NTT DATA partners easyJet.
NTT DATA UK&I has announced that it has become easyJet’s strategic supplier of Quality Engineering (QE) services. By establishing the partnership, the airline group hopes to meet its ambitious growth targets by increasing productivity throughout the organisation, which NTT DATA will help with. Additionally, the business innovator is also aiming to improve user experiences.
Every year, easyJet flies millions of customers across Europe, to streamline the company’s processes and improve its services, easyJet looked for a QE partner to help drive innovation through the implementation of Test Automation. This will allow for faster releases and improved cost efficiencies.
“Modernising our Quality Engineering practices is a top priority for our organisation, so we needed to find a strategic partner to drive enhancements and efficiencies through innovation, automation, and a modern testing approach. We also wanted to make sure that we found a partner that was a cultural fit for our organisation,” said Simon Prior, Head of Quality Engineering at easyJet. “Quality Engineering is a critical part of our business and NTT DATA emerged as the obvious choice to be our preferred supplier given the skills and experience it has in this area. We are pleased to have built a trusted strategic partnership with them over the past year and we look forward to continuing our work together over the next three years.”
NTT DATA will utilise its network of quality assurance specialists, which includes 55 experts in its Quality Engineering Centre of Excellence in the UK, to support easyJet and with the implementation of the new strategy. The business innovator will provide advisory services and a technology roadmap that will ensure in-built quality checks across the full engineering lifecycle.
“We are proud to be delivering Quality Engineering services for easyJet and this new deal demonstrates the strength of the relationship that we have built over the past year,” said Richard Nettleship, VP of Operations & Delivery for Industry at NTT DATA UK&I. “By working collaboratively with easyJet, we will drive value and innovation, increase efficiency, and help simplify their current ecosystem through standardisation and alignment across ways of working, processes, and technologies.”