SIAM Integration Testing and Quality Assurance for Healthcare / NHS
A Quality Assurance and Test Consultancy service that can respond to NHS / Healthcare Providers' needs for testing support as part of an overall solution providing individual on-site testing professionals and teams. This service focuses on Integration testing and UAT for organisations moving to or developing their SIAM operating model.
Features
- Service delivered onsite at client's premises
- Managing Software Testing Programmes and Projects, Test Management
- Functional Testing, Defect Management, Test Strategy, Test Methodology
- Test Environments and Data Management, Application Packaging Testing
- OAT, Failure and Resilience Testing
- System and System Integration Testing specifically developed for SIAM
- Application Testing, Migration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT), UAT Management and UAT Test Teams
- Usability Testing, Accessibility Testing, and User Experience Testing
- Specifically geared for NHS and Healthcare Providers
Benefits
- Low cost, on demand, short term engagements undertaken
- Service is on-demand driven by the client
- Can be used in discrete phases
- Flexibility to ramp up test teams to meet peak demand
- Platform and technology agnostic approach to testing
- Early phase testing reduces costs and reduces risk
- Effective way to build up shared knowledge for client systems
- Testing services from end user point of view
- Well documented deliverables
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
7 7 0 6 7 7 1 2 6 8 5 8 9 1 6
Contact
CERTA TESTING LIMITED
Client Contact Team
Telephone: 07710 442 686
Email: info@certatesting.co.uk
About your service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Quality Assurance and Performance Testing
- Assurance/testing design
- Infrastructure performance testing
- Other
Operational readiness testing
- Accessibility testing
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
- 1 day (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm)
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- The assigned Test Manager or Test Engineer(s) provide direct support as part of the contract.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Developed Vetting (DV)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Quality assurance testing (QAT) roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Tester (QAT) | £510.00 | |
| QAT analyst | £735.00 | |
| Senior QAT analyst | £850.00 | |
| Lead QAT analyst | £1,050.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Tester (test engineer) | £510.00 | |
| Test engineer | £735.00 | |
| Senior test engineer | £850.00 | |
| Lead test engineer | £1,050.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Test manager | £850.00 | |
| Head of test | £1,050.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- No
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- Ed3ad4f4-00a4-450f-9b92-d69c89c1b8d5
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Cyber Essentials Alternative
- You do not have a current and valid Cyber Essentials Plus certificate, or will not have in place within 12 months of the date of award but have an IASME certified equivalent.
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority
- Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
- Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
- Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
- Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
- Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
- Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
- Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
- Volunteering opportunities for staff
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
- Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
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Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero
Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.
- Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment
- Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
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Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.
Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.
- Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
- Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
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