QA as a Service — Vetted Experts Available on Demand
Our experts will help you figure out the best service for your needs, whether it's comprehensive web, mobile, desktop, or API testing. Use our experience and expertise to ensure unrivaled code quality and a smooth integration into your technology ecosystem.
Our experts will help you figure out the best service for your needs, whether it's comprehensive web, mobile, desktop, or API testing. Use our experience and expertise to ensure unrivaled code quality and a smooth integration into your technology ecosystem.
What is QA as a Service?
Who is this service for
Get quick feedback regarding quality, usability and reliability of product before the first launch to market.
Power-up testing teams at specific development phases: regression, exploratory, usability testing.
Get cost-effective QA optimization and on demand QA activities without keeping a full-time team.
Decrease time for pre-release testing activities by covering them with automated tests integrated into a CI/CD process.
Set up QA process quickly and properly inline with your current development processes.
Get feedback about your QA team and process efficiency, as well as improvement recommendations.
Services
Regression testing on demand
When it is applicable
The product has a QA team or regression test suite and want to speed-up regression testing phase.
Required input
Testing environment, project coordinator, access to regression test suite, bug-tracking system (optional).
QA service output
Executed regression test suite, test execution report, found defect reports.
Service flow
- Investigate testing environment and accessibility
- Check quality and readiness of regression testing documentation
- Adaptation of test-cases for QA service participants
- Define terms and number of service participants
- Setup intermediate tools for QA service execution
- Post intermediate results during service run
Exploratory and usability testing
When it is applicable
- You need to clean-up all possible defects and inconsistencies within tight schedule to launch the product to market for the first time.
- You need to clean-up all possible defects and inconsistencies without testing documentation to release the new product version to production.
- You have a QA team but need fresh independent feedback on product quality and usability.
Required input
Testing environment, project coordinator, functional documentation (SRS, user stories) or other project business documentation (user guidelines).
QA service output
Testing checklist for further regression/smoke testing (if required), found defect reports, usability feedback.
Service flow
- Get access to product and development environment
- Investigate project requirements documentation
- Integrate into communication with development team
- Build testing check-list
- Perform testing according to defined test plan
- Highlight observations to the team
- Prepare final QA service execution report
Testing processes setup from scratch
When it is applicable
- The product development is on initiation stage. You need to build proper, effective and well-defined QA processes and roll them out to the team.
- There is ongoing product development with shallow or nonexistent QA process. You need to create robust testing process inline with existing development model to reduce time to market and ensure predictable high quality.
Required input
Communication with product leadership, information about the development process, infrastructure, brief product architecture, development model, milestones, existing tools, goals, requirements and product growth plans.
QA service output
High-level testing documentation describing all aspects of the testing process and its phases (test strategy and test plan), pre-selected and configured bug tracker, test management tool, document management system, established communication between QA team and other project functions (Development, Business Analysis, Project Management, User Experience, and others), automation testing infrastructure setup and automation testing framework design with integration into the CI/CD process.
Service flow
- Investigate the project development model
- Investigate infrastructure, architecture and existing technical stack
- Check product goals, milestones and roadmap
- Compose the draft QA process and map it to the existing development process
- Wrap up the QA process with high-level testing documentation
- Onboard the QA team and align them with a defined process
- Observe and tune the established process
- Conduct demo of the process and QA team work to the project leadership
Auditing existing company QA processes
When it is applicable
- Product quality is not acceptable or you need to increase it.
- You need to reduce time to market.
- Product leadership feels like QA processes could be improved but don’t have visibility how to improve them.
- You need feedback about the current QA processes efficiency and a list of suggested improvements.
Required input
Contact point with QA team, access to all existing QA documentation and artifacts, access to testing tools (bug-tracking system, test management tool, document management system), description of software development model specific and QA processes, release management information.
QA service output
QA process evaluation report, a list of suggested improvements.
Testing automation and integrating CI/CD
When it is applicable
- Existing QA team has a lot of manual test cases and want to speed up regression testing.
- You need to automate post-release testing to get quick report about critical functionality status after release.
- You need to set up automation testing team and proper initial architecture of the automation testing framework, infrastructure and process.
Required input
Automated manual test suite, product environment access granted; requirements for automation tech stack, access and information about the current CI/CD infrastructure and CVS.
