Well-engineered QA software testing aligns requirements with reliable releases
Skilled software engineering ensures that the results customers expect are well aligned with development & release processes.
Continuous adaptive requirements tracking
Map requirements to functional & non-functional coverage at all points of your release cycle
Closed-loop test execution & management
Fast, reliable automated tests tied into CI/CD for faster feedback and fixes
Test execution & reporting transparency
Detailed drillable dashboards ensure an always up-to-date picture of quality gaps and goals
Core software engineering team needs a technical partner to ensure that great new features consistently deliver value to your customers.
UpTeam QA Engineering provides a complete cost-effective team of skilled testing practitioners led by experienced technical management.
We work side-by side with your own engineers to tailor a disciplined approach to test automation and QA process effectiveness. The combination of smart tooling and CI/CD integration, backed by agile process management, is designed to align with the expectations of your technical leadership to achieve faster, more reliable releases.
QA Engineering Team Packages
Each package includes
Choose the team package that best fits your product & business needs
Assessment
- Evaluation and gap analysis of processes for quality, change, knowledge, risk & incident management, internal documentation;
- We baseline your current your QA maturity via models such as TMMi and TPI, to design and deliver the QA engineering approach that fits your engineering and market expectations.
Behavior-Driven Development Test Practices
- Also known as Test-Driven Development, BDD describes intended application behavior in user/business-focused language, to establish common understanding across team members, including testers, developers, and product owners.
Test Management Tooling
- Improve engineering productivity and participation in testing with Test Case Management System (TCMS);
- Integrates bug tracking, search pages, access control, automation framework plugins, visual reports related APIs;
- Simplifies & centralizes creation of test cases, manages test runs and coordinate the entire testing process.
Silver
Smoke Testing — Regression — Integration
- Manual validation of top documented business processes for one front-end client (device or browser); API integration validation via PostMan; User Acceptance criteria from know user personas. All tests focus on positive (works-as-intended) scenarios.
Gold
Silver plus:
Smoke Testing — Regression — Integration
- For up to 2 front-end clients, automated execution embedded in CI/CD tooling for smoke tests & regression tests for both positive and negative scenarios; based on layered JS automation framework. All other tests on positive scenarios.
Platinum
Gold plus:
Smoke Testing — Integration — Regression — Database Testing
- For any/all front-end clients and device farms
- Adds automated execution embedded in CI/CD for integration tests, both positive and negative scenarios
- Both JavaScript and Python Test automation available
- Automated RDBMS CRUD tests; validate schema, tables, triggers, data integrity
Silver
NOT INCLUDED
Gold
Silver plus:
Performance Testing
- Cloud-based, scriptable load test tooling with supporting visualization and analytics to gauge system behavior at expected peak demand.
Platinum
Gold plus:
Usability Testing — Security Testing — Localization Testing — Performance Testing
- Heuristics-based UI design validation; facilitated user experience research; OWASP Web security tests; Language translation completeness, multilingual text layout; load stress testing beyond expected peak demand.
Silver
GUI Testing — UAT
- For one front-end client (device or browser), manual validation of business requirements to ensure the functionalities of software application work as expected. Similar to Beta testing, observe and report the core business logic to closely approximate human user behavior.
Gold
Silver plus:
GUI Testing — UAT
- For two front-end clients (device or browser), combined manual + automated testing to validate documented logical and functional features behave as expected via validation of screens and controls for multiple known user personas.
Platinum
Gold plus:
GUI Testing — UAT — Usability Testing
- Combined manual + automated testing for multiple front-end clients, plus heuristics-based UI design validation; facilitated user experience research.
Silver
API/Web monitoring
- Web-based availability and canary test pulse monitoring for sanity test cases or essential business processes.
Gold
Silver plus:
API/Web monitoring — App Health Dashboard
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Entry point API endpoint availability alerting (Pingdom, UptimeRobot, CloudWatch, DataDog) alongside application and availability and platform internals monitoring (CPU, RAM, disk space).
(requires UpTeam DevOps Packaged Services Integration)
Platinum
Gold plus:
API/Web monitoring — App Health DashBoard
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Metrics based alerting for underlying infrastructure, with duty pageout notifications; Active per-component to surface system health, plus log-based monitoring and alerting and analysis.
(requires UpTeam DevOps Packaged Services Integration)
Silver
Defect Summary — Test Summary
- Standardized Task & Project management activity reports.
Gold
Silver plus:
Test Execution — Defect Summary — Test Coverage — Test Summary
- Standardized test case management system report: execution, coverage, defect, and result summaries.
Platinum
Gold plus:
Test Execution — Defect Summary — Test Coverage — Test Summary — Test Analytics
- Customized, configurable test case management system report: execution, coverage, defect, and result summaries with test process analytics.
Silver
Manual testing specialists — Team Engagement Manager
Gold
Silver plus:
Testing Automation Engineers — Manual testing specialists — Team Engagement Manager
Platinum
Gold plus:
Testing Automation Engineers — Manual testing specialists — QA Engineering manager
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