Why CxOs must implement a Testing Center of Excellence

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Why CxOs must implement a Testing Center of
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Why CxOs must implement a Testing Center of
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To provide the right kind of user experience, it
is critical to ensure the reliability,
performance, stability, security, and quality of
an app whether it is an enterprise level or a
consumer-oriented application. Today, the
C-level executives are aware that technology
environments are getting increasingly
multifaceted and are changing at a very fast
pace. To provide more functionality and
capability, they need to optimize their resources
in the best possible way. They know that if they
are laidback, or apply out-of-date tools and
approaches to these new challenges, they risk
serious business disruption due to technology
failures. They also risk staff burn out, and
worse, may lose some of their most valuable and
critical team members. Additionally, most
businesses have understood that if they continued
with the existing practices, it is most likely
that their functional teams would be doing manual
testing for a long time. More and more
organizations are realizing that this is not the
optimized use of their teams time and resources.
Enterprises today simply cant afford to have
these functional business experts, who are in
high demand today, to work on anything but high
value-added activities. This has given the need
for is driving the push to efficiency and
automation. Business surveys indicate that most
companies almost about 40 are adopting
Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoEs). The most
successful CxOs have understood the
business-critical need of setting up a TCoE. They
have led their organizations develop in-depth
competencies around quality testing and test
automation approaches that have become critical
in todays competitive market.
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Why CxOs must implement a Testing Center of
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• Why a Testing Center of Excellence?
• A TCoE helps create an environment where
  strategic assets namely people, process, and
  technology -work together to build quality within
  an enterprise. It leverages various tools as per
  an organizations requirements, techniques, and
  methodologies to deliver applications that are
  market ready. By setting up a TCoE, CxOs can
  achieve the objective of instilling the idea of
  quality within an organization and across various
  functions.
• Helps CxOs meet business-critical objectives
• With the establishment of a TCOE, businesses are
  able to meet important goals such as
• High level of Quality Assurance (QA) that
  increases the dependability of products and
  enables high profit margins that lead to rapid
  growth of the organization as a whole
• Ability to do more with limited budget by
  creating a QA command center that uses
  standardized methodologies combined with
  automation and informative metrics
• Higher staff job satisfaction through
  greater career path opportunities, elimination of
  highly repetitive tasks and greater focus on
  higher value-added activities
• Reduced technology risks, lower chances of
  business disruption with technology changes, and
  fewer defects in production
• Reduced stress, increased staff job
  satisfaction, higher retention, and greater
  productivity

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Why CxOs must implement a Testing Center of
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Faster projects and on-time, on-budget
execution, and more functionalities Proactive,
consistent quality management for
business-critical applications Reduced
technology risks, and increased pace of
innovation Fixing more defects early before
they impact the business Maximized Return of
Income (RoI) from software testing Established
cycle of continuous process improvement Improved
performance and quality standards
overall Enhanced test coverage with reduced
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