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Test Automation & Framework Development

We design and build test automation frameworks from the ground up: maintainable architecture, readable tests, and CI/CD integration so every commit is verified automatically. No brittle record-and-playback scripts, just engineered frameworks your team can extend.

Sound familiar?

  • Manual regression testing takes days and delays every release.

  • An existing automation suite is flaky, distrusted and quietly ignored.

  • API changes break integrations and nobody notices until production.

  • Your team wants automation but lacks the framework-architecture experience to start right.

Approach

How the engagement runs

  1. 01

    Automation assessment

    We review your product, release process and existing tests to define what to automate first — highest risk, highest repetition.

  2. 02

    Framework architecture

    We build the skeleton: project structure, page objects, fixtures, environments and a first vertical slice of working tests.

  3. 03

    Suite build-out

    Critical user journeys and API contracts are automated iteratively, with stability verified across repeated runs.

  4. 04

    CI/CD & handover

    Tests run automatically on every pull request, results are reported to your team, and your engineers are trained to extend the suite.

Scope

What’s included

Framework development

  • Framework architecture from scratch (page objects, fixtures, test data management)
  • End-to-end UI automation
  • API test automation (REST and GraphQL)
  • Parallel execution and stable selector strategy

Pipeline & operations

  • CI/CD integration (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
  • Reporting dashboards and failure triage workflow
  • Flaky-test policy and quarantine process
  • Team training and handover

Technologies and ideal clients

Typical toolset

PlaywrightTypeScriptCypressSeleniumGitHub ActionsAllure

A good fit if you are

  • SaaS teams shipping weekly (or faster) without a safety net
  • Companies whose manual regression cycle blocks releases
  • Teams with a flaky legacy suite that needs rebuilding on solid foundations
  • Engineering leaders who want automation done right the first time

Deliverables

What lands in your hands

  1. 01

    Automation framework repository with documented architecture

  2. 02

    Automated test suites for agreed critical journeys

  3. 03

    CI/CD pipeline configuration running tests on every change

  4. 04

    Test reporting setup (e.g. HTML reports, Allure)

  5. 05

    Framework documentation and team onboarding session

08 /FAQ

Automation questions

Which tools do you recommend?

For most web products today: Playwright with TypeScript for UI and API automation. We also work with Cypress and Selenium where they fit better — the recommendation always follows your product and team, not fashion.

Can you fix our existing automation instead of starting over?

Sometimes. We start with an assessment: if the architecture is sound, we stabilise and extend it. If the foundation is the problem, rebuilding is usually cheaper than fighting flakiness forever — and we will tell you which case you are in.

Who maintains the tests after the engagement?

Your team, by design. We document the framework, keep the code readable and run a handover session. Many clients keep us on a small retainer for framework evolution, but you are never locked in.

Contact

Stop paying the manual regression tax

Tell us about your product and release cadence. We'll outline what a framework would look like for your stack — and what it would save you.