Your team is testing everything a little bit instead of testing the highest-risk areas thoroughly.
Service
Test strategy and planning that decides what's worth testing before anyone starts testing.
Before we write a single test case, we map your product's risk areas, release goals, and constraints into a concrete test strategy: what gets automated, what stays manual, and how much coverage is enough. It's the discovery phase every engagement, ours or otherwise, should start with.
Strategy flowActive
- Risk assessmentIdentify what breaks that would hurt most
- 02Scope & coverage modelManual vs. automated split, by feature
- 03Tooling & environment planFrameworks, environments, data needs
- 04Test plan documentationDeliverable your team can execute against
- 05Review & alignmentSign-off with stakeholders before execution starts
Why teams come to us
What this service helps you solve
No one can say how much test coverage is actually "enough" for this release, so scope keeps drifting.
A QA effort started without a plan, and now automation, manual testing, and bug triage are all working from different assumptions.
Deliverables
What’s included
Risk-based coverage assessmentManual vs. automated testing scope decisionsTest environment and data strategyTooling and framework recommendationsEntry and exit criteria for each testing phaseTimeline and resourcing aligned to release datesWritten test plan documentationStakeholder review and sign-off session
Process
How the service works
- 01
Assess your product's risk areas and release goals
- 02
Decide what needs automated coverage versus manual testing
- 03
Define entry and exit criteria for each phase
- 04
Plan tooling, environments, and test data needs
- 05
Document the strategy as a plan your team can execute
- 06
Review and align with stakeholders before execution begins
Roles
Roles that may support this service
QA LeadTest ArchitectQA Engineer
Final roles are recommended after discovery.Discovery before SOW
Discovery comes before every reliable statement of work.
Before we recommend roles, timelines, or pricing, we need to understand your goals, technology stack, product situation, scope, risks, and constraints. Discovery helps us align expectations and create a realistic statement of work.
What discovery documents
- Business goals
- Product goals
- Technology stack
- Current situation
- Required roles
- Timeline expectations
- Budget expectations
- Risks and unknowns
- Success criteria
FAQ
Questions about this service
The deliverable is a concrete, executable test plan, but most clients have us execute it too, either as the same team or handed off to yours. We scope which one during discovery, since a plan no one executes isn't worth much.
Not at all. A surprising number of our test strategy engagements start mid-project, when a team realizes coverage is scattered or inconsistent. We assess what exists, identify the gaps, and build the plan around where you are now, not a theoretical greenfield start.
Detailed enough to execute against: specific features and risk levels, which get automated versus tested manually, what tools and environments are needed, and what "done" looks like for each phase. We calibrate the depth to your team's size and release complexity during discovery.