Your Partner for Transformation

We love working with you on your most important transformation pursuits — from helping you pinpoint exactly where to implement AI/ML solutions to make your team superhuman to crafting superior software solutions (quality built in, not bolted on) so that the tech that is invisible to the user.

For going on three decades, we’ve partnered with leaders like you who are doing the important work, embracing paradigm shifts, and enacting meaningful change within your teams, company, and larger community.

The worlds of innovation, data, and tech are that much more impactful when integrated. It’s why our firm is made of strategists, technicians, data mavericks, and engineers who can talk business and tech, while never losing sight of the humans who sit at the center of the solutions we create.

Whether you’re a fledgling startup, large enterprise, or social enterprise, we help you spin up strategies, roadmaps, capabilities, and teams so that you can powerfully achieve your most important initiatives.

Our Motivator

To leave a lasting impact on the communities we serve, from our employees to our clients to our partners

Core Values

Our core values deeply inform who we are, how we think and how we choose to show up:

Walk in Their Shoes

Lead from a place of empathy and true understanding

Celebrate Authenticity

We believe everyone should get to show up as their most whole version of self

Infinite Possibility

We balance dreaming of what could be, continually raising the bar of what’s possible with pragmatic steps needed to make progress forward

Be the Pioneers

Choosing to be among the Early Adopters, we take the path not yet traveled

Choose Growth

Try new things, challenge assumptions, and excitedly stretch

In the Words of Our Team

We asked a few of our team members to share their thoughts on our growth story and larger industry macro shifts!

Marco Barrera Enterprise Technical Solutions

"Digital velocity and agility are non-negotiables. Being able to deploy hyper-specialized strike teams — top technical people who come in and get the job done — will be even more powerful."

Shaun Ennis PM/ Business Analyst

"Advancements in AI, ML, and IoT have the potential to transform the way we live and work. Watching more and more cloud-based apps across industries adopt these technologies is really exciting!"

Christine Hanrahan Solutions Architect

"I'm excited about the advancement of ML as it applies to security. These technologies will advance threat predictions and improve security protocols across the board."

Walter McAdams Chief Engineer

"Digital modernization — an organization-wide approach to changes in strategy, technology, processes, and ideology — will be imperative for any company that wants to keep up."

Carrie Majewski VP of Growth Strategy

"The barrier to enter for tech adoption is low, the ability to leapfrog competitors is always within reach, and the ability to drive next-level innovation is always weeks, not years away."

Tim Amudala Project Manager

"It's exciting to not only have the ability to rapidly connect massive amounts of data to glean greater insights but also the promise and possibility of AI' to connect disparate, discreet data."

Rob Lanza CEO

"There is so much to be excited for when considering how technology is shaping our future, especially when it comes to how we augment HUMAN experiences with tech-accelerated solutions."

A Look Back, A Look Forward

1999-2005

  • Open doors in RI, offering niche quality test and automation services
  • Rob Lanza first hire; Mark McPhillips joins as acting controller
  • In 18 months, grow to $10 million
  • Land national accounts including Disney, CVS, Pfizer and Bayer
  • Listed on Fastest Growing and Best Places to Work lists, including Inc 500
  • Expand breadth of capabilities by adding Solutions Team
  • Grow geographically from Boston to Florida

2006-2010

  • Rob Lanza is promoted to Head of Client Services, ushers in new client journey philosophy
  • Web applications increasingly become client facing, driving us to focus on performance as key to UX
  • Walter McAdams joins to head Performance Engineering and Automation practice
  • Surge service model emerges as “go to” for dozens of .com’s and high-tech firms
  • Solutions Team built to support end-to-end software delivery process engineering and client velocity demands

2011-2015

  • Ownership transition to Rob Lanza, COO, and Mark McPhillips, CFO
  • New vision for growth and purpose — tech services for business differentiation
  • Focus on helping clients lean into digital transformation as a means to compete
  • Client demand for help leveraging futuristic, modern technologies and capitalizing on methodological shifts
  • Growth swell of business in New England

2016-2020

  • Rob Lanza takes over as CEO
  • Expanded focus on both engineering quality and elevating data as competitive business drivers
  • Expansion of client engagements to focus on disrupting and advancing companies through a hyper-focus lens of either quality and/or data
  • New office move to downtown Providence, RI
  • Introduce our rebrand as SQA Group

2021-Present

  • Growth of Solutions Team through hire of top engineers, data scientists, and digital transformation mavericks
  • Launch of proprietary Metrics Finder, measure the immeasurable, service offering
  • Increased client work and projects surrounding emerging tech adoption, from IoT to cloud to hyper-automation
  • SQA Group tech team regularly tapped for media industry predictions around ML, AI and cloud
  • Creation of marketing leading prediction piece on Future of Work KPIs
  • Continued cultivation of unbreakable client relationships

An Eye Towards the Future

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