Overview
We, at Powersoft19 SQA, live and breathe quality. With our commitment to quality of operations and projects, we steer ahead with a clear vision: to transform the concept of quality from a bottleneck to the bottom line for companies. Powersoft19’s SQA team comprises of certified resources with expertise in cutting-edge technologies, working as an independent body. The team uses the latest technologies in innovative ways to produce optimum output. With exposure to diverse industry environments and technologies, we add a personal touch in each project that is beyond the academic approach of quality assurance.
| Powersoft19 SQA Advantage | Value for Your Business |
|---|---|
| Dedicated testing team | Get absolutely independent and free-from-bias QA |
| Excellence in using the latest technologies | Be the first to market with our faster, better, and cheaper services |
| Transparency and relationship management | Access critical information, professional documentation, and QA reports |
| Personal touch | Choose from the on-demand, managed, or end to end QA models |
Why Choose Us
At Powersoft19, we understand that our clients depend on our proven expertise and dedicated service to get unparalleled value and resourcefulness they would not get from anywhere else. Choose us for the wide range of reasons mentioned below.
Excellence
Powersoft19 SQA comprises certified resources with expertise in cutting-edge technologies, working as an independent body. Moreover, we have developed our quality assurance plan after years of experience in providing IT quality assurance. The team experience guides the passion of using the latest technologies in innovative ways for the optimum output. With exposure to diverse industry environments and technologies, we add a personal touch in each project that is beyond the academic approach of quality assurance.
Key Benefits
- Independent team structure guarantees freedom from bias and internal conflict of interest
- Two decades of hands on experience in a wide range of industries
- Impeccable record of consistently delivering high quality projects
- Expertise in using the latest technologies
Transparency
One of the inherent issues of software quality assurance is to communicate the observed issues to the developing team in the right spirit. Communication becomes even more critical in global consulting. We believe that when our clients begin their projects with us, they deserve to know the honest opinion of quality assurance experts. Our communication protocol is set to enable our clients to see the progress, provide their input, request changes and receive our consultancy on issues in real-time.
Key Benefits
- Multitier communication system to ensure on-time information sharing
- Sharing of professional documentation throughout project life cycle
- Adherence to the communication best practices
Trust
With the unfailing commitment to excellence and transparency in our work, we have built a strong reputation of trustworthy quality assurance partners for end-to-end projects as well as on-demand QA services. The high level of trust is depicted from many of our returning clients who consider us an integral part of their team. We provide our clients with the comfort of working with the same team over the years, unlike most consulting companies who struggle to retain their teams. Our team retention capabilities save our clients’ time and effort in sharing the required knowledge base about a project.
Key Benefits
- Proven track record of clients’ satisfaction
- Fast learning and knowledge retention capabilities
- Relationship management to achieve customer satisfaction throughout project life cycle
Flexible Business Model
As our business mission is “After all, it is all about People”, we believe that customer satisfaction and ease of doing business with us are the foremost. Therefore, we offer flexibility in our business model to accommodate clients’ unique IT quality assurance needs. Although the team structure and processes are tailored specifically according to each project’s needs, the following are two categories that can roughly categorize our two major business models:
End-to-End Consultancy
The most suitable model for our clients, who want us to do an entire testing project, is an end-to-end consultancy. The clients’ major contribution in this model is to describe their requirements and then we take the complete responsibility to deliver a successful project.
Key Benefits
- Benefits of consulting with high quality in-house teams
- Faster and better product delivery with complete IP security
- Access to the latest tools and technologies
- Dedicated team members adapt in the innovative use of cutting-edge testing technologies
On-Demand Consultancy
Giving a portion of a project to consulting firms for the work that falls out of areas of expertise or time limits of a company is also a common practice. Powersoft19’s software quality assurance team offers several viable options for clients who want to engage expert QA consultants for specific projects or parts of a project only.
