Founded by Neil Price-Jones in 1993 in Ontario, NVP Software Solutions is dedicated solely to Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing.  NVP provides customized solutions based on best practices and years of dedicated experience.  We develop professional relationships with our resources so that we can best match our clients’ needs with our resources’ abilities.

Mission

NVP Software Solutions provides industry-leading software quality assurance and testing services, customized to address client’s business requirements. These services are provided by qualified talent utilizing modern industry standards and proven best practices to provide exceptional value to clients.

Business Philosophy and Values

NVP is in business to improve the quality of client software through the application of proven methods and experienced talent to Quality Assurance process improvement and testing new and enhanced software. Customization to address client requirements in line with industry best practices, resource (time, money, and skill sets) limitations, and practical project and work management is implemented to achieve the requested results on time and budget.

Quality is the hallmark of NVP, and when combined with the company’s core values of Professionalism, Flexibility, Reliability, and Trustworthiness, results in customer and employee satisfaction each and every time. Management and staff maintain perspective and awareness of the business, project and technical impacts of their work and actions. NVP looks for opportunities to improve operational effectiveness and client satisfaction.

Neil Price-Jones

Neil Price-Jones has experience in software testing and implementation of automation. His work supports various industries including financial, telecommunications, and pension administration to name a few.

He also assists many clients with their quality assurance training needs in the financial, provincial government, health and insurance sectors.

Founded by Neil in 1993, NVP provides testing expertise to numerous organizations across Ontario, Canada.

Organizations

Neil is a member and has been a regular presenter for software quality organizations across Ontario including Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA) as well as Toronto Association for System & Software Quality (TASSQ). He currently sits on the boards of QAI Canada, and the Caledon Chamber Concerts.

Neil has also been involved in numerous software quality events and has presented and exhibited at the International Quality Conference from 2003-2006.

He is a Senior Consultant and Trainer for the Quality Assurance Institute, Inc (USA) and director of QAI Canada. Neil is certified by the International Software Certification Board to teach the CAST, CSTE, CMST, CASQ, CSQA and CMSQ exam preparation courses.

Connect

Connect with Neil via LinkedIn, or join our Software Testing & QA LinkedIn Group. Join the NVP Mailing list and receive our bi-monthly newsletter.

Our Team

Bob Thompson

Bob Thompson is highly experienced in financial, retail, health and manufacturing fields, where he has worked as a Project Manager, and Quality Assurance Manager including planning and executing disaster recovery tests. He has worked in data centre migration and planned and executed other infrastructure projects. He utilises standard QA and PMI processes, and adapts them to the needs of the individual projects and organizations. He has improved efficiencies by following Agile and risk based processes as appropriate, for mainframe, client server, web, and mobile platforms.

Vida Shafaghat

Vida Shafaghat is a Quality Assurance and Testing expert with proven leadership skills in IT Program Management from Initiation to Implementation She has provided Strategy and Guidelines for QA/Testing Programs and added value and efficiency in the QA process.  Vida has experience in Financial, Banking, Insurance,   and Telecom industries.  She mentors and leads QA resources on her teams providing highly efficient Quality Assurance and testing practices for her clients.