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Edge on Course for a Record Year

29 July 2010

Announcing half yearly results in excess of £500K, Edge Testing is forecasting an annual turnover of £1.2m in year three. Since its launch at the end of 2007 the award winning IT company had already achieved a strong revenue growth rate from £170K in year one to £500K in year two.

Edge Testing is a powerful independent force in software testing, working with some of the UK's leading public and private sector organisations including Heineken, Historic Scotland and Ignis Asset Management.

This month sees the company open its new headquarters in Maxim Business Park to accommodate its growing workforce, now standing at 12. Maxim is a £330 million development, the UK's largest speculative build, aiming to attract 8000 jobs to North Lanarkshire.

The company has also completed a full rebranding exercise, part of which includes the re-launch of its website which can be seen at www.edgetesting.co.uk.

Earlier this year, Edge Testing won Best New Business in the Lanarkshire Business Awards 2010. This award is for businesses less than three years old that demonstrate a high degree of entrepreneurship and vision for the future, with the potential for further growth in turnover, profits and employment levels.

Founders, Susan Chadwick and Brian Ferrie, are respected as two of the UK's leading experts in software testing. It is their strong personal reputations in the industry that gives Edge Testing a competitive advantage and has allowed the company to buck the trend of recession, having launched just months before the collapse of world markets in 2008.

Susan Chadwick, Edge Testing's co-founder comments: "We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved in three short years and it is thanks to the whole Edge team and our focus on service excellence, thought leadership and our unique solutions that has helped us, not only to weather a stormy market but to prosper. We are very excited about the future and what we can achieve for software testing as an industry and the IT sector as a whole in Scotland."

Edge Testing ties software testing to business strategy and directly affects the achievement of business objectives. Technology and sector independent the company has a broad client base and is able to target all markets. Again this has meant it has been well placed to ride the difficult economic environment of its early years.

The Edge Testing business model takes a holistic and business focused approach to testing, supported by an ethos that 'prevention is better than cure' and recognising that cost to fix increases exponentially the later in the project lifecycle that issues are identified. It is these potentially extraordinary levels of cost that Edge Testing addresses ‐ enabling clients to decrease overall project costs and time to market. In essence testing pays for itself.

Software testing is still a maturing industry and Chadwick and Ferrie have led a movement to establish a community of software testing professionals that can share best practice and help shape the growth of the profession.

Press Articles for Edge

29 July 2010

Following our recent announcements on office move and half-year results you may have noticed us in the press.

On Wed 7th July we were in the City Briefing on the back page of The Herald.

We also featured in Business7 with a link to the article here

Edge on the Move

25 June 2010

We have recently moved office to support our continuing growth. Our new headquarters is in Maxim Business Park, Eurocentral.

At the same time we have just launched our new website to coincide with our re-branding exercise. We would welcome your comments and feedback as well as suggestions for what else you may wish to see on the website. Send details to contact@edgetesting.co.uk.

Edge Wins Business Excellence Award

02 March 2010

Edge Testing Solutions are celebrating winning Best New Business in the Lanarkshire Business Excellence Awards 2010.

The award was announced at the annual awards dinner held on Friday 26th February and attended by 350 business finalists and sponsors. Brian Ferrie and Susan Chadwick, the co-founders of Edge, were delighted to accept the award.

The award was for businesses less than three years old that demonstrate a high degree of entrepreneurship and vision for the future, with the potential for further growth in turnover, profits and employment levels.

Edge Testing Solutions sees this award as recognition of the contribution of the entire Edge team and a focus on service excellence, thought leadership and delivering unique solutions which enable our clients to meet and exceed their business objectives.

The main sponsors were Amey and the new business award was sponsored by Lanarkshire Enterprise Services.

HP Quality Center 10 - Complimentary Breakfast Seminar

20 October 2009

Does your testing process have to rely on stand alone documents, a collection of disparate systems and non-standardised practices? This approach increases the risk of cost effective application deployment due to missing information or coverage, inneffective communication and lack of consistency and repeatable processes. HP Application Quality Management supports your entire testing methodology, saving you time, decreasing costs and mitigating risk.

HP Quality Center is the industry leading software for requirements and test management and the latest version has enhanced that position. HP Quality Center helps your developers, QA teams and security professionals coordinate and consolidate functional, performance and security testing. It provides visibility of the process from end-to-end to optimise our quality assurance.

Edge Testing Solutions invites you to attend a breakfast seminar on 4th November in the Apex Hotel, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh (2 mins walk from Waverley station) where you will be able to see a demonstration of the product, new features and template accelerators. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss your requirements with the experts and other users.

