Engagement Models

Tailored solutions for your unique needs

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At Assurity, we excel in providing customised quality governance and strategy services through a range of innovative delivery models. Whether you require a capability partner, a project quality partner, or a managed quality partner, our solutions are designed to meet your specific needs. We also specialise in services aligned with All of Government (AoG) initiatives, ensuring comprehensive support for your strategic goals.

Assurity offers a flexible spectrum of engagement models, from building internal client capabilities to fully managing testing outcomes for projects or organisations. Our approach is backed by extensive experience, a focus on partnership, a robust governance framework, a lean and risk-based methodology, and the use of advanced tools and techniques. These elements collectively enhance quality, reduce risk, and deliver significant value for our clients, including those across the New Zealand government sector.

On-demand talent

Building Internal Capabilities

Assurity collaborates closely with your organisation to strengthen and elevate your internal testing and quality assurance capabilities. While you maintain full ownership of the testing service, our team will deliver unparalleled leadership, expertise, and support to ensure your success.

Services and value

  • Establishing a testing centre of excellence: Centralise and standardise testing practices, methods, and tools across projects to optimise resources, enhance consistency and quality, and reduce overall effort and costs.
  • Training and mentoring: Empower your team with essential technical and soft skills through comprehensive needs assessments, on-the-job training, formal sessions, virtual learning, hands-on mentoring, and regular evaluations. This includes specialised training in Lean Testing and Specification by Example.
  • Enduring test capability transfer: Develop portable automation suites and reusable assets that seamlessly transition to your teams or support partners, ensuring a sustainable quality assurance capability.
  • Knowledge management: Implement living documentation and visual management techniques to maintain up-to-date testing documentation, serving as a reliable source of truth for future projects and simplifying onboarding and knowledge retention.
  • Cross-skilled consultants: Cultivate consultants with expertise across multiple domains (Testing, BA, Agile, DevOps, etc.) to provide comprehensive support and effective knowledge transfer.

Project-based delivery

Ensuring project success

Assurity serves as your independent quality partner, dedicated to embedding quality throughout your project’s software development lifecycle. We collaborate closely with all stakeholders, tailoring our approach to the unique outcomes, risk profile, and challenges of each project.

Services and value

  • De-risking delivery: We focus on understanding your business outcomes and risk tolerance to apply a targeted approach, effectively de-risking your project’s delivery.
  • Risk assessment and management: Our early risk assessments help identify and prioritise potential software risks, with our Test Managers proficient in risk and issue management.
  • Tailored testing approach: We customise the testing approach based on your project’s methodology (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid), scope, and complexity, selecting the appropriate testing modalities (manual, automation, performance, security, etc.).
  • Integrated quality activities: We integrate Quality Engineering (QE) and Quality Assurance (QA) activities throughout the development lifecycle, including continuous testing, automation, and defect detection.
  • Collaborative approach: We work closely with project stakeholders, fostering transparency and open communication with a “no surprises” philosophy to proactively resolve issues.
  • Reporting and governance: We provide regular reporting on project status, test execution, defects, and risks, ensuring visibility and proactive management. We also participate in project-level governance forums.

Managed services

Outsourcing quality assurance

Assurity offers comprehensive managed test services and outcomes, enabling our clients to outsource their software testing, quality assurance, and quality engineering needs. Whether on a project-by-project basis or across a broader organisational scope, our team ensures accountability for successful delivery.

Services and value

  • Outsourced Testing Services: We provide a full spectrum of quality testing services, including test management, analysis, manual and automated execution, performance testing, and security testing.
  • Enhanced Quality, Reduced Cost and Time: We enhance quality while reducing costs and time through standardisation, centralisation, the use of accelerators, and efficient practices.
  • Flexible Resourcing: Our “breathe in, breathe out” model adjusts resources based on project needs and demand fluctuations, ensuring optimal deployment of skilled testers. We leverage both onshore and offshore resources for flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
  • Managed Outcomes: We focus on delivering measurable value and aligning goals with client success, rather than merely tracking resource hours. Assurity leads the delivery while you retain ownership.
  • Leveraging Accelerators: We employ proven accelerators such as visual management, lean testing, risk assessments, the Assurity Cloud platform, and Assurity Intelligence (AI) to accelerate delivery and improve efficiency.
  • Dedicated Management and Governance: A dedicated Delivery Manager oversees the engagement, managing resources, reporting, invoicing, and acting as an escalation point. This is supported by a comprehensive account management and governance structure, including executive-level oversight.

All of Government (AoG)

Comprehensive quality services for government agencies

Assurity is proudly listed on the All of Government (AoG) Panel for testing providers, showcasing our extensive experience and availability to work with government agencies across New Zealand.

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Services and value

  • Extensive government experience: Assurity boasts a proven track record of delivering exceptional testing and quality services to major government organisations, including Inland Revenue (IRD), Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Ministry of Social Development (MSD), NZQA, Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), Stats NZ, and more. Our expertise spans mission-critical systems, complex integrations, and regulatory compliance.
  • Understanding public sector context: We understand the unique challenges and objectives of public sector organisations, tailoring our solutions to meet their specific needs.
  • Federated services and cost reduction: For government clients using similar platforms (like Oracle Cloud), Assurity leverages common roles, management structures, and automation platforms to provide federated test services. This approach reduces costs by avoiding duplication and enabling the reuse of artifacts and assets, aligning with the “All of Government” initiative to maximise the value of New Zealand’s dollar.
  • Strategic partnership: We aim for long-term partnerships with government agencies, integrating deeply within client teams, as demonstrated with Inland Revenue Department.
  • Compliance and governance: Assurity adheres to the stringent governance requirements of large government engagements, with experienced personnel managing risk, reporting, and relationships at multiple levels.
AoG panel services we offer

Case studies

New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA)

How NZQA confidently passes exams every year with QA and Testing.

  • Accelerated the process of evaluating complex intertwined systems.
  • Developed innovative approaches to comprehensive testing.
  • Provided real-time, immediate insights on how results and other essential metrics are tracking on public screens.
Read Case Study

Inland Revenue

NZ’s largest business transformation: put to the test with Assurity Cloud.

  • Transformed testing approach – Multiple parallel parties’ systems tested vs previous ‘one on one’ approach
  • Reduced time taken for integration testing from weeks to days
  • Reduced time required for firewall changes from days to minutes to enable customers to engage in testing
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Why partner with Assurity?

Proven test expertise across the full delivery lifecycle

Our consultants bring deep experience in test strategy, execution, and leadership across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid models..

Risk-based, context-driven approach

We tailor every engagement to your delivery model, focusing on high-impact areas and early risk mitigation.

Effective collaboration for high-quality outcomes

We work closely with solution partners to ensure seamless integration, delivering results that align with strategic business objectives.

Scalable, future-ready solutions

From on-demand talent to enterprise test platforms, we support your growth with flexible, modern services.

What clients say

“Over the years, Assurity has proven they understand systems very well, at a level where minute details matter. They demonstrate due diligence, ask questions, and with all tests and actions, they do their homework and then produce documentation, so we don’t have to go over the same things more than once.”

Sinziana Ciubotaru

Senior Project Manager, Information Services, NZQA.

“The main benefit was acceleration. We can onboard new parties rapidly by enabling them to self-service with testing. Having the right information makes testing easier for them and us, so both parties win.”

Chris Hourigan

Business Transformation Test Lead, Inland Revenue

“We’re building internal testing capability, including introducing an automated performance testing environment. The fact that Assurity is willing to share their knowledge and help us create a strong team of testers says a lot about their view on creating and exchanging lasting value.”

Shane Gaskin

CIO, NZQA

Automation means we can test continuously across
all services, while at the same time, partners access the DPS test assets from the cloud, testing from their perspective.”

Chris Hourigan

Business Transformation Test Lead, Inland Revenue

“Assurity offers not just skills but also an outstanding can- do attitude. They are our trusted source for refining Agile practices and, in periods of peak demand, our go-to for testing.”

Arlene White

Chief Executive, EPL

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