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December 2007SQS Software Quality Systems sets up homeshore test centre in Görlitz, Saxony
SQS Software Quality Systems AG is opening a software test centre in Görlitz, Saxony, at the beginning of 2008. The global market leader in providing services for software quality management and testing is thus establishing an alternative to conventional offshore locations. The SQS team in Görlitz will initially start work with a staff of over 20. By the end of the year the company intends to employ about 40 experts at its new location.
In addition to the advantages commonly obtained from outsourcing, such as flexible access to labour resources together with favourable terms and prices, the homeshore test centre in Görlitz offers services in German across the board for the German-speaking market. SQS is training the staff of the Görlitz test centre to be certified testers in accordance with the standards set by the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB®). To date, more than 60,000 testers have been trained and tested in conformance with this globally recognised training and further education scheme.
The test experts’ main tasks will be to verify technical concepts of IT systems, prepare and perform functional tests and set up and maintain automated tests. For this, they make use of systematic procedures of software quality assurance that detect inconsistencies, omissions and contradictions at an early stage and also document them. Testing is actually performed by way of remote access to the customer’s particular systems. Web-based tools provide the customer with all the up-to-date information about the status of the test activities and any identified deviations, either in real time or at periodic intervals.
Flexible price models
The price model to be used in each case is agreed between SQS and each customer on an individual basis. Depending on requirements, SQS can bill for the work performed, the number of test cases processed or the number of technical concept pages tested. SQS also offers what it calls “test points” as a possible unit of account.
“Especially when you have large, critical software systems, which are also repeatedly modified, it is worth using a systematic and automated test”, says Rudolf van Megen, Chief Executive Officer of SQS AG. “Test automation reduces maintenance costs considerably.” SQS has set up the new test centre in Görlitz, he says, for the purpose of performing and maintaining both manual and automated tests cost-effectively. As well as that, the Görlitz specialists will be carrying out the automation of software tests themselves.
SQS Software Quality Systems
SQS is the world’s largest provider of software quality management and testing services with the focus on Europe. Based in Cologne, Germany, SQS employs around 1,000 people in its branches throughout the world—including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland and South Africa. SQS also has a minor stake in an operation in Portugal and a cooperative agreement with a company in Spain. In 2006 SQS generated sales of 78.9 million euros. According to analysts’ forecasts, SQS will achieve sales of some 113 million euros in 2007.
SQS is the first German company to have a primary listing on AIM (Alternative Investment Market) in London. SQS also has a secondary listing on the Open Market of the Deutsche Börse (German Stock Exchange) in Frankfurt am Main.
With over 4,000 successfully completed projects behind it, SQS has a strong customer base including half of the DAX 30 companies, nearly a third of the STOXX 50 companies and 36 companies in the FTSE-100. They include names like Dresdner Bank, Barclays, Deutsche Telekom, BP, Daimler and Airbus, and various other enterprises from all business sectors.
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