The solution
Anevia first turned to Pentalog for product testing, carried out by a dedicated outsourced team of 5 QA specialists based at Pentalog’s delivery center in Hanoi, Vietnam. The team maintained the performance of Anevia's existing software and hardware prototypes according to guidelines and preset tests established by them.
These tests ensured optimum service and compatibility between the clients’ already marketed products, the last set-top-box adjustments and those of the end users’ equipment.
The project scope included:
- Test Specification: Writing new test cases & updating existing ones
- Testing Activities: Performing tests (manual, performance & automated)
- Test Script Development: Automation of already stable test scenarios
At the end of 2009, the collaboration kicked off with a one-month mission carried out by Pentalog’s project manager at the customer’s office in France. During this period, the project director was trained on the use of the Anevia’s products, technologies and defined the outline of the test organization. In January 2010, after returning to Vietnam, the Pentalog project manager trained the outsourced team of testers and spearheaded the implementation of the testing platform.
After the successful completion of the product testing mission, Anevia decided to ramp up the team from 5 to 8 and add another project onto the scope of the collaboration. The new project included Cloud Monitoring, carried out by one developer in Python & one Scrum Master.
“Anevia already had a Cloud Monitoring platform, but wanted to improve it with more functionalities since their product was gaining users fast. After 3 months, the PO found there were still a lot of things that could be done. Now, after 2 more years they still have features they want to implement.” – Minh Tran – Scrum Master, Cloud Monitoring Project
Anevia x SkillValue
Our dedicated teams worked in such a cohesive manner, it motivated Anevia to deploy the use of Pentalog’s very own IT testing platform by SkillValue, our HR-based foundation.
Beginning in 2014, Anevia administered over 350 IT SkillValue quizzes and tests for technologies such as Linux, PHP, Python & C++ to assess prospective employees and in-house team members. Hiring managers found that by using the SkillValue platform, they not only avoided time and money investments associated with the traditional sourcing process, but found great matches in candidates they would have otherwise overlooked.
"The tests have allowed us to pick and sort matching candidates from a technical point of view with sometimes downright surprising results. For instance, we were able to identify an unlikely candidate who scored a 29/30 in the Linux test although he had been initially overlooked during the interview phase.” – Arnaud Demey, Project Director
