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Robertino Catalin Ionescu
Department Manager of Testing Automation Centre at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We were using Tricentis and Micro Focus ALM Quality Center to compare which one was better. However, we deployed Micro Focus ALM Quality Center a lot more and at this point, it would be difficult to migrate to a new solution. This is one of the main reasons why we use this solution. However, as a company, we wanted to use the best solution and at this time there is still a debate.
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Saket Pandey
Product Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
Micro Focus ALM is better than IBM or other solutions I have worked with.
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Lisa Gordon
IS Director, ERP PTP Solution Architecture at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I've worked with HP Quality Center at a prior job.
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OpenText ALM / Quality Center
March 2024
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Don Ingerson
QA Automation Engineer at Global Fortune 500 Company
I have worked at companies that used open source tools and ALM/Quality Center. I have also worked at a company that simultaneously used both Quality Center and Rally. Rally is also a good tool and seems to be developed more for the Agile methodology. However, when using UFT we always used it with ALM/Quality Center because we could store all of the run results from automated tests.
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Vice President - Test Management Lead at DBS Bank
We were looking at other solutions, such as JIRA, due to all the issues I have raised.
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QA Program Manager-Quality Assurance at NBC Universal
I've been at my current job for the last 11 years and we have been using it from its days as Test Director and QC days. So far, we haven't tried anything else and have stuck with it.
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Ashish Yelkar
Managing Partner at Verve Square Technologies
I have always used different versions of ALM. I did not previously use a different solution before using ALM.
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Ira Mayer
Senior SW Quality Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Previously, we had no application lifecycle management tool, so there was a lack of coordination about requirements and no traceability regarding which requirements had been tested. Sometimes, defects were being reported by email. Now, everything works well, which is a huge improvement for my company.
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Vishwa-Reddy
Team Lead at Accenture
Previously we were using Excel. Then the organization moved the entire thing into the ALM. It is now the central point for whatever needs testing.
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Sanjeev Ranjan
Tools Architect at S2 Integrators
We've only ever used this solution. We did not use anything else previously.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We previously used IBM Rational.
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Shinu Thulaseedharan
IT Quality and Architecture Senior Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Before ALM, we were only using Excel. But along with ALM right now, we also have some projects that are using JIRA, and there are some people who are using Confluence. The digital teams here are using JIRA.
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QA Expert at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
I have used other solutions, but many do not have the traceability requirements that ALM does.
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Team Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The collaboration between HPE and us, especially over the past ten years, has been very good. For that reason, I try to bring in more HPE products, if needed.
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Test Community Manager at Orange
Beforehand we were using just paper and Excel, and things like that. As soon as ALM was tested at the time we began to use it and sensed it's presence in the company and now every tester is using it.
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Head of Testing - Warehouse Solutions at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We have previously used JIRA, but ALM was a better solution for us.
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Anouar RAID
Senior SAP Functional Consultant at YAAS IT
My organization previously used HP Quality Center, but I don't remember the differences between that solution and Micro Focus ALM Quality Center. I also don't make decisions on whether to move from one solution to another solution.
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VP lead software engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
In the Quality Center, there's a tool, which we started with, QuickTest Pro. From there, we started to use QuickTest Pro, later we introduced and evaluated it. It looked like the situation we needed.
However, we wanted tracking. We started with QuickTest Pro, but now we're doing this, which includes a lot of the different areas, like it handles the workflow and/or agile and involving many necessary departments.
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Account Director at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
I’ve been around a while and designed a few test management and automation solutions while I was with Motorola. I think our solutions were better, but of course, we had to spend a lot of resources on their creation.
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reviewer1444647
Sr. Manager - SAP Authorization & Complaince at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is the first one that our company used.
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Vice President, IT Application Services at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Initially, we were using other products but HPE acquired a couple of those companies. Now with the recent movement towards pushing their software out to Micro Focus that may change a little bit of the relationship we have with HPE. That's another reason why I attended the conference, is to understand a bit more about how that relationship will evolve.
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Sr Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Earlier I used Mantis, but it was not user friendly and had no functionality apart from defect tracking. But HP QC is defect tracking by default. Test Case Execution tracking and reporting functionality which will serve all purposes for testing processes.
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QA Expert at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Yes – HPE QC is much better than anything else I have seen.
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Process Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
We used a lot of home grown 'tools' and spreadsheets in one location and Lotus Notes in another.
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Manager, Application Services - Performance Engineering at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We acquired HPE products a long time ago before I was around.
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Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Quality Center was around well before I got to the company.
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Micro Focus ALM/Mobile Center/UFT Administrator/Software Quality Analyst III at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our organization is very new in this area. We are a pretty young company. We didn't have any formal task-management kind of tool or testing tool per se. When we were looking at the solution one of our implementation partners for one of the projects recommended it and we looked at it and it's capability. Many of the folks who are on the team have used it in other companies. For the current organization it was a no-brainer not to pick this tool.
