Single Sign-On (SSO)

You can use Single sign-on (SSO) to log into your SimplifyQA account via existing SAML-enabled ID providers.

Here's how you configure SAML SSO for SimplifyQA using Azure Active Directory:

Add SimplifyQA from the gallery

To configure the integration of SimplifyQA into Azure AD, you need to add SimplifyQA from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

2. On the left navigation pane, select the ‘Azure Active Directory’ service.

3. Navigate to ‘Enterprise Applications’ and then select ‘All Applications’.

4. To add a new application, select ‘New application.’

5. Click on "Create your own Application". Give a name to your application and create it.

Configure and test Azure AD SSO for SimplifyQA

1. Login to your SimplifyQA account.

2. Simultaneously, log in to your Azure portal, navigate to the SimplifyQA application integration page, find the Manage section in the sidebar, and select single sign-on.

3. [Azure Portal] On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

4. [Azure Portal] On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the edit/pen icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

5. Under Security, you can enable SSO and choose Azure AD using SAML as the SSO you want to set up. From S’implifyQA Dashboard, you will be presented with the ACS URL and Entity ID. Copy the values and enter the values in the relevant fields in the Azure AD portal. To be more specific:

   • In the ‘Identifier (Entity ID)’ field, enter the SP Entity ID from the SimplifyQA security settings page.

   • In the ‘Reply URL’ field, enter the Assertion Consumer Service(ACS) URL from the SimplifyQA security settings page.

   • In the ‘Sign-on URL’ field, enter your login URL

6. [Azure Portal] On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the edit/pen icon for User Attribute & Claims to edit the settings.

7. [Azure Portal] Select the Unique User identifier as user.mail. The name-id format should be unspecified.

8. [Azure Portal] Click Save on the top left once done.

9. [Azure Portal] Once you configure SimplifyQA as an SP, you will be given values for the following entries in the Azure AD Portal.

   • Entity ID (or Metadata ID)

   • SAML SSO URL (or Login URL)

   • Security Certificate (or x.509 certificate)

   Note: On the set-up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

10. Copy and paste in relevant fields in the SimplifyQA dashboard. To be more specific:

    • In the ‘Entity ID Provided by the IdP’ field, copy the Azure AD Identifier URL.

    • In the ‘SAML SSO URL’ field, copy the Login URL from the Azure portal.

    • Under ‘Signing Options’, choose ‘Only Signed Assertions’ (By default, this would be chosen. If you have modified the signing in Azure app, select accordingly)

    • Open the Base64 encoded certificate in notepad, copy its content and paste it into the Security certificate text box.

11. Click on save.