SQA Consulting | Transformation - Security - Automation

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN BUSINESS & IT

POWERING INNOVATION WITH

INTELLIGENT BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION

Creating real value through positive business change

At SQA Consulting our proven solutions enable change, provide confidence & ensure production stability. Intelligent business process automation is our holistic approach to reducing cost, improving performance, mitigating the risk of process failure & improving organisational value. We understand that achieving the desired levels of change through automation is a unique journey for each organisation.

We tailor our services specifically to your needs & support you with our market-leading product portfolios. We call this journey ‘intelligent business process automation’ (IBPA). Working in close partnership with our clients, we combine business understanding with in-depth IT knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions that power innovation & business growth.

How we work with clients

We reuse our process intellectual property & automation technology to support clients through their IBPA projects. We have a systematic approach to value delivery:

Advise

We review & refine our clients processes & tooling, recommending change & integration to benefit delivery through automation

Change

We run projects in partnership with our clients to ensure that the recommended change delivers the anticipated business benefit

Train

We train our client’s resources to ensure that benefits delivered through change projects are sustained

Support

We provide support to our clients to ensure they continue to reap ongoing benefits after project completion

Operate

We provide expertise to manage business processes & technologies on behalf of our clients

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testimonials

"We are delighted with the specialised and professional services Jeremy Round and team provided – the input has been invaluable. We will definitely recommend SQA Consulting and request ongoing engagements with you."

“SQA's vast experience in the sanctions screening environment has resulted in their software being used all over the world.”

“Engaged SQA Consulting 12 months into a 20 month programme that consisted of 170 funds & was worth 40 billion euros in combined AUM. Their revised QA strategy, test approach & management capability enabled us to deliver the programme & gain a real insight into the overall SDLC benefits of getting QA right.”

“SQA Consulting were engaged to help us utilise RPA for live proving & synthetic testing of operational tasks post give. Having been sceptical I must admit that the RPA capabilities, particularly recognising images & optical character recognition were fantastic. Our deployments are now conducted daily & the RPA processes keep my operations team up to speed with management information outside of office hours. The SQA team are true experts.”

“I have engaged SQA Consulting across several organisations whilst I have been executing roles as CTO on payment & platform migrations, along with digital transformation. All engagements have been delivered to the agreed scope, time & budget within an acceptable tolerance. Key client engagements have been at European Payments Protector, UK Top 4 Retail Bank, Government Office, Global Systems Integrator & Top 3 Retail Bank. I have used SQA consulting for services related to cloud migration, containers, data migrations, DevOps & data lakes.”

“SQA were invited to my company to enhance testing. In a defined time frame they delivered what was agreed & introduced new processes that were in line with company policies & tools. They educated testing team members to be able to work with new processes & prepare us for the exit of SQA resources. At the end of their engagement, the transition was flawless, & the team remained available for assistance during the transition period if needed. All of the SQA staff that worked at our office showed high levels of professionalism, were goal orientated, dedicated to work together with our staff, open minded & ready to hear & accept suggestion from our side. Great people who I enjoyed working with!”

“I did not think it was possible to automate the KYC onboarding checks, right down to ID&V authentication. The BOT’s communicated with operations staff via email using pre-defined workflow & fuzzy logic to resolve any edge cases. The time savings have paid for the software & consultancy 10 times over & counting.”

“The security team at SQA Consulting are true SMEs with in-depth knowledge of the SDLC, technologies, process & governance. They deliver on time, every time, & nothing is to much trouble.”

“There is no one more qualified to take us through the intricacies & complexities of screening.”

“We had their bespoke security framework & processes audited by one of the largest global consultancies in the world as part of our acceptance process. It gives me great pleasure to say the feedback was this was one of the best security frameworks they had ever seen.”

“The SQA Consulting management resource, streamlined our test management processes, offshore delivery capability, reporting, tooling utilisation & managed our monthly releases, taking us from ground zero to a stable sustainable model in under six months. We were so impressed that we extended his engagement & appointed him as our Interim Head of Testing.”

“Our CI/CD pipelines are now running seamlessly utilising Ansible, Contrast, SonarQube & Zap, & all reporting to a single repository. Something we were told was impossible. The speed at which these guys deliver is astonishing.”

“We reached out to SQA Consulting in order to see if it was possible to generate, issue & chase invoices. The proof of concept was such a success that our finance & operations team have come up with a multitude of tasks to add to the automation backlog, their terminology.”

“SQA Consulting delivered a single source solution, full development integrating with the underwriters, finance houses, fraud databases underpinned by full QA including performance, stress & volume testing. The process was seamless & we could not be happier.”

“We asked SQA Consulting to automate the manning of the 1st & 2nd line responses for our help desk. Once we had collectively agreed & tested the workflow you would never know you were communicating with a software programme unless you had been told.”

“We've been working closely with SQA Consulting SMEs on various projects & they have always delivered &, more importantly, delivered on time. Their leadership team is commendable & they are a truly dependable partner. My colleagues from Roxoft and myself personally enjoy collaborating with experts from SQA - although they're working around the clock, they always have energy to spare & their positive attitude makes a difference.”

“SQA Consulting are involved in every decision we make regarding sanctions & PEPs, we couldn't perform them without them!.”

“I have never encountered security consultants who are as well informed as the SQA Consulting security team. They were & are a continued pleasure to work with.”

“The 5 day security training covered all manner of topics, I was not sure if I was elated or terrified once the training had completed. My team and I had no idea how vulnerable our systems & we are & how easy it was to exploit the smallest vulnerability.”

“The SQA Consulting entire security team is made up of RAF reservists, having seen them in action it’s no wonder they are seconded to support Government Cyber Operations.”

“Their true area of excellence lies in managing risk pragmatically with operational excellence.”

“Incredible professional approach & extensive knowledge. It is really refreshing to work with the company that has both domain expertise & hair thin precise accurate delivery & planning. Our second project now in delivery & still superb experience!”

"The SQA Consulting team collectively matrix managed 2500 resources, the majority of these were based offshore. SQA managed multiple concurrent programmes across, sales, service, mobile, digital propositions & security, the team were responsible for quality, assuring the delivery of £20 million of IT change on a monthly basis".

"Thank you very much, your customer and transaction screening report has been very useful for us. Your findings helped us to identify multiple of development items, and we really appreciated your in-depth support throughout the process!"

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SWIFT sanctions screening assurance

CHALLENGES

A bank performs sanctions screening using some third-party software. Although the screening system appears to be working (in that output is created), the bank quite rightly wants to know if its system addresses the bank’s risk, is effective, is efficient, is comparable to peer banking institutions.

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RESULTS

The observation document produced after the typical 4 weeks since the project started, contained observations on screening weakness, with root cause analysis, a recommendation for management, & management responses.

A document such as this is exactly what a regulator is looking for, demonstrating that a thorough investigation has been conducted, & any weaknesses have plans for closure.

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