OREANDA-NEWS. NTT DATA understands that companies benefit from a consistent, quality-driven, and accurate approach to testing. Recognizing this value, NTT DATA established the Testing Global One Team to develop global testing processes and standards and through its global testing centers, brings together global testing knowledge including test automation tools from its Americas, Europe, and Asia Regions to ensure the development and delivery of the most effective testing services for NTT DATA customers. As a continuation of this effort, NTT DATA Vietnam now joins this network of centers, and will begin providing outsourced testing services. By leveraging knowledge and experience from Japan, Americas, Europe, and India regions, and with the strength of the test automation tools, NTT DATA will ensure both quality and high productivity for its customers.

The cost of poor quality is monumental: The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology estimated that the cost of poor quality of software for the U.S. is around \\$60B per year. Worldwide, this number is in excess of \\$100B per year. NTT DATA is addressing this growing software quality challenge for enterprises across the globe by offering standardized software Quality Assurance and Testing solutions delivered through a network of testing centers maintained by the company around the world.

To develop and maintain these standardized global offerings, as well as coordinated research and development activities related to Software Quality Assurance and Testing, NTT DATA established the Testing Global One Team in August 2011. The team’s efforts have subsequently included creating standardized Quality Assurance and Testing processes, tools, frameworks, and training across the globe in NTT DATA Testing Centers and in support of NTT DATA customers.

With a track record of success across most vertical industries, NTT DATA maintains highly mature Testing and Quality Assurance practices in North America and Europe. For example, a large U.S.-based financial institution was faced with improving overall quality while also lowering costs. NTT DATA implemented a test automation program that resulted in improving the overall quality of software releases, and reduced the quality costs by 40%.

Additionally, NTT DATA enabled a large network provider in Europe to address its application integration challenges. With an aggressive time-to-market need, this customer, who later awarded NTT DATA “IT supplier of the year,” wanted to ensure higher production quality across its CRM and billing applications. Using NTT DATA’s Open2Test automation framework, the customer increased test automation and coverage, resulting in improved overall quality. This helped in reducing release cycle time by 30%.