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Manual QA Release Certification. @qa-release-certification
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What you get
the numbers that matter≈ 2 weeks
signed to first PR
96%
engagements renewed
96%
to your stack & domain
Test a defined release against agreed acceptance criteria and deliver a release-readiness report with reproducible defects and severities.
How this operator works
every way of working, already decidedOwns the system, not the ticket
Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.
Embedded, async-first, instrumented
Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.
Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys
Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.
Plugged into your Slack & rituals
Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.
Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours
Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.
Scoped, gated, reversible
Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.
Overview
Some releases need a human to try to break them before customers do. This sprint tests a defined release candidate against agreed acceptance criteria — functional flows, edge cases, and exploratory charters — executed by QA engineers who document everything they find.
Every defect is reproducible: steps, environment, evidence, and severity, triaged against the criteria you signed off. Scrums.com QA teams have run this discipline across 1,200+ projects. The finish state: a release-readiness report with a clear go/no-go recommendation and a ranked defect list your team can act on.
What's included
Acceptance criteria & test charter
Criteria agreed up front — or drafted from your requirements — plus exploratory charters for the areas most likely to hide problems.
Structured manual execution
QA engineers execute the functional flows, edge cases, and charters methodically, on the environments and configurations that matter.
Defect reporting
Every defect reproducible: steps, environment, evidence, and severity, triaged against the criteria you signed off.
Release-readiness verdict
A clear go/no-go recommendation with the ranked defect list behind it — a document your release meeting can act on.
How it works
- Scope. Agree the acceptance criteria, environments, and test charter.
- Build. Execute structured and exploratory testing; log reproducible defects with severity.
- Handover. Release-readiness report, go/no-go recommendation, and a defect walkthrough.
Part of every Delivery Plan
The Manual QA Release Certification is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.
FAQs
Do you fix the defects you find?
No — certification and remediation stay separate so the verdict stays honest. Fixes go to your team or get scheduled as their own menu items, and re-certification of the fixed build can follow.
What do we need to provide?
A testable build and environment, test accounts and data, and acceptance criteria — or requirements the sprint can draft criteria from.
We release too often to certify manually every time. What then?
Certify the high-stakes releases and automate the rest: the Web Test Automation Suite item builds the recurring coverage, and Managed QA-as-a-Service carries testing as an ongoing function.
What's included
in every engagement · no add-onsTrack record
deployments on real systems · anonymized| Sector | System | Outcome | Span | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fintech | payments-core ledger | 99.97% achieved | 14 mo | ● complete |
| Commerce | checkout platform | −38% incident rate | 9 mo | ● complete |
| Health SaaS | data plane | 0 SEV1 in 6 mo | 11 mo | ● active |
| Logistics | routing engine | zero-downtime cutover | 7 mo | ● complete |
| AI infra | inference cluster | p99 −120 ms | 5 mo | ● active |
Works inside your stack
surfaces this operator binds to| Surface | Binding | Direction | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source control | github.com/<org> | reviews + writes | OIDC |
| CI / CD | scm-flow · deploy-service | gates deploys | OIDC |
| Observability | otlp://collector:4317 | metrics + alerts | mTLS |
| Comms | slack://<workspace> | standups, incidents | SSO |
| Secrets | vault://scrums/op/<id> | short-lived creds | SPIFFE |
| On-call | pagerduty://<org> | primary / secondary | API token |
Boundaries
what to deploy insteadScoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →
Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.
Deployments
the only social proof we publish402deploys
across 38 organizations
+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%
Pricing
one number · one footnoteAvailable at all Delivery Plan Tiers →
All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.
Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.
FAQ
common questionsHow is Manual QA Release Certification priced?
Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.
Is Manual QA Release Certification available now?
Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.
Can a Manual QA Release Certification deployment be reversed?
Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.
Who provides Manual QA Release Certification?
Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.
How it compares
vs other delivery| Option | From | Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual QA Release Certification · this one | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · qa | ● available |
| Release Backlog Burn-Down Sprint | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · backlog | ● available |
| Technical Debt Reduction Sprint | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · technical-debt | ● available |
| Critical Application Rescue | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · rescue | ● available |