2. ~1st ~
Green Island in Europe
Polish GDP doubled in size in last 26 years. In that period the society experienced a huge
change, however still looking forward to keep up with Western Europe.
Poland has a strong aspiration to join G20 by the year 2022.
Strong macroeconomic foundations, stable domestic demand and agile fiscal policy made
Poland the only European Union country to avoid recession in times of financial
crisis, growing by an outstanding 25% between 2008-2015, with an annual dynamics of
3.6%.
3. ~2nd~
Location – Nearshoring vs. Offshoring
Poland is in the central part of Europe, which
gives great benefits in communication with
other European countries in contrast to the
markets outside of the continent.
There are 15 airports across the country
which have wide flight connection with every
European Union member country. All the
European capitals are within 3.5 hours flight
range from Poland.
GMT +1 time zone as the way to save your
money – according to the report from
Circadian Technologies, companies in the
similar time zones save a lot of money every
year.
4. ~3rd~
Cost-effective
Labour costs are one of the most
important factors determining
investment attractiveness of Poland.
Comparing to the other European
markets labour market in Poland is a
great destination to partner with.
Additionally, do not overpay for QA of
your new work by giving the testing
tasks to developers who are more
expensive than testers. Make the
testing process cost-effective and order
the work from the external testing
companies.
15498
55000
35813
39219
Software tester average salary
(USD)
Poland USA Great Britain The Netherlands
5. ~4th~
Quality of work
Poland is well-known for its quality of
service, especially in the IT industry.
In Poland, it is obligatory to learn
English from the 1st grade at school.
According to EF EPI society in Poland
speaks better English than countries
like Germany, Switzerland and Belgium
and it is placed in the group with high
proficiency.
Organization teaching new testers with
ISTQB certification is present on the
polish market for many years. In recent
years, the popularity of this certification
increased significantly.
6. ~5th~
People and talents
Younger generation in Poland is open-
minded and energetic.
Due to the education system which puts
a lot of attention to the mathematician
skills, Poland has the most mature IT
market in Eastern Europe and South
America, being the second country in
the world to deliver IT services.
Poland’s student population which is
educated in 453 universities is massive
(1 676 927 in 2013 ). They account for
10% of all European students.
Approximately half of the country’s
youth go on to higher education.
7. ~6th~
IT sector
Be like Google, HP, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP
which opened its IT departments in Poland.
Polish programmes many times won international
competitions like TopCoder showing their ability to
be the best.
In 2014/2015 there were 319 019 students, who
graduated Technical Universities in Poland.
The city of Wroclaw boasts with the largest number
of IT, finance and accounting students in Poland.
Additionally, according to the Pentor Institute
report, 98% of Wroclaw students speak English
and over 40% additionally speak German.
8. ~7th~
Looking for innovation
New government of Poland is aware of
importance of the innovation topic and is
planning to double the R&D spendings by
2020.
According to the ABSL report, Wroclaw is
the most dynamically developing center of
BPO/SSC investments in Poland and the
largest hub of research and development
centers. Wroclaw, which is known as the
“Polish Silicone Valley”, also boasts with the
largest number of KPO type investments in
Poland.
European Union in order to use the high
potential of the market will spend 82,5 billion
euros in Poland in the next years.
9. ~8th~
Culture
People live, work and have habits
similar to the other European countries,
consequently, the communication flow is
much easier in contrast with the
countries outside of the continent.
According to the Hofstede cultural
dimensions, Polish uncertainty
avoidance is on the very high level, what
can proof the motivation to work harder
and be certain about a future is
important.
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Poland
10. ~9th~
European Union member
As the European Union member, Poland
is a great partner for other members due
to
• Common legal EU regulations
• No trade barriers
• Many international organizations
helping with EU international
businesses
Moreover, 84% of Polish citizens wish
to be a part of European Union
Poland, in order to show its high
international focus, organized Football
European Championship in 2012.
Additionally, Wroclaw became the
European Capital of Culture in 2016 and
organize The World Games Olympics in
2017.
11. ~10th~
QA Focus and Outsourcing benefits
Lower operational and labour costs.
Freeing up internal resources that
could be put into effective use for
other purposes.
Don’t have problems with hiring
new people.
You focus on business, we focus on
quality.
Remember that only 16% users give
the second chance to the applications,
which did not function well for the first
time.
12. Wroc-love
Wroclaw, where testarmy headquater is located, is home for many international well known
brands like Google, HP or Credit Agricole.
13. TestArmy.com in numbers
4 125 2 000 25 000
Years of experience in
software testing
Satisfied customers Testers with wide
experience
Bugs detected and
solutions for the
customers
TestArmy.com
cooperates with over
350 testers with special
international ISTQB
certification
We have access to almost
150 devices and operating
systems supported with
real users
TestArmy.com is
operating 24/7/365