# Test Engineering Services

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Home Office](/buyers/home-office/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Acuma Solutions Ltd](/contract-winners/acuma-solutions/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £4,956,811
- Tender value: £4,956,811
- Award date: 1 August 2017
- Published: 8 November 2017
- Contract start: 1 September 2017
- Contract end: 31 August 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 111d3270-486f-4568-9d19-c774766c2d42-180486
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-cbd25acc-933b-409a-b74b-71d30344a62b

## Description

Test Engineering services across the Home Office and other government departments: • Quality & Test Assurance: to assure unit and component testing including, but not limited to, advice on best practice, coverage levels, reporting and tooling\. • Test Automation: to develop or enhance and implement test automation models to support cost effective continuous release methods within agile / devops environments\. Areas of testing to be covered include: o Contract testing: automated API tests to ensure the component under test confirms to service definitions\. o Component integration testing: automated tests to test the integration between two components\. o System Testing: automated testing within sprints to test the story in full, likely based on BDD scenarios\. o System Integration testing: tests features end to end across functionality, including automated regression test capability\. o Security testing: automated security tests in order to find issues prior to health checks\. o Exploratory testing: manual tests to be targeted around complex areas of functionality \(APIs\) and business-critical areas\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/111d3270-486f-4568-9d19-c774766c2d42-180486)