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Contents

› About us

› Our Strategic Partners

› Our Customers

› Our Services

› Why QA Consulting

› The QA Academy

› Working for QA Consulting

› Our Offices

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About usWe operate a set of unique customer

enablement programmes in which we provide

industry leading capability in prominent Digital,

Middleware, SaaS and Big Data technologies.

We excel in recruiting, training and supplying

our own specialist consultants.

QA Consulting partners with leading software

vendors where in-market skill shortages are

apparent and costs are high. We ensure that

business solutions are delivered and our

customers are enabled and self-sufficient post-

delivery.

Today, QA Consulting has a rapidly expanding

customer base across multiple market sectors

and geographies.

About us

QA is a leading provider of Consulting Services to commercial, financial and government organisations.

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Our Strategic Partners Our Customers

Our Strategic Partners Our Customers 76

Our Services

Our ServicesWe deliver the capability to build productive stable teams and provide

continuity options beyond the initial delivery. QA Consulting offer three

core service areas:

TECHNOLOGY

QA Consulting is an industry leader in implementation of projects covering

end to end delivery in both vendor-leading and open source technologies.

Our capability includes: Application Development, Middleware, Integration,

Database, Automated Testing Solutions, Big Data, DevOps, Configuration

Management and Service Management.

ENGAGEMENT

• Advisory Services - aimed at supporting transformation of your

organisation’s People, Culture and Processes.

• Professional Services - offering a cost effective blend of Strategic,

Architectural and Delivery Capabilities in Specialist Technology areas that

are high in demand and low in Supply.

• Consulting services – to augment your Teams’ capabilities and provide an

enablement programme for customer engagements delivered through our

Centre of Excellence (CoE) Enablement Programme.

ACADEMY

QA Consulting’s unique Academy underpins our Centre of Excellence (CoE)

Enablement Programme. This enables our customers to grow capability to

build, deploy and support their mission critical applications and solutions.

QA Consulting offers expertise across many technologies, supplying a constant feed of talented onshore Consultants directly into the local market.

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QA Consulting continually deliver consultants

who have the specialised skill set required for

the job, whilst also possessing the intelligence,

integrity and energy required to exceed

client expectations. We at HCL truly value QA

Consulting’s partnership and look forward to

continuing our relationship with them and their

Academy for many years to come.

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– Luis Weir

Principal Architect and Global Lead for OFM Solutions, HCL

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Together with our partners, QA Consulting Design, Develop and Deliver business and technology services and drive results, delivering a cohesive blueprint that will futureproof our customers solutions.

WHY QA CONSULTING ?

Using QA Consulting as your implementation partner

of choice has the following benefits:

Centre of Excellence

enablement underpinned by

our unique Academy model.

Retain IP through our

knowledge transfer

proposition.

Industry-standard

certifications and

professional expertise.

Ongoing recruitment,

training, development and

deployment of consultants.

Fixed transparent

pricing.

Operating since 1999 in

Government, Financial and

Commercial sectors.

QA Academy Knowledge TransferHighly Skilled

Consultants

Continuous Delivery Competitive Rates Experience in Industry

Continuously improve your

applications and release

more frequently.

Agile Delivery

Geographically flexible,

security clearable

consultants.

Onshore Consultants

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We were able to leverage QA Consulting’s

skilled resources in a niche area of our

solution that greatly added to our overall

credibility. As our IPT programme requirements

evolved, their consultants have responded to

the challenge and have taken ownership in

different technology areas. It is this adaptability

and willingness to learn whilst continuously

delivering that has helped make the overall

programme delivery successful.

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– Russ Latham

Associate Partner, IBM Global Business Services

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QA’s Academy offers expertise across many leading technologies, enabling scalability and stability of our customer’s delivery teams.

The QA Academy

Our consultants are the key to our business; that is why each

and every one of our consultants go through our Academy.

The Academy is designed to give our consultants the technical

education with industry-standard certifications and professional

expertise that will allow them to deliver an exceptional service

from day one to our customers.

We provide our customers with consultants across a wide vari-

ety of roles, from assisting new enterprises, bridging skills gaps

in existing teams and the delivery of new projects.

Each Consultant entering the Academy agrees to work for QA

Consulting for a minimum of two years. This approach provides

customers with the continuity of service and the ability to scale

at speed. Most consultants stay well beyond their initial commit-

ment and go on to provide QA Consulting’s senior capability.

1716 The QA Academy

At the QA Academy we strive to provide

not only the technical knowledge to

our consultants, but also a sense of

strength and confidence in themselves.

The courage to have their voices heard

provides a new perspective to teams and

brings innovation to any project. 

