IGS – Recommended App Security Testing Services 2022 – CIO Insider

by igsindia | Apr 19, 2022 | IGS_News

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IGS – Recommended App Security Testing Services 2022 – CIO Insider

Here is our story with CIO Insider

IGS India is one of the fastest flourishing Quality Engineering Companies in Bangalore with a team of 350+ Passionate Career Quality Professionals. With its Distinct Engagement models that are Capacity-Driven, Outcome Driven and Output Driven, IGS has carved a niche for itself in the global market including prominent SI partners in the United States and Southeast Asia. Naveen Belavadi Nagaraja, CEO adds “We are known for Solution based delivery of Quality Engineering Services that drive value to customers by addressing the structural cost of quality and injecting predictability of ROI”.

In an exclusive interview with CIO Insider magazine, Naveen Belavadi Nagaraja enlightens us more about IGS India and its unique positioning in the market.

Give a brief account of IGS’journey.
My background has been primarily in quality engineering and spans more than 20 years in the industry. Working with leading organizations like HP, EDS and RelQ and through leading many global automation initiatives for industrialized delivery systems, it was always my dream to build a quality focused, independent validation and verification company with like-minded professionals who are focused on solution-based delivery for global customers. This is a differentiator in today’s world where many aggregators in the quality space approach it very differently. More so than being boutique about addressing the difficulties for the end client, they sell services in terms of quality through their products. Therefore, I presented the vision for IGS in a totally different way, where we concentrated on the challenges of our clients at various levels. This was done in conjunction with my business partners, promoters and distinguished Board of Directors with whom we have shared the cabinetry for more than 20 years. Since 2018, we’ve been on a quest to tackle quality from two perspectives: cost of quality and return on investment. We wanted to present a practical approach to quality, with a focus on ROI and how they can optimize

structural costs associated with quality and we become their safe pair of hands towards mitigating operational risks.

What are the strides IGS has taken since its inception?
We were a young and dedicated team of 11 when we established IGS five years ago, with a focus on engineering quality. Since then, we have been consistently evolving our client base as well as our solutions. We’ve evolved from a boutique quality engineering firm to a solution based quality engineering firm. We now employ over 350 employees and have excellent retention. We have expanded our service range to include end-to-end quality engineering services. Today, IGS has strong industry-related experience in Quality Engineering by virtue of having Subject Matter Experts in, Media and Entertainment (OTT, Short Video Platforms, and Gaming), Banking Services(Online and Mobile Banking), FinTech(Digital Banks), Insurance, Health-tech Remote patient monitoring Systems, Remote Consultation platforms, and Clinical Trial Platforms, Telco, Edtech, Airlines, and Airports.

Tell us about your services portfolio and the unique propositions offered through them.
IGS has a strong portfolio of Quality Engineering Services including Consulting and Advisory, Functional Testing Services, Test Automation Services, Performance Testing Services, Application Security Testing Services Vulnerability assessments, and Penetration Testing (SAST and DAST) for Web, mobile and Connected Devices, as well as Specialized Services including Digital Quality Engineering, Quality Engineering for OTT and Short Video platforms, Implementation of Automated Quality pipelines for DevOps and DevSecOps, AdTech Quality Engineering, Quality Engineering for User Journey Analytics, Customer Experience Validation Services, Database, and ETL Validations, Crowd Testing Services for Global Audience Acceptance, PCI-DSS Compliance Validation (Security Testing), GDPR Compliance Validation(Security Testing), Cloud Security testing (Security Testing), Cyber Security Testing, Threat Modeling Services (Security Testing) and Validation of Cryptography Solutions(Security Testing).

Further, IGS Smart Solutions include- Unified Test Automation Framework with Self-Healing Capabilities, Low Code Test Automation Solution Intuitive Framework for business users to build automated User Journey Validations with a simple Microsoft XL interface, Web services and API Monitoring Solutions API Availability and Monitoring Solution & New Content Ingestion Validation Dashboard for OTT and Short Video platforms, Smart Connected Digital Assurance Lab with

Remote access capabilities 300+ Device inventory, 5+ Network modes,16+ Platforms, Knowledge Management Framework IGS KStack for OTT and BFSI domains, Smart custom tool sets to support scientific estimations of Test Effort Test Case Feasibility for Automation and to measure the maturity of Quality Function in an enterprise or a Tech Setup, Plug’N play Program Governance Dashboards, and Test Viz Visual Data Insights playground to measure, track and monitor the Health of Software release by aggregating results of Test Automation runs.

