Endava has been recognized by CIOReview Magazine as the recipient of “Top 10 Software Testing Consulting/Service Companies - 2019,” based on our proprietary methodology, reflecting its position in the industry. This profile has been developed by the CIOReview research and editorial team based on insights from an interview with Eoin Woods, CTO.

Endava
Improving Business Outcomes through Testing Transformation

Eoin Woods, CTO

In today’s highly competitive market, the growing functionality and complexity of products can be attributed to the need to drive business transformation. With the ever-increasing focus on customer satisfaction, what becomes paramount for businesses is the ability to maintain high product quality and reliability while significantly reducing time-to-market and costs. This has resulted in a multifold increase in the volume and frequency of application/product testing, which can create a bottleneck that impacts a business’s ability to launch new functionality quickly. As such, successfully implementing continuous delivery has become a significant opportunity to help in meeting business objectives.

From a testing perspective, the absence of automated build frameworks, the inability to control test data and test environments and the lack of fully automated regression test coverage, executable in an acceptable time frame, are contributing factors to that bottleneck. Endava, a leading next-generation technology services provider, helps clients to address these challenges through their advanced engineering and automation practice.

Endava delivers the full project lifecycle from ideation to production, which includes application delivery, testing, support, hosting, and managed services. The company acts as a strategic partner that designs and delivers frictionless digital solutions by covering strategy, enterprise software engineering, user experience, architecture, and intelligent platform automation. Endava’s Unlocking Continuous Delivery service helps their clients to increase the adoption of modern ways of working, embrace new technologies, and deliver value faster, with improved feedback cycles. “Our team has highly skilled and experienced test automation engineers, AI experts, and software developers. We focus on removing the friction for development teams by automating the deployment of test environments and test data, and implementing fully automated regression testing,” asserts Eoin Woods, CTO Endava.

In addition to fully automated functional regression testing Endava integrates performance and security testing into agile development cycles. These non-functional tests are executed via a continuous integration server to provide fast feedback and ensure that issues are found and fixed quickly. “With an agile DNA, Endava is continually innovating and developing test automation solutions and accelerators based on open-source frameworks, which are compatible with modern delivery models,” explains Woods.

Endava helps their clients to move toward continuous testing, allowing them to release new features with a higher quality factor. The company does so by completing test cycles faster, and with less effort, through well-architected automation solutions and increasing regression test coverage through the extensive use of test automation. Endava reduces the time to provide development teams with feedback by integrating testing into the build pipeline and shifting testing left. Moreover, it also reduces the cost of test automation maintenance by implementing well-engineered test automation frameworks.

With an agile DNA, Endava is continually innovating and developing test automation solutions and accelerators based on open-source frameworks, which are compatible with modern delivery models

Over the years, Endava has become known for their customer-centric approach, as well as for driving responsiveness through agile transformations and delivering automation enabled efficiency. Through its innovative testing practices, the company is constantly developing and enhancing test accelerators, which help deliver testing services. The testing practice is supported through events like Testing Week, where teams from each of our delivery units compete to demonstrate the best testing solutions and share ideas.

Mark Firth, Endava’s Head of Testing points out, “At Endava, we believe that learning is never complete, and through our own Endava University, we deliver courses to strengthen the technical and soft skills of our test engineers.” In addition to their advanced software engineering skills, Endava’s focus is on helping clients succeed in achieving their business objectives. “We aim to do so by removing friction, and increasing quality in the software delivery process to get features into production faster, and with confidence,” concludes Mark.

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Endava Announces £350 Million Revolving Credit Facility

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

LONDON - Endava announced the successful closing of a £350 million unsecured, multicurrency revolving credit facility (the “Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility”). This facility is for general business purposes, including future capital investments and development activities.

“This new and increased credit facility is intended to support Endava’s future capital investments and development activities, both organic and inorganic”

The Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility replaced Endava’s existing £200 million unsecured revolving credit facility which was due to expire on 12 October 2024. The new Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility is with HSBC UK Bank plc, DNB (UK) Limited, National Westminster Bank plc, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., London Branch, KeyBank National Association and Fifth Third Bank, National Association as mandated lead arrangers, bookrunners and original lenders with National Westminster Bank plc acting as agent. The obligations under the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility are guaranteed by Endava and each of Endava (UK) Limited, Endava Inc., Endava Holding B.V., Endava B.V., Levvel, LLC and Endava, digitalne rešitve, d.o.o.

The Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility also provides for uncommitted accordion options for up to an aggregate of £150 million in additional borrowing and has two renewal options for one year each.

“This new and increased credit facility is intended to support Endava’s future capital investments and development activities, both organic and inorganic,” said Mark Thurston, Endava’s CFO.

Endava Acquires TLM to Boost its Position in Digital Entertainment

Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Endava, a global provider of digital transformation, agile development and intelligent automation services, announced today the acquisition of TLM Partners, Inc together with its subsidiaries ("TLM" or the "Monsters").

TLM offers outsourced development services encompassing design, engineering, and art/animation for PC and console video games as well as other digital entertainment content. The company specializes in intricate domains such as cross-play, middleware, physics, engine-level tools, and technical art.

TLM is equipped with a leadership team boasting extensive experience within the video game sector. They have cultivated strong partnerships with a diverse range of platform providers including Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Unreal, and Crytek. Furthermore, TLM has established connections with clients both within the United States and across the globe. These clients comprise notable game publishers and developers such as Microsoft, Sony, Take-Two Interactive, Activision Blizzard, WB Games, Riot Games, Turtle Rock Studios, and Ascendant Studios. TLM has played a significant role as a co-developer on numerous AAA franchises, contributing to titles like Immortals of Aveum, Call of Duty, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Gotham Knights, and Back4Blood.

By merging TLM's rich background in the gaming industry with Endava's expertise in immersive interactions and substantial enterprise engineering capabilities, Endava gains a competitive advantage that positions them to seize opportunities within the global gaming sector.

"The Monsters are an exciting addition to the Endava family and they bring highly talented people, AAA clients and strong growth prospects. Their gaming focus fits neatly into our industry vertical led organisation and their specific capabilities complement our own very well," said John Cotterell, Endava's CEO. "With the convergence of video game and immersive experiences and payments within cloud environments, Endava's now enhanced ability to deliver in each of these arenas is a potent offering that can unlock innovation and value for our clients."

Jake Hawley, founder and CEO of TLM, commented, "While exploring commercial partnering with Endava we soon saw that a merger would be great for us both. Together we have an unrivalled range of cutting-edge capabilities as well as global scale to take on the most ambitious projects. I feel very excited about the opportunities this merger opens up for our people and clients and the amazing new player experiences we can help create."

Top 10 Software Testing Consulting/Service Companies - 2019

Company
Endava

Management
Eoin Woods, CTO

Description
Endava is reimagining the relationship between people and technology. We accelerate our clients’ ability to take advantage of new business models and market opportunities by ideating and delivering dynamic platforms and intelligent digital experiences that fuel the rapid, ongoing transformation of their businesses. By leveraging next-generation technologies, our agile, multi-disciplinary teams provide a combination of Product & Technology Strategies, Intelligent Experiences, and World Class Engineering to help our clients become more engaging, responsive, and efficient

Endava Improving Business Outcomes through Testing Transformation