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– Gareth Davis

Academy Director, QA Consulting

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Creating the Consultant

At QA Consulting we pride ourselves on having the high-

est possible calibre of consultants; that is why our selection

process is rigorous, we only select the best candidates to go

through our Academy, ensuring our customers receive the

strongest consultants possible.

Our recruitment strategy involves a combination of:

• Building strategic relationships with universities

• Head hunting top STEM Graduates

• Attending university career fairs

• Social media advertising

Our recruitment team personally screen each candidate.

Successful candidates are invited to attend one of our weekly

Assessment Centres. These are specifically designed for the

Academy to evaluate each candidate’s ability to work/integrate

within a team as well as their technical and interpersonal skills.

If successful they are then invited to join the Academy, where

there is continued assessment milestones throughout their jour-

ney at the Academy.

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Core SyllabusFollowing on from the recruitment process,

each successful candidate will begin up to 12

weeks of training at our Academy where they

will be provided with technical education

with industry-standard certifications and

professional expertise.

› Enterprise Architecture

› Agile Engineering & Delivery Practices

› Business Analysis & Modelling

› Core Java

› Enterprise Java

SPECIALISATIONSCORE SKILLS

Big Data› Cloudera

› Hortonworks

Middleware

› Pega

› Oracle Fusion Middleware

› WSO2

› Adobe LiveCycle

› MuleSoft

Governance

› Scrum

› Prince2

Cyber Security

› SOC Analysis

› Penetration Testing

› Forensics

DevOps

› Linux

› Puppet

› Ansible

› Docker

› Go

› Jenkins

› Maven

› SonarCube

› Elastic Logstash Kibana

› Hubot

Testing

› Soap UI PRO

› Load UI PRO

› TestComplete

› Selenium

› ServiceV PRO

› AlertSite

› Ready! API

Cloud

› Amazon Web

Services (AWS)

› Microsoft Azure

ServiceManagement

› ServiceNow

Analytics & Monitoring

› Splunk

Digital

› Adobe Experience Manager

› Adobe Campaign

› Thunderhead

› Sitecore

› Oracle WebCenter

› Drupal

Application Development

› Java

› .NET

› Scala

› Xamarin

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4 BEST TECH COMPANY FOR GRADUATES

IN THE UK

Working for QA Consulting

4.6 / 5 - Training

*Data source: thejobcrowd.com

22nd in the Top 100 Companies for Graduates to Work For in 2016/17

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4.4 / 5 - Company culture

4.2 / 5 - Overall rating

“Everyone is a blast to work with.

You make genuinely amazing

friends along the way and the

work culture and environment is

always positive and friendly.”

“The technologies on offer during

training are very niche. Although

I hadn’t heard of them to start

with after doing some research I

discovered how high in demand

they are and the awesome

earning potential in them.”

“The atmosphere and people in

the company are great, really

friendly and make it brilliant to be

a part of.”

“Well delivered training, fantastic

facilities, management takes

care to keep employees feeling

valued.”

“Friendly and co-operative staff,

sociable environment and colleagues

that are great to get along with.”

“Most companies claim to have a work

culture of integrity and respect among

co-workers, but here at QA it has been

my personal experience to receive

genuine care, respect, and appreciation

from all employees, whether I work

directly with them or not.”

“The best part about working at QA

is the people and the atmosphere

in the office along with the excellent

training opportunities.”

“Lively and fun company to work for in

a great environment. Fast paced with

great opportunities.”

“Laid back company with a brilliant

work ethic, great management and

career progression.”2524 Working for QA Consulting

At QA Consulting we continuously evaluate

our consultants’ performance and growth.

We believe that this is the first step in laying

the foundation to further enhance your

project’s delivery. We invest in our consultants’

progression and have infinite possibilities to

help them train, get certified and demonstrate

mastery in the specialist fields. Our mentorship

programme and Technology based communities

provide a vibrant connection to a wealth of

technical and business experience.

”

– David Njogu

Technology Director, QA Consulting

Further Development

Our Consultant’s development does not end when they leave

the Academy. QA Consulting is driven to continuously improve

the level of service delivered by our Consultants and is commit-

ted to enhancing their skills through the identification of further

training opportunities. This approach supports a more enriched

level of customer service and continuous education for all of our

Consultants.

Continuous Evaluation & Feedback

• Frequent

• Internally Driven

• No project disruption

Vendor Certification Process

• Remote Learning

• Classroom Learning

Complementary Training

• QA Academy

• QA Learning

• Vendor Driven

“QA Consulting has been the platform

that has enabled me to achieve an

exciting Career in IT, around amazing

people with continuous opportunities

for learning. The knowledge I take

away will benefit me for my career

progression”

— Angelica Charry,

.NET Consultant, QA Consulting

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