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SQS concentrates on improving the success rates and effectiveness of local and global software projects. Using our growing international skills base together with extensive knowledge of our clients businesses we will offer 'best in class' services. These services will cover QM, QA and Testing and because our unique position as an 'independent' specialist will add considerable value to corporate clients throughout the software life cycle.

SQS-UK is the UK's leading independent provider of system and software testing and quality improvement services and is part of the SQS Group of companies, the largest testing group worldwide.

We are passionate about quality! Improving quality will reduce the risk of business change and will provide more effective return on investment for IT projects.

SQS-UK and the SQS Group set the standards for managing quality to ensure that business critical systems are implemented effectively, enabling organisations to fully achieve their business goals.

SQS-UK helps our customers to improve their efficiency by implementing process improvement programmes that reduce costs, achieve significant reductions in time to market implementation and raise the quality of deliverables of IT projects.

As the market leader we continually seek to raise awareness of issues that affect executives in business and IT. IT is recognised as a key driver in improving the competitive positioning of many organisations and SQS-UK provide an independent and objective service to ensure organisations optimise IT investments and the return achieved, drive increased business value obtained from IT projects, manage risk more effectively and reduce costs.

SQS-UK are experts in testing with proven skills that make a quantifiable difference to any project. Our objective and independent viewpoint enables the most effective test processes, tools, technologies and utilities to be deployed - with built in metrics to prove the efficiencies that are gained.

SQS-UK is committed to helping you manage your business risks.

Our range of technical services provides a range of services for testing web, e-Commerce, infrastructure, security and client server applications.

Load and performance and stress testing to ensure that web based sites perform at optimum levels are uniquely combined with performance tuning services. Bottlenecks and problems are identified and solutions are implemented or suggestions for the most effective changes made.

Automation is a key element of our service offering and provides specific methodologies and procedures that guarantee time and cost savings are gained and that investment in testing tools are realised.

The use of tMosiac, SQS-UK's enabling technology guarantees success in automation and enables significant time and cost savings to be made on all projects.

Consultancy services provide tailor made strategies that include planning, time scale estimates, resource planning, specifications and options of tool implementation and training and staffing requirements.

Testing services ensure that preplanned strategies are implemented and delivered in the most effective way. Project teams take full responsibility for the implementation and success of your testing projects.

We have pioneered the concept of Quality Governance. Quality Governance is the building block that provides the foundation for transforming IT into business value and provides the effective direction of quality and control throughout the business.

With a staff of about 1,400 worldwide in the consultancy, SQS-UK and the SQS Group has the ability and the size to effectively manage any project and deliver a real difference.