As an impact of current global economic scenario, change in business strategies is becoming evident with higher emphasis on cost control, increase in efficiencies and varying customer behaviour. Businesses are looking at Information Technology as one of the drivers which will assist them in implementing their strategies faster and in cost effective way. With this increased focus on IT, one of the activities in the process i.e. Testing is being given more importance to ensure that end product or application carrying business strategy has the desired level of quality built in. Testing as a service needs to evolve further to be able to support the changing business and in parallel changing some of the aspects of product or application development lifecycle.

This paper highlights the new components or additions to existing components which need to be introduced or enhanced in testing service to support testing requirements of changing business. These suggested approaches are not the alternatives to existing testing approaches but will compliment them and will assist in delivering results faster, with lesser cost and increased quality.

Sumit Kumar is the project manager for testing projects in Capgemini FSSBU. He has been leading various testing projects across variety of business domains during his about ten years long career. He has serviced testing projects for multiple global banks through his past and current organizations and has played several key roles at client's location and offshore centres. He has authored white papers on varying topics like ROI, Change Management etc. Sumit holds MBA degree from Symbiosis University. Sumit is ISTQB certified and also holds Six Sigma Yellow Belt from Capgemini. He can be reached at sumit.p.kumar@capgemini.com