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QA & Manual Software Testing

We test your software the way real users abuse it: methodically, across browsers and devices, hunting the edge cases. Findings come back in a form your developers can act on immediately, whether that is one-off release testing or QA embedded in your delivery cycle.

What you get out of it

Outcomes, not deliverables theatre

  • Defects caught before your customers see them — with clear reproduction steps.

  • A documented test suite: test cases, checklists and coverage you can audit.

  • Confident, predictable releases backed by structured regression testing.

  • An independent quality perspective that in-house teams rarely have.

Sound familiar?

  • Bugs reach production and customers report them before your team does.

  • Releases are stressful because nobody is sure what might break.

  • Developers test their own work, and the same blind spots ship every sprint.

  • You have no test documentation, so every new hire re-learns the product by breaking it.

Deliverables

What lands in your hands

  1. 01

    Test plan and structured test cases

  2. 02

    Detailed bug reports with reproduction steps, severity and evidence

  3. 03

    Regression checklist for future releases

  4. 04

    Test summary report with release recommendation

  5. 05

    QA process documentation (for consulting engagements)

Approach

How the engagement runs

  1. 01

    Product walkthrough

    We learn your product, its critical user journeys and its risk areas — where a defect would hurt the business most.

  2. 02

    Test design

    We write test cases and checklists prioritised by risk, and agree the scope and reporting format with your team.

  3. 03

    Execution & reporting

    Structured test runs with same-day defect reports — each with steps, expected vs. actual results, environment and evidence.

  4. 04

    Regression & sign-off

    Verified fixes, a full regression pass, and a summary report giving you a clear go/no-go picture for release.

Technologies, ideal clients and industries

Typical toolset

JiraTestRailPostmanBrowserStackChrome DevTools

A good fit if you are

  • Product teams without a dedicated QA function
  • Companies preparing a major release or migration
  • Agencies that need independent testing of client deliverables
  • Teams whose bug backlog keeps growing faster than it shrinks

08 /FAQ

QA & testing questions

Can you test software you did not build?

Yes — that is the majority of our QA work. We start by learning the product and its critical flows, then build the test coverage around what actually matters to your users. Not having built it is often an advantage: we arrive without the assumptions the original team has stopped noticing, and the first exploratory pass tends to find things precisely because we do not yet know which paths are supposed to work. What we need from you is access, one person who can answer questions about intent, and an honest account of which areas worry you. Undocumented software is normal and does not slow this down much.

How do you report bugs?

In your tracker, in your format. Each report includes reproduction steps, expected versus actual behaviour, environment details, severity and supporting evidence — screenshots, recordings or logs. The standard we hold is that a developer who has never seen the issue can reproduce it from the report alone, without asking a follow-up question. Severity is applied consistently and the reasoning is visible, so triage is a decision rather than a negotiation. If you do not have a tracker or the workflow has drifted into a backlog nobody grooms, setting that up properly is part of the QA consulting scope rather than a separate engagement.

We already have an automated suite. What does manual testing add?

Everything the suite was never told to look for. An automated check confirms that behaviour someone already anticipated still holds; it cannot notice that a screen has become confusing, that an error message is wrong, or that a new feature broke an assumption nobody encoded. Teams with mature automation typically use manual attention on exactly two things: the areas that are still changing shape, and periodic unscripted investigation of the parts the suite has quietly stopped covering as the product moved underneath it.

Contact

Ship your next release with confidence

Tell us what you're releasing and when. We'll tell you what we'd test, how long it takes and what it costs.