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Testing as a Service.

Embedded quality assurance, security testing, penetration testing, and performance testing — delivered as a managed service. No internal QA team required. No tooling investment. Just comprehensive coverage.

🔐 Security Testing
⚔️ Penetration Testing
✅ Functional QA
⚡ Performance Testing
What is TaaS?

A Dedicated Testing Function — Without Building One.

Testing as a Service provides your organisation with a full-coverage quality assurance capability — delivered as an on-demand or dedicated managed service, embedded into your development and release process.

Instead of hiring, tooling, and managing an internal QA team, ANSI provides the people, processes, and technology to test your software comprehensively — across functional quality, security, resilience, and performance.

  • No in-house QA headcount required
  • No tooling licensing or infrastructure investment
  • Scales with your release cadence
  • Covers regulatory compliance requirements (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001)
  • Dedicated team or on-demand sprint model
  • Detailed reporting for audit and governance

Who Benefits Most

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Banks & Financial Institutions
FCA/PRA regulated, PCI-DSS environments, high-risk software releases
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FinTech & Payments Companies
Rapid release cycles, payments infrastructure, security-first development
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Enterprise SaaS Providers
SOC 2 compliance, enterprise customer SLAs, continuous delivery pipelines
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Healthcare Technology
Patient data security, clinical system reliability, regulatory compliance
TaaS Service Lines

Four Pillars of Software Quality & Security.

Each TaaS service line can be engaged independently or combined into a comprehensive quality programme tailored to your release cadence and risk profile.

Functional QA & Test Automation

End-to-end quality assurance embedded into your CI/CD pipeline — from requirements analysis through to release sign-off.

What's Covered
  • Test strategy and planning
  • Manual and exploratory testing
  • Automated test framework build (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
  • Regression, smoke, and integration testing
  • API and microservices testing
  • Mobile application testing (iOS & Android)
  • CI/CD pipeline integration
Selenium Cypress Playwright Postman RestAssured
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Security Testing

Comprehensive security assessment of your applications, APIs, and infrastructure — identifying vulnerabilities before attackers do.

What's Covered
  • OWASP Top 10 vulnerability assessment
  • Static application security testing (SAST)
  • Dynamic application security testing (DAST)
  • API security review and testing
  • Threat modelling and risk assessment
  • Secure code review
  • Compliance alignment (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2)
OWASP SAST DAST PCI-DSS ISO 27001
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Penetration Testing

Ethical hacking by certified security professionals — simulating real-world attack scenarios against your systems and applications.

Pen Test Scope Options
  • Web application penetration testing
  • Mobile application pen testing (iOS & Android)
  • Infrastructure and network pen testing
  • Cloud environment assessment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Internal and external network assessment
  • Red team exercises and social engineering
  • Detailed remediation report with CVSS scoring
CREST CHECK Red Team CVSS Burp Suite

Performance Testing

Validate that your systems perform reliably under real-world load conditions — identifying bottlenecks and failure points before they reach production.

What's Covered
  • Load testing — normal and peak usage scenarios
  • Stress testing — beyond-normal load conditions
  • Spike testing — sudden traffic surge simulation
  • Soak/endurance testing — sustained load over time
  • Scalability testing and capacity planning
  • Database and API performance profiling
  • Bottleneck identification and remediation advice
JMeter k6 Gatling Locust Artillery
Regulatory Alignment

Testing That Satisfies Auditors & Regulators.

For organisations operating in regulated environments, ANSI TaaS produces the evidence, reports, and attestations required by your audit team and external regulators.

Every engagement produces structured, board-ready reporting — including vulnerability severity ratings, remediation timelines, and executive summaries suitable for risk committees.

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PCI-DSS

Payment card industry compliance testing and attestation support

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ISO 27001

Information security management system testing and evidence

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SOC 2

Trust services criteria testing for SaaS and cloud providers

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FCA / PRA

Operational resilience testing aligned with UK financial regulation

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DORA

Digital Operational Resilience Act testing for EU-regulated entities

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NIST / CIS

Security framework alignment and controls testing

Delivery Models

Flexible Engagement — Your Pace, Your Scope.

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Dedicated TaaS Team

A permanent, embedded QA and testing team assigned to your organisation — integrated into your sprint cycles, standup, and release process. Ideal for organisations with ongoing development.

Monthly retainer Embedded team

On-Demand Sprints

Activate ANSI TaaS for specific releases, milestones, or compliance deadlines. Fixed scope, fixed cost, delivered fast. Ideal for organisations with intermittent testing requirements.

Per engagement Fixed scope
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Scheduled Programme

Regular testing engagements on a quarterly or annual basis — particularly suited to penetration testing and security assessments that need to be refreshed on a compliance schedule.

Quarterly / annual Compliance cycle
Related Services

Pair Testing With Your Engineering Strategy.

Testing as a Service works alongside every engineering delivery model ANSI offers.

TaaS Assessment

Find Out What's Lurking in Your Software.

Book a TaaS assessment call — a 45-minute consultation to understand your quality and security gaps and recommend the right engagement model.