QA and test automation services
Most teams already know they need stronger QA. We help them actually get there, and we leave them able to run it themselves.
Sound familiar?
QA rarely fails because a team doesn’t believe in it. It fails because quality work and feature work share the same budget, the same sprint and the same three engineers. The roadmap says “tests on every pull request.” The repo has a test folder that stalled two quarters ago and a regression checklist someone runs by hand the night before release.
What we do
| Service | What you get |
|---|---|
| Assess | Where quality stands today, and what to fix first |
| Build | Automated test suites your engineers can read and keep up |
| Gate | Tests on every pull request that block a bad merge |
| Embed | QA engineers inside your team, for as long as you need |
| Hand over | A team that adds and fixes its own tests |
We also cover performance and load testing, security testing and usability testing.
Ways to work together
| Engagement | Length | Best when |
|---|---|---|
| Assess | 2 to 3 weeks | Nobody agrees on what’s actually broken |
| Build | 6 to 12 weeks | The plan is clear and the capacity isn’t |
| Operate | Ongoing | Hiring is frozen or the roadmap won’t wait |
Scope and pricing are shaped to your budget, and every engagement ends with your team able to run it. We’d rather be hired again for the next problem than kept on for this one.
A recent rebuild
A client had a Cypress suite nobody trusted, run by hand when someone remembered. We kept what still described the product, moved it to Playwright with most checks below the browser, filled the gaps around the flows that mattered most, and wired it into CI. Results now land on every pull request, and the team extends the suite itself.
Building with AI coding agents? Read how we write the spec from a working prototype, so its acceptance checks are ready to become tests.
Questions
What's the difference between QA and quality engineering?
QA checks the product before it ships: someone, or something, runs through it and reports what's broken. Quality engineering builds that checking into how the team works, so tests run on every change, a failing test stops the merge, and nobody has to remember to do it. Most teams need both. We do both, but we lean toward quality engineering, because it's the part that keeps working after we leave.
How long does it take to set up test automation?
An assessment takes two to three weeks and ends with a written plan: what to test first, what to leave alone, and what's slowing the team down today. Building a suite that covers the journeys that matter and runs on every pull request usually takes six to twelve weeks, depending on the size of the product and how testable it is now. Some teams then keep us on to run and grow the suite; others take it over straight away.
Playwright or Cypress?
We reach for Playwright on new suites. It runs fast, handles multiple browsers and tabs well, and is easy for engineers to pick up, and we've moved Cypress suites over to it when they'd become slow or flaky. That said, a healthy Cypress suite your team trusts is worth more than a rewrite, so if yours works, we keep it and build on it.
Do you test code written by AI coding agents?
Yes, the same way as any other code: it has to pass the suite before it merges. Agents write changes fast and with a lot of confidence, which makes that gate matter more, not less. We also use agents ourselves to help write and maintain tests, with the same review and checks on that work as on anything else.
Do you cover performance, security and usability testing too?
Yes. Alongside functional automation we run performance and load testing to find where the product slows down or breaks, security testing for common weaknesses, and usability testing with real people to catch problems no automated test will find. Where a specialist is the better call, such as a formal penetration test for compliance, we'll say so.
Can you work with our existing QA or engineering team?
That's how we prefer to work. We join your standups, work in your repos and your pipeline, and pair with whoever owns quality today, whether that's a QA team, a single tester or the engineers themselves. The goal is that your people can add a test, read a failure and trust the suite on their own by the time we hand over.
Half an hour, no proposal. Tell us where quality hurts and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit.