LMS Solutions: Leveraging Customizable Framework to Reduce Automation Cost Date:   Wednesday , August 06, 2014 The ever-rising competition is forcing organizations into an era where QA is not squeezed as an afterthought anymore but a \'Do or Die\' option if they want to retain their brands in market. But, for automation testing requirement in biggest companies, QTP (Quick Test Professional) costs around more than $10000. Reducing the automation cost with an exclusive one-stop-shop encompassing a combo of cost-effective yet high-quality open source products for healthcare & virtual environment industry is LMS, an IT services company. The Indore headquartered company\'s own accelerators, deep domain knowledge, highly customizable framework, huge set of master test cases across various platforms and device sets enables them to work in full throttle; thereby reducing overall project cost. Amidst other organizations who confine within web solutions like usability and functional testing, the inventive minds of LMS goes an extra mile with an end-to-end solution that covers complete SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) including code testing; regardless of client\'s process. When it comes to Mobile testing, LMS supports more than 500 devices. \"We understand the unique testing needs of emerging mobile apps. So we leverage our deep app development and release cycle expertise to provide highly mature testing services for mobility solutions with 360° coverage,\" says Amit Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, LMS Solutions. With their localization testing service, LMS not only supports Indian languages but also foreign languages like Chinese since the company\'s clientele is spread across the world including Asia, U.S., UK, Australia, New Zeeland, Italy and Gulf countries among others. The company\'s innovative framework along with the open source enables their clients to test their products in automation efficiently, since LMS is keen on aligning their test strategy with business objectives of the software being tested. LMS minimizes the gap between business analysts to test engineers by directly using Cucumber - Behaviuor Driven development and Selenium - a software testing Tool - from the test cases written by LMS\' business analysts in Cucumber. \"QC council - a group of Test Exeperts helps us to serve our customers better by generating novel ideas like new tool exploration,\" says Ashish Oza, Director QA, LMS Solutions. While the whole industry is lagging behind with a knowledge gap in testing specifics, LMS is ahead of the pack with a skilled team where more than 60 percent QA engineers are ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) certified professionals. LMS maintains a healthy competition among the team with quarterly awards for best performer. LMS believes people should be happy and have job satisfaction to be motivated. Apart from activities like games, outing & movies, the company bestows their people with superior learnin\'g experience. The company is keen on creating a new career path for their QA team as business analysts by developing their skills with a monthly sequential training program, so they can generate more business analyst from the QA team and grow in numbers. The company strives to transform all their team members into domain experts as well as certified ISTQB professionals. As niche technology experts are unavailable in all cities, along with their offices in Fremont, Delhi and Indore, LMS is looking forward to open offices in Pune and Noida at juncture.