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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 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.
”
– 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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Contact us
SALES & MARKETING EMEA
10 Northbrook Business Park
Northbrook Road
Worthing
West Sussex
BN14 8PQ
United Kingdom
T +44 (0) 1903 823 254
ACADEMY &
CONSULTING CENTRE
5th Floor
Anchorage 1
Anchorage Quay
Salford Quays
Manchester
M50 3YJ
United Kingdom
T +44 (0) 1942 527 010
Our Accreditations
Our Offices Social media
SALES & MARKETING
CENTRE US
366 Commonwealth Avenue
#6G
Boston
Massachusetts
02115
United States of America
T +1 866 683 2202
HR CENTRE
Rath House
55-65 Uxbridge Road
Slough
Berkshire
SL1 1SG
United Kingdom
T +44 (0) 345 074 7839
FINANCE CENTRE
Islington House
Brown Lane West
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS12 6BD
T +44 (0) 345 074 7801
qaconsultinguk.com
Our Offices
qa.com/consulting
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