ALTEN Group has acquired QA Consultants, an award-winning independent software quality engineering services company with an office in Dallas.
“We set out almost 30 years ago to create the world’s best quality engineering services firm and we have emerged as the North American leader in identifying risk for small and large enterprises. I am incredibly proud of what our organization has accomplished and am grateful to our employees for their contributions,” Alex Rodov, founder and managing partner of QA Consultants, said in a statement. “This transaction marks the start of an exciting new chapter for QA Consultants where we become part of a much larger enterprise with aligned cultures, allowing us to bring further value and capabilities to our customers.”
No financial details of the transaction were released.
Pursuing higher quality software
Brian Bernknopf of QA Consultants via LinkedIn
QA Consultants’ aim is to improve the impact of software in the world with the strongest quality engineering team available. It helps companies engineer and implement higher quality software by confirming it functions, scales, and is secure.
“The company we have built along with our incredible team of quality engineering practitioners have enabled significant growth for QA Consultants. We are thankful to our clients for their collaborative engagements in the pursuit of higher quality software,” Brian Bernknopf, Dallas-based managing director of QA Consultants’ U.S. operations, said in a statement. “ALTEN’s history, passion for innovation, and growth focus makes them an ideal partner for QA Consultants in this transaction and one that our team, our partners, and our customers will benefit from in the years to come.”
‘A leader in software engineering’
France-based global engineering and IT services company ALTEN Group is a key player in engineering and technology consulting, and the company said it saw QA Consultants and its expertise in software quality as a complementary opportunity to further strengthen its agile software development, data, cloud, infrastructure, and cybersecurity consultancy.
ALTEN Group said the acquisition bolsters the number of ALTEN employees in North America to nearly 3,000, with a global employee base of over 52,000.
“QA Consultants has established itself as a leader in software quality engineering, and this acquisition allows us to enhance our service offering across all industries and sectors with even more robust end-to-end software development services,” ALTEN Chairman and CEO Simon Azoulay said in a statement.
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