Quality Engineering
Releases that are routine, not events
We build testing into delivery from the first day, so every change is checked automatically and releasing becomes something nobody worries about.
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Our view
When testing comes at the end, releases become events: late nights, frozen code and crossed fingers. When it is built in, every change is checked in minutes and releases become routine. We put quality engineers inside delivery teams and automate the checks that matter most.
Not everything needs a test. We start from the paths through a service that would hurt most if they broke, and cover those thoroughly.
Quality does not stop at release. We watch real use in production and feed what we learn back into the tests.
By the numbers
What built-in quality changes
- 3x
- more frequent releases, on average, within a year of a team adopting our approach.
- 68%
- fewer production incidents caused by releases at Corrow Savings Bank after two years.
- 18 min
- median time for the full automated test suite on the pipelines we build.
KIASA quality engineering engagements, 2023 to 2026.
What we do
Quality across the whole pipeline
Test strategy
A plan that puts effort where failure would hurt most, agreed with the business, not copied from a template.
Test automation
Unit, contract and end-to-end tests that run on every change, written so engineers trust and maintain them.
Performance and load testing
Peak days rehearsed before they happen, with the slowest parts found and fixed in advance.
Accessibility testing
Automated checks on every change and manual testing with assistive technology before every major release.
Test data and environments
Realistic, safe test data and environments created on demand, so nobody waits for a shared test server.
Quality in production
Monitoring of real user paths, safe rollouts and quick rollback, so problems are seen in minutes and undone in seconds.
Client work
Our work in action
Banking and payments
Corrow Savings Bank went from quarterly to weekly releases
Twelve thousand automated checks run on every change, and release weekends are a memory.
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Retail and consumer
Northmere Grocers rehearsed its busiest week twice
Load tests at three times expected traffic found two bottlenecks a month before the holidays.
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Insurance
Halden Mutual tested old and new claims cores against each other
Every claim processed by both systems until the results matched, product line by product line.
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Telecommunications
Tellbay Mobile automated its billing regression tests
Three weeks of manual checks before each release became a run of forty minutes.
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What we think
Thinking on quality
Research report
The maintenance dividend
Teams with strong automated testing spend far less keeping systems running. The evidence from 140 leaders.
Research report
Security debt: the quiet risk on the balance sheet
Security tests belong in the pipeline too. How to add them without slowing teams down.
Perspective
Why the second year of a cloud migration matters more than the first
Test suites decay after a migration if nobody owns them. What to plan for year two.
Research report
Platform pulse: what engineering leaders will fund in 2027
Test automation is a top three investment for 2027. What 320 leaders expect it to return.
“Releases used to mean a weekend in the office. Now we release on a Tuesday morning and most of the bank does not notice.”
How we work with you
From release events to release routine
Assess
Two weeks reviewing your pipeline, your tests and your last year of incidents. We find where failures really come from.
Protect the critical paths
Automated tests for the paths that matter most, running on every change within the first month.
Speed up the pipeline
Slow and flaky tests fixed or removed, test data on demand and environments created in minutes.
Release more often
Smaller releases, more often, with rollback ready. Your team owns the suite and keeps it growing.
Our leaders
Talk to the people who lead this work
Hyun-woo Lee
Practice Lead, Quality Engineering
Has moved banks, retailers and telecommunications companies from release weekends to weekly releases.
Martina Rossi
Principal Quality Engineer
Designed the parallel testing that let Halden Mutual compare old and new claims cores.
Tariq Hassan
Lead, Performance Engineering
Rehearses peak days before they happen. Ran Northmere Grocers' holiday load tests.
Make your next release a quiet one
Tell us how you release today and what goes wrong. We will show you where to start.