Requirements verification & traceability
Requirements reviews for testability and ambiguity, bidirectional traceability matrices, and coverage analysis linking requirements, tests, and defects.
Independent verification that systems do what they must — every release.
SIS provides objective, evidence-based verification and validation across the software lifecycle: requirements traceability, functional and integration testing, automation, performance, accessibility, and release-readiness reporting.
Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) answers two questions with evidence: did we build the system right, and did we build the right system? It is our founding discipline. Our founder brings hands-on federal IV&V experience across API, database, and end-to-end testing for enterprise programs.
We focus on traceability and evidence — every requirement mapped to a test, every test mapped to a result, and every defect tied to risk — so program leaders can make go/no-go decisions with confidence.
A custom automation testing stack designed and built by our founder to test system interfaces and validate reports — reducing manual effort and producing repeatable, evidence-ready results.
The technical areas SIS can support, and what each makes possible for your mission.
Requirements reviews for testability and ambiguity, bidirectional traceability matrices, and coverage analysis linking requirements, tests, and defects.
Risk-based test design, regression suites that grow with each release, and smoke checks that confirm builds are stable before deeper testing.
Contract, schema, and negative testing of REST and SOAP services; interface verification between systems; service virtualization for unavailable dependencies.
SQL-based reconciliation between source and target systems, ETL validation, data-integrity checks, and migration verification.
Maintainable automation frameworks for UI and API layers, data-driven tests, parallel execution, and CI/CD integration so tests run on every change.
Business-process scenarios across integrated systems; UAT planning, scripts, facilitation, and sign-off evidence with business stakeholders.
Load, stress, soak, and spike testing with response-time percentiles, throughput, and capacity findings — plus failover and recovery verification.
Manual and automated accessibility evaluation against WCAG 2.x success criteria with remediation guidance developers can act on.
Authentication and authorization test cases, input-validation checks, and coordination of SAST/DAST findings into the defect lifecycle.
Quality gates, defect metrics, risk scoring, root-cause trends, and concise go/no-go recommendations for program leadership.
Representative ways organizations put these capabilities to work.
Verify that a new system matches legacy behavior and data before cutover.
Prove record counts, values, and business rules survived the move.
Embed testers and automation in sprints to keep quality continuous.
Validate interfaces and data exchange between agencies, vendors, and platforms.
Find and fix Section 508 issues before they reach the public.
Give program offices an objective view of contractor-delivered quality.
Understand scope, risk, environments, and acceptance criteria; produce the test strategy.
Map requirements to test cases and identify coverage gaps early.
Run manual and automated tests across functional, integration, data, and performance layers.
Track defects to resolution with severity, risk, and evidence.
Deliver a release-readiness recommendation backed by traceable results.
We are tool-agnostic and start from what you already use. Representative technologies:
Independence. IV&V is performed by a party separate from the development team, reporting objectively on whether the system meets requirements and mission needs — not just whether developers' tests pass.
Yes. IV&V can supplement, oversee, or audit existing testing, and can scale from a single embedded engineer to a dedicated team.
Both. We design and build automation frameworks and hand them over with documentation so your team can maintain them.
Test plans, traceability matrices, executed test results, defect reports, metrics dashboards, and a written release-readiness recommendation.
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