Services / Advisory & Transformation
When the problem isn't testers, it's the testing function
Three hiring rounds in, escapes haven't moved and releases still stall in QA. More hands can't fix an unclear strategy, missing standards, or tooling nobody trusts; they just do the wrong things faster. Our advisory practice assesses where your quality engineering actually stands, then builds the function that fixes it, with exit criteria you hold us to.
What an engagement covers
- QE maturity assessment: where your coverage, automation, environments, and metrics stand today, mapped against where your release cadence needs them.
- Test strategy: what to automate, what to test manually, what to stop testing, and the toolchain your team can maintain.
- Transformation roadmap: sequenced, costed steps from the current state to the target, with exit criteria for every phase.
Test Center of Excellence →
The deepest engagement we offer: a QE function that outlives any single project, with standards, frameworks, tooling, reporting, and a trained bench. Run by us, run jointly, or handed over to your team when it’s self-sustaining. Handover is the design goal from day one, which is exactly what most vendors have no incentive to offer.
Need capacity alongside capability? See Managed Teams.
How the engagement runs
Assess, design, transform, each phase with its own exit criteria, so you are never committed to an open-ended program.
Assess
A structured review of your current state (coverage, automation, environments, tooling, and metrics) against the release cadence and risk your business runs on.
Design
A target operating model and a sequenced roadmap: what to automate, what to test manually, what to retire, and the toolchain your team can maintain after we leave.
Transform
Execution against the roadmap in phases with exit criteria: standards, frameworks, and reporting stood up, proven in use, and documented for handover.
Ways to engage
Maturity assessment
A fixed-scope review with a findings report and a costed, sequenced roadmap, the fastest way to a defensible plan for the board.
Transformation program
We execute the roadmap with you in phases, standing up standards, tooling, and reporting against agreed exit criteria.
Test Center of Excellence
A standing QE function, run by us, co-run, or transitioned to your leadership once it is self-sustaining.
Common questions
How is advisory different from just hiring more testers?
Capacity adds hands to the current way of working; advisory changes the way of working. If your coverage is unclear, your automation is distrusted, or releases stall in QA, more testers amplify the problem. We fix the function (strategy, standards, tooling, metrics) so added capacity compounds instead of churning. When you need both, Managed Teams supplies the capacity alongside.
Do you leave us dependent on you?
The opposite is the goal. Every engagement is built to transfer: documented standards, a toolchain your team owns, and a trained bench. A Test Center of Excellence can be run by us, co-run, or handed over entirely once it is self-sustaining.
How do you measure whether the transformation worked?
Against the metrics agreed at the assessment (escape rate, automation coverage on the paths that matter, environment stability, release lead time), with exit criteria closing each phase. You see movement on the numbers that made you start, or the phase isn't done.
Talk through an engagement model
Staff augmentation, project teams, or a full QE center of excellence, shaped around your roadmap.