At the start of 2009 TEAM International has updated its strategic movement and business orientation by deciding to put greater efforts in development of its innovative QA and Testing Center of Excellence. In this way the company is responding to increasingly rising demand for high quality software solutions. The decision to expand and advance its QA and testing outsourcing expertise was based on diverse recent market researches and surveys indicating that finding and fixing bugs accounts for almost 50 percent of the total cost of the software project. In addition to this, the surveys also reveal that offloading QA & Testing function to an offshore vendor can save companies up to 75 percent compared to in-house costs. Understanding that the direct cost of quality in terms of staff time by itself is a compelling reason for considering a new business model for QA & Testing, TEAM International added QA and testing to the list of its current services and starting year 2009 provides a full range of QA & Testing solutions that help companies with increasing software product quality while decreasing staffing cost and the cost of rework

TEAM Testing Center of Excellence provides, except for usual QA & Testing solutions, a comprehensive QA and testing function assessment to help organizations timely and correctly determine all of the existing gaps/errors at the preproduction stage of application development and thus to save costs and time of fixing bugs at the postproduction stage. To introduce this type of services, TEAM has launch an online evaluation tool. QIQ Quiz, being a tiny element of the complex assessment tool, is comprised with 6 multiple choice questions. Each question has its own grading logic. The Quiz results reflect with high precision whether or not the quiz-taker organization is deploying its QA and testing function correctly as per market standards. QIQ Quiz results also contain tips on how to use it more effectively with significant benefits for the company.

TEAM encourages all organizations that perform a QA & Testing function with domestic resources to take our new QIQ Quiz to get a better understanding of potential areas for improvement.