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March 2008 Newsletter

In This Issue
CTE QA Professionals
QA Dashboards
And Now for Something Completely Different...
About Celtic Testing Experts...
Quick Links
 
Greetings!

Welcome to the inaugural CTE Newsletter. This month's feature article is about, "CTE QA Professionals", our placement services. Our services include contract consulting and full-time placements of targeted QA resources. Over the coming months we will provide you with more useful information about best practices in Quality Assurance.
 
We would love to hear your thoughts on our newsletter and the themes we cover.  If you have any suggestions on how to improve it, we'd love to hear them too!!
 
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!
 
Sincerely,
 
Noel Kierans
 
President/Founder
Celtic Testing Experts, Inc.
Featured Article
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CTE QA Professionals

 

"More than just QA resources"

 

At CTE our focus is on providing our clients with seasoned QA professionals that will meet the quality initiatives so critical for success in today's software development environment. We specialize in concentrated QA processes in contrast to many other firms that only provide a narrow range of focus on QA activities.CTE has experienced QA professionals to interview your candidates to confirm their skills meet your requirements. We confirm that their skills support the needs of our clients throughout the software development life cycle.  The task of identifying candidates for your QA initiatives can be very daunting and time consuming. CTE can quickly and easily find your candidates, thus allowing you to focus on the business-at-hand.

 

At CTE we strive to understand the consultant's skills and their career aspirations in order to place them in a position that will meet their objectives as a QA professional.  Through a targeted process we work with the candidates and our clients to find QA professionals for:

  • QA and Software Development Process Optimization: utilize their QA process improvement skills throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Test Automation: efficient and repeatable test processes that will maximize our client's test tool investment
  • Software and Systems Verification and Validation: support the manual and automated testing needs of our clients
  • Managed Outsourced Testing: utilize the QA professional's leadership skills in leading onshore and offshore testing options
  • Defect Management: making the most of a QA professional's defect reporting skills throughout the testing effort
  • Metrics Definition: utilize the QA professionals metrics gathering capabilities and to provide our clients with meaningful metrics throughout the software test cycles
QA Dashboards - "Anyone know what's going on?"
 
Have you ever had a CIO, QA Director, or PMO ask you how a project is going?  Have you ever been asked, "Where did you get those figures from?".  If you have a QA Dashboard, are you capturing the right Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)?
 
CTE can help your organization define, create, and publish meaningful KPIs. These KPIs provide a complete, real-time business view into QA project statuses. Your organization will benefit from: tracking KPIs across all projects and through time; identifying project issues sooner; analyzing trends and compare projects across your organization.
 
CTE Dashboard
 
And Now for Something Completely Different...
 
Who was St. Patrick?

St. Patrick was born in Britain at a time when Roman rule was in decline.  When Patrick was 16, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken to Ireland as a slave.  After six years working as a herdsman for his master, he escaped and returned to Britain.

 

After being ordained, Patrick had a dream in which the Irish people asked him to return.  He felt he was chosen by God to bring Christianity to the pagans in Ireland.  Scholars say Patrick's time in slavery helped shape his belief that the Irish were not barbarians, as many in the Christian world believed.

 

St. Patrick is credited with converting the Irish to Christianity in the 5th century.  The details of his life are sketchy, coming from two sources his spiritual biography, "Confessio" and a letter he wrote denouncing British mistreatment of Irish Christians.  He died on March 17, 461.
About Celtic Testing Experts...
 
Celtic Testing Experts, Inc. (CTE) provides superior testing resources, highest quality QA services and products that allow our clients to develop superior software. CTE provides a wide range of quality assurance services, training, and products. We employ the best QA professionals who are responsible, honest, and of the highest integrity.More>>>