QA services, designed around your product
From a fixed-price audit to hands-on testing, automation and fractional QA leadership — every engagement starts by learning your product, then tailoring the work to it.
QA Health Check
The flagship offer and the best place to start. A fixed-fee diagnostic of your testing practices, coverage and release process — including hands-on spot-testing of your product — delivered as a written report with a prioritized 90-day QA roadmap. One to two weeks, largely asynchronous, from $750 depending on product complexity.
Fast to say yes to, zero long-term commitment — and the natural first step before any bigger engagement.
What you get
- Review of testing practices, coverage & release process
- Hands-on spot-testing of your product
- Written report + prioritized 90-day roadmap
- Fixed price, defined scope — from $750
Manual & exploratory testing
Thoughtful, exploratory and scripted testing of your product the way real users use it. I find the confusing flows, the broken edge cases and the issues that only surface when an experienced human pays attention — with clear, reproducible reports your developers will actually thank you for.
Billed hourly or as part of a project — shaped around your release cadence.
What you get
- Exploratory & scripted test passes
- Clear, reproducible bug reports
- Regression passes before releases
- Test-case writing & bug triage
Test automation
Maintainable automated suites — UI, API and end-to-end — that catch regressions fast and run on every change, integrated into your CI/CD pipeline. I focus automation where it pays off and leave the rest to human judgment, so the suite stays fast and trustworthy instead of becoming shelf-ware.
From a first smoke suite to full pipeline coverage — built to be owned by your team.
What you get
- UI, API & end-to-end coverage
- CI/CD test integration
- Stable, maintainable suites
- Automation strategy — what to automate and what not to
API & AI feature testing
Specialized validation for the parts of your product a checklist can’t cover: API contracts, integrations and error handling — and AI/LLM-driven features, where outputs, edge cases, bias and failure modes need structured, skeptical testing before your users find them.
A growing specialty most testing vendors don’t cover — and increasingly where the real risk lives.
What you get
- API functional & contract testing
- AI/LLM output evaluation & edge cases
- Failure-mode & abuse-case testing
- Integration & error-handling coverage
Fractional QA leadership
A part-time QA lead on a monthly retainer: a committed number of hours each month covering strategy, process, hiring input and hands-on quality ownership. You get founder-level attention on quality without the cost of a full-time hire — and the engagement scales up or down as your needs change.
The right fit once quality matters every sprint — typically after an audit or first project together.
What you get
- Committed monthly hours at a flat fee
- QA strategy, process & roadmap ownership
- Hands-on testing & team coordination
- Scales with your release schedule
Training & documentation
Practical, fixed-scope training and documentation so your own team can carry the quality discipline forward: test-case libraries, release checklists, QA process documentation, and working sessions with your developers on how to test what they build.
Leave the engagement stronger than the report — your team keeps the capability.
What you get
- Team training sessions & workshops
- QA process documentation
- Test-case libraries & release checklists
- Fixed-fee, defined deliverables
Three ways to engage
Most clients start with the audit, then move to a project or retainer once we both know it’s a fit.
Audit
1–2 weeks
Start with the QA Health Check: fixed price, defined scope. The fastest way to see where you stand.
Project
2–8 weeks
A defined deliverable with a clear start and end — build an automation suite, test a launch, document a process.
Retainer
Month to month
Ongoing engagement — fractional QA leadership or continuous testing coverage, with committed hours that renew monthly.
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