What are the aspects taken care of through your security testing?
Specifically, from a security point of view, this is a service portfolio that we picked up three years ago, and we are now entrenched in strong capabilities and the ideal partner for security application security services, whether it is vulnerability analysis or penetration testing scopes. We’ve received excellent feedback from clients and endorsements for how we’ve been able to take a proactive approach to quality, which is quite similar to what we do for our other scopes. We have adopted a comprehensive approach to security, not just by delivering application security testing but also by undertaking threat modeling for our customers. This is a strong portfolio, which is why more and more customers are appreciating our security testing services because we take a preventive as well as a prescriptive approach. Tool-based scans are used in the prescriptive method. But, in addition to tool-based scans, we have ethical hackers who exploit the app. And it’s a key component of the value we provide to our clients.

What is the future roadmap envisioned for IGS? Where is it headed for the next five years?
As an organization, our vision is pretty clear: we want to evolve into a QaaS, or ‘Quality-As-A-Service’, delivery platform for our customers(RPA solution for Software Quality). IGS Security Testing Services and Solutions Roadmap With the advent of digital banks and the growing acceptability of cryptocurrency trading, IGS is focusing its efforts on gaining expertise and developing a scalable practice to evolve Holistic Security Testing Solutions for the global banking community. IoT, Crypto, NFT, and Blockchain use cases are emerging, providing an intriguing sandbox for IGS to explore. All of these use cases revolve around security and have Multi Billion Dollar Market opportunities. Immersive tech and Metaverse pose a unique opportunity for IGS to engage in Security aspects. Identity Theft and Ransomware manifestation for these techs are boundless and just the right areas for us to invest in the next three years.

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Integrated Teams – Success Factors for Collaborative Teams

by igsindia | Apr 19, 2022 | IGS_Blog

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Integrated Teams – Success Factors for Collaborative Teams

When a group of professionals equipped with diverse competitive skills join hands and work on a project, an integrated team is formed. This not only unitizes client and partner teams but also improvises coordination between both teams. Additionally, client and partner teams will be exposed to each other’s work culture and ethics, which will help in understanding business operations, quality expectations and lead to faster project deliveries.

The concept of integrated teams is becoming an extensive choice among different businesses following agile software development model. In scenarios where the business is expecting the delivery really quick, it chooses an integrated team model. It helps them in acquiring the right workforce for the project.

What is the purpose of integrated teams?

For clients, who find it bothersome to outsource people for their projects, an integrated team is a prominent solution. It not only provides them with skilled professionals who are most suitable for project requirements but also assists them in achieving solutions they envisioned.

The integrated team’s model can benefit businesses in numerous ways. Let’s have a look at how they can help a business grow:

Accountability

Integrated team model induces complete accountability for project completion. As an integrated team involves both partner’s team and client’s team, the group members effectively distribute work among each other depending on their expertise. It naturally creates a sense of accountability for tasks assignees and promotes on-time delivery. Engagement that is built on trust bestows a plethora of opportunities to partners. Hence, it becomes generic to be liable for their own action.

Communication

Implementation of integrated teams ensures there is zero communication gap. As, both teams are working in the same environment, there is hardly any place for misunderstandings regarding process, requirements, functionalities, project progress, status, or delivery timelines. Furthermore, it becomes easier for clients to track progress, which keeps them unbothered about meeting deadlines and project deliveries.

Deliverables

While working within an integrated team, the teams flourish with better coordination. As both teams work towards the same end goal, it encourages brainstorming for generating fresh ideas to resolve hurdles and make headway toward a quality product. Moreover, as high-skilled professionals are working together, it provides timely deliverables, guarantees the best quality solution and ensures all-around incident support.

Quality

When a fresh client is onboarded, by default 100% commitment is given to delivering the highest quality services within the stipulated time. This is only possible when both teams collaborate and understand the requirement, quality standards, tools & technologies being used. When workforce lacks coordination, business faces delivery challenges with respect to quality. This can be overcome by having an integrated team working on projects.

Availability

Highly skilled professionals being available during the time of need, addressing the issue would not be a challenge. It comes with an all-round the clock support. There is testing team, development team, support team, and business development team, all working is a common space making it easy to deliver projects.

