Divisional CIO for a major multi-national insurance company

“As a divisional CIO of a major multi-national insurance company, I am very focused on ROI.  I initially engaged Celtic Testing Experts for a ½ day assessment.  I was immediately impressed with the results and have engaged CTE for the last 1 ½ years.   CTE assessed our existing QA Processes & Procedures and provided a realistic plan to implement enhancements that executed upon our vision.  CTE provided us with expert resources to help implement QA P&P’s across our enterprise and have played a key role in delivery of some of our large strategic projects at competitive rates.  I consider Celtic Testing Experts a long term strategic partner focused on continued delivery of quality products to our customers.  I would highly recommend Celtic Testing Experts for your QA needs.”

VP CIO Leading Insurance Services Firm

“During the last four years, Celtic Testing Experts (CTE) has always been responsive to our needs with expert resources on-site. We realize the full impact of CTE’s strengths and the leadership CTE’s resources continue to provide. I would, with confidence, recommend CTE’s services to other organizations. We’re delighted to have CTE as partners in success.”

QA Manager, leading transportation, e-commerce and business service provider

“Foresight provides a succinct view of our robust real-time data used to make important business decisions every day.  The ability to know if we have achieved release readiness or require further testing is provided by this powerful tool.  It is easy to get lost in the data when what you really need is information available for sound decisions.  Regarding software testing metrics, Foresight delivers on our demanding requirements.”

Vice President of IT for a major multi-national insurance company

“CTE enhanced our SDLC process by helping us define a collaborative QA process that could be applied across the Enterprise, and throughout all phases of the development life cycle.  Business Analysts, Project Managers, Developers and Testers have adopted the new Enterprise QA Process Guidelines defined with the help of CTE consultants, and building upon their wide range of Quality Assurance expertise.  Our enhanced Quality Assurance standards and processes have resulted in identifying defects earlier, reducing the total cost of software rework.  Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), implemented with CTE’s guidance, has been a critical component to raising the level of quality software that we deliver to our clients.”

Principal Consultant, Matincor Inc.

“I’ve had the opportunity to work with Celtic Testing Expert’s CEO, Noel Kierans, for the past year while they have helped our mutual client build a new QA practice.  With his patience and guidance an organization which previously had no formal QA practice is now one of the best organized and productive teams that I’ve had the pleasure to work with.  Not only did Noel help the client build the team from scratch, but he helped guide an employee who was placed in the role of QA Manager with no prior QA experience as they developed the processes and procedures necessary to create an effective team.  I would highly recommend Celtic Testing Experts to any organization that wanted to establish or evolve a QA practice.”

Director of Quality Assurance, Leading Insurance Services Firm

“As the QA Director for a large organization, Foresight provides the opportunity to share the QA status and estimates of testing efforts with Senior Management and others across the organization. Foresight is used as a primary tool for providing easy-to-read graphs and consistent reporting to those not involved in QA on a daily basis. The use of Foresight has also led to improved best practices in Quality Center, an additional benefit to our QA group. Foresight provides a way to better measure the overall performance of our QA group and our process and methodology goals.”

Assistant Vice President, Leading International Insurance Services Firm

“CTE led a team that successfully developed a test plan that ensured we delivered a sound product. I can highly recommend CTE’s services for any software development effort and hope to engage CTE again in the future.”

Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer, Leading International Insurance Services Firm

“Celtic Testing Experts (CTE) years of testing expertise and facilitative approach allowed them to have an immediate positive impact to a significant project Crawford had undertaken. CTE brought methodology knowledge, structure and oversight to our testing process and plans. Whether writing test scripts, performing and documenting tests, testing tool usage or defect management, CTE always acts as a consultative partner and a natural extension of our team. This resulted in significant acceleration of our testing process and contributed to the projects’ success.”