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QA Automation & SDET Services for Fast, Safe Releases

Own your quality, control your roadmap, and reduce defect escape.


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| Security-first approach | 25+ Years of Shipping Production Software

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Quality Assurance

Softwarium builds automation frameworks, SDET pods, and AI/LLM-assisted testing that actually fit the way your team ships. Fewer production surprises, calmer releases, and real numbers your leadership can follow.

We work with teams that need:

    • QA automation services aligned with business KPIs

    • SDET teams embedded into existing squads

    • CI/CD-integrated testing that keeps pipelines moving

    • LLM-assisted test generation and triage under human control

    Why Choose Softwarium

    For over 25 years, we have delivered QA automation that ships fast and proves value early. Our engineers work daily with Azure DevOps, .NET, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Power BI and the usual mix of enterprise tools and constraints.

    One of our QA engineers recently described a typical engagement:

    Why Teams Choose Softwarium

    “We test a cross-platform desktop application used by banks to connect securely to servers and equipment. We validate strong authentication using NFC-enabled security keys, run tests on remote VDI machines, deal with strict security rules, and still keep releases smooth. There hasn’t been a ‘disaster release’ on our watch.”

    That is the standard we aim for across projects.

     

     

    What you can expect

      KPI-first delivery
      KPI-first delivery
      At kickoff we agree on clear targets: defect escape rate (bug leakage), MTTR, regression coverage, and lead time for changes. Nightly runs and on-demand builds show what broke and where. You see test runs and trends from the first week, usually in a simple dashboard tied to your CI and monitoring.
      Security by default
      Security by default
      We are used to environments where a single mistake can open a path into production: security tools for banks, secure remote access, and USB/NFC device-based login. Various levels of access, predictable test data and clean separation between client and server work are part of the setup, not an afterthought.
      Compliance-ready process
      Compliance-ready process
      Support tickets and high-priority customer bugs feed directly into our test strategy. Those scenarios get automated first and guarded carefully so the same issue does not reappear. Traceability from requirement to test to release report is kept up to date, which later becomes your audit evidence.
      Long-term fit
      Long-term fit
      We stay through multiple release trains. Early access builds go to selected customers, we listen to their feedback, adjust coverage and keep the same team close to the product. Knowledge lives in code, tests, and runbooks instead of only in one engineer’s memory.
      Low-risk rollouts
      Low-risk rollouts
      We start with one product area or flow, prove improvement, and only then widen the scope. On the PAM project, for example, we began with the most critical connection flow and security paths, then expanded to less risky parts once metrics stabilised. Your delivery cadence stays safe while coverage grows.
      Easy integration
      Easy integration
      Tests run on remote machines and VDI environments, against different OS versions and hardware combinations. We connect automation to your CI/CD, feature flags and quality gates so the team sees the same picture in one place.
      Ownership & transparency
      Ownership & transparency
      You keep all project assets: source, frameworks, test data strategies, environment definitions. We hand over runbooks for failures, triage, and support handoffs, and we keep communication with your stakeholders clear and regular.
      Clear communication
      Clear communication
      Softwarium teams demo their work to both product and technical stakeholders. On several projects, C-level leaders attend the demos because they see a direct impact on risk and release stability, not just “tech details”.

      Types of Solutions We Provide

        Test Automation for Web, API, and Mobile

        When a growing product needs reliable regression without slowing releases, we assemble a lean automation layer covering E2E UI, API, contract, and mobile tests.

        Our QA engineer summed up the way we prioritise:

        “Key scenarios are the actions without which the product cannot work: login, payment, provisioning, connecting to equipment. We also take the most painful bugs from support and customers and lock them in with automation so they do not return.”

        • Where this shines

          • You want to launch or relaunch automation without creating a heavy suite that nobody wants to maintain.
          • You want to keep control of test data and coverage targets while staying within budget.
          • You want to replace fragile checks gradually instead of trying to rebuild everything in one go.
        • What you get

          • Playwright/Cypress/Selenium frameworks aligned with your stack, with Allure or ReportPortal for readable reports.

          • API test automation and contract tests so you are not tied to a fragile UI layer.

          • Mobile automation with Appium, XCUITest or Espresso, plus cross-browser and cross-device labs where needed.

          • CI/CD wiring into GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI or Jenkins with clear quality gates.

          • Test data management using seeded datasets, masked production subsets or synthetic data.

          • Optional checks for accessibility, performance and basic security in the same pipelines.

          Our testers are used to .NET-centric stacks, but they are flexible by design. They use Appium, Selenium, xUnit and REST API tests, switching tools when the product or platform requires it.

           

        • Results to expect

          • Fewer escaped defects and cleaner rollbacks when issues appear.
          • Faster, safer releases with visible coverage growth per sprint.
          • Quality targets agreed and tracked openly.
        Test Automation for Web, API, and Mobile
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        SDET Pods & Team Augmentation

        Turn test debt into a steady engineering habit your team trusts.


        Our SDETs often join support triage too:

        “When a complaint arrives from a customer, our SDET team looks into it with support, reconstructs the scenario, and then captures it in tests. We do not wait until the next major incident; we try to stay ahead, not just react.”

        • Operational view that helps

          • Pod-based SDETs embed with dev squads and product owners, pairing on design and testability.
          • Dashboards highlight flaky tests, bottlenecks and risky change sets instead of dumping raw logs.
          • A golden path E2E suite plus layered API checks keep cycle time short and feedback relevant.

           

        • Impact to aim for

          • Shorter MTTR, lower flake rate, and a steady rise in the automation-to-manual ratio.
          • More stable velocity during peaks and releases because the suite is trusted.
          • Less time spent reconciling different tools and reports; more time fixing real problems.


          You can hire SDET engineers individually or as a managed pod that owns framework health, coverage strategy and day-to-day test work.

        SDET Pods & Team Augmentation

        Migration & Modernization (Selenium → Playwright/Cypress)

        Improve reliability and speed with incremental migration that respects your sprint cadence.

        Our engineers know the trade-offs well: Selenium remains powerful for certain enterprise cases, Cypress has limits such as no native Safari support, and Playwright is strong for cross-browser coverage. We help you decide where each fits instead of chasing trends.

        • Planning clarity

          • Risk scoring by feature and dependency so we do not start in the hardest corner.
          • Parallel runs, selective backfills and contract-first tests to cut down UI load.
          • Coverage maps that show business importance, not just the number of tests.
        • Floor changes

          • Fewer last-minute surprises and brittle selectors breaking important flows.
          • Stand-ups focused on real issues instead of long discussions about test noise.
        • How we roll it out

          • Start with one critical flow or service and define success clearly.
          • Prove the improvement in runtime and stability, then extend migration.
          • Keep day-to-day delivery running while suites evolve in the background.
        Migration & Modernization
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        Security & Compliance for QA

        We meet your standards and supply clear evidence of what was tested and how it was verified.

        On the PAM desktop project mentioned earlier, that means:

        • Secure connections to many types of servers and devices
        • Strong authentication including YubiKey
        • Tests that run on remote VDI machines under strict access rules


        That same mindset carries into all QA automation services we offer.

         

        • Built in from the start

          • Least-privilege access; secrets in Key Vault or equivalent; encryption in transit and at rest.
          • Signed runners and agents; tamper-evident logs; policy-as-code for gates.
        • Run and respond

          • Monitoring from tests and pipelines wired into your SIEM or SOC.
          • Clear runbooks for flaky tests, incidents and scheduled