Education case study

Developing the Future of Quality Engineering in South Africa

QoT Solutions uses SpiraTeam in its 12-month Quality Engineering Graduate program to help IT graduates understand quality as an integral part of software development from initiation through deployment and beyond.

QoT SolutionsOrganization

Software Quality AssuranceIndustry

12-month programGraduate training

10+ projects · 12 usersScale of implementation

Objective

Give graduates an end-to-end view of quality engineering.

The program aims to equip graduates with a full understanding of the development lifecycle and practical experience of how quality fits into software development from initiation to deployment and beyond.

1
See the big picture.
Trace development progress and understand where a project stands at any moment.
2
Measure quality across phases.
Connect quality activities across the software development lifecycle rather than treating them as isolated tasks.
3
Integrate QA tooling.
Use a platform that can connect automation and performance testing tools within a broader lifecycle-management approach.

Approach

Explore the full application lifecycle in one platform.

The program explored Application Lifecycle Management from user story creation through deployment and incident management using SpiraTeam, while also requiring integration with automation and performance testing tools.

About the program

A 12-month path into a Quality Engineering career.

The QoT Quality Engineering Graduate program is designed to help IT graduates gain the skills and knowledge needed to begin a Quality Engineering career.

Agile and Waterfall

Training covers both agile and waterfall methodologies so graduates can work across different delivery models.

Functional and Performance Testing

Graduates gain experience with functional testing and performance testing as part of a broader quality-engineering practice.

Test Automation

The program includes test automation and emphasizes integrating automation tooling with the wider development lifecycle.

Business Skills

Technical training is complemented by business skills to prepare graduates for real-world Quality Engineering work.

Customer perspective

Building Quality Engineers with a broader view.

We have deployed SpiraTeam for several clients and know that its capabilities are precisely what we need to give our graduates a proper experience of the development world. Inflectra’s big picture approach to tooling solutions and their understanding of software quality assurance is unlike anything we are currently experiencing in the market. The cohesion and flexibility that is built through the Inflectra tool suite supports both agile and waterfall development and is helping us build a class of Quality Engineers that surpass most. We trust that our graduates first experience of the development world is a great one thanks to Inflectra.

Frankie Seegers, Operations and Solutions Director, QoT Solutions

Program focus

Connect progress, quality, and tooling across the lifecycle.

QoT Solutions is exposed to hundreds of tools used in QA and software development, many focused on individual lifecycle activities. The graduate program instead emphasizes how students can trace development progress, measure quality across phases, integrate tools from a QA perspective, and maintain an overarching view of project status.

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