SAP to open-stack ERP migration
Manufacturer, 500+ employees. Phased migration off SAP ERP onto an open stack with custom modules — run in stages while the plant kept working.
- 0 downtime
- 8 mo migration
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QA and testing for teams where the developer is also the tester
Not more test cases. Fewer of them, on the flows that carry money, running in CI, with a bug flow that actually closes.
What we can show you
QA
A green release run beats a coverage percentage
Coverage is a number you can grow without reducing risk. A twenty-minute release suite that people trust is not.
What QA outsourcing actually gives you
Four things. A test strategy that names what is checked automatically, what is checked by a person and what is deliberately not checked. Automation in CI on the flows that carry money, so a red build cannot reach production. A release regression that finishes inside a coffee break rather than a working day. And a bug flow where a report is reproducible, prioritised and closed.
What it is not: a person clicking through a spreadsheet of cases, or a race to a coverage percentage. Both are easy to sell and neither reduces the risk of the release you are afraid of.
When to bring QA in from outside
When releases are postponed out of fear, when regression is done from memory, or when hiring a QA engineer has been open for six months. If the product is small and the team disciplined, developer-written tests plus a short checklist may be enough — we will say so.
Signals testing needs to become someone's job
- releases get postponed because nobody is sure what will break;
- regression is a person clicking through screens from memory;
- the same bugs come back a few releases later;
- testing happens on production because there is no other environment;
- there are no test data fixtures, so nobody can reproduce anything.
Price
Audit $1,790, automation from $7,990
Timeline
Smoke suite in CI in 2 weeks
Payment
50/50 by milestone
Comparison
Hire a QA engineer or outsource the function
Both are defensible; the difference is time to first value and what happens when that person is on holiday.
Criterion
In-house hireQA partner (us)
QA partnerIn-house QA engineer
Time to first value
2–3 months including hiring
Two weeks to a smoke suite
Cost shape
Salary and taxes, indefinitely
$28/hour or a monthly plan, cancellable
Automation skills
Depends entirely on the hire
Standard, with a framework we bring
Coverage during holidays
Nobody
The team continues
Product knowledge over years
Deepest
Documented in the strategy instead
When it wins
Large product, permanent QA function
You need testing to exist now, not after a hiring cycle
Process
How we set testing up — and what we refuse to test
The refusals matter as much as the plan: most QA budgets are lost on checks that never catch anything.
Week 1–2: risk map and smoke suite
We start from the flows that carry money and the incidents you have already had, not from a feature list. That produces a short smoke suite in CI within two weeks.
Environments and test data come first: without fixtures nobody can reproduce a bug, and every report becomes a debate.
Then: regression that finishes fast
The release suite is built to run inside a coffee break. A suite that takes a working day gets skipped under pressure, which makes it worse than not having one.
Flaky tests are treated as defects: a test nobody trusts is deleted or fixed, never re-run until it passes.
What we deliberately do not test
We do not write thousands of UI tests to move a coverage number. We do not test what types, validation or a database constraint can prevent outright.
And we do not take a project without access to CI: testing that cannot block a release is a reporting exercise.
Bugs that close
Every report carries steps, environment, expected and actual, plus a severity agreed with you. Reproduction happens before reporting — always.
The monthly quality report shows escaped defects, suite health and where the risk moved. Our method for measuring is public in the engineering report.
Why us
Why QA lands here
Four things we can prove, rather than four adjectives.
Testing is inside our delivery anyway
Senior review and tests on money flows are part of every build we ship. Selling QA separately is us packaging a discipline we already run, not inventing a new service.
$28 an hour, published
The lowest rate on our card, on the site, with no minimum retainer beyond 40 hours a month.
Flake is a defect, not weather
A test suite people do not trust is worse than none. Flaky tests get fixed or deleted, and the suite's health is reported monthly.
Your CI, your tests
The framework and the tests live in your repository from the first commit. If you stop working with us, the suite keeps running.
Industries
QA and testingby industry
What must never break differs by domain: picking and shipping in logistics, listings and commissions in property, checkout and billing in e-commerce.
- IT companies and digital agencies
- Insurers and brokers
- Lenders and microfinance
- E-commerce
- Wholesale and distribution
- Manufacturing
- Freight and forwarding
- Clinics and medical centres
- Dental
- Car dealers and service centres
- EdTech
- Legal and consulting firms
- Equipment rental
- Real estate agencies
- Property developers
- Travel and events
- Beauty and wellness
- Construction and renovation
FAQ
QA and testing questions
Six answers that usually replace a discovery call.
Manual testing or automation?
Both, in that order: manual first to learn the product and find the real risks, automation for what repeats every release. Unlike a software testing services company that only supplies testers, we ship the automation framework with them.
How long until we see value?
A smoke suite running in CI within two weeks; the release regression suite over the following month, prioritised by the flows that carry money.
Which tools do you use?
Playwright or Cypress for web, Appium for mobile, pytest or Jest for services, k6 for load. All of it lives in your repository.
Do you test in production?
Only synthetic monitoring. Real testing happens in an environment that mirrors production, because testing on live data is how incidents start.
What about test data?
Generated or anonymised fixtures. Production dumps with real personal data do not travel to test environments, and we will not accept them.
Can you work inside our process?
Yes: your tracker, your definition of done, our discipline about reproducing a bug before reporting it.
2–4×
faster on the code-writing share
in 3 weeks
from idea to MVP
230+
projects delivered
17 years
of engineering experience
Work
Work we can show you
SMARTWILL
Digital inheritance service (Web3)
AIRDEVELOPPA
Indoor air quality finder driven by sensor data
CAR5
Car-sharing app
APP.DENTAL
Cloud CRM for dental clinics
NEXORA
Warehouse and logistics management platform
As-built docs
Digital as-built documentation
EX211
Telegram Mini App for currency exchange
SMARTWILL
Digital inheritance service (Web3)
Afraid of your own release day?
Send the last three incidents and how you test today. You get a risk map, a two-week plan for the smoke suite and a fixed quote for automation.