working group ensure we continue to provide equal opportunities as well as continuously improve.
As part of this, Audacia run multiple Academy programmes each year to engage with individuals with alternative academic qualifications and/or no previous experience in software development and provide opportunities for anyone, irrespective of academic, cultural or socio-economic background to get into technology. The Academy provides cohorts with 3-4 month training, delivered by internal employees, and ends with a full-time, permanent role, providing opportunities for people from graduate level, to return-to-work and career changers.
Audacia provide internship and work placement opportunities for local students to gain experience of technology roles, providing a foundation to get into the tech sector.
Audacia are a member of the Tech Talent Charter, contributing to greater inclusion and diversity in the technology sector.
Audacia have a partnership with the Ahead Partnership, working with other organisations across the local community to help younger people achieve their full potential regardless of background.Wellbeing
Audacia has a dedicated working group to take initiative and drive action on to improve the wellbeing of our staff. Example initiatives are:
• Internal sports challenges to encourage employees to get and stay active
• Introduction of flu vaccines to safeguard employees
• Implementing cycle to work schemes, with storage bike care solutions
• Hosting “Wellbeing Days” encouraging mindfulness
• Private healthcare with in-office MOT checkups
• Weekly active social activities for employees
• Internal talks on Wellbeing subjects, e.g. Imposter Syndrome
• Mental Health First Aid training
Our Wellbeing working group meet on a monthly basis to review steps taken toward wellbeing objectives and report against what has been achieved.
Pricing
- Price
- £450 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
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@audacia.co.uk.
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