Every release feels like a gamble
Testing means someone clicking through the app by hand. It was quick when the product was small; now it eats a day before every release, things still slip through, and small fixes wait because shipping feels risky.
Scale and improve
QA and software testing, so every release stays calm.
Automated tests that catch problems before your customers do, security reviews guided by OWASP, fixes for penetration-test findings, and support once you are live. Added to a product you already run, or built in from the first sprint.
Sound familiar?
The problems this solves.
Your customers find the bugs first
Problems turn up as support tickets and bad reviews rather than in testing. By then you are fixing in a hurry, with the people who pay you watching.
A security report full of findings
A penetration test has come back with a list of issues. Your team isn’t sure which ones really matter, or how to fix them without breaking something else.
Slow just when it matters
Pages that feel quick on the office Wi-Fi crawl on a mid-range phone or a patchy mobile connection. Nobody has measured where the time actually goes.
What you get
Concrete things, not adjectives.
A test strategy that fits your risk
We look at what would hurt most if it broke — payments, sign-up, your data — and agree what to test automatically, what to check by hand and what can wait.
Automated end-to-end tests
Playwright tests that walk through your key user journeys in a real browser, the way a customer would, every time the code changes.
Tests in your pipeline and your repository
The tests run in a CI/CD pipeline (yours, or one we set up) before anything reaches production, so a failing check stops a bad release. They live in your own repository, with notes on how to run and extend them.
Security review and remediation
A review of your application against OWASP guidance, and fixes for penetration-test findings — prioritised by real risk and explained in plain English.
A performance pass
We measure where your pages and APIs are slow, fix the worst offenders first, and write down what to keep an eye on as traffic grows.
Support after launch
A support arrangement sized to your stage, covering fixes and monitoring, with a reply from an engineer within one working day.
How an engagement runs
A demo every two weeks. No six-month silences.
Most projects start with a short, fixed-price discovery and move in two-week sprints you can stop, pause or extend.
From discovery to launch
Weeks 1–2
We learn the game before we play it
What happens
We sit with your users, your constraints and your numbers. Then architecture, scope, and the honest version of what fits your timeline — including the parts we would cut.
What you get
A scoped plan with a real budget, a technical architecture you own, and a working prototype of whichever part carries the most risk.
Fixed priceYours to keepNo obligation to continue
Two-week sprints
A demo at the end of every sprint
What happens
Design and engineering run together rather than in sequence. Every sprint closes with something you can click — never a status report standing in for progress.
What you get
A product growing in front of you, written status every week, and a direct line to the engineers writing the code.
Demo every two weeksYour repository from day oneRe-scope between sprints
Launch and after
We stay on past the launch party
What happens
A security review, a performance pass, and a handover your team can actually act on. Then we watch the first weeks of real traffic alongside you.
What you get
Production infrastructure in your accounts, documentation and training, and a support arrangement sized to your stage.
Security reviewed before launchFull handover and trainingSupport that answers
Expertise
The tools, and who it suits.
Technologies we use
- Testing and security
- Pipelines and environments
- Applications we test
A good fit when
- You have a product with real users, and releases have started to feel risky.
- A penetration test or security review has left you with a list of findings in your code to fix.
- Your developers are busy shipping features and nobody owns testing.
- You are about to launch, or about to grow, and want confidence before the traffic arrives.
Probably not the right fit when
- You need the penetration test itself, or a formal security certification. Both are best done by an independent specialist; we fix what a penetration test finds and help you act on the report.
- You want a large team of manual testers working through scripts. We focus on automated tests and the engineering fixes behind them.
Questions
QA & Testing: your questions.
Can you test software that another team built?
Yes — most testing work starts with a product that already exists. Like every engagement, it begins with a short, fixed-price discovery: we read the code, use the product and agree which journeys carry the most risk. You leave it with a scoped plan and a real budget, and we start testing where a failure would hurt most.
Why do you use Playwright for end-to-end tests?
It drives real browsers, copes well with modern JavaScript-heavy apps and gives clear reports when something fails. Just as important, it is free and open source, so your own team can keep running and extending the tests after handover. We write tests to be stable rather than numerous, because a test that fails at random soon gets ignored.
Do you do penetration testing?
We review your application against OWASP guidance, whether it is about to launch or already live, and we fix what a penetration test finds, worst risks first. For the test itself we recommend an independent specialist, so the people who find the problems are not the people who fix them. We can help you scope it and work through the report together.
Will automated tests slow my team down?
Writing them takes some time at the start. In return, your key journeys are checked automatically on every change, rather than by someone clicking through the whole app before each release, and developers can change code with much less fear of breaking something. We aim tests at the journeys that matter rather than a coverage number, so the suite stays quick to run and worth keeping.
How do you check performance?
We measure the pages and APIs your users rely on most, under realistic phone and network conditions rather than on a fast office laptop. Then we fix the biggest slow spots first — heavy pages, slow database queries, work that could be cached — and give you a short written summary of what changed and what to watch as you grow.
What does support look like after launch?
It is sized to your stage. For the first weeks after launch we watch real traffic alongside you; after that it covers fixes, monitoring and small improvements, and you hear back from an engineer within one working day. The automated tests keep running on every release, so a fix in one place doesn’t quietly break another.
Further reading
From Step2Play Insights.
Product development
How to Turn a Business Idea into an MVP
A practical path from idea to a first version real users can try: what to build, what to leave out, and how to know it worked.
Product development
How Much Does Custom Software Development Cost?
The factors that really drive the cost of custom software, why fixed quotes on vague scopes go wrong, and how a short discovery turns a guess into a budget.
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