User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Service options range from advice and consultation to a fully managed service. Our UAT services provide an essential, dependable and quickly deployable solution to gain confidence that end-to-end business processes and business requirements are fulfilled and fully tested.
Features
- Access Testers, Consultants and Managers with specialist UAT experience
- Fully managed UAT delivered by security cleared UAT specialists
- Careful, informed and considerate User engagement
- Effective use of a risk based test approach where required
- Align UAT to other test activities: regression and automation
- Traceability back to original business requirements
- Feedback and update the knowledge base for improved business flow
- Full reporting and summaries of testing activities and results
- Supporting and managing effective Testlab environment
- Creating and administering robust entry and exit quality gates
Benefits
- Risk based approach provides flexibility for changing project timescales
- Increases Users' satisfaction and confidence
- Improves regression testing and reduces the "fix and re-test" cycle
- Provides high quality entry and exit gates to UAT
- UAT specialists geared for sensitive and careful UAT delivery
- Contribute to informed decision making at the Change Board
- Provides scalable, responsive service compatible with Agile and other methodologies
- Well documented deliverables
- Low cost, on demand, short term engagements undertaken
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
9 3 4 0 5 4 1 8 1 3 2 0 0 7 4
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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