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We build test strategy and automation around the risk of what could actually go wrong, not around a coverage percentage that looks good in a report. That means automated regression in the CI pipeline, contract tests that catch a breaking API change before it reaches a consumer, load tests against real traffic shapes, and accessibility testing against WCAG 2.2 AA rather than a plugin's default rule set.
Where a release needs independent security assurance, we coordinate a penetration test with an accredited third-party tester and manage remediation against their findings. We do not perform the penetration test ourselves.
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Our approach
We map user journeys and system components against the cost of failure: financial transactions, anything touching personal data, and previously-fixed defects sit at the top. Low-traffic admin screens and one-off configuration pages sit at the bottom. The test strategy is proportionate to that map, not to an abstract ratio of unit to end-to-end tests.
Regression paths that run on every release are scripted. New features, edge-case usability and anything genuinely novel get exploratory testing from someone who understands the domain, because scripting a one-off check costs more than running it by hand and finds fewer real problems.
Where one service or third-party API is a dependency for another, we write consumer-driven contract tests so a provider change that would break a consumer fails in CI, not in production. This matters most where teams or vendors deploy independently and nobody reviews every downstream effect by hand.
Synthetic load that ramps evenly to a round number rarely resembles how an application actually gets busy. We build load profiles from real or estimated traffic patterns — payroll day, a marketing send, a renewal deadline — and test against those, with pass/fail thresholds for latency and error rate agreed before the test runs.
Automated scanning runs in CI and catches structural issues early. Manual testing against WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria — keyboard-only navigation, screen reader announcements, focus order, error identification — is run against the journeys that matter most, with findings triaged by severity rather than listed without priority.
For releases that need independent assurance, we scope the engagement with an accredited third-party penetration tester, provide the environment and context they need, and track every finding to a fix or an accepted risk with a named owner. The test and its report are the third party's; the remediation plan and follow-up are ours to run.
Technology
End-to-end and UI automation
Load and performance
Contract and API testing
Accessibility and CI
Applied by industry
Regression suites around referral and appointment journeys where a defect has clinical consequence, plus accessibility testing on patient-facing portals against WCAG 2.2 AA.
Contract tests around settlement and supplier API integrations, and load testing ahead of switching-season traffic peaks.
End-to-end tests across booking, EPOS and payment flows spanning multiple sites, plus load testing before known peak booking windows.
Regression coverage for portal feed synchronisation, where a broken mapping silently drops listings rather than raising a visible error.
Contract tests between matter management, billing and document systems, and accessibility testing on client-facing portals for procurement compliance.
Typical engagement
Questions
No. We coordinate independent penetration testing: scoping the engagement, briefing the third-party tester on the architecture, arranging access and test data, and tracking remediation against the findings. The test itself is performed by an accredited external supplier, and the report is issued by them, not by us.
By risk and repetition, not by what is easiest to script. High-frequency regression paths, anything touching money or personal data, and every previously-fixed defect go into the automated suite. Exploratory testing, new-feature usability and anything with low repeat value stay manual, because automating them costs more than it saves.
A well-designed suite should shorten the release cycle, not lengthen it. We split suites into fast smoke tests that run on every commit and fuller regression packs that run on a merge or nightly schedule, with flaky tests quarantined rather than left to erode confidence in the whole pipeline.
Automated scanning (axe-core or similar) catches around a third of WCAG 2.2 AA issues: colour contrast, missing labels, heading structure. The rest — keyboard-only navigation, screen reader behaviour, focus order, meaningful error messages — needs manual testing against the success criteria, which we run against key user journeys rather than every screen.
Most of our test automation engagements start with an existing application that has little or no test coverage. We begin with a risk assessment of the current codebase and user journeys, build coverage around the highest-risk areas first, and add contract or load tests as the architecture and traffic patterns demand.
Send the problem, not a brief. We will tell you whether it is a project we should be involved in.
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