Software Testing Outsourcing Services

Outsourced software quality assurance services imply the detailed software, system, or program verification and inspection process. The goal of software testing services is to remove potential bugs, errors, gaps, or missing elements, enhance the chances of correct work under all possible circumstances, and match with the specified software requirements of functionality, performance, and security. Furthermore, outsourcing software testing saves you money and, more importantly, the company's reputation, users, and client loyalty and retention. The bigger the number of bugs within the system and the longer they exist, the more expensive it is to detect and fix them. If you have corporate software, well-planned and integrated software testing and quality assurance prevent catastrophic emergencies like data leaks, connection or communication issues, system breakdowns, etc. With software testing outsourced to professionals, your web and mobile products will work as intended, smoothly, and with all errors removed. Aside from all of this, if you want to build trustworthy relations with clients, software testing services allow for high user information encryption and product security. As well, our QA service maintains a great user experience due to the removal of issues causing slow performance, glitches, breaks, and errors. Being organized with software testing services from the start of the development strategy provides the benefits of effective work and SDLC productivity. Lastly, investment in outsourcing software testing boosts your customer satisfaction by providing well-tested and top-quality software from the very beginning. As a result, you will be rewarded with greater sales, ROI, and increased profit.

At the highest level, the software testing process consists of functional and non-functional aspects alongside automated and manual testing services. Non-functional testing relates to the way the system operates from a business perspective, rather than its specific functionality. Aspects like capacity, reliability, availability, scalability, recovery, and integrity are types of non-functional testing. Functional software testing services involve tests like unit testing, user acceptance, integration testing on different SDLC stages according to prior plans, checklists, and scenarios for testing. Unit tests, integration testing, end-to-end testing, smoke, sanity, regression testing, acceptance and white box testing, sanity, and so on, are distinct software testing types. The QA engineer can apply manual and automation software testing services using various tools like JMeter, Selenium, Swagger, etc. There is also UAT, which stands for User Acceptance Testing, as a distinct service in software QA outsourcing. Within the UAT phase, the product owner and/or real users check product compliance with the real-world needs, scenarios, requirements, etc. This is a sort of beta testing before the software’s release to ensure the ultimate service performance.

Throughout web and mobile app development, software testing and quality assurance services are a must and should be aligned with the software specifics and initial requirements. The flow of these services includes a collection of requirements, test planning, documentation and integration into SDLC, and further test execution and reporting. By using agile software development methodologies, the product is created in smaller chunks according to the planned timeline. Software testing is an integral part of this process that helps to create a well-settled system. The first phase of defining the testing strategy and, as a result, a list of software testing services, starts from the requirements collection and analysis. Note that the cost of defects found within the development stage is up to 15 times less than it costs to remove these bugs within the released software. The next phase corresponds to test plan development. QA engineers take all the info collected and set a basis for software testing services. Usually, this plan includes test strategy and scope, types and levels of software testing, tracking and bug reporting processes, required resources and prescribed responsibilities, and a rough budget and timeline for the outsourcing of software testing. Furthermore, the senior QA engineer plans the testing process for crashes and necessary checklists to cover future software needs both from the business and technical perspectives. If test automation is included in the software testing scope, professionals build test automation scenarios. The consequent steps in software testing involve test execution and the manual reporting of bugs, or the use of frameworks like Selenium. Before the software is released, the QA team performs solid release testing to ensure its stability, performance, and usability.

Generally, software testing takes around 30% of the time devoted to the actual coding of functionality. The total cost for software testing and quality assurance services can range from around $5,000 for a very basic project, $10,000+ for a mid-sized project, and $25,000 or even higher for complex software once you outsource software testing services to an IT team in Eastern Europe (Ukraine). Based on trusted IT research platforms like Clutch, SoftwareWorl, ITFirms, the rates for outsourcing software testing range from $50 to $150 per hour in Western Europe and the USA. In contrast, the same level of software services can be provided in the Eastern European region, but at a cost of $15 for a junior QA, around $25-$35 for a mid-level specialist, and $30-$40+ for senior QA [all rates are for an hour only]. The cost of software QA outsourcing in the Asia and LatAm regions is $25/ hour or even less. Thus, the total cost of outsourcing software testing depends on many factors. Among these are the location and hourly rates of the service provider, project type, scope and complexity of functionality, level of product requirements, number of platforms (iOS, Android, Web), as well the complexity of the designs for the user experience and user interface.