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Implement comprehensive QA and testing at every stage of your OTT delivery pipeline
To quickly and accurately perform hundreds of versatile operations, modern OTT platforms need to satisfy the highest quality requirements. Our QA expertise covers every step of your workflow, resulting in improved task execution and system performance.
Addressing every aspect of OTT solution quality
Functional
Enable flawless operation of every OTT component
- Comprehensive testing of multiscreen apps on every platform and resolution
- Dedicated STB and smart TV testing service
- Covering functionality like EPG, time shift, recommendations, sharing, and more
- Testing ingest and storage services
- Testing asset management workflows
- Testing complex OTT business rules
- E2E testing before every release
Explore the full range of our QA services
Whether you prefer the end-to-end approach or want to focus on a particular area, we are ready to help you set up a comprehensive QA workflow.
Mission-critical QA activities throughout the SDLC
To ensure outstanding quality of your product, we involve our QA expertise early on and at every stage of the development process.
Consulting
- QA process audit
- Developing a company-wide QA strategy
- Choosing the optimal engagement model (dedicated QA team, managed testing services, etc.)
- Defining the optimal automation approach
- Enforcing regulatory compliance
- Test cost mitigation
- QA staff training
Discovery and analysis
- QA strategy selection with clearly defined quality metrics and acceptance criteria
- Choosing the testing approach
- Selecting the tech stack
- Creating the project test plan with workload estimates
- Requirements analysis and testing
- Priorities and risks management
- Full QA environment setup
- Test data preparation
Implementation
- Executing tests according to plan
- Updating checklists and test cases
- Maintaining automation tests
- Reporting project quality level and status
- Reporting emerging project problems and bugs
- Providing a high level of test coverage
Transition
- Pre-production and release testing
- QA sign-off reports
- User configuration guides
- Administrator training
- All-encompassing post-release review based on multiple success metrics
- Knowledge sharing and actionable QA recommendations
FAQ
OTT QA is most effective when embedded throughout the entire development lifecycle. The earlier it is introduced, the more cost-effective your development becomes. Ideally, it should start at the early development stage, alongside requirements validation and architecture design. This way, QA teams help prevent critical failures at the initial stages that are far more expensive to fix after launch. Plus, this leads to more stable releases, faster iterations, and fewer production incidents as the platform evolves.
Thorough OTT app testing reveals issues that directly impact user experience, including navigation and content discovery bugs, as well as inconsistent playback quality, long load times, and app instability across different devices and platforms. It can also uncover functional issues such as broken user flows, login and subscription errors, content playback failures, and device-specific UI problems. Moreover, it may identify performance risks like slow startup time, buffering, crashes under load, unstable streaming on poor networks, memory leaks, CPU spikes, or degraded playback.
