Enterprise Software Delivery Has Changed Forever
Digital transformation initiatives, cloud computing, agile software development, and DevOps have converged to dramatically increase release velocity. However, even as software delivery has become faster, the enterprise application landscape continues to expand. Business leaders now operate complex portfolios that include everything from on-premises applications to mobile solutions and cloud native platforms to APIs and data-driven services. To function smoothly, all these solutions must integrate together and operate reliably in production.
In response to growing application sprawl and velocity demands, organizations have placed quality at the center of their business strategy. They recognize buggy software can result in lost revenue, regulatory penalties, reputational damage, and poor customer experience. Unfortunately, many traditional in-house testing models struggle to scale, match release velocity, and incorporate modern automation or AI capabilities.
Managed testing services provide a structured and scalable solution that gives enterprises greater confidence in the quality of their software releases. When partnering with a quality engineering firm like Hexaware, organizations gain the expertise and ecosystem required to modernize QA practices, increase release confidence, and tie quality more directly to business outcomes.
What Are Managed Testing Services?
Before diving deeper into managed testing services and how they benefit enterprises, let’s first define what managed testing services are and how they differ from other testing models.
Managed testing services are characterized by the provider owning the test process end-to-end across the application or program they are supporting. This spans test strategy, planning, execution, automation, AI integration, reporting, governance, metrics, and continuous improvement. This ownership is maintained throughout the length of the engagement through transparent SLAs and does not waiver based on project cadence. Managed testing services assume full accountability for achieving quality outcomes and continuously improving the testing process.
By contrast, managed service providers who offer augmentation or project-based services do not own the quality outcomes across an application or program. Budgets and testing operations are generally focused on project delivery and do not have incentives to optimize enterprise-wide.
For enterprises, this means managed testing services deliver predictable quality, greater cost efficiencies, and access to best-in-class testing capabilities without the burden of maintaining large internal QA teams.
Why Enterprises Are Adopting Managed Testing Services?
While there are many benefits to managed testing services, there are two enterprise pressure points driving adoption.
Growing Application Complexity
Over the years, enterprise application architectures have evolved from monolithic models to distributed architectures with cloud platforms, microservices, third-party software, and complex data pipelines. Testing these environments at scale requires sophisticated tooling and best practices that most organizations have not yet adopted.
Enterprises turn to managed testing services to provide a standardized framework and experience that can handle highly complex testing requirements.
Accelerated Release Cycles
Enterprise software delivery cycles have also accelerated due to agile development and DevOps. Instead of releasing every 6-12 months, teams are delivering code to production multiple times per week. Keeping up with this velocity using manual testing processes would significantly slow down release cycles.
By embedding continuous testing models with high levels of automation into the CI/CD pipeline, managed testing services help enterprises achieve faster time-to-market.
How Do Enterprise QA Solutions Work?
At a high level, enterprise QA solutions focus on helping companies build a sustainable quality engineering ecosystem. Hexaware’s enterprise QA services span everything from aligning quality engineering efforts to business outcomes to modern automation and AI-driven testing. The following are some of the key components of our enterprise QA solutions that utilize an AI-first approach.
- Quality Engineering First: Enterprise QA moves away from testing as a distinct phase in the software development lifecycle. Quality engineering activities span the entire lifecycle from requirements, design, coding, and deployment.
- Shift-Left Testing: Finding defects earlier in the software delivery lifecycle is cheaper and less effort-consuming than discovering them later. Shifting left continues to be a priority for enterprise QA teams and managed testing services providers.
- Test Automation: For Hexaware, enterprise test automation covers functional automation, API testing, and any other type of regression or data validation activity. Hexaware helps enterprises architect and build test automation frameworks that scale across the application portfolio.
- AI-Driven and Autonomous Testing: Writing and maintaining test scripts can create significant manual overhead for enterprises, even with mature automation practices. Autonomous testing using AI greatly reduces the dependency on humans and can help achieve continuous testing. Hexaware uses AI-first testing platforms to provide enterprises with autonomous testing capabilities.
- Continuous Testing: Enterprise testing solutions must integrate tightly with the CI/CD pipeline. Continuous testing validates every change through functional and non-functional testing.
- Performance, Security & Non-Functional Testing: Testing for functional correctness is just one element of QA that enterprises need to focus on. Performance, scalability, reliability, and security are all critical non-functional requirements that enterprises need to validate.
The Role of a Testing Services Provider
Partnering with a testing services provider can help enterprises overcome challenges with existing QA operations. In addition to taking responsibility for the end-to-end test process, the testing services provider should also be responsible for:
- Continuous Improvement: Managed service providers should drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase test coverage, enhance automation, and optimize the overall test process.
- Test Strategy, Governance & Reporting: MSPs should own test strategy, test governance, execution metrics, and maintain transparency through reporting.
- Resource Management: Successful managed testing services models will govern test resource allocation, manage capacity planning, and engage in skills development.
- Test Automation Strategy & Execution: MSPs should define and execute the automation strategy with Hexaware’s test clients. This includes tool selection, skills enablement, and optimization.
- Testing Centers of Excellence: Testing Centers of Excellence (CoE) are an enterprise approach to consolidate and standardize testing activities across the application portfolio. Testing CoEs enable better governance, tool standardization, and automation reuse.
Hexaware’s Managed Testing Services Approach
Transforming testing from a project-based activity to a managed service enables enterprises to realize a variety of benefits.
- Reduced Defect Leakage: Improved automation, continuous testing, and shift left strategies lead to higher quality software being released to production.
- Accelerated Software Delivery: Enterprises that implement managed testing services should see faster release cycles due to more reliable testing operations.
- Cost Savings: Enterprises can significantly reduce the cost of testing by increasing test automation, optimizing staffing models, and implementing continuous testing.
- Stronger Risk Management: Enterprises gain greater risk management oversight when testing is more consistent, coverage is higher, and governance is strong.
- Improved Customer Experience: All these improvements should lead to better customer experiences and higher satisfaction scores.
How Hexaware Can Help?
In today’s competitive landscape, QA cannot be thought of as a cost center. Quality should be considered a differentiator and driving factor for digital success. Hexaware’s managed testing services align with the enterprise journey by providing:
End-to-End Test Process Ownership
When partnering with Hexaware, we take complete ownership of the test process across your application or program. This gives your internal teams freedom to focus on day-to-day priorities.
Agility and Speed
Lean towards speed with automation and AI-driven testing.
Application or Program-Specific Testing
Managed testing models that fit your application needs. Hexaware also supports program-level QA initiatives and testing CoEs.
Commitment to AI First Testing
Hexaware enables enterprises with AI-first testing platforms and services. Autonomous testing capabilities allow enterprises to reduce dependency on human testers.
Partner with Hexaware to experience the benefits of managed testing services and start your journey to AI-first testing today.
Conclusion
Managed testing services have become essential for enterprises navigating complex digital ecosystems and rapid delivery cycles. By outsourcing QA to a trusted testing services provider, organizations gain access to advanced quality engineering capabilities, scalable delivery models, and predictable outcomes.
Hexaware’s managed testing services combine AI-driven automation, enterprise QA solutions, and deep domain expertise to help organizations deliver high-quality software at speed and scale. For enterprises looking to modernize QA, reduce risk, and accelerate digital transformation, Hexaware’s managed testing services provide a clear and proven path forward.