Key Benefits
- Minimize business risks while enjoying the quality of in-house teams
- Access the extensive collection of automated scripts, testing best practices and proprietary techniques
- Mix and match from a rich pool of resources, technologies, and business operating procedures
Agency Approvals
Safety standards for dynamic industries continuously evolve to meet the current demands, making it necessary to keep the certifications up to date. Powersoft19 SQA offers a comprehensive plan to make certification achievement and updating easier for you. This plan will be a doorway for you to become a key player in competitive and safety-critical industries.
As a part of this plan, we provide you expert consultancy about the best suitable agency standard(s) for your products. Then we help you produce the relevant data, audit reports, product documentation and other artifacts required for these standards. Having experience of working as an ‘independent verifier and validator’, we can take care of all the communication, and respond to the objections raised by the concerned agency during the process. After the product certification, we offer complete support and consultancy in case of any modification in product design or a change in the standard requirements.
Agency Approvals Achieved for our Clients
- Analyze the product, existing process documents, manuals, etc.
- Narrow down on the applicable requirements of the safety standards
- Distinguish between the techniques and measures corresponding to the applicable SIL
- Prepare planning documents like:
- Software Quality Assurance Plan
- Software Validation Plan
- Software Verification Plan
- Perform static, dynamic, functional and performance testing and generate the corresponding test reports
- Organize a complete certification package to be submitted to the certification agency
- Coordinate with the certifying agency assessors
Here are some of the certifications that we helped our clients achieve:
- SIL 3 certification for locomotive control system from EBA
- EN 50128 & SIL 3 certification for locomotive control systems from TUV Rheinland
- IEC 61508 SIL 1 certification for IR gas detectors from Sira Test & Certification UK
- EN 50271 certification for IR gas detectors from Sira Test & Certification UK
- EN 50271 certification for portable gas monitor from DEKRA Exam
Please contact us to know about more examples of our successful Agency Approvals and Certification projects.
Tools and Technologies
Testing Tools for Automation
Used for functional and regression automation
Used for SQL database content, scripts and documentation
Used for load testing of web/desktop apps using Vuser
Used for performance testing
Used for test cases automation & regression of hardware
Used for real time implementation and I/O interfacing
Security Testing
Used for web application auditing (exploitable hacking vulnerabilities)
Used for common server misconfigurations/ vulnerabilities
Used for web application security auditing
Used for performance testing
Used as proxy server for security testing of web applications
Used for analyzing apps using HTTP and HTTPS protocols
Used as teaching environment for web apps security
Used for Remote password cracker
Used for session hijacking and parameter enumeration
Used for web apps security testing
Pen Testing
Used as a Penetration testing framework for executing exploits on the target
Used for Network Mapping, Port Scanning, Services and OS identification
Used for vulnerability scanning and management
Used for network security scanning and vulnerability assessment
Used for vulnerability scanning and management
Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library
Python based fuzzing engine used for fuzzing network protocols and file formats
Open source network security tool for man-in-the-middle attacks on LAN
Linux distribution used for advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing
Static Code Analysis Tools
Used for verifying MISRA-C compliance
Used for Network Mapping, Port Scanning, Services and OS identification
Used for PI & FUZZY controller design
Used for VHDL/Verilog code simulation
Used for controller, power electronics, and wind turbine system design
Used for simulation of firmware of AVR series microcontrollers
USB Logic Analyzer for recording and analyzing both digital and analog signals
An IDE that includes a compiler and debugger for embedded systems and microcontrollers
Configuration and Bug Tracking Tools
Used for code and documentation versions and tasks management
Used to maintain software versioning and revisions
Used for Test Management
Used for Issues repository
Project Lifecycle Management
Used for project planning and tasks management
Used for application lifecycle management and mapping
Revolutionizing Product Line
Case Study
| Application | Description | Activities Performed |
| Gas Monitor Management Web Application | A comprehensive gas monitor management web application solution. The application is responsible for performing scheduled tasks such as calibration, bump, diagnostics, and record-keeping. In addition, it remotely monitors the condition of the equipment fleet and provides reliability reports to the customers about their fleet. | Security testing has been performed to make sure that the application is reasonably secure for the top 10 security vulnerabilities identified by OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Standard. Functional, regression and usability testing has been performed throughout the project iterations to raise the quality of an application to a certain level. |
