Zephyr

Wide Range of Services

We pride ourselves on helping our customers succeed every step of the way. Our professional services and support staff has decades of experience testing complex applications, implementing various testing processes and working with various testing tools. Moreover, they understand Zephyr inside and out, because they helped build it. Zephyr offers a range of services to help ensure the successful implementation and adoption of Zephyr across your entire organization. These services include training, technical consulting, strategic consulting, as well as running segments or entire QA projects..

"Zephyr's Professional Services team has been very responsive and a great asset to our product launch process." John Yung, Vice President, Cloud Computing Business Solutions, Savvis

KickStart Program and Training Services

Your success is our number one goal, so training your staff on how to best use Zephyr to fit your needs is critical. The Zephyr KickStart is a 2 day program that deploys and configures a comprehensive Test Management System for your particular environment and trains the entire test team on its usage. Our QA experts will have you up and running fast with your own data, bringing immediate value to your investment. Key elements of the Kickstart program include:

• Discovery Phase: Understanding your release cycles, testcase repository structure, tools and metrics requirements, etc.
• Setup and Configuration Phase: Installation and setup of either the SaaS or on-premise version, setup of users, projects, releases, testcase repository, schedules, and integration with defect tracking and automation.
• Training Phase: Training your QA team using the Zephyr environment configured in the first two phases of KickStart so as to provide maximum effectiveness.

We are also able to set up customized training to meet the specific needs of your team. All training is instructor-led and can be done onsite or via an online webinar.

Technical Consulting

Our team of experts can assist you with all areas of Zephyr setup and configuration including customizations, integrations, development of custom reports and migration of your current testing data set from other testing tools.

• Customizations: We can quickly customize Zephyr to fit your needs and processes
• Integrations: With our flexible SOA-based architecture and Web Services APIs, integrations are very simple with most automation frameworks and defect tracking tools such as Jira and Bugzilla. If you have specific third party tools for which out-of-the-box integrations are not available yet, our team of consultants can help you build out the integration needed.
• Data Import: Zephyr provides a means of importing testcases and requirements from Excel. If you currently have a large database of testcases, let our consultants help devise and complete an import mechanism from your current test management tool to Zephyr. We can import existing testcases, requirements and other related data from virtually any legacy platform into Zephyr.
• Custom Reports Development: Zephyr provides a set of live, comprehensive metrics and trend reports right out of the box which can be accessed by Zephyr users and the larger organization. Zephyr also includes a powerful reporting engine with an easy to use UI that will allow you to easily define and run custom reports. Our consultants can assist or drive the development of custom reports to meet your specific needs.

Strategic Consulting

As QA organizations' needs change due to growth, reduction or new strategic direction such as utilization of offshore or outsourced personnel, or implementing new development methodologies, challenges on the best ways to streamline various Development and QA processes to ensure effective coverage are common. Zephyr's consultants have experience in successfully navigating through such challenges. Let our consultant's expert guidance help you ensure your success. Our consultants have helped customers define and implement UAT strategies, tailored test plans to achieve significantly better coverage, and driven plans to incorporate outsource strategies.

QA Project Consulting

Our team of QA Leads and Testers can provide that extra little boost to your QA group to complete your testing project. We can drive your QA project or release where there is a lack of QA resources or when you prefer to allocate your resources elsewhere.