Gravity 9
Quality Service
Gravity9 provides comprehensive QA services, employing a Shift-left testing strategy involving QA specialists early in the Software Development Life Cycle. Our services cover integration, system, and acceptance testing, utilizing both manual and automated methods to ensure quality across all levels.
Features
- Comprehensive QA Services for legacy and Greenfield projects
- Shift-left Testing with early involvement of QA Specialists
- Pre-defined setup of automation testing frameworks or bespoke solutions
- Exploration of business needs and shaping solutions
- Quality recommendations for the existing solutions
- Modelling of end-users' actions, translating them to application’s test cases
- Accessibility review and recommendations for people with disabilities
- Non-functional testing boosting product perceptions
- Combining QA solutions into CI/CD
- AI-powered applications testing experience
Benefits
- Competitive Advantage: Positions businesses ahead by delivering superior software products
- Scalability: Easily scales to accommodate growing project requirements and complexities
- Agile Adaptability: Integrates seamlessly with agile methodologies for efficient development
- Better Risk Management: Mitigates project risks by addressing issues proactively
- Increased Customer Satisfaction: Builds trust through reliable, high-quality software products
- Early Issue Detection: Identifies defects in initial stages, minimizing impact
- Enhanced User Experience: Delivers software meeting user expectations and needs
- Cost Savings: Reduces expenses associated with bug fixes and rework
- Faster Time-to-Market: Accelerates development cycles, ensuring timely product releases
- Boosting user’s satisfaction: Building trust between the company and clients
Pricing
£2,000 a unit
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
8 3 1 1 0 0 7 4 2 7 5 9 7 1 8
Contact
Gravity 9
Allan Hudson
Telephone: 07882691167
Email: allan.hudson@gravity9.com
Planning
- Planning service
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
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Our training includes:
hands-on workshops with practical exercises and case studies
training webinars
personalized coaching sessions - Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- Migration testing is integral to assisting buyers in strategizing their transition to cloud hosting or software services. By meticulously evaluating the compatibility, performance, and functionality of existing systems during migration, we provide invaluable insights for buyers to plan their implementation effectively. Through comprehensive testing, we ensure seamless data transfer, system stability, and security compliance, mitigating risks associated with migration. Our thorough analysis also uncovers potential challenges early on, enabling buyers to devise contingency plans and optimize resource allocation. Ultimately, migration testing instills confidence in buyers, empowering them to execute successful transitions and derive maximum value from cloud hosting or software 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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We start by collaborating closely with buyers to understand their specific requirements, objectives, and constraints. By leveraging this deep understanding, we tailor our QA strategies and testing methodologies to align with their unique context, industry standards, and project goals. Throughout the testing process, we employ a combination of manual and automated testing approaches to comprehensively evaluate the software or system's functionality, reliability, security, and performance.
In addition to identifying and addressing any issues or vulnerabilities, we provide detailed reports and insights to buyers, empowering them to make informed decisions and prioritize improvements effectively. Our goal is not only to meet but exceed buyers' expectations by delivering high-quality software that delights end-users and enhances their overall experience. We offer performance, load and stress testing.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
- Other
- Other security services
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- Together with our development test we provide static code analysis
- We analyse the codebase by examining structure, syntax, and semantics
- Run CVE scanners and analyse results to evaluate security risks
- We use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System to analyse risks
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- N/a
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- N/a
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
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
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
gravity9 has an environmental policy designed to limit and reduce the environmental impacts of our internal activities. We are in the process of creating a new Carbon Reduction Plan which will allow us to calculate and later publish our carbon emissions, along with the creation of initiatives and targets for carbon reductions and a target date for achieving net zero.
As a company we do not own our won offices using shared, serviced units instead. These units are owned by companies with strong environmental policies and initiatives in place to reduce carbon. Our staff work fully remotely, using offices only where necessary and use only modern IT equipment conforming to standards of low carbon emissions generation. Travel is minimised in favour of remote teleworking/conferencing and technology is used wherever possible to create efficiencies. Initial calculations suggest that our carbon footprint is very low compared to industry standards.
