In-house QA and SDET centre of excellence
Quality built in from the first commit, not inspected in at the end.
Our Quality Engineering practice is a dedicated team of SDETs, test architects and QA analysts who work inside every VCNR product and client programme. We design test strategy with the architecture, automate what repeats, explore what doesn’t, and give release decisions real evidence.
Our promise
Every release should be a non-event. We get there by treating quality as an engineering discipline: testable designs, fast automated feedback in CI, risk-based exploration, and metrics that tell the business how safe it is to ship.
Capabilities
What the Quality Engineering team does.
- 01
Test strategy and architecture
Risk-based test plans, the right mix of unit, API, UI and contract tests, and test environments designed alongside the system.
- 02
UI test automation
Stable, maintainable suites with page objects and component testing for web apps, built to run fast in CI.
- 03
API and contract testing
Automated REST and GraphQL checks, consumer-driven contracts between microservices, and schema validation.
- 04
Mobile app testing
Automated and exploratory testing across Android and iOS devices, including real-device and emulator farms.
- 05
Performance and load testing
Load, stress and soak tests with clear service-level targets, bottleneck analysis and capacity guidance.
- 06
Security testing
OWASP-aligned checks, automated scanning in the pipeline and support for penetration-test remediation.
- 07
Accessibility testing
WCAG checks with automated tools and assistive-technology walkthroughs, so products work for everyone.
- 08
AI and LLM evaluation
Golden datasets, grounding and hallucination checks, and regression suites for AI features before and after release.
- 09
Data and ETL testing
Reconciliation, data quality rules and pipeline tests for warehouses, lakehouses and reports.
- 10
Legacy and regression safety nets
Characterisation tests that make it safe to modernise systems nobody fully understands any more.
How we work
A repeatable way of working, refined on every engagement.
- 1
Understand the risk
We map business-critical journeys, integrations and failure costs with product owners before writing a single test.
- 2
Shape testable design
QA joins design reviews to make systems observable, mockable and easy to test.
- 3
Automate the pyramid
Fast unit and API checks first, focused UI journeys on top, all running on every pull request.
- 4
Explore what automation misses
Time-boxed exploratory sessions on new features, edge cases and real devices.
- 5
Gate releases with evidence
Quality gates in CI/CD and a clear go/no-go summary for every release.
- 6
Learn from production
Escaped defects become new tests, and monitoring feeds back into the test plan.
Toolbox
Tools we know deeply.
We stay tool-agnostic: we extend what you already use and recommend changes only where they clearly pay off.
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Selenium
- Appium
- WebdriverIO
- Postman
- REST Assured
- Pact
- k6
- JMeter
- OWASP ZAP
- axe-core
- Lighthouse
- pytest
- JUnit
- TestNG
- Jest
- Allure
- BrowserStack
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- Jira
- TestRail
What we measure
Quality and speed you can see, not just hear about.
Defect leakage
How many issues reach production versus being caught earlier, release by release.
Automated coverage of critical journeys
Which business-critical flows are protected by automated tests.
Pipeline feedback time
How quickly a developer learns their change broke something.
Flaky test rate
Unreliable tests found, fixed or quarantined so the suite stays trusted.
Performance against targets
Response times and error rates under load compared with agreed service levels.
The team
Who you work with.
SDETs
Engineers who build test frameworks, automation and tooling in code.
Test architects
Set strategy, environments and quality gates across programmes.
QA analysts
Domain-focused testers who own exploratory and acceptance testing.
Performance and security testers
Specialists for load, resilience and security assessments.
Ways to engage
Start small or go all in.
Embedded QA in your team
SDETs and QA analysts working in your sprints, tools and ceremonies.
Automation jump-start
A framework, CI integration and the first critical suites, then handover or ongoing support.
Test audit
An assessment of your current testing with a prioritised improvement roadmap.
Managed QA in an ODC
A dedicated quality team as part of an offshore development center.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Can you work with our existing test tools?
Yes. We are tool-agnostic: we extend what already works and recommend changes only where they clearly pay off.
Do you only automate, or test manually too?
Both. Automation covers what repeats; skilled exploratory testing finds what scripts can’t.
How quickly can a QA engagement start?
Typically with a short discovery of your product and pipeline, followed by a pilot on your highest-risk journeys.
Bring the Quality Engineering team in.
Tell us about your product and pipeline. We’ll suggest where to start and what it would take.