Are staff turnover, accelerated release cycles or budget constraints hampering your quality assurance activities? Do you have the in-house expertise or time to address Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance requirements sufficiently? Do you need independent testing services apart from your internal development teams?

Your answer is Catalyst IT Services. We deliver end-to-end ISO 9001:2000-registered quality assurance and testing services that ensure timely release of your software applications without adding overhead. We give you the ultimate in flexibility: consistency and cost-effectiveness, using our test center facilities in Baltimore and Philadelphia, or on-site expertise. In fact, thanks to our proprietary mechanism for finding extraordinary talent, Catalyst’s costs match or beat those of offshore testing facilities –without the infrastructure, communication and management issues.

Catalyst is an ideal fit whether your organization has mature testing capabilities or is not yet fully automated. We offer local, scalable expertise available 24/7 to accommodate spikes in your release cycles.

Our quality assurance solutions include:

Testing Center - Catalyst IT Services offers secure, fully equipped quality assurance testing facilities in our Baltimore and Philadelphia offices. We enable you to keep your quality assurance costs low and quickly ramp up capacity for releases by tapping our deep knowledge of quality processes and tools. We have expertise and experience in Mercury tools, as well as many other quality control, automation and defect tracking software tools. Catalyst is the right solution for any development and quality organization.

Quality Process Analysis - We’ll help you define where the quality assurance process fits into your organization, identify gaps and suggest solutions. Also, trust Catalyst to implement processes that ensure compliance with quality needs, Sarbanes Oxley requirements, ISO, CMMi and other quality-related challenges.

Technical Documentation - Catalyst’s substantial expertise in documentation to support development needs and processes provides clarity about what you need to accomplish and how the system works.

Build and Source Management - Build and Source Management – We are adept in moving source code from one environment to another using such tools as CVS, VSS and PVCS.

Catalyst's QA competencies and domain experience include:
  • Web and client/server testing
  • White and Black Box testing
  • VOIP/Broadband
  • CRM
  • ERP
  • Industry specific testing programs, including financial services, insurance and retail

Catalyst quality assurance services include:
  • Risk assessments
  • Functional test execution (automated and manual)
  • System integration testing
  • System testing
  • User acceptance testing
  • Regression and release testing
  • Security testing
  • Defect tracking and management (automated and manual)
  • Creation and maintenance of test requirements traceability matrices
  • Requirement gathering, definition and documentation, supported by reusable templates

We can also offer you functional, system and integration testing, and provide a dedicated testing IV&V environment on a project basis. Whether your business has a stand-alone department-level application or an enterprise wide solution, our comprehensive portfolio of testing services accelerates software testing life cycles while improving the quality of delivered systems.

Contact Us:
Info@catalystITservices.com
Phone: 410-385-2500
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