“Its the real thing” ! QA delivers growth
In September 2013, I dropped my 3 boys off to their first day at school. It was a highly anticipated moment. 8 weeks later I began my role with CelticQA solutions. I was originally hired for my HR knowledge but as a start-up company there was much to be done and few hands to do […]
4 things I learned on the way to CTO
1. You know more than you think you do. “I don’t know how to do that’” How often have you had that thought? For me, it was usually just before I had to do it. It pushed me to learn. Each new task asked something more of me. Mobile telecoms, banking, insurance, e-commerce, test management, […]
Should I automate now?
Everyone wants to automate their testing, right? But it’s not a small task to take on. Automation can be seen as a solution to many problems (we need to speed up our delivery time, manual testing is a bottleneck, etc etc) but it also can create more problems for you if you don’t spend the […]
7 Signs that you need to invest in your QA and Testing
1. Defects in Production Finding critical defects, post deployment in a live environment, indicates that the testing carried out hasn’t tested the project requirements correctly. This results in your Operations (Ops) team spending a large portion of their time and budget resolving or working around the defects. Applying hot fixes to a live environment […]
Local Enterprise Awards – Winner of Best Established Business
CelticQA was recently nominated and delighted to have won the ‘Best Established Business’ Award at the recent Enterprise Awards in Dundalk, Co. Louth held in An Táin Theatre and hosted by the Louth Local Enterprise office. The company was represented by Nicole Carey (Managing Director). Speaking afterward Nicole said “It’s a great honor to be […]
3 Barriers to Continuous Delivery
What is Continuous Delivery? Continuous Delivery is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles. This ensures that this software can be reliably released at any time. Sounds pretty great, right? New features can be added quickly and there is always a usable release ready to go. So why are only […]