Test strategy & pyramid design
Unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, exploratory. We design the right shape for your codebase, not the textbook shape.
Services / QA & Automation
Tests that actually catch the bugs — and a CI that doesn't lie.
Most test suites are theater. Slow, flaky, and giving false confidence. We build automation that catches real regressions, runs fast enough that engineers don't skip it, and tells the truth about what's broken.
89%
Median pre-prod regression catch rate
4.2 min
Median CI suite runtime (post-engagement)
<0.5%
Flaky test rate target
11×
Faster bug detection vs. manual baseline
What it is
The work, plainly described.
QA & Automation is the practice that turns testing from a bottleneck into a release accelerant. We design test pyramids that make sense for your codebase, build the automation infrastructure to run them, and embed with your team to upskill engineers on test-first thinking. Quality is an engineering discipline. We treat it like one.
Where it fits
- No formal QA todayYou ship. Customers find bugs. You fix. Repeat. We help you build a real quality discipline without slowing release velocity.
- Test suite is brokenYou have 5,000 tests, half of them flaky, and engineers re-run failed builds hoping for green. We help you triage and rebuild.
- Compliance test coverageYou need defensible test coverage for SOC 2, FDA, or PCI requirements. We build the documentation alongside the tests.
- Pre-launch hardeningYou have a launch in 60 days and need a real test program in place before it goes live.
Capabilities
What we'll actually do.
Each of these is a deliverable category, not a buzzword bullet. We scope, build, and stay accountable for each one.
End-to-end automation
Playwright, Cypress, WebDriver, Detox, Espresso, XCUITest. Stable selectors, parallelization, smart retries, and visual diffs.
API & contract testing
Pact, RestAssured, Postman/Newman, custom harnesses. Contract-first testing for microservice landscapes.
Performance & load testing
k6, JMeter, Locust, Gatling. Realistic load profiles, latency budgets, and the SLOs to defend them.
CI/CD test gating
Test sharding, parallelization, dynamic test selection, and the gates that prevent bad merges without blocking velocity.
Security & accessibility testing
OWASP-aligned scans in CI, dependency monitoring, and WCAG 2.1 AA conformance testing.
Process
How an engagement actually runs.
No mystery, no shifting goalposts. Five phases with measurable outcomes per phase.
Audit
We assess your current test suite — coverage, flakiness, runtime, infrastructure. The output is a quality posture report with prioritized fixes.
Foundation
Test framework, runner, CI pipeline, reporting dashboard. The infrastructure that makes the rest possible.
Coverage build-out
Automated regression suite covering critical user journeys, critical APIs, and known-historic-bug scenarios.
Engineering enablement
Pairing with your engineers, codifying patterns, and writing the team-internal docs that outlive us.
Sustained quality program
Optional retainer for ongoing test maintenance, flake reduction, and quality metrics review.
Why us
Three things you should know.
Senior SDETs only
Our QA leads have been engineers, not test-script writers. They understand the systems they're testing.
We hate flake more than you do
Sub-0.5% flake rate is our target. We'll quarantine and fix flakes before adding new tests.
Tests as documentation
Well-named tests are the best documentation a codebase has. Our tests read like specifications.
Frequently asked
The questions everyone asks.
Do you do manual QA?
Yes — for exploratory testing, pre-release smoke testing, and accessibility audits. But our engagements aim to automate everything that can be automated.
What about test-driven development coaching?
We pair with your engineers and run TDD workshops. Adoption is voluntary — we've found mandate-driven TDD doesn't stick.
How do you handle test data?
Synthetic generation for stateful tests, snapshot fixtures for deterministic ones, and ephemeral databases for integration tests. Real customer data never sits in test environments.
Can you take over an existing test suite?
Yes. Our default first action is a flake quarantine and a coverage map — we don't touch the green tests until we understand what they're actually testing.
What CI platforms do you support?
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins, and the cloud-native options (CodeBuild, Cloud Build, Azure Pipelines).