Insights into a software testing career

By Shinaaz Osman, Senior Quality Assurance Consultant My role as a Software Testing consultant is to evaluate if the system we’re testing meets the quality standards and all major project requirements to ensure the successful delivery of the solution. Testing is one of the most critical processes of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). It helps companies to...

Common misconceptions about software testing

By Shinaaz Osman, Senior Quality Assurance Consultant While software testing is an important part of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), and a competency we believe needs to form part of solution delivery from the start of a project, there remains common misconceptions about the role, skills and importance of software testing. Shinaaz Osman, Senior Quality Assurance Consultant...

Devconf 2022 lessons and highlights

‘Insightful, stimulating, diverse, inspirational and exciting’ are just some of the words used by our Saratogans to describe the recent Devconf events. Devconf is a community-driven, professional software developer focused series of conferences, which bring together the South African developer community to network and share insights. A number of our Saratoga developers...

Our DevOps automation journey

By Daniel Barrett, Lead Technical Consultant at Saratoga A few years back I started my DevOps journey at a company that owned its own product. As is often the case with products, we were presented with many challenges, most notably the inconsistency in our deployments and processes in going from development to production. While I’ve...

Developing leaders within Saratoga

Zelanda van Drünick, Marketing Assistant at Saratoga, was one of a number of Saratogans who completed the Leader Within training over the course of a few months earlier this year. When asked whether I would like to join this year’s Leader Within training programme, I leaped at the opportunity to develop my soft skills and myself...

BA Summit 2021 | Blockchain, let’s get practical

While some organisations and technology professionals may have gone a bit ‘crypto-crazy’, a fast-growing number of businesses are unlocking the real value of the revolutionary technology behind the buzzword ‘Blockchain’. Yaseen Patel, Business Consultant at Saratoga, will be delving into this topic and sharing his insights at the upcoming BA Summit, set to take place on...

Increased access to technology solutions with low-code

Nicholas Bowman, CEO at riivo recently presented a tech talk to our Saratoga team on the potential of low-code solutions. Following his insightful presentation, we’d like to share some of the highlights from his talk with the broader tech community. As technological advancements continue to progress and as organisations are forced to...

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