QA service output
Automation testing framework, automated test suite, configured CI/CD pipelines for automated execution, installed and configured automation test execution reporting system, integration of automated tests with existing team management system.
Service flow
Investigation
- Investigating existing manual QA process on the project (if any)
- Investigating product development model
- Investigating infrastructure, architecture and existing technical stack
Automation
- Conduct manual test case prioritization to highlight automation candidates
- Set up initial architecture of the Automation QA framework
- Automate the first portion of tests
Integration
- Integrate automation testing solution into the CI/CD pipeline
- Setup CI/CD quality gates
- Integrate automation testing process into existing development/QA process
Setting up a team and processes
- Onboard Automation QA team and align it with defined process and solution
- Observe and tune the established process
- Conduct demo of the process and QA team work to the project leadership
Investigation
- Investigating existing manual QA process on the project (if any)
- Investigating product development model
- Investigating infrastructure, architecture and existing technical stack
Automation
- Conduct manual test case prioritization to highlight automation candidates
- Set up initial architecture of the Automation QA framework
- Automate the first portion of tests
Integration
- Integrate automation testing solution into the CI/CD pipeline
- Setup CI/CD quality gates
- Integrate automation testing process into existing development/QA process
Setting up a team and processes
- Onboard Automation QA team and align it with defined process and solution
- Observe and tune the established process
- Conduct demo of the process and QA team work to the project leadership
Case studies: QA as a Service
Services that meet you where you are
Flexible testing as a service model aligns with your product needs and boosts quality when you need it. We provide a wide range of services in core business domains such as fintech, fundraising, healthcare, e-commerce, hospitality, entertainment, construction, business automation, IoT, sales enablement, and others.
Our experts will help you figure out which service you’ll benefit from the most.
Web
Mobile
Desktop
API & Web Services
Our Approach and Achievements
We seamlessly improve our technical expertise and introduce the newest technology solutions and have a thirst for new challenges.
The QA processes we implement are based on a shift-left paradigm and aim to integrate testing practices at every stage of the product delivery pipeline. We’re always ready to jump in and adjust QA automation, QA operations, and smooth communication within teams.
Open Source Contributions
We contribute our expertise and developments in automation testing to the global community. Our utilities and extensions have gotten 100,000+ downloads at NuGet.
Global Certifications
Our team consists of quality assurance professionals who have proven their competency by passing ISTQB Certifications.
Profound Experience
Our product-oriented philosophy and over 10 years of experience in the market help us determine the most suitable solutions to achieve your goals.
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FAQ
What is the difference between a traditional QA service and QA as a service?
QA service is an outsourced quality assurance service of a product whereas testing as a service means flexible and custom on-demand testing services. You can hire QA as a service team to support your core team on specific product lifecycle stages.
Is QA as a service better than a QA service?
This isn’t a correct comparison. What you need will work best. In many cases, both services are necessary to drive great results. You may need to boost the core QA team during regression, exploratory, and usability testing phases or leverage our experience in QA processes design, automation, and integration of QA into a continuous delivery pipeline.
We have an in-house QA team. Why do we need your regression testing services?
Regression testing aims to confirm that a product change hasn’t impacted existing functionality. Teams that have no time to run regression testing before each deployment take on the considerable risks of releasing low-quality code and products. If not addressed, bugs and poor user experience may damage product brand and customer retention. Our testing as a service experts help teams retain high quality without sacrificing the roadmap.
Should we hire a testing team or set up QA processes first?
Both situations are possible — the product development may be in the initiation stage or have a shallow or nonexistent QA process that needs improvement. A thorough analysis of existing development processes and vast experience in the testing and business processes management help to create a robust testing process, reduce time to market, and ensure predictable high quality.
What is crowdtesting? How is it different from QA as a service?
Crowdtesting is granting real people access to your product to test it in real-world conditions and is a special case of testing as a service. You may have a tight schedule or don’t have testing documentation to ensure the product quality using just your current team resources. Inviting testing engineers provides you with fresh independent feedback on product quality and usability.
Why is integrating QA processes into the CI/CD process important?
With the growth of the product and the number of people and processes, it becomes increasingly valuable to choose the right infrastructure and system architecture to scale. We apply QAOps to integrate automation QA processes into the CI/CD pipeline so that to save effort and shrink the costs of products used in testing.