Testing Services
Success in today’s global software market means maintaining a razor-sharp focus on delivering localized products that perform well on all levels. To achieve this, many companies partner with an experienced language translation provider who offers extensive, proven testing services – Merrill Brink International.
You can count on Merrill Brink’s professional engineering team to verify that your software products, applications and content meet the language and locale-specific requirements of your target markets.
A trusted testing service provider with 30+ years’ experience in 100+ languages
Merrill Brink is recognized for our superior localization testing services. We offer end-to-end quality assurance (QA) software testing services by in-house QA engineers and native speaker linguistic testers, to ensure the highest levels of quality control over your project. Our ability to replicate our clients’ target environments in our test lab helps ensure that high-quality localized products are created for all your target markets. Below are the different types of testing we typically provide to our clients:
- Internationalization Testing – Our experienced test team can work with product developers to identify and eliminate core functional issues relating to the Internationalization of a product
- Localizability Testing - Our test team can test pseudo-localised UI to verify that the user interface of the software can be easily adapted and translated to any target language without re-engineering or code modifications
- Localization UI Testing – Process of testing which seeks to identify cosmetic defects in localised product, i.e. untranslated text, string truncations, misalignments, etc.
- Linguistic Testing – Verifies translation accuracy of localized text in running software and in context in comparison with the source product - performed by qualified native speakers
- Localization Functional Testing – Process of testing the localized product to identify, report and regress any functional defects which may be caused by the Localization effort
We also offer the following value-added testing services:
- Test planning
- Test execution management
- Bug management
Test lab testing services
Merrill Brink also provides access to its state-of-the-art test lab, located in our Galway office. Our facilities are staffed with dedicated engineering, QA and IT resources that perform overall system monitoring, regular maintenance and security checks.
All testing services are managed by in-house QA engineers and can be executed on high-performance hardware in our fully equipped test lab. Multi-platform testing services are provided in virtual and traditional physical machine environments. Our image library contains the latest localized platforms in all major languages including:
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Test models
We work with a number of different test models that can be adapted for each project/client.
Robust ISO standards for quality systems and risk management
Merrill Brink International is committed to quality and risk management. We are certified to ISO 9001:2008, ISO 27001:2005, ISO 13485:2003; and registered to EN 15038:2006 and ISO 14971:2007. Together, these standards provide assurance that the most stringent process and quality standards for translation and testing are followed.
Therefore Merrill Brink uses an ISO-compliant process oriented test methodology.
To ensure quality of software products and related technologies, Merrill Brink test dept performs the following 3 key testing activities:
- QA Scope Analysis
- QA Preparation
- QA Execution
Choose an industry leader for professional, reliable testing services
When you need expert testing services, choose the market leader – Merrill Brink International.