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Solution Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
No previous solution used.
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System Analyst at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I had already used IBM Rational, which is good too, but the HP tool is more complete.
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Jordan Gottlieb
Principal consultant qa architect at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
When I became a customer in 2000/2001, when I first started, I was involved in the decision to purchase the solution. Now, as a professional services consultant, that decision has been made and I'm going in there to either deploy, upgrade, or help them use ALM to best suit their needs. In some cases I help them figure out what it is they need to have ALM do for them or how to customize it best.
When I was a customer, we were not using another solution. We were completely manual and I was a department of one. I was the QA organization for a small development company and the two company owners said to me, "We want to invest in this, go look and see what's out there and show us what our options are and what you think the best option is."
What caused us to switch to this solution was the customizability. The fact that we could make it give us the information that we needed to get out of it. The support organization seemed very top-notch. I actually learned a lot from the support organization when I was getting started in it. And I found it more intuitive then the Rational solution.
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John ONeill
Principle consultant at Active Data Consulting Services Pty Ltd
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Testing Center Manager at Groupement des Mousquetaires
In the past, we used a Compuware Solution and an open source solution. We switched to ALM because tracking all activities is better when all your monitoring is on products from the same vendor.
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Senior Manager Assurance Quality, Tests, and Environnements at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We didn't use any other solution previously.
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Software Tools Specialist at a media company with 10,001+ employees
We're using JIRA alongside ALM, but there wasn't a prior solution to ALM.
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Technical Test Analyst and Automation Engineer at Unum
QA was driven by spreadsheets before the deployment of Test Director.
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Senior Manager of eCommerce at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We really started using ALM about five years ago when our testing automation efforts kicked into high gear. Up until then, we were tracking testing using various other smaller tools.
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IT Quality Assurance Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
No, I have not used a different solution in the past.
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IT Specialist with 5,001-10,000 employees
Yes, we used Rational ClearQuest. It was very customizable too but it was old and tough and we need a better and more elegant solution.
it_user470463
Quality Assurance Software Management at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use ALM for all of our applications and didn't use anything before. We're a maturing software company, so we're really getting into these distinct processes, like ALM. We're currently going through a transformation into Agile, so we're really just ramping up to get to that mature stage as a software company.
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IT QA Test Manager at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees
When I took over Quality Assurance, we had Quality Center. ALM is the new Quality Center, and we upgraded to version 12 of ALM. 550 projects with no problems.
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KimberlyGoodman
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This is the only solution I have ever used. I don't know if the company worked with something else previously.
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Subject Matter Expert at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
HPE ALM was our first choice.
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Manager - System Engineering at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have used this application for a number of years now. There have been explorations of a variety of open source, "DevOps-inspired" applications, as a potential replacement. To date, there has been no determination to move away from this application as our standard.
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Software Quality Engineer III at National Insurance Producer Registry
We did not previously utilize a different solution for managing our requirements and testing efforts.
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Automation Test Lead at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
In the Application Lifecycle Management space, HP ALM and IBM Rational are the two big players. I recently participated in an evaluation of the IBM Rational Jazz Platform. The client had been using IBM’s ClearCase and ClearQuest for many years. During the evaluation, an unrelated IBM audit detected a long dormant pack of five ClearCase licenses on an active server. The cost associated with this incident ended our evaluation of the IBM solution.
Historically, most people considered this to be a defect tracking only tool. In that domain, tools are plentiful. Over the years I’ve used VI editor on UNIX, Microsoft Excel worksheets Microsoft Access databases, Bugzilla and Notepad for defect management.
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Senior Performance Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
No. We have other HP Products like LoadRunner, Quality Center etc. So we wanted to have ALM which integrates seamlessly with these products.
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reviewer1662489
National Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I also use Microsoft Azure DevOps. I don't really have a preference. It is horses for courses, and it depends on the type of application you're running. For older style waterfall projects, you can probably go with Micro Focus, barring pricing and others things. For agile or particularly a Microsoft Azure-based product, I would go with DevOps because of the better pipeline and the whole end-to-end integration.
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reviewer1357974
Performance and Automation Testing Squad Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Before Quality Center the only thing we were using was JIRA. We interface with JIRA. Some teams want to use it for defect tracking. We keep JIRA and ALM in sync using the synchronizer tool that comes standard with it.
JIRA and ALM have different strengths. JIRA and Confluence do Agile planning and management well, and ALM does defect management and test case management and reporting well.
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IT Manager of Operations at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Not relevant.
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Performance Test Architect and HP ALM Expert at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We did not previously use a different solution.
it_user544794
Business Systems Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We still use a variety of SDLC tools within my organization. However, HPE ALM has been determined to be the best all around solution for testing of software across the enterprise.
