auticon technologists have unique skills that make them exceptional testers – with the ability to notice patterns, identify anomalies, and focus over extended periods with little mental fatigue. Rather than looking for errors, they intuitively see errors. Bugs don’t stand a chance when our testers apply their unique visual and analytical abilities.
We provide implementation of best practices, tool selection, and strategic guidance around automation and performance testing.
Contact us to discuss adding autistic QA specialists to your team as consultants or contract-to-hire employees. Alternatively, you can engage our expert Project Services team to execute a full testing project.
Our team reviews requirements and develops both test plans and test cases using industry standard techniques and conventions. Additionally, we provide functional, periodic regression, bug hunts, localization, web accessibility, API, and data validation of systems to ensure product works as designed to deliver positive user experience.
We record automated or manual scripts and run them on previously tested software after each release, or alongside additional performance, load and stress testing.
We provide gap analysis of existing test suite, creation, and maintenance of customized test scripts for test acceleration. This includes subject matter expertise with deep industry experience in front-end UI and back-end API automation experience in a quality assurance environment using multiple devices and medians with CI/CD integration.
Survive a natural disaster or cyberattack by ensuring your Disaster Recovery plan will recover valuable IT systems. Our team will test core functionality of critical applications in DR environments.
Logging, tracking, and verifying the resolution of all defects found during test case execution.
Our team tests against accessibility standards, including WCAG and ADA Section 508, to ensure websites and mobile applications are accessible to all including those with disabilities.
The world’s most innovative companies are seeing the benefits of adding our autistic technologists to their teams:
“Not just at Edison, but in our own lives, we have a social responsibility to help people who have any type of disadvantage. auticon is excellent in the testing space and their employees are dedicated to the work they do.”
–Hsin-Yih Su, Senior Advisor to the IT Department, Southern California Edison
Requirement Analysis
Acquisition of domain knowledge and identification of testable requirements through collaboration with respective stakeholders. Creation of test-traceability matrix for determining sufficient test coverage and suitable methodology such as functional or non-functional as well as determining feasibility of test automation.
Test Planning
Deciding on the test strategy for various types of testing and most efficient testing methodologies, including defect management, configuration management, risk management, etc., in close collaboration with product owners and business analysts. Estimating the required test effort, determining roles and responsibilities and planning the use of resources. Evaluation and identification of appropriate testing and defect tracking tools, including planning of potential training in these tools.
Test Development and Test Environment Setup
Development of test suites with specific test cases and their respective test scripts based on identified test scenarios/user stories, in accordance with the created test plan. Setup of test environment/configuration management, including preparation and creation of test data and manual/automation test scripts. Creation, verification, adaption and approval of test cases.
Test Execution
Execution of test cases and test scripts according to test plan. Capture, review and analyse the test results. Logging, tracking, retesting and closure of defects as these are addressed by the development team.
Our autistic professionals have extraordinary cognitive abilities that provide exceptional value in the tech space. Logic, speed, precision, sustained concentration, and an ability to intuitively spot errors provide a uniquely autistic perspective on your tech projects. Our technologists are skilled software developers, data scientists, QA analysts, Salesforce administrators, and more.
We closely match each technologist to your job requirements, office culture, and the neurodiversity goals of your company. The technologists become fully integrated into your teams, as either consultants or contract-to-hire employees, with the support of auticon Job Coaches and Delivery Managers.
Our job coaches play a central role in your success, acting as a liaison between you and the autistic technologist. They help communicate timelines, manage expectations, resolve needs, and ensure the ultimate success of your program. Job coaches also support technologists on well-being and educate clients on best practices for working with autistic colleagues.
Autistic adults often have extraordinary cognitive abilities, such as logic, pattern recognition, precision, sustained concentration, and an ability to intuitively spot errors, yet many find it difficult to secure or maintain mainstream employment. While autistic strengths are highly individualized, academic research shows advantages emerge:
auticon’s technologists and clients are supported by our job coaches who ensure that the technologists’ work environments enable them to deliver to their full professional potential. Our talented job coaches promote inclusion and well-being and are integral to making sure our technologists feel supported in their assignments. Most importantly, they provide clients with support and information regarding autism in the workplace and can convey feedback between the client and the technologist.
Our job coaches typically have a background in clinical psychology, performance coaching, managing anxiety disorders, special education, and vocational rehabilitation.