Whether you are an existing user who wants to understand what the latest version provides or may be considering investing in the tools this event is a must. Call Edge Testing Solutions today on 01236 702088 or email contact@edgetesting.co.uk to book your place or find out more.

Edge Director Joins ScotlandIS Board

01 July 2009

Susan Chadwick, co-founder and director of Edge Testing Solutions, has been appointed to the board of ScotlandIS. The trade body for the ICT industry in Scotland recently approved the new board of directors to include representation from a more diverse range of companies and organisations.

Susan commented "It is an honour to be asked to join the board of ScotlandIS and I look forward to contributing to the vision of raising the profile of the industry and raising an awareness of issues on behalf of member organisations".

A link to the news story can be viewed here...

Testing Training in Demand

23 March 2009

The practical training courses offered by Edge have a 'real world' and practical focus providing attendees with the 'how' rather than just the 'what' that is offered by most testing training courses. Our public courses are delivered at our training facilities in Coatbridge, near Glasgow or in Edinburgh city centre. We can also deliver closed courses at your offices.

Our current suite of practical training courses offered includes:
- An Introduction to Testing (2 days)
- An Introduction to User Acceptance (1 day)
- The Top 5 Test Design Techniques (2 days)
- Better Requirements, Better Outcomes (1 day)
- Testing in an Agile Environment (2 days)
- A Practical Risk-based Approach to Software Testing (1 day)
- Exploratory Testing in the Real World (1 day)
- Becoming an Effective Test Manager (3 days)
- Test Process Improvement & Metrics for Business Benefit (1 day)

Our courses are priced at £225 (ex VAT) per course day per delegate. This includes all materials, lunch and refreshments.

To register your interest for our Q2 and Q3 courses or for more information please email contact@edgetesting.co.uk or call us on 01236 702088.

Better Requirements, Better Outcomes - 12th Nov 2008

20 October 2008

We are hosting a public training event aimed at improving requirements gathering and management.

Purpose

Prevention is better than cure. Minimising the cost to fix defects and hence influencing the overall cost of delivery is best achieved by finding potential problems as early as possible in the project cycle. Static testing techniques can dramatically reduce the overall cost to a project, with this course focusing on the key area of Requirements.

Requirements Testing, a simple yet effective technique, can realise savings of up to 30% in rework. This workshop highlights the key components of the techniques and considerations on how to effectively align the implementation of these with the way in which requirements are established and maintained throughout the project lifecycle, providing full traceability.

Cost:
£195, ex VAT, per delegate. Includes materials, lunch and refreshments.

Location:
Held at our Coatbridge offices (with free parking or 5 minutes walk from the train station).

Date:
Wednesday 12th November 2008.

To request a booking form or for more information please email contact@edgetesting.co.uk or call us on 01236 702088.

Edge Testing Solutions join the HP Business Partner Programme

13 June 2008

Edge Testing Solutions is delighted to announce it has joined the HP Software Business Partner Programme. As an HP Silver Partner, Edge Testing Solutions are able to act as a reseller of HP Software as well as delivering its innovative solutions to complement the technology.

Focusing on the applications formerly belonging to the Mercury suite, the primary areas of expertise lie within the Quality Assurance and Performance Validation solutions of HP BTO Software. In essence, this ensures that Edge Testing Solutions are perfectly placed to provide solutions through Edge Practice in tools such as TestDirector for Quality Center, QuickTest Professional ("QTP"), WinRunner and LoadRunner.

Brian Ferrie, co-founder and director of Edge Testing Solutions comments "We are delighted to join the HP Partner Programme. Partnering with the industry leading testing tools vendor provides our clients with a fantastic opportunity to realise benefits from effective and efficient testing through our testing solutions which can now be underpinned by world-class technology".

Further information on our solutions related to HP Software can be found by following this link Edge Practice - Tools or by contacting us via contact@edgetesting.co.uk.

Business Awards Finalists

03 June 2008

Edge Testing Solutions have been announced as a regional finalist for the HSBC Start-Up Stars awards. Start-Up Stars is Britain's premier awards for new businesses, with a top prize of £50,000. Now in its eighth year, Start-Up Stars is supported by HSBC, Sky News, the Daily Express and Google.

Commenting on the achievement, Susan Chadwick, co-founder and director of Edge Testing Solutions said "We are proud to be selected as a regional finalist for Scotland. This award recognises new businesses with inspirational ideas and creativity in their industry and provides us with confidence in our business model and market proposition".

Susan is pictured receiving the award from David Laing, Senior Regional Commercial Manager for Scotland HSBC Bank.

Further information can be found at www.startupstars.hsbc.co.uk

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