SQA

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SQA
Software Quality Assurance Services Company
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SQA Partners - brief
SQA - Software Quality Assurance

• Privately held company established in 1999
  located in Tallinn, Estonia
• More than 40 full time employees
• More than 80 years combined experience in Quality
  Assurance
• Satisfied customers all other the world

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What we do
Main practice areas for SQA Partners are

• Localization and Globalization testing
• Firmware testing
• Regression resting
• Acceptance testing 
• Functional testing
• Test Automation

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Our areas of Expertise

• Security and AntiVirus applications
• Remote control applications
• Printers
• Firmware
• Games
• Educational software
• Backup software and hardware
• ISDN and networking software and hardware

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Team

• More than 40 employees
• Average age of employees 23 - 28 years
• 75 of employees have BCS in computer science or
  similar

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Development experience

• Development team consists of 6 highly educated
  and experienced developers
• We have good practice in following
  languages/technologies C/C (Win32, MFC,
  ActiveX), Java (J2EE, J2ME, Desktop Java), Web
  development (PHP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, ASP),
  Database development (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
• We completed following projects THE-I Language
  Learning Zone (educational software), TimeFlow
  (employee time tracking software), WebMatrix
  (online bugs database tracking system), Geodesia
  Workrooms (online virtual workrooms and
  desktops), various web portals and corporate
  sites for local and foreign customers.
• Our development process represent a variation of
  classical form of iteration development process
  and include following phases project initiation
  and definition, requirements analysis,
  architecture development, implementation,
  testing, releasing
• Our team uses set of development process
  supporting software, such as source database,
  defect tracking database, developers status
  tracking system, etc.

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Localization engineering experience

• Following of our projects were included
  localization phases TimeFlow, THE-I Language
  zone, various web portals, etc
• Several techniques were used for localization,
  they were included new projects localization and
  existed application localization
• Having our own test lab, we can perform
  qualitative localization testing for projects
  without delays which shorten development cycle
  significantly

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Communication

• More than 4 years experience in communication
  with companies worldwide
• Good experience in direct communication with
  developers
• Good experience in conducting daily/weekly status
  meetings with customers (conference calls etc)
• Special software developed to help customers to
  track project status and progress on the fly
• All employees fluently speaks English
• All employees available by direct e-mails or by
  phone

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Network

• broadband internet connection 3Mb UP link / 3Mb
  DOWN link
• Secured FTP server
• Secured VPN connections
• Secured local network

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Test lab
Our hardware base was accumulated during long
period of testing practice. It contains wide
range of computers from different vendors and
different configuration, so almost all
requirements of test subject can be fulfilled.

• Average test PC (not less than) Intel Celeron
  2GHz CPU, 256MB RAM, 30GB HDD
• Multi CPU platform based on Athlon MP and Intel
  processors
• Server platform based on Intel Xeon CPU
• Server platform based on Intel Itanium CPU (64bit
  processors)
• Sun platform based on Sparc CPU
• HP UX systems
• Apple Macintosh systems
• Wide variety of computer components (video,
  sound, NIC boards, etc)
• Wide variety of network devices (hubs, switches,
  routers)
• Variety of Pocket PCs and Notebooks
• Large number of peripherals

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Customers
Multinational companies including IT leaders such
as

• Symantec Corporation (SQA Partners official
  Symantec QA vendor for localization projects)
• Dell Networking (functional testing of networking
  hardware)
• OnStream Data (functional testing of backup
  hardware)
• Controlware GmbH (testing of ISDN and networking
  equipment)
• Konica Corporation (functional testing
  for network printers)

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Potential for growth

• We can recruit any number of test engineers in
  Tallinn within 1-2 months
• Vast numbers of qualified specialists are
  available from regions surrounding Tallinn and
  Estonia
• Tallinn is only 300 km from the St. Petersburg -
  providing a potentially unlimited source of
  additional qualified personnel

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Estonia in brief

• Member of European Union from May, 2004 Member
  of WTO
• Stable economy with a firmly established trading
  position
• A number of US companies have software
  development and test teams of all sizes in
  Estonia
• Estonia is widely accepted as having the
  necessary economic, social, trading and legal
  infrastructure required to be an
  attractive location for high-technology business
• A recent world trade report places Estonia second
  in the world league of free economies able to
  nurture free trade.(The United States was placed
  first and the United Kingdom fifth).

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Links to information about Estonia

• Estonia Country guide
• Department of Statistics
• Estonian Institute
• Institute of Economic Research
• Institute of Future Studies
• Estonian Foreign Policy Institute