| Telemedicine & e-Consultation | CureTel is a web-based telemedicine and e-consultation application which facilitates fast and efficient communication between patient and consultant. The patient just needs to go to the nearest CureTel Center to confer with leading consultants worldwide for consultation and second opinions. | Performed Functional, Integration, GUI, Performance, and Regression testing of the application. |
| Real-Time Data Acquisition and Reporting | A secure web-based platform for dynamic monitoring & diagnostics of remote locomotives, it provides automated remote monitoring, system-health status, website reports customized for user, remote data-logger access, remote firmware updates, predictive maintenance and automatic request for service. The application is also capable of generating customized reports like:
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System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, GUI Testing |
| Requirements Management Application | This application provides a comprehensive requirements management environment that helps the development of requirements through efficient communication and collaboration across the enterprise. It actively engages all stakeholders in a collaborative process by providing a web interface to access the requirements database from anywhere, anytime. | Performed Functional, Integration, GUI, Performance and regression testing of the application |
| Application | Description | Activities Performed |
| Radio/Remote Operated Locomotives | This project is about radio remote control firmware with dual CPU architecture. This is a highly safety-critical embedded application used in the rail transportation industry and complies to EN-50128, which is a well-known safety standard for the rail industry. | Along with functional and dynamic testing of these control systems, detailed white box testing is performed to make the systems compliant to EN-50128 safety standard. For static analysis, automated testing is also performed during the code walk-through and code inspection phases. |
| Advance Radio/Remote Operated Locomotives | The project is concerned the Locomotive Control Unit decoder as the central brain of Locomotives. This embedded application is a highly safety critical application used in the rail transportation industry. The advanced features of this product are self-decision making on the speed control system and braking system. | Along with functional testing on real time environment this firmware is also tested in Locomotive simulators, Transponder & GPS simulators, Map/Track simulators. |
| Embedded Control Systems for Material Handling | This project is about radio remote control firmware for safety level systems with dual CPU architecture. These systems are used in material handling industry applications like Cranes, Truck Equipment Control, Petroleum Production, Construction Power and Gas Utilities etc. | Along with functional and dynamic testing of these control systems, detailed white box testing is performed to make the system compliant to EN-13849 safety standard. For static analysis, automated testing is also performed during code walk-through and code inspection phases. |
| Embedded Control Systems for Mining | Data Acquisition and Monitoring from Mining Equipment. The system includes Remote Configuration, Alarm Notification and Management, Remote Diagnostic Reports and Remote Health Monitoring. | Functional, integration and performance testing are performed for consistent behavior in unexpected and unnatural scenarios. Detailed white box testing is also performed to make sure that the firmware is compliant to EN-13849 standard. |
| Gas Monitoring Devices | The scope of the project is to develop firmware for gas monitoring devices that contains different types of sensors responding to different levels of gas concentration. | QA activities include firmware requirements and design reviews, preparing testing documents which include Test plan, Traceability matrix and Test reports. Testing activities include black box testing and white box testing, consisting of MISRA-C compliance, code complexity, commenting and naming convention standards verification using SQM-Lint, CCCC & Doxygen respectively. |
| Docking Station for Gas Monitoring Devices | This is an advanced Docking Station with the capability to directly upload the instrument data to the web server. A Docking Station is connected to the internet via Wired/wireless medium and it is also capable of for calibrations, bump tests, diagnostic tests, and datalog data downloads, all of which are also controlled by the central web server, docking station also serves as a battery charger for instruments with rechargeable batteries. | Functional testing is performed for all system functionality, audit of test scripts and other related artifacts is also performed, and security testing of the configuration application hosted on the VDS is also part of the testing scope. |