Skelia takes leadership on testing mobile applications

Skelia launches TestLab4apps (www.testlab4apps.com), a highly specialized service on testing mobile applications by further capitalizing on its extensive testing know-how and mobile experience.  Skelia is an international ICT & BPO services company operating out of state-of-the-art service & development centers located in Ukraine.

Testing mobile apps,  a growing nightmare…

Mobile applications are increasingly business critical for B2C companies like banks, news publishers and e-shops while end users don’t have a lot of patience with such apps. If something bothers them, they simply delete the app and move on.

“Within the last 6 to 12 months many of our customers and business contacts started to experience a growing nightmare of testing mobile applications. The diversity of mobile devices, software platforms and releases, application features and networks to be considered for testing has grown exponentially” says Patrik Vandewalle, Skelia’s CEO.  “By proactively investing in a dedicated Skelia Lab, with experienced staff, tools, methods and continuous service innovation, Skelia’s ambition is to maintain international leadership in this specialized field of testing mobile applications.”

Mobile Testing Lab

 “Our Testing Lab is permanently equipped with specific emulators, simulators and a rich set of mid & high-end real devices (Android, iOS, Windows). The mixture of mobile phones and tablets evolves with market trends and most common usage of smart devices” explains Olivier Istace, COO Skelia.

There is still a fundamental misperception that successful testing of app functionality on one device provides assurance across all others of the same operating system. However, testing on all possible combinations is impractical and expensive. One needs to consider a testing strategy as a trade-off between cost, quality and time-to-market.

Emerging market for test automation

“Mobile application testing requires special tools, adapted test methods applied within a well structured combination of manual testing and automated testing. The cross-platform mobile test-automation market is still in its infancy with new tool players emerging every month. Our research team follows and benchmarks new tools”

Service Innovation – Skelia Labs

 “Service innovation is a cornerstone of our new strategic plan Horizon 2015. Over the coming 24 months we will incubate additional selected niche service offerings into Skelia Labs, sub-branded business units each operating as a global shared service center. A Skelia Lab has a mission to lead by excellence and continuous service innovation, and be recognized by customers as best-in-class” adds Patrik Vandewalle.

Skelia records 49% growth in 2012

Skelia, a leading provider of ICT & BPO services in Benelux operating out of Ukraine, reported its 2012 results. The company notes a record year-on-year revenue growth of 49% which it says was fueled by continuing demand in Western-Europe for high-quality ICT people and improved process efficiencies.

Patrik Vandewalle, CEO of Skelia adds “Despite the global economic down-turn we are pleased to confirm a CAGR of 50% , every year since we created the company. We have always re-invested our profits into sustainable growth and service innovation. Like more recently, we opened sales offices in London and The Netherlands to help us better serve more international customers.”

Leading by Excellence

“Our strategy is not to be a price killer, but to excel by service quality. We make a difference by our people excellence and team retention” says Olivier Istace, COO of Skelia. “For most of our international customers we are an important business partner working on their strategic initiatives and core systems. Long-term knowledge acquisition, team stability and effective ownership are therefore key to success.”

Service Innovation – Skelia Labs

Skelia’s business model is inspired by an enduring passion to improve each customer experience of crossborder collaboration, always looking for lower participation barriers, higher comfort and more flexibility.

“Service innovation is a cornerstone of our new strategic plan Horizon 2015. Over the coming months we will start incubating selected niche service offerings into Skelia Labs, subbranded business units operating as a global shared service center. Each Skelia Lab has a mission to lead by excellence and continuous service innovation, and be internationally recognized as best-in-class.”  

About Skelia

Skelia is an international ICT & BPO services company headquartered in Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. Established in 2008 by Belgian entrepreneurs, Skelia helps customers achieve growth and efficiency by extending their local teams and supporting processes to Eastern European countries.

Skelia expands European presence with opening of London Office

Skelia is pleased to announce the opening of a new London office.

“We are excited about this new opportunity to expand our business and better serve our customers in the United Kingdom” says Patrik Vandewalle, Skelia’s CEO. “We make a difference by our people excellence, unprecedented cultural matching and team retention. “

Skelia is an international ICT & BPO services company partnering with leading customers in the Benelux software industry, telecom, media and publishing sector, travel industry and e-commerce business.

Skelia helps customers achieve growth and efficiency by extending local teams and supporting processes to Eastern European countries.

In close corporation with our offices in Luxembourg and Service Centres in Ukraine, Skelia’s London office will focus primarily on sales, development and project management of ICT and BPO services through its proven nearshoring model.

Skelia employees donate for children

Taking care of people and the community in which our company works is one of the fundamental values ​​of any business. Therefore, we strive to support donation initiatives and help those in need. This time Skelia employees have joined “Lviv IT-community for children with cancer disease to St. Nicolas Day” – joint donation fundraising initiative of IT-companies in Lviv, Ukraine.

Skelia subscribes to “Pluralsight” online training courses

We always support professional self-development of our employees

One of Skelia’s priorities is building solid teams of IT-professionals.  We always support professional self-development of our employees.  Therefore, we’ve subscribed  for closed online training courses on "Pluralsight" web-site.

At the moment the platform is considered as one of the most updated and structured online video courses for  Microsoft .NET technology developers mainly.

However, next to Microsoft technologies, Pluralsight gives also access to online-trainings about different software practices, SQL, JavaScript and much more.

Skelia hosting .Net User Group in Lviv

Skelia supports meetings and activities of various professional IT-communities in Ukraine.

On September 27, Skelia hosted the .NET User Group community meeting. We gathered in our Lviv offices all fans and masters of Microsoft .NET technology for interactive  debates and knowledge sharing.

More than 30 specialists from different IT-companies came to listen and discuss interesting presentations:

1. Michael Chalyj – talked about “Raven DB”
2. “Ignite session” – where any attendee can speak on his topic of interest
3. Dmitry Maleev & Oleg Sklyarneko -  talking about “Objective-C 4”

Skelia Family Day

Skelia respects people working in the company. All employees participate to the special Benefits Program. In addition, several times a year we gather as one team during an informal event to thank our employees and their families for commitment and hard work.

Skelia Company Day 2012

The Company Day is one of Skelia’s traditional parties. All employees from our Service Centers in Lviv and Kyiv were invited to this exciting event in a picturesque camping site outside of Lviv.

Skelia Photo Competition

Skelia supports its employees’ initiatives and hobbies within a company culture that fosters talent and creativity.

That’s why we have decided to organize an annual Skelia Photo Competition. During this competition every employee was able to expose his – or her – photos on display at the office and vote for others. The contest lasted for one month and many colleagues participated.

Skelia opens its 2nd Service Center in Kyiv, Ukraine

In order to support its growth, Skelia has opened a second Service Center in Ukraine.

On May 25 2012 Jana Zikmundova, the Ambassador of Belgium in Ukraine, Maria Savchenko, the Representative of European Business Association, customers and partners of the company took part in the opening of Skelia’s new office in Kyiv.

Patrik Vandewalle, CEO of Skelia: “The opening of our office in Kyiv is an important stage in Skelia's accelerated  international development, which aims to build a solid bridge between employers from Western-European countries and Ukrainian IT-professionals”.