Performance Engineering and Testing
The mission of our performance engineering group is to help your organization to produce the most efficient software to support your business operations.
Faster end user response times
Operate efficiently on lower powered hardware or cloud instances
Fewer scalability issues under load
Lowered direct and indirect operating costs
The Intersection of Performance and Business
The Value of Performance Engineering
Hear from James Pulley, Chief Performance Officer at QA Consultants, explain how we help customers improve the efficiency, scalability, and responsiveness of applications through Performance Engineering. Better performing applications mean lower hosting costs.
Practice Philosophy
QA Consultants provides client services and products for the sole purpose of improving the efficiency and scalability of software. This results in a reduction of business risk, improvements in end user productivity, and reduced cost of operations.
We approach each problem by asking, “what is the fastest path to data to solve this issue?” This reduces the time required to collect, analyze, and provide insight into application performance.
Our performance engineering & test practice takes a business first approach to managing your application performance. Driven by key performance indicators for response time and scalability, our goal is to help you reduce your cost of operations for software and improve the user experience & productivity with highly responsive applications. For eCommerce applications, this also results in improved conversion rates. We have typically seen a 20–30% improvement in site performance. Imagine what that could mean for your revenue?
How do we deliver value?
- We have three decades of experience to guide us on how to derive data for analysis in the fastest possible methods. This cuts the time required to deliver findings and recommendations to improve system performance.
- We can begin delivery of feedback as soon as business requirements are complete and continue from unit testing through production.
- We use a continuous improvement model, illustrated in column three, where we recommend optimizing the most expensive process first. That data can come from active tests or observations from functional testing/production environments. Value is realized once a change is made that improves performance.
We offer performance engineering services across multiple purchase models: SOW, traditional labor augmentation, and value driven. With value-driven delivery, the charge is directly related to an improvement in key performance indicators on end user response, time and cost of operations. If your systems do not improve in the areas of response time, scalability, or cost as measured by defined KPI’s, then we do not get paid. We only benefit when your organization does as well.
Slow software does not convert
If your website is slow, not optimized for mobile devices, or completely goes down, you risk losing
major revenue on the biggest shopping and damaging reputation and your brand.
Slow software means:
- Higher bounce rates
- Higher cloud bills
- Abandoned carts
- Lower conversions
- Lost revenue
- Lost customers
- Damaged reputation
Black Friday Readiness Guide and Assessment for your website
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Our Black Friday Readiness Assessment will help you find and address the top issues that cause slow performance and site outages.
By simply providing access to your website logs, we can turn around a comprehensive actionable report in just four business days.
Review a sample report here.
This service is for companies that:
- Have experienced slow performance and site crashes and have never found the root cause
- Want to boost site performance to optimize conversion rates
- Are anticipating a sudden increase in traffic due to a big marketing campaign
- Don’t have the in-house technical expertise to address site performance issues
James Pulley
Chief Performance Officer
