STQC Empanelled Test Laboratories

Overview

Government of India accords highest priority to the Digital India programme that is an umbrella programme for transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The pillars 4 and 5 of the Digital India programme, namely ‘e-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology’ and ‘e-Kranti - Electronic Delivery of Services’ respectively are directly linked to the e-Kranti: National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) 2.0. The implementation of e-Kranti is vital for Digital India and for the delivery of e-governance, easy governance and good governance in the country. For assuring Quality, it is required to ensure the Conformity of IT Solution characteristics with the System requirements. In order to ascertain this conformity, availability of IT Test laboratories which are established as per International Best Practices becomes necessary. Such labs are required to be approved as IT Test Laboratories of IT domain with defined scope of approval. This will enable IT Solution provider to demonstrate compliance of its solution to the requirements of the project / RFP by providing a test report from an approved laboratory. This scheme is promoted by STQC Directorate, Meity and is based on International Standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017 (General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories) and ISO/IEC 17011 (Conformity assessment —Requirements for Approval bodies accrediting conformity assessment bodies)

The scheme is intended to recognize the competence of IT test laboratories and to provide confidence to the stakeholders that Test results of Solutions tested in these laboratories are reliable, reproducible and repeatable. Under the scheme, after satisfactory completion of the assessment, the laboratory is issued a `Certificate of Approval’ indicating conformance to specified requirements of applicable standards as specified in the scheme.

The scheme covers both private and public (Government) IT test laboratories involved in software and system testing with in-house and/or onsite capabilities.

Scope and Objective

The scope of Approval Scheme covers approval of IT Testing Laboratories engaged in testing software applications & systems for both functional and non-functional characteristics to ensure quality & security of software and systems.

The scope of the IT (Software and System) Test Laboratories for approval for conformity assessment.

Sl. No.	Type of Testing
1	Functional Testing
2	Performance Testing
3	Application Security Testing A. Web Application Security Testing B. Mobile Application Security Testing C. API Security Testing
4	Vulnerability Analysis & Penetration Testing
5	Interoperability testing
6	Accessibility testing
7	Website Testing as per GIGW
8	Hardware Security

Approval Process

• SETL Approval Process (Create Link for document as attached)
• Flowchart for Approval Scheme for SETLs (Create Link for document as attached)

 

Important Notice/Circulars/Presentations
PPT
Incorporation of Scope for Process Audit in SETLs

 

Downloads

Documents
STQC-SAB-D01-Rules & Procedure of SAB
STQC-SAB-D02-Approval Criteria of SETL
STQC-SAB-D03-Assessor Empanelment
STQC-SAB-D04-Policy on Use of STQC Approved Laboratory Logo
STQC-IT&eGov-D05-Operations of SETL & Technical Oversight
Procedure
STQC-SAB-P01-Procedures for Operating Approving Body
STQC-SAB-P02-Adverse Decisions by Approving body
STQC-SAB-P03-Assessor Guide
Forms
SAB-F01-Application form for Approval of SETL
SAB-F04-Certificate of Approval of SETL
STQC-IT&eGov-F02-Agreement with applicant for certificate of approval

List of Empanelled Laboratories

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