QA audit and assessment in one week, with a written report and a pilot plan

Who the QA audit is for

An engineering or QA lead at a company whose product already has users, when one of these is true:

• Releases slip and nobody can say whether testing is the reason.
• The build is red and nobody trusts it, so people merge past the failures.
• Defects reach production that someone feels a test should have caught.
• A QA engineer left, and nobody else knows what the tests cover.
• You are about to buy QA help, outsourcing, a team or engineers, and want to know which before you sign.

What the quality assurance audit reviews

The audit takes one product area and reviews three things in it. We read what is there and do not just count it.

• Your tests. What is tested, by people and by scripts, what is not, and which tests your team still trusts.
• Your pipeline. How tests run in CI, how long they take, and what happens when one fails.
• Your release process. How a change reaches your users, who decides it is ready, and on what evidence.

The scope is fixed in the quote, so the week stays a week.

What you hand over

• Access to the tests, the pipeline and a test environment for the product area under review.
• One or two people who can say how releases work today.
• A short list of what hurts: slipped releases, escaped defects, a flaky suite, a bottleneck in QA.

What happens after you ask

1. You describe the product area and what hurts, in the form on this page.
2. We reply within one business day with scope, timeline and a quote.
3. Before the week starts we agree which environments, test data and tools we may use. Only tools you approve are used, and nothing leaves your environment if your rules say so.
4. The week runs on the access you gave: we read, run and ask.
5. You get the report and the pilot plan, and decide whether to continue, with us, alone or with someone else.

What you get at the end of the week

A written report on what is at risk and what to fix first. It ranks the problems and the suggestions for improvement, so the first fix is clear. A checklist shows what was reviewed and what was not. If automation is a next step, the report also says which framework fits, with the reason.

The report comes with a scoped plan for the pilot. You can run that plan with Zapple.Tech or without us.

Zapple.Tech was founded by the founders of CodeceptJS and Codeception, open-source testing frameworks, and of Testomat.io and Testomat.ai. If one of those tools is on your shortlist, the report says so and applies the same criteria to every tool.

Why the audit is a small first commitment

• Fixed scope and duration. One product area, about one week, agreed in the quote before it starts.
• The report is yours to use. It is written so your own team, or another vendor, can act on it.
• No follow-on is assumed. You decide after the audit whether there is a pilot, and after the pilot whether there is more.

Audits for one service

The service pages name their first step after their subject: an automation audit, a web test audit, a mobile test audit, an end-to-end audit. Each shares this page’s length, about one week, and its fixed scope; each page lists its own deliverables. If you already know which service you need, start there:

• End-to-end audit for browser journeys tested with AI agents.
• Mobile test audit for iOS and Android apps.
• Code audit for AI-generated code.
• AI evaluation baseline for an LLM feature, chatbot or agent.
• QA audit before outsourcing or before a dedicated QA team.

This page is the general step: the one to pick when you do not know yet which service fits, or when you want the whole test process reviewed.

What happens after the audit

Three things can follow.

1. A pilot, two to six weeks. The first fixes from the report are made in one product area, or its first tests are automated, running in your CI. It ends with a handover session for your engineers. If the report says an existing suite needs repair first, that work is described under test maintenance.
2. Ongoing work. Dedicated engineers, managed QA services, QA outsourcing services or team expansion.
3. Nothing. Your team runs the plan, or shelves it. You decide after each step whether to continue.

For a longer advisory engagement on how to automate, see test automation strategy. For training your team on the tools, see training.

When a QA audit is the wrong choice

Skip the audit if you already know the problem and need people rather than a review: see hiring test automation engineers, which has its own first step. It is also the wrong choice if the product has no users yet, because there is nothing to regress. And if your main question is how to bring AI into your QA team, start with AI adoption for QA teams.