Delivery Plan · Core
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Software Testing on a Monthly Delivery Plan
Release with confidence: automated tests, CI/CD quality gates, and performance and security testing for your web, mobile and API applications. Through the Software Factory Delivery Plan, you get one team, one predictable monthly price and one prioritised backlog. Add mobile, web, backend, AI, data or DevOps work to the same backlog whenever you need it.
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How your Software Factory Delivery Plan works
How the software testing and QA process works
- 01Queue your QA workPick QA scopes or describe your own.
- 02SubscribeCheck out and onboarding starts immediately.
- 03First code in production in 48 hoursAccess to your repos, test environments and CI.
- 04Test, gate, repeatTrack every test run on the Scrums.com Platform.
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Track every test run and release gate on the Scrums.com Platform
Goals break down into tasks. Milestones are agreed before work begins. You track every suite, gate and release from requirement to production, and the next task starts the moment one ships.
Requirement9
Contract tests for the payments API
QA5 pts
WCAG accessibility audit and fixes
QA5 pts
Parallel test runs in CI
DevOps3 pts
Visual regression on key pages
QA3 pts
Delivering1
Device-matrix regression suiteQA
- Test cases written
- Suite runs green in CI
- Code review approved
- Gate live in the pipeline
QA automationPR #1820
Gate
Live38
Flaky-test triage and quarantine
QA · just nowLoad test for the checkout API
QA · 4d agoFix for the token refresh defect
Backend · 6d agoRelease-readiness report v3.2
QA · 8d agoIllustrative demo with sample data. On the Scrums.com Platform, the board shows your own goals, tasks and releases.
Scope and capacity
What one workstream delivers, for QA or any software
Your backlog can hold any number of requests, but the team delivers them one workstream at a time. A workstream is one managed team working on your highest-priority request until it is live, then starting the next. More requests mean more months, not faster delivery. Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity. The same plan covers mobile, web, backend, AI, data and DevOps work, so all of it can share one backlog.
- Active at once
- One request
- First framework
- 2 to 4 weeks
- 80%+ coverage
- 2 to 3 months
- Tests owned by
- You
Example: test automation on one workstream
Illustrative- Month 1QA assessment and strategy, then the framework: CI/CD quality gates, test environments and data, and the critical paths automated first while manual testing gives immediate coverage.
- Month 2Automation expands across the layers: API and contract tests, performance baselines, AI-generated cases, visual regression and security testing.
- Month 3Flaky tests stabilised, execution time cut through parallel runs, quality dashboards live, and new features automated in the same sprint.
A sample automation programme. It matches the 2 to 4 weeks a basic framework typically takes, and the 2 to 3 months to 80%+ coverage. Onboarding starts immediately after checkout, and your delivery owner scopes your own plan with you.
What affects the number of months
- Application sizeThe number of user journeys, APIs, roles and platforms to cover.
- Starting coverageAn application with no tests needs a framework first; existing suites can be extended.
- Test layersUnit, integration, API, end-to-end, visual, performance and security testing each add work.
- Environments and dataStable test environments and test data speed up automation; building them adds work up front.
- CompliancePCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2 and GDPR evidence and audit trails add documentation work.
- Review and approvalsHow quickly your team agrees acceptance criteria and signs off releases.
Capabilities
Test automation services: AI testing, quality gates, performance and security.
Automated test frameworks
Selenium · Cypress · Playwright · AppiumScalable test automation frameworks built for your technology stack with industry-standard tools. Modular, maintainable automation across unit, integration, API and end-to-end workflows, reducing manual testing effort by 60% while improving coverage and reliability.
When it fitsManual testing bottlenecks slow your releases, and regression has to run on every build.
Trade-offsAutomation is code: the suite needs upkeep as the product changes. That upkeep is on the same plan.
How the plan covers it
Queue this scope →Frameworks on Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, JUnit and pytest
Unit, integration, API and end-to-end layers in one maintainable suite
Page-object patterns and reusable components that survive change
Regression suites that run on every build
AI-powered test generation and execution
Agents in the QA loopAI agents generate test cases, identify edge cases, execute regression suites and analyse results. Test creation time drops by 50%, defects surface earlier through pattern recognition, and coverage improves continuously from production usage and code changes.