We are doing a number of activities to reach a common goal, including leveraging the ALM template functionality and defining fields and list values across all testing applications.
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Owner with 51-200 employees
No previous solution used.
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reviewer1137345
Sr. Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Ours is strictly partnership, so we haven't dealt with any other ALM type of products from other vendors.
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Testing Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I did not personally, but in my previous organization Bugzilla was used. ALM replaced it because it was a complete package, and also the company had bought other HP testing tools like UFT & PC to meet end to end testing needs.
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Transition Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jira
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Test Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were using JIRA before and still are using JIRA. But that is only a section of coverage, so we needed something that has a broader coverage of the process, and the ALM was the choice.
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Principle Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
No previous solution was used.
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Pankaj Thakur
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
I previously used Microsoft Azure.
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Test and Automation Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I wasn't involved in the overall decision, just on which version to select.
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Global Technical Lead, Development Services at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
No solution was previously in place.
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Service Manager at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
We use multiple solutions depending on the needs of our client at the time.
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Managing Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We used Excel, but it was so difficult to manage the various Excel files and sheets just like maintaining a register book for your records. ALM allows you to handle them all with just one click.
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QA Technical Lead at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We didn't have any other solution in place, and needed to have a much better solution than doing testing with Excel files.
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Assistant Director Quality Assurance at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Need of a single solution for all needs.
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Test Manager
Had used Quality Center and Test Director in the past and HPE ALM is much more enhanced and useful.
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Ivana Buljan
Product Development Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Before, we used Excel for complex testings. Using this solution has been a huge step for us. From reporting to team management, everything is better now.
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AVP Quality Assurance at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I previously had used QC at a different company. I know I need a test management tool. When I joined the company, we already had this one, but I wanted to move to SaaS, because I needed something that was not on-premise based.
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QA Analyst at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Yes, spreadsheets. We switched because we grew from three people to 10 and needed a tool. ALM was one most of the team had used at other companies.
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Software Development Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Previously, I have used Redmine and JIRA. Switching to HPE ALM was not my decision, I changed my job.
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Executive Alliances at EOH
We have always been using HPE products, so we have just grown with it.
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QA Manager and Manager Systems Test at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees
No previous solution was used.
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QA Tester at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not have a previous solution. This was our first solution.
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Manager at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
There was no previous solution was in place.
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QA Manager - Test Automation with 1,001-5,000 employees
We used Word documents, which was not efficient.
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Validation Office at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
The switch to HPE QC was made because the existing system was not considered GAMP-compliant.
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Software Engineer in Test with 201-500 employees
We figured out HP ALM is good and switched from using Excel spreadsheets.
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VP of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Validation Office at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
We were using Excel spreadsheets to try and test a major system change in a bank. Need I say more?
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QA at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
No. We have used Quality Center/ALM since I joined this organization.
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Director of Quality Assurance with 501-1,000 employees
Earlier, we used a home-grown, Lotus Notes-based system. Later on, I moved to a position where HPE QC was already being used.
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Software Test Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We were previously just recording all our test evidence in Word documents. So we needed a test center.
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QA at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Have been using a version of this solution since 1999. Have not used competing products day to day as of yet.
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QA Lead at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have worked on TFS. The features of TFS are limited when compared to QC.
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Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We used JIRA. Its is also a good tool for defect tracking, but due to the lack of test and requirements management in JIRA, we have moved to ALM.
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Senior Engineer in QA at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
We weren't previously using another solution.
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IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MS Excel was our first solution.
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Ravi Suvvari
Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
We previously used Bugzilla and switched because Quality Center is easier to use, has good reporting, and has better accessibility.
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Nimmagadda Sudhir
Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We checked out other tools like JIRA and Rally which also have good features, but HPE ALM has is user friendly.
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ALM Administrator & Software QA Pro at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
We switched because the previous solution was lacking features to manage a complete life-cycle.
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Test analyst in behalf of Alten at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have worked at other companies, I cannot choose between solutions.
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Oluseye Oyede
Software Quality Assurance & Testing Specialist, MTN Nigeria Ltd at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not use a different solution previously.
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Team Lead at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We previously used RTM, and we switched because ALM is better than IBM RTM tool.
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Quality Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I did not choose this product, it was onsite before I started the contract with this particular client, and I have seen and used this product at a few client sites.
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Test Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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Test Lead
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Srinivasa Chamarty
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Software Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We have other open source products that do not meet all our requirements
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Test Manager
Yes, it was forced on the company. Change was to facilitate management of defects between multiple parties.
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Senior Technical Test Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have no experience using other test management softwares.
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OATS Engineer-Onsite Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have used HPE QC from the onset as the scale of our operation and the throughput of requirements were greater so using other solutions, such as Kanban, were not feasible in our project.
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Test Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
No previous solution was used.
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