Our work is focused on modernisation of IT systems for our clients, producing results that minimise energy use through increased productivity and development of communications solutions as part of these systems. We embed technologies like Slack in systems wherever possible to encourage teleworking. Gravity9 also supports clients in developing AI-driven applications that can analyse and predict energy usage patterns, leading to more sustainable practices. By facilitating smarter decision-making and resource management, this service helps to reduce carbon footprints and promote environmental sustainability. The overarching aim is to assist public sector bodies in achieving their green targets by integrating advanced, eco-friendly technologies into their operations, thereby making a significant positive impact on the environment.Covid-19 recovery
Through Data and AI Platform Design service, public sector entities can leverage artificial intelligence and data analytics to optimise resource allocation, streamline services, and improve decision-making. This includes managing public health data, tracking resource needs, and forecasting future outbreaks or impacts. By improving operational efficiency and ensuring continuity of essential services, this service plays a crucial role in helping the public sector navigate and recover from the challenges posed by COVID-19.Tackling economic inequality
gravity9 was founded in Birmingham, retaining a key presence there. As a company in a high growth sector (IT) with known skills shortages (Forbes’ IT Skills Gap Report 2023 contains a figure of 93% of business surveyed believing that they lacked IT skills), we upskill client teams, run skills workshops and we recruit in deprived areas.
Overall deprivation in the West Midlands is high (34.5% of local areas in the most deprived in the country). 41% of Birmingham’s neighbourhoods are in the UK’s 10% most-deprived.
As a modernisation company, gravity9 build new systems for organisations which enable teams to operate more efficiently and achieve more.
This often leads to job safeguarding and creation:
We created a new “Customer Hub” application for British Telecom (BT) to help them provide unified customer service across their brand offerings. This allowed BT to hire new developers to maintain the application long-term, creating skilled employment opportunities. For American Homes for Rent (AMH) we created a “Let Yourself In” product automating locks, which enabled AMH to employ a new lock maintenance team. We created a system for Venetian Casinos that automated sales promotions which allowed Venetian to expand their sales teams.
Our regular skills workshops tackle technological challenges with skills building and talent identification in mind. Our AI workshops, for example, are educational in nature with a flavour of the skillsets needed to enhance employability. This gives young IT professionals an opportunity to network with peers, gain insight into commercial approaches/methods and contribute wisdom to the debate. These regular skills workshops are educational and employability-focused, allowing participants to network with peers, gain insight into commercial approaches/methods and contribute wisdom. Gravity9 can aid the public sector in tackling economic inequality by providing advanced data analytics and AI tools that enable targeted social programs and efficient resource distribution.Equal opportunity
At gravity9 we research why people struggle with a challenge then offer accessible solutions. Starting with design we add WCAG standards and use accessibility libraries. Our Accessibility practice promotes adoption and responsibility in all product aspects. We make accessibility easy to understand and translate into easy guides for all company members or non-English speakers. We are exploring new areas of neurodiversity in product design standards of “Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust”. We have created an accessibility review to put this into practice.
Our QA specialists, besides the regular accessibility testing, offer to provide organisations with an advanced accessibility audit, which will check how their product meets the accessibility standards.
We deliver high-quality software with fewer defects and faster time-to-market to enable private sector organisations to gain a competitive edge and reduce delays in public sector organisations. Quality Assurance plays a crucial role in achieving this by ensuring that the software meets quality standards and is delivered on time. Our team of experts work closely with our client’s organisations to provide accessibility that is tailored to their specific needs. Our AI practice can also enhance equal opportunity within the public sector by leveraging data analytics and AI to identify and address disparities in service delivery and employment; facilitate the development of recruitment and training programs aimed at diversifying the public sector workforce and automate and optimise recruitment and service delivery processes.Wellbeing
Gravity9 supports societal wellbeing by enabling the public sector to deploy AI and data analytics for improved health, safety, and social services. By analysing health data, our services can help predict and manage public health issues, facilitating proactive interventions. It also assists in optimising emergency response services and public safety measures through efficient resource allocation and response planning. Additionally, by enhancing accessibility to public services through digital transformation, it ensures that more individuals can receive timely and effective support, contributing significantly to overall societal wellbeing.
Pricing
- Price
- £2,000 a unit
- 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 allan.hudson@gravity9.com.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.