Security, Design & Quality
Software Testing & QA
Dedicated QA engineering: automated test suites, performance testing, and release pipelines that catch defects before your customers ever see them.
Automated test suites, load testing, and CI release gates.
- Defects caught before customers see them
- Releases you stop fearing
- A test suite that gates every deploy
The problem
You find out about bugs when your customers do.
Manual testing before each release does not scale. It takes longer as the product grows, it misses things at the end of a long week, and it fails at the moment you want to ship faster. Automated tests run in minutes on every change and catch breakages while the developer still remembers what they touched.
We add testing to existing products and build it into new ones: unit and integration tests, end-to-end tests that drive a browser or an app the way a user would, load tests that show where the system breaks, and a pipeline that blocks a release when a test fails.
What you receive
What a project produces.
A test strategy
What is tested at which level, what is left to manual checks, and the risks that decide the priorities.
Automated end-to-end tests
Scripts that walk through the key journeys, such as signing up, paying and exporting, in real browsers or on real devices.
Unit and integration tests
Tests for the business logic and the connections between components, written with your developers.
Load and performance tests
Simulated traffic that finds the limits and slow points before your customers do.
A release gate in CI
A pipeline that runs the tests on every change and blocks the release when one fails.
Reports and a maintenance plan
Readable results, and rules for keeping the suite healthy as the product changes.
How we approach it
The positions we take.
Test what would hurt most
Coverage percentages are easy to inflate. We start with the journeys and functions that cost you the most when they break.
Keep tests trustworthy
Flaky tests teach people to ignore failures. We fix or remove them, so a red build always means a real problem.
Make it part of daily work
Tests run on every change and developers can run them locally, so they are used and not ignored.
How it runs
Four steps, from the first call to hand-over.
1
Assess the risk
We review the product and its release process with you, and list the journeys that must never break. You receive a fixed quote for the first suite.
2
Build the core suite
We automate the critical journeys first, then add lower-level tests around the code you change most often.
3
Wire it into your pipeline
The suite runs on every change, results are visible to the whole team, and a failure blocks the release.
4
Extend and hand over
We add load tests and remaining coverage, then train your developers to maintain the suite themselves.
Is it a fit
When we are the right people, and when we are not.
A good fit
- Releases are slow or frightening because nobody is sure what will break.
- Bugs found by customers are costing you time and reputation.
- You are about to make a big change, such as a rewrite or a migration.
Another route is better when
- The product is a prototype that will be rebuilt next month. A heavy test investment is wasted there.
- You want testing done only after the product is finished. Starting earlier is far cheaper.
- You want a certificate of quality. We deliver working tests, not a stamp.
What we ask on the first call
- Which five journeys must never break?
- How do you release today, and how long does it take?
- What has broken in production recently?
- Which environments exist for testing?
- Who will maintain the tests afterwards?
Questions
About Software Testing & QA.
Something missing? Write to [email protected] and an engineer will answer.
Can you add tests to a codebase that has none?
Yes. We begin with end-to-end tests over the critical journeys, since those need no changes to the code, and add lower-level tests where you are changing things.
Do you replace manual testers?
No. Automation covers the repeatable checks, so people can spend their time on exploratory testing, where the surprising problems are found.
How long do automated tests take to run?
We aim for a fast core suite that runs in minutes on every change, with slower suites on a schedule.
How do you test performance?
We simulate realistic traffic against a staging environment, find the point where the system slows or fails, and report which component sets the limit.
Describe what you need.
Describe the problem in plain language. An engineer reads every inquiry and replies within one business day, with a written scope and fixed price before you commit to anything.
- Reply
- Within one business day
- First call
- Free, no commitment
- Confidentiality
- NDA on request, before you share anything
- [email protected]