(Software testing & QA)

Software testing that finds the defects your users would have found

Good software testing is not more test cases. It is knowing which parts of the product cost you money when they break, then covering those properly and automating the checks nobody should run by hand.

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Software testing & QA

(What a QA team is actually for)

A test suite exists to let you change things. Without one, every release is a negotiation about what might break, and the safest decision is always to ship less. Cover the paths that carry revenue, permissions and data, automate them so they run on every commit, and the fear goes out of the deploy.

Coverage percentages make a poor target. A suite at forty per cent that guards checkout, billing and access control is worth far more than one at ninety per cent that spends its time exercising getters.

(What we deliver)

Software testing services we deliver

Engagements usually begin with a strategy and one automated suite, then grow towards performance, devices and accessibility as the product does.

  1. A short document that says what gets tested manually, what gets automated, what runs on every commit and what runs nightly. It also says what we are deliberately not testing, which is the part most plans leave out and most arguments come from later.

  2. Scripted passes against acceptance criteria, plus timeboxed exploratory sessions where a tester tries to break the thing on purpose. Exploratory work finds the odd defects — the ones nobody wrote a case for, because nobody imagined that sequence of clicks.

  3. Playwright or Cypress for web, Appium for mobile, API-level tests where a UI test would be slow and brittle. Suites are built to be read: stable selectors, isolated data, and failures that name the broken thing instead of a timeout.

  4. k6 or JMeter against a realistic environment, at the traffic you expect and again at several times that. The output is a profile — where latency starts climbing, which query gives up first, and what the system does as it degrades.

  5. WCAG 2.2 AA checked with axe in the pipeline and then by hand, because automation catches perhaps a third of real issues. Keyboard-only runs, NVDA and VoiceOver passes, focus order, contrast and form labelling, reported with the markup fix beside each one.

  6. Tests wired into GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps, with a fast smoke run on every pull request and the full suite before release. Flaky tests get quarantined and fixed rather than retried, since a suite nobody trusts is a suite nobody reads.

(Tools we test with)

(How we work)

How the work runs

Every engagement is scoped in phases, priced per phase, and reviewed with you at the end of each one.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We map the problem, the systems around it and what a good outcome looks like, then scope the work in phases you can stop after.

  2. 02

    Design

    Flows, architecture and interfaces agreed before anyone writes production code.

  3. 03

    Build

    Two-week increments, a working environment you can open, and a demo at the end of each one.

  4. 04

    Testing

    Functional, performance, security and accessibility checks run through the build, not bolted on at the end.

  5. 05

    Launch

    Deployment, monitoring, documentation and the handover your team needs to run it.

  6. 06

    Support

    Fixes, updates and the next set of features, at an agreed monthly capacity.

(Why Team of Keys)

How we keep a test suite worth running

Most automation projects die the same way: the suite gets slow, then flaky, then ignored, then deleted. Avoiding that is mostly discipline, not tooling.

  1. 01

    Risk first, coverage second

    Before anything is written, we agree which flows cost you money, reputation or a data-protection incident when they fail. Those get deep coverage. The rest gets a smoke test and an honest note.

  2. 02

    Flakiness treated as a defect

    A test that fails one run in ten is a bug in the test. Ours get fixed or quarantined the same week, because the moment a red build becomes normal, the suite has stopped working.

  3. 03

    Testers who read the code

    Our QA engineers open the repository, follow the request through the stack and file a defect that names the likely cause. It shortens the loop between finding something and it being fixed.

  4. 04

    Suites you can take over

    Page objects, fixtures and naming conventions are documented, and we walk your developers through them. The suite has to survive us leaving, or it was a rental.

  5. 05

    Defects reported once, properly

    Steps, environment, build number, expected and actual, video and trace attached. No ticket that says "login broken", and no second round of questions before anyone can start work.

(Related)

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(FAQ)

Questions, answered

A test strategy for one product is a small fixed price and takes about a week. Automation is quoted per suite: a first regression pack covering the critical journeys of a mid-sized web app is typically a few weeks of work. Ongoing QA runs as an agreed monthly capacity, sized to your release cadence rather than to a headcount.

You should see value inside two to three weeks. The first sprint covers login, the primary journey and one payment or submission path, and those run on every pull request immediately. Depth comes after that, prioritised by what changes most often and what hurt most the last time it broke.

Usually yes. We start by running your suite as-is and reporting what passes, what is flaky and what tests nothing. Sound suites get extended in the framework you already use. Where a rewrite is genuinely cheaper than a rescue, we will say so and show the reasoning rather than assume it.

Both. Emulators and simulators are fine for logic and layout, and they are fast enough to run in CI. Anything touching camera, biometrics, push notifications, payments or poor connectivity gets checked on real hardware, through BrowserStack or on a device in the office, on the OS versions your analytics actually show.

Yes, and that is common. Testers spend the first days using the product, reading the code and interviewing whoever knows the rules, then write the behaviour down as we find it. You end up with a description of what the system currently does — which is usually the more useful document.

(Global presence)

Nine countries, one studio behind them.

Every project is designed, built and shipped from one studio.
Turn the globe, or pick a country to see what we deliver there.

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(Next step)

Send us the release you are nervous about

Tell us what the product does, how often you ship and what broke last time. You get a test strategy outline and a price for the first suite.

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Or write to info@teamofkeys.com · Noida, India