Our Verticals

Investment Banking

At SQA Consulting our delivery teams have supported countless programmes within the Investment Banking vertical market.  Whether you wish to improve application performance, are migrating data or simply want an automated framework that will enable automatic regression testing of :-

• Trade Entries
• Order Release
• Portfolio Enquires
• Cash Enquires
• Transfers
• Multiple Client Entries or Settlements
• Fund Accounting
• Trade Capture
• Transfer Agency

We have a proven, referenceable delivery capability.

Retail Banking

SQA Consulting has consistently expanded its footprint into the retail banking market Quarter on Quarter. We have unrivalled experience within this vertical market managing onshore, near shore and offshore deliveries. We have saved our banking clients millions of pounds in consulting fees and repeatedly delivered on time and within budget. We are proficient in all aspects of retail banking, the systems are to vast to detail below so we have broken our expertise down by business unit:

• Lending
• Account Servicing
• Products and Distribution
• Commercial Banking
• Global Payments

Should you want application specific information, please email us at info@sqa-consulting.com

Insurance

The London Market Group (LMG) reform deadlines have imposed many new challenges within the Insurance vertical market.  SQA Consulting have developed a consultancy capability that incorporates industry experts enabling us to assist you in reaching your organisational goals. We have many years of experience in integrating market reforms and new working practices into overall BAU strategies for organisations in the Insurance sector. SQA Consulting brings together People, Processes and Technology to ensure organisations keep pace with market developments we provide industry leading ITC solutions in:

• Placing
• Claims
• Accounting and Settlement
• Standards

By recognising that our clients want support that is sensitive to their priorities, we focus on their business needs and are always responsive to the constant change they experience.

Through project-level engagements or complete managed services, our service offerings can increase your market advantage and strategically align your organisations IT systems to your business requirements.

Retail

Our retail customers have historically engaged us at Programme Test Management Level in order to produce test strategies, implement lifecycle governance, ratify budgets, secure environments, roll out the processes and procedures, create and procedure test data, manage the delivery, define resource requirements and manage them throughout the project lifecycle as well as managing stakeholder expectations while resolving the usual project issues

As well as EPOS, our application exposure within retail includes:

• Inventory Management
• Correspondence
• Order Taking
• Data Maintenance & Replication
• Fraud Management
• Stock Accounting
• Workflow Management
• Delivery Fulfilment
• Delivery Capacity Planning
• DD Fulfilment
• Warehouse & Stock Management
• Reporting
• Order Management
• Services

Government

SQA Consulting have supported multiple Government projects by deploying resources to support systems integrators. We augment teams that have been TUPEd under a contract outsource via the deployment of specialist resources to support:

• Automated Testing
• Performance Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Operational Acceptance Testing
• Live Proving

Our offshore and landed resource capability is attractive to integrators as we can provide remote or localised cost effective specialist support. We also provide technical mentoring and skills transfers to ensure that the our time on site is minimal.

Health

SQA Consulting have supported the implementation of many healthcare systems. Whether the underlying technology was being upgraded or applications were being retired or replaced we have striven to provide consultancy support around application:

• Integration
• Performance
• Scalability
• Accessibility
• Security

Our secondment into the Health Care vertical market has been at the request of larger third party systems integrators who face the continual challenges of delivering on delivering solutions on time and to budget, whist they have the development expertise, they call on us to support their specialist resource requirements, ensuring that both they and their customers are confident that functional and technical requirements will be verified by an independent third party industry QA specialist.

Telecommunications

SQA Consulting have implemented several Telecommunications projects. Whether you wish to improve application performance, are migrating data or simply want an automated framework that will enable automatic regression testing of:

• Broadcast
• Billing
• Mobile
• Compliance
• Operations

Our delivery staff have historically created a Test Centre of Excellence for a telecommunications company comprising strategic assets, process, people and technology, to govern how a testing organisation engages and delivers highly efficient testing services to the larger enterprise. It had clearly established goals, well-defined processes, a governance mechanism, multi-disciplined skill sets, and common tools and technology.

