Pune, India, September 19, 2016:Zensar Technologies, a leading provider of digital solutions, software and infrastructure services, announced today that it has created a specialized Game Testing Centre of Excellence (CoE) aimed at helping gaming companies leverage the benefits of speed, efficiency aligned with its testing and development goals. The Gaming CoE brings together Zensar’s demonstrated expertise in end to end testing and niche testing, in a framework that will help the gaming industry scale new levels of cost reduction and building a better user experience.
Commenting on this strategic development, Sandeep Kishore, CEO and Managing Director, Zensar Technologies, “The global gaming industry is growing at a fast pace with mobility and better connectivity bringing in more players to the fold. In this context, testing services designed specially to address the unique challenges facing this industry such as competition, faster games, security, speed, overall user experience etc. will help build a cost-effective and a robust operation. Our focus is to enable this highly digital led industry implement our “Return on Digital” strategy with clear visible results.”
According to Prameela Kalive, Executive Vice President, Global Head – Custom Application Solutions, Zensar Technologies, “We have the experience of working in this space to help build a customized approach to test multiple aspects of various games, while ensuring that the customer is able to gain operational efficiencies. It was a logical move to bring together our domain expertise and experience in the form of this specialized offering under our Testing practice. We are confident that our customers will be able to realize the benefits on offer in both, the short and long term.”
“Our testing practice is a mature one, with proven results in the area of end to end testing services. We have created the Game Testing CoE with the objective of having a specialized focus on the dynamic needs of the gaming industry. We have already seen successful implementations of this offering across customer projects,” said Sandeep Kumar Peshkar, Vice President and Global Practice Head – Testing – Custom Applications Solutions.
Zensar ’s Game Testing CoE offers customers a complete end to end testing framework across the console, mobile, PC and online games. The CoE has a Game Certification readiness kit for regulatory bodies like AGCC, Isle of Man, UKGC, NDJE, BCLC etc. The team offers various tools to ensure that best in class industry practices are followed.
The key benefits on offer to gaming companies are outlined as below:
Quality
Visible enhancement in Testing effectiveness
Zero Sev 1 or Sev 2 defects in Production
Delivery through secured ODC with 100% focus on data security and IP confidentiality
Cost
Significant reduction in cost of testing
No CAPEX Cost for any tools/Licenses
OPEX cost model using pay per use model
Time
Automation is Best in Class
SLA / Outcome based delivery
High level of focus on timely delivery
In terms of the offerings, Zensar’s Game Testing CoE offers the following services:
End to End testing services :
Functional E2E testing
Compatibility testing
Compliance testing
Usability testing
Playability testing
Mobility testing
Non Functional testing
Performance testing
Security testing
Load testing for multi-player games
Automation testing
Automation using open source and licensed tools
Automation of HTML, Flash games and API services