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Accelerating results through a 'shift-left' approach

As the demand for new digital products accelerates, organizations seek to achieve a faster time to market, which puts added pressure on quality engineering and testing functions to keep pace. While lean and agile practices help accelerate development timeframes, organizations don’t want to sacrifice quality for the sake of speed.

A “shift left” approach to quality engineering addresses the need for both quality and speed by conducting testing earlier in the development life cycle versus the traditional approach of discovering defects after the fact. In partnering with organizations across the globe, our quality assurance experts employ this approach and other innovative methods to simultaneously deliver quality and a faster time to market. 

Advanced engineering with CGI’s digital enablers and test automation accelerators

Automated Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) is the catalyst for effective engineering enablement. Moving to an automation-first testing approach requires breaking down silos, prioritizing quality, unifying requirements, and tests, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Our digital enablers and test automation accelerators help clients achieve their desired engineering enablement end-state:

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CGI’s SimpliTest: Automated ATDD accelerator

Testing earlier in the software and product development process reduces costs, improves quality, and speeds up time to market, lowering both risks and technical debt. CGI’s SimpliTest accelerates test automation to enable proactive, shift-left quality engineering.

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CGI TestSavvy: Automated test case builder

CGI TestSavvy empowers testers to manage automated test cases through an easy and flexible web portal, reducing timeframes, costs, and risks, while increasing test coverage to 60%-80%.

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We also offer advisory services around engineering enablement, quality engineering, quality automation, DevSecOps, continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline, and training and upskilling.

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23%
labor hour savings on average per sprint
20%
improvement in cycle time
100s
of engineers trained beyond functional testing to QE automation
Fully automated
user story testing and test evidence captured in the application life cycle management tool
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Adopting agile while improving quality

A large healthcare organization built in quality and increased automated user story testing efficiency by 23%, using CGI’s SimpliTest.

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Moving to quality engineering saves US$1 million

 A top tier bank shifted testing further left, supported by CGI’s SimpliTest, saving nearly 40,000 labor hours and US$1 million in 2023.  

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Scaling a telco’s testing capability through automation

A large communications provider created highly complex automated regression tests, while automated tests continued to execute unattended using CGI TestSavvy, saving ~40 labor hours per day.  

Our testing services portfolio

Our broad portfolio of testing services covers the full testing life cycle and extends across technologies, industries, and geographies. Our testing frameworks, methodologies, and tools enable automation in weeks, not months, while saving costs, decreasing time to market, and improving quality. They include the following:

Strategic consulting and quality management
  • Quality engineering and testing maturity assessment (CMMI/TMM)
  • Future state model and implementation roadmap
  • Quality engineering/testing center of excellence implementation
  • Program/project management
  • Early quality involvement
  • Business acceptance
Quality engineering and testing management and execution
  • Program/project management
  • Managed services
  • Global delivery
  • Agile testing
  • Test data management
Performance
  • Load and stress testing
  • Scalability and volume testing
  • Performance monitoring and tuning
Security assurance
  • Vulnerability and penetration testing
  • Application infrastructure testing and hardening
  • Application security consulting
Automation
  • Automated test service management (ATSM)
  • Automation assessment, strategy, and implementation
  • Technology-specific solutions (ERP, SOA, TIBCO, SAP, etc.)
Specialized
  • User acceptance testing and operational readiness testing
  • Accessibility, usability, and privacy testing
  • Test infrastructure and test data support services
  • Mobile and embedded testing
  • Agile, mobile, and testing certification training
  • Regulatory and compliance testing