Energy

The deregulation of the electricity and gas markets have precipitated many new opportunities within the Energy vertical market. SQA Consulting have developed a consultancy capability that incorporates industry experts enabling us to assist you in reaching your organisational goals. We have experience in integrating market reforms and new working practices into overall BAU strategies bringing together People, Processes and Technology to ensure organisations keep pace with market developments we provide industry leading ITC solutions in:

• Bid/Offer Trading
• Order Management
• Quotation
• Pricing
• One Bill Production
• Regulation & Compliance

Our consultants ensure that our clients are confident that all functional and technical requirements will be verified by an independent third party industry QA specialist

Legal

At SQA Consulting we understand that partners within legal practices need bespoke software solutions to support the demands of their business units. Our consultants are specialists in systems integration, understanding the impacts of both up and down stream integration points, specifically for applications that need to interface into billing, communications and time management systems. We are expert in reconciliation testing which expedites the integration testing process.

Historically we have deployed client wide test strategies that are underpinned with test management and automated testing tools. These enable the rapid creation and execution of regression test suits ensuring that all parties are supremely confident that applications can go live safe in the knowledge that there has been no collateral damage to any other interfacing systems.

Construction / Engineering

Project Managing Construction, Design, Processes, Schedule Issues, Risk & Change Control processes are difficult functions to manage, if they functions are not executed efficiently, and accurately they can cost the stakeholders millions in lost time, effort & incur huge financial penalties. The majority of projects in build environments carry enormous Health & Safety risks which must be competently managed from the outset.

Successful service provision within the Construction/Engineering vertical revolves around project management with the clients expectations of the finished product being achieved safely, cost effectively and with added value wherever and whenever possible,

SQA Consulting has a proven track record of managing complex local and global Multi Million pound projects across multiple vertical markets. Taking our proven delivery model and applying it to the Construction Vertical market our delivery teams have been able to consistently demonstrate that we:

• Ensure delivery against stringent commercial aspects of any project and deliver profitable results, for our clients we have developed a proven and proactive project management system
• Have the flexibility to Select and manage an integrated project team
• Create an "open book approach" to working environment for the interchange of team activities across the many sub- contractors that may be involved with the project.
• Establish effective and controllable means of communication which knows no boundaries
• Provide the tools and support to process, record and measure financial requirements
• Develop and manage an integrated project schedule to monitor, control and report progress on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Provide onsite & in house governance to accurately manage Earned Value and Project cost.

Below are some major benefits SQA Consulting bring as an Outsourcing Project Management Partner to Construction & Engineering Projects:

• The scope of services to be provided is well-defined.
• Carefully drafted roles and responsibilities of the outsourcing partner are agreed to service levels and business performance.

The Stakeholder has a single point of contact who is co-ordinating with design and managing the build of the project using specialist resource such as - Project Controllers, Quantity Surveyors, Risk Managers, Civil Engineers, Project Managers (with specific knowledge of that type of project) , Project Environmental Support & Site Operatives/Labour.

Our Consultant Engineering Services encompass:

• Commercial Management
• Project Management
• Risk Management
• Planning, Project Control and Earned Value Management
• Dispute Resolution/ Avoidance
• CDM Co-ordination Services & CDM Boundary Implementation/Management in accordance with Regulations
• Project Specific Environmental & H&S Implementation

Via Strategic Partnerships cultivated through our portfolio of consulting services our Construction Infrastructure Knowledge and Business Activities Encompass:

• Total Water Management
• Water Supply/Pipelines
• Wastewater/Sewage Collection and Treatment
• Traffic Management
• Civil and Engineering Structures
• Power Plants
• Energy Economy
• Energy Management
• OIL & Gas Pipelines
• IT & QA Consulting
• Geo-solutions
• Industry-specific IT solutions

For more information contact our Engineering Services Business Unit Manager arfan.mirza@sqa-consulting.com