Amphora Quality Technologies

Amphora Quality Technologies checks IT projects and software applications for defects. By doing so, we reduce IT risks for your business and make it more efficient.

AQT is a team of professionals. Our specialists' expertise and company's technological know-how are our capital. We share it with our clients rendering high-standard cost-effective Software Testing and Quality Assurance services.

Amphora Quality Technologies has all the essential resources for the effective performance of comprehensive analysis and software quality assurance:

Experienced and qualified staff;
Modern object-oriented work methodology;
Broad spectrum of automation tools;
Individual approach; and most of all
Reliability of test investigations.

You will benefit from these assets as soon as we start working together.

AQT has extensive experience in QA and Testing of a broad spectrum of software systems. Our leading experts have worked in the sphere of Independent Software Validation and Verification over seven years.

AQT staff consists of qualified QA engineers, analysts and professional software developers. Each lab team is specially prepared and experienced in providing maximum effectiveness in its individual area of expertise. AQT's Research Department includes young scientists from Moscow State University researching software quality issues.

Our engineers are experienced in design and development of testing and QA programs for the following types of application:

Front Office banking solutions;
Back Office banking solutions;
Retail banking;
Home banking;
Reporting solutions;
Home banking;
Integrated security systems.

Electronic archives.

Electronic Document Management systems;
Workflow solutions.

Application servers;
Transaction monitor; Enterprise Solutions
Component Object Request Broker;
Server-side Business components.

RUP & UML based CASE tool;
RUP & UML based RAD environment for TopSpeed's Clarion;
Visual Development Environment for Java with runtime screen designer;
Front-End C++ compiler;
Scripting programming language compiler.

Secure networking solution for Electronic Payment Systems;
Communication solutions for N-Tier Client-Server systems;
Terminal access services for TopSpeed's Clarion Applications.

Multiplatform Database Access solutions;
Operating System services and Device drivers.

AQT engineers have professional knowledge of modern Internet technologies:

DHTML, XML;
CSS, XSL;
Java, including Java applets,servlets, Java Server Pages and Java script;
Internet scripting languages: PHP, Perl, TCL, Pyton and VB script;
Microsoft Windows Distributed Internet Applications (Windows DNA) architecture: Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual Interdev, Visual Modeler, Active X, DCOM, ASP, ADO;
Allaire solutions: ColdFusion (CFML), Jrun, HomeSite;
Macromedia solutions: Flash, Shockwave, Dreamweaver, Drumbeat, Director Shockwave studio

AQT's Internet team has experience in the utilization of a wide spectrum of Web servers', including:

Microsoft IIS;
Netscape Enterprise Server;
Apache;
ColdFusion application server;

AQT specialists are experienced in development, debugging and testing of software systems and their components with the following architectures:

Static and dynamic Web sites;
Internet/Intranet/Extranet distributed applications, including Windows DNA solutions;
Java applications and components, including Java applets, servlets, JSP and Java script;
Component architectures: CORBA, DCOM, Java RMI;
Multi-tier client-server model;
File-server;
Desktop.

AQT has Testing and Programming Expertise in the following widely used development languages:

C/C++, including Visual C++;
Java, including Java applets, servlets, JSP and Java script;
Pascal, Delphi;
PowerBuilder;
TopSpeed's Clarion;
Prolog;
Visual Basic;
Internet scripting languages: Java script, PHP, Perl, TCL, Python and VB Script;
Assembler x86.

AQT team has experience in testing applications within the following desktop and network operating systems:

MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000;
Sun Solaris (SPARC, x86);
HP UX;
SCO;
Free BSD;
Linux;
Novell Netware;
IBM OS/400;
IBM OS/2.

AQT experts are skilled in systems programming and have practical knowledge in operating systems architecture.

AQT is experienced in testing and QA of software that uses the following database management systems:

Oracle;
Informix;
Sybase Adaptive Server;
DB2, including DB2/400 for IBM AS/400;
Microsoft SQL;
Pervasive SQL/Btrieve.

Our specialists use modern database management tools on a highly professional level, including the SQL and ISAM oriented data access techniques.

AQT is experienced in development and quality assurance of heterogeneous systems utilizing messaging and queuing techniques for interaction between system components. AQT engineers have successfully completed a number of projects involving the integration of large software systems using IBM MQ Series and Microsoft Message Queue software.

Leading specialists at AQT have a strong background in the utilization of modern methods of analysis, planning, development and control of software quality. Testing processes and quality assurance at AQT are organized in accordance with the Rational Unified Process - industry standard object oriented Software Engineering Methodology. AQT experts have experience with software production and quality assurance within the framework of the ISO 9000-3 standard.

AQT analysts are skilled in working with various software documentation, including system requirements, technical specifications, models, standards etc., that have been drafted with regard to the recommendations of the following procedures: