The symptom
Your test campaigns take too long. Your automated tests are flaky. Nobody can say where quality stands.
These are not three problems. It is one problem, seen in three places. The QA audit identifies its cause, measures it, and produces a way out.
What we assess
Six areas. Each one scored on an explicit grid, which you keep.
- A1
Organization and roles
Who decides on quality, with what mandate, and who arbitrates in case of disagreement.
- A2
Process and method
What is written in your procedures, and what actually happens in the squads.
- A3
Coverage and relevance
What your tests cover, what they miss, and what they check to no purpose.
- A4
Automation and tooling
Actual stability of the suite, maintenance cost, trust placed in the results.
- A5
CI/CD integration
Quality gates, feedback time, blockers, and what gets bypassed in practice.
- A6
Test data and environments
The most common bottleneck, and the one least often tackled head-on.
How it unfolds
Five steps. You know at every moment where we stand.
- 01
Scoping
2 to 3 days
Scope, stakeholders, and success criteria for the audit itself. We agree on what would count as a useful outcome for you.
- 02
Data gathering
1 to 2 weeks
Interviews with the teams, observation of team rituals, access to existing artifacts. We look at what is done, not at what is supposed to be done.
- 03
Technical analysis
1 to 2 weeks
Review of the test code, pipelines, and execution reports. This is where the gap between the narrative and reality shows.
- 04
Scoring
3 to 5 days
A score for each area on an explicit grid, reusable to measure your progress six months from now.
- 05
Readout
1 day
Presentation to the teams and to management. The roadmap is handed over the same day — not three weeks later.
Sample readout
One score per area, against written criteria.
Structure of the grid. The values below are illustrative and do not correspond to any real organization.
| Area assessed | Score out of 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Organization and roles | 3/5 | |
| Process and method | 2/5 | |
| Coverage and relevance | 4/5 | |
| Automation and tooling | 1/5 | |
| CI/CD integration | 2/5 | |
| Data and environments | 1/5 |
What you receive
- 01
Audit report
Substantiated findings, with the concrete evidence each one rests on.
- 02
Scoring grid
A score for each area, reusable as is to measure your progress.
- 03
Prioritized recommendations
Ranked by impact and effort, not by order of appearance in the report.
- 04
3 / 6 / 12-month roadmap
Including the quick wins you can act on without waiting for the rest of the program.
We do not deliver a diagnosis without a way forward. An audit that does not say what to do on Monday morning is of no use.
Frequently asked questions
- How long does a QA audit take?
- Between three and six weeks, depending on the size of the organization and the number of teams involved. The initial scoping sets the exact duration before work begins.
- Do the teams have to stop their work?
- No. Data gathering relies on one-hour interviews and on observing team rituals that already exist. No development activity is put on hold.
- What happens after the readout?
- You have an actionable roadmap and are free to implement it on your own. Support with implementation is an option; it is never imposed.
- Does the audit cover application security?
- Area A4 covers the security tooling built into the pipeline. An application penetration test is a separate service, which can be carried out in addition.
Six questions. Two minutes.
We need to understand your context before we can tell you anything useful. No account to create, no automated email sequence.