When it fitsYour test cases cannot keep up with the rate of change, or coverage gaps let defects escape.
Trade-offsAgents write and run tests; engineers review them. Test strategy, exploration and UX judgment stay with people.
How the plan covers it
Queue AI-assisted QA scopes →Test cases generated from requirements and code changes
Regression execution and result analysis run by agents
Coverage that grows with production usage patterns
Engineers keep the judgment work: strategy, exploration, UX
CI/CD quality gates
Jenkins · GitHub Actions · GitLab CIAutomated testing integrated into your pipelines with quality gates that stop defective code before production: execution triggers, performance thresholds, security scanning, coverage requirements and automated rollback, without slowing release velocity.
When it fitsProduction bugs reach customers and revenue because nothing in the pipeline stops them.
Trade-offsA gate that fails stops a release. Thresholds are agreed with your team so that gates block real risk, not noise.
How the plan covers it
Queue this scope →Gates on test results, coverage and performance thresholds
Security scanning in the pipeline
Parallel runs and fast feedback for developers
Automated rollback when a gate fails
Manual and exploratory testing
Human judgmentExpert QA engineers cover the scenarios that need human judgment: UX validation, accessibility testing, edge-case exploration and complex user workflows. Structured exploratory testing finds what automation misses.
When it fitsFeatures change too fast to automate yet, or a release needs sign-off against agreed acceptance criteria.
Trade-offsManual testing does not scale like automation. It runs alongside automation, not instead of it.
How the plan covers it
Queue this scope →UX validation and WCAG accessibility checks
Exploratory sessions on rapidly changing features
Release-readiness reports with reproducible defects
Manual coverage from day one while automation ramps
Performance and load testing
JMeter · load · stress · scaleSystem performance validated under real-world conditions: concurrent users, peak traffic and sustained load. Bottlenecks found and response times optimised so the application handles growth without degradation, before launch.
When it fitsYou expect a traffic peak, a launch or growth, and you do not know where the system breaks.
Trade-offsRealistic load tests need an environment close to production. Building it adds work if you do not have one.
How the plan covers it
Queue this scope →Load, stress and scalability validation against target traffic
Breakpoints found and the largest constraints remediated
Performance baselines tracked in the pipeline
Peak-season readiness before the peak arrives
Security and compliance testing
SOC 2 · HIPAA · PCI DSS · GDPRVulnerability scanning, penetration testing, authentication validation, encryption verification and compliance checks. Weaknesses identified and secure coding practices validated so the software meets regulatory requirements before deployment.
When it fitsRegulatory compliance demands rigour: FinTech, Healthcare and Banking releases need testing evidence and audit trails.
Trade-offsA penetration test is a point-in-time check. Pipeline scanning keeps watch between tests.
How the plan covers it
Queue this scope →OWASP Top 10 scanning and manual penetration testing
Authentication, authorisation and data-exposure checks
API security testing and dependency scanning
Audit trails and evidence for compliance certification
What's included in software testing and QA
Strategy, automation, gates and release sign-off. Managed together.
Every Delivery Plan · Core comes with the full QA team and the tooling around it: test strategy, automation engineering, AI testing agents and release work, run by one delivery owner. QA testing services and quality engineering services use one backlog, as managed QA from the first sprint.
Delivery managementOne accountable delivery owner.Milestones agreed before work begins.
01QA assessment and strategyCoverage analysed across unit, integration and E2E, and a maturity roadmap with success metrics
02Web and API automationSelenium, Cypress and Playwright for browser journeys; API testing with contract validation
03Mobile testingAppium, XCUITest and Espresso across real devices and emulators
04AI test generationAgents generate test cases, run regression suites and analyse results
05CI/CD quality gatesJenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines and CircleCI wired to gates
06Performance testingJMeter load and stress validation, with baselines tracked in the pipeline
07Security and compliance testingOWASP scanning, penetration testing and evidence for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS and GDPR
08Manual and exploratory testingUX validation, WCAG accessibility checks and release-readiness reports
10Test and code ownershipAll tests, frameworks and pipelines are yours from day one.
