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Virtusa – Software Testing Services: Advanced Automation
Vendor Analysis
published on Jun 04, 2020
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Report Overview:
This NelsonHall assessment analyzes Virtusa's offerings and capabilities in Software Testing Services
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s Software Testing Vendor Assessment for Virtusa is a comprehensive assessment of Virtusa’s advanced automation offerings and capabilities designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of IT services and identifying vendor suitability for software testing services
- Vendor marketing, sales and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the software testing sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Virtusa’s advanced automation service offerings, capabilities, and market and financial strength, including:
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Revenue estimates
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis and new developments
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses and outlook.
Key Findings & Highlights:
In 2019, Virtusa converted its Independent Validation Services (IVS) unit from a practice with P&L responsibility to a "Federated Center of Excellence", called Intelligent Engineering Automation Capability Center (CC).
With this move, Virtusa aimed to adapt to the change brought by agile and adoption of digital that requires a bundled approach to contracts.
With this move, Virtusa aimed to adapt to the change brought by agile and adoption of digital that requires a bundled approach to contracts.
As a result of this organizational change, the career testers remain associated with the Intelligent Engineering Automation CC. The testers are allocated to SBUs, only from a project and billing perspective. In total, Virtusa has approximately 3,850 career testers across the organization, representing 18% of its total headcount.
The CC has P&L responsibility and also manages the portfolio, IP, and invests in emerging areas, along with helping Virtusa's vertical SBUs on solutioning.
The three missions of the CC are:
- Quality engineering and test automation
- Adoption of DevOps tools and processes
- The agile transformation of clients.