Polyglot

Integrated teams are formed with a team of competent professionals, who are experts in their own field. Be it the quality engineering, technical support, software development, graphic designing, or UI development, competent and diversely skilled people working together brings boundless learning opportunities for each other.

Continuous Learning

As cross-skilled people working on the same project, it helps all team members to learn from each other. The client’s team can learn about the technology and tools used in the partner’s space and vice versa. Working in integrated team offers a never-ending learning opportunity among workforce, which is one of the main reasons why integrated teams model/concept is becoming more adaptable and successful.

To conclude, the hasty outbreak of Covid19 has colossally affected everyone and had made us compromise numerous things and working from home is one among them. No doubt it has empowered us to continue our job by being safe within our houses, but also highlighted major issues in businesses’ work culture.

Entire team working remotely, there has been a lack of coordination and time management, which affected project deliveries and has had a huge impact on organizations’ revenue. This can be attributed to companies not practicing an integrated team model.

IGS had previously aced a work culture that was integrated, which helped in its growth during challenging times. IGS was used to various business communication tools like Sococo, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Chat. This helped IGS in creating 100% online integration with its clients and partners and made it expedient for employees to stay integrated with the client’s teams.

This integrated team practice topped with the versatility of using online communication tools, helped IGS and its clients release products faster into the market.

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Count on us to count out bugs & deliver quality

by igsindia | Apr 19, 2022 | IGS_CaseStudy

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Count on us to count out bugs & deliver quality

Client Situation

A Telecom product company that provides end-to-end omnichannel solutions for mobile and fixed telco, cable, media and utility companies faced long TATs for deploying hot fixes, patches, ticket fixes to its flagship client. Was engaged with all regional deployments for one of the leading network company and therefore had volumes of test cases to be executed before customization were deployed with respect to base deployments. An in-house Automation team had envisioned a BDD solution for seamless Automated Jenkins pipeline execution for deployment efforts that minimizes QA Manual effort.

IGS Solution

IGS Automation Architects entered the field, understood the requirements, assessed the development team’s requirements and devised a jUnit based Test Automation solution that was seamless integrated with Gradle Build and compile on the Jenkins Pipeline to achieve CI/CD.
Also implemented a BDD reporting solution with Allure that provided descriptive Allure Reports of Piepline runs that exported the reports to Jenkins.
Created Java interfaces to invoke API, UI and RabbitMQ validations on the same framework.

Result and Benefit

40% QA Bandwidth was conserved and provided Client’s QA team to add more test coverage on every release.
Worked on an unique Monthly package delivery model that locked the Clients QA Automation expense to a budget that was decided upon and spread across 12 months.
Detailed plans tied to budgets helped improve management’s understanding of variances in schedules, cost, and quality.
Reporting methods and Dashboards helped Dev team to get an understanding of better ways to handle Element inconsistencies on the UI.
IGS was able to bring value to create a unified set of reusable components that emulated Business Process Testing Approach.

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Count in Quality & Scale Performance by Counting on IGS

by igsindia | Apr 19, 2022 | IGS_CaseStudy

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Count in Quality & Scale Performance by Counting on IGS

Client Situation

Only FDA approved Clinical Trial and Remote Patient Monitoring company in the US were looking at a scalable and technically niche offshore Test house to build a log term offshore Test Centre of Excellence. The client was against time to migrate this from a prior Tier-2 company due to increased costs on non-tangential efforts such as Shifts, weekend work, etc. They were unable to spot a test house that had the skills for their product and operations. Realized to invest on building a team with a boutique partner.

IGS Solution

Using prior years of expertise, institutional knowledge, understanding of healthcare and business constraints, IGS Leadership built a robust TCoE setup strategy and executed the setup in under 2 Months.
Ensured the key resources with Tier-2 was safe guarded for surge kick-off by absorbing the initial costs as an investment, to showcase the commitment to build a long term partnership.
IGS today hosts a strong Knowledge base for the customer, and has selflessly derisked the Client’s dependency, which is seen as a value of partnership.

Result and Benefit

A clear cut strategy helped the business define tangible goals, participate in planning, and support testing.
Advanced planning of the support models helped teams ramp up or ramp down according to the plan.
Detailed plans tied to budgets helped improve management’s understanding of variances in schedules, cost and quality.
Reporting methods and Dashboards helped management make timely decisions by clearly articulating the progress, quality, and schedule risks.
Overall Strategy was executed with less than 5 % variance and at 15% reduced costs due to IGS Automation.

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