100%A green suite is not the finish line.
Flaky-test upkeepFlaky tests stabilised so that a red run means a real defect.
Faster runsExecution time cut through parallel runs as the suite grows.
Quality dashboardsCoverage, defect escape rate and release velocity kept current.
Same-sprint automationNew features automated in the sprint they ship, with quarterly maturity reviews.
Runs on the Scrums.com platform
Every Delivery Plan runs on the Enterprise AI Platform for software engineering.
Your team, its AI agents and your delivery data sit on one governed platform. That is what powers your delivery board, the QA and code-review agents, and the talent bench behind your plan.
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Engineering talent
QA engineers and teams
QA automation engineers, performance testers and security specialists from the Scrums.com bench, matched to your application and domain.
AI Catalog
Agents, MCPs and models for QA
The QA, code-review and release agents that run alongside your team, plus the MCP servers they use, such as Playwright MCP and BrowserStack MCP Server.
AI infrastructure
Infrastructure for test environments and AI testing
Test environments, data and AI infrastructure, deployable from the catalog with your $500 first-month credits.
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One QA hire covers one role. The plan covers the whole team.
Quality needs test strategy, automation, performance, security and release work. Hiring covers them one role at a time. The Delivery Plan covers them in one monthly price.
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In-house QA engineer
Traditional QA agency
Roles covered
Strategy, automation, performance, security, manual QA
One role per hire
Depends on the agency bench
Time to start
48 hours to first code in production
A hiring cycle first
Proposal and contract cycle first
How you pay
Salary, benefits and recruiting fees
Project quotes and change requests
Who runs delivery
One accountable delivery owner
You manage the work
The agency project manager
Visibility
Every test run, coverage metric and defect trend on the Scrums.com Platform
Your own tooling
Test reports by email
40-60%†lower cost than US and UK QA agencies
Start for Basis: the figure that the current Scrums.com software testing and QA page states against US and UK QA agencies. It is not a quote for your scope.
What you get
Why companies choose managed QA services
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Shift-left quality
QA starts at sprint planning, not after features are done. Tests are written alongside the code: 70% less rework.
02
One monthly price
One plan price for strategy, automation and testing. Your scope sets the number of months.
03
Every test layer
Unit, integration, API, end-to-end, visual, performance, security and accessibility testing on one bench.
04
Human plus AI
Agents take test generation, regression runs and result analysis. QA engineers keep exploratory and UX testing.
05
One view of quality
Test execution, coverage, defect trends and quality KPIs in one view, with Jira, TestRail, Jenkins and Sauce Labs connected.
06
Built for regulated industries
Testing documentation, audit trails and evidence for FinTech, Healthcare and Banking releases.
Customers
Software testing and QA case studies
Teams are matched to your domain, built for FinTech, Banking and SaaS, across Playwright, Robot, Appium and your CI/CD.
Featured QA case study
Driving QA transformation with AI agents
- Challenge
- A leading African payment provider had 3-month regression cycles, 1,000+ manual test cases, under 10% coverage and 3-month engineer onboarding.
- Platforms and technologies
- Playwright, Robot and Appium regression suites in CI/CD, Qase and Datadog dashboards, and AI agents in the Windsurf IDE.
- Work delivered
- Automated regression coverage, a Discovery Agent for docs and test cases, a pre-commit Review Agent, real-time DORA metrics and PCI-aligned logging.
- Measurable result
- Regression testing from 3 months to 3 hours. Coverage from 10% to 70%+. Production defects down 60%. Onboarding under 2 weeks.
Scopes
Software testing and QA scopes you can queue
One Delivery Plan · Core covers your development priorities across services. Start with QA, then queue mobile, web, backend, AI or data scopes on the same backlog, or describe your own.
QAQA & testing15 scopesMMobile appsExplore ↗WWeb appsExplore ↗AIAI developmentExplore ↗APIBackend & APIsExplore ↗DEData engineeringExplore ↗OPSDevOps & reliabilityExplore ↗→All scopesCatalog
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Accessibility Audit & Remediation
Test a live product or website for accessibility defects against WCAG and fix an agreed set of issues — with evidence you can stand behind.
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API Penetration Test
Test a defined API surface for authorization, input, data-exposure, business-logic, and protocol vulnerabilities.
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API Test Automation Suite
Automate endpoint, contract, authentication, negative, and regression tests for a defined API surface.
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Continuous Release QA Subscription
A standing QA team that certifies every release of one product: a test plan per release, automated regression runs, exploratory passes, and a signed release report each cycle, for 1 to 12 months.
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Continuous Testing Pipeline
Integrate automated unit, API, UI, and quality checks into CI/CD with pass/fail signals your releases can actually gate on.
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Cross-Browser Compatibility Certification
Validate and remediate a web application across agreed browser and device combinations, with evidence per combination.
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Embedded QA Pod
Dedicated QA team leveraging AI agents to deliver up to 1000 automated tests so regressions stop reaching production.
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Full-Stack Software Audit
Independent ISO/IEC 25010 assessment of your software's quality, delivered as a formal audit report with prioritised recommendations.
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Manual QA Release Certification
Test a defined release against agreed acceptance criteria and deliver a release-readiness report with reproducible defects and severities.
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Mobile Application Penetration Test
Assess an iOS or Android application and its supporting APIs for exploitable security weaknesses, with reproducible findings and fixes.
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Mobile Test Automation Suite
Automate critical iOS and/or Android journeys across target devices or simulators with a suite that runs on every build.
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Production Bug Fix Sprint
Investigate and resolve a bounded batch of reproducible production defects with testing and release support.
The plan in full
Software testing and QA services pricing
Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000/month for one active workstream. Your application’s scope determines the delivery schedule and total cost. You can use the same subscription for other development priorities.
Best for companies that release slowly because of manual testing, let defects reach production, or need testing evidence for compliance.
Delivery Plan · Core
One plan for your software backlog.
Now $4,500£3,750R79,000/ monthWas $8,000£6,700R140,000
One active workstream. Managed delivery.
Start your Delivery Plan →
Billed monthly · excl. VAT/sales tax · onboarding starts immediately after checkout
Included every month
Delivery owner. One accountable owner runs your QA engineers, automation engineers and testers.
One backlog across your development priorities. You set the order; requests are scoped and delivered one workstream at a time.
Visibility. Milestones agreed up front. Test runs, coverage and defect trends live on the Scrums.com Platform.
Ownership. Tests, frameworks, pipelines and data are yours from day one, with handover included.
Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.
First-month benefits
14DAYS
First-delivery guaranteeYour first agreed deliverable ships within 14 days of scope and access being confirmed, or your first month is free.
$500 in AI infrastructure catalog creditsMONTH 1
Annual-plan benefits$10,000 in specialist services
Technical Assessment & Delivery RoadmapWe review your systems, rank your priorities and agree the first deliverable.
CI/CD & Quality Pipeline SetupYour pipelines, environments and quality checks, set up and handed over to you.
You buy monthly delivery capacity, not a fixed project price. Infrastructure usage and third-party services are billed separately. Full Delivery Plan coverage and terms →
Need more parallel workstreams? Talk to us →
Day 0Scope and access confirmedOnboarding starts at checkout. You confirm scope and share repos, test environments and CI.
Within 48 hoursFirst code in productionFirst change merged and deployed through your pipeline.
Within 14 daysFirst agreed deliverable shipsFor example the first critical user journeys automated and running in your CI.
If it does not shipYour first month is freeYou do not pay for month one.
The first deliverable is agreed in writing before the clock starts. The clock starts when scope and access are confirmed. Applies to the first deliverable on a new plan.Read the full Delivery Plan terms →
FAQ
Software testing and QA questions, answered
Still deciding? Talk to sales and get a scoped answer for your application.
Delivery Plan · Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000 a month, excluding VAT or sales tax. That buys one active workstream with a managed QA team. It is monthly delivery capacity, not a fixed price for a complete test programme, so your scope sets the number of months.
Yes. Delivery Plan · Core covers mobile, web, backend, AI, data and DevOps work as well as software testing and QA. All of it sits in one prioritised backlog and is delivered within your plan’s capacity, one active workstream at a time. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.
QA assessment and test strategy, web, API and mobile test automation, AI test generation, CI/CD quality gates, performance, security and accessibility testing, manual and exploratory testing, and one accountable delivery owner. Every plan includes $500 in AI infrastructure catalog credits in your first month. Annual plans also include $10,000 in specialist services: a technical assessment, a delivery roadmap and CI/CD pipeline setup.
You rank the backlog. Your delivery owner scopes the top request, agrees acceptance criteria with you, and the team delivers it. You can reorder anything that has not started. One request is active at a time on Core; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.
The clock starts when you confirm scope and give access to your repositories, test environments and CI. Within 48 hours the team has its first code in production in your environment. Within 14 days your first agreed deliverable ships, for example the first critical user journeys automated and running in your CI. If it does not, your first month is free.
48 hours to first code in production means the first change merged and deployed through your pipeline, counted from the day scope and access are confirmed. 14 days means the deliverable named at kickoff ships within 14 days of that date, or your first month is free. “Thousands of companies” counts organisations that have bought engineering services from Scrums.com since 2012. 70% fewer production defects, 60% less manual testing effort and 50% less test creation time are the figures the current Scrums.com software testing and QA page states. 40-60% lower cost is the figure that page states against US and UK QA agencies; it is not a quote for your scope.
Functional testing (manual and automated), test automation across unit, integration, API and end-to-end layers, performance and load testing, security testing and vulnerability scanning, accessibility compliance testing (WCAG), cross-browser and device testing, mobile app testing on iOS and Android, regression automation, exploratory testing, and compliance testing for regulated industries (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR). All testing types report through the Scrums.com Platform.
Basic test automation frameworks deploy within 2 to 4 weeks, covering critical user paths and high-priority scenarios. Comprehensive automation at 80%+ coverage across unit, integration, API and E2E tests typically takes 2 to 3 months depending on application complexity and existing test infrastructure. Automation is prioritised by risk and ROI while manual testing gives immediate coverage.
Yes. Automated testing integrates into Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline and custom deployment systems, with quality gates, execution triggers, parallel runs and automated reporting so tests run on every code change with fast feedback for developers.
Existing environments work; new environments can be established with proper isolation, data management and deployment automation. Test data strategies include synthetic data generation, masking of production data, test data factories and containerised environments with pre-seeded data, mirroring production while protecting privacy.
The Delivery Plan gives you a managed team on one backlog: test strategy and custom automation frameworks for your applications, delivered one workstream at a time. The Continuous Release QA Subscription is a scope you can queue on that backlog: a standing QA team that certifies every release of one product, with a test plan per release, automated regression runs, exploratory passes and a signed release report each cycle.
Quality metrics are tracked on the Scrums.com Platform: test coverage across unit, integration and E2E, defect detection and escape rates, execution time and frequency, release cycle acceleration, production incident reduction, mean time to detect and resolve defects, and automation ROI. Quarterly reviews assess maturity and identify optimisation opportunities.
Yes. Most QA clients have applications built by other teams, vendors or acquired through M&A. The application is assessed, the architecture and existing coverage reviewed, and a QA strategy designed for it regardless of who built it. Comprehensive coverage for inherited applications with limited documentation typically lands within 8 to 12 weeks.
Yes. Native iOS and Android testing with Appium, XCUITest and Espresso, cross-platform framework testing for React Native and Flutter, device compatibility across real devices and emulators, performance testing under varied network conditions, accessibility testing, app store compliance validation and continuous mobile CI/CD integration.
SOFTWARE TESTING & QA · SORTED
Quality gates that hold, from the first sprint.
Delivery Plan · Core: one monthly price, one backlog across your development priorities, one active workstream and a managed team for test automation, quality gates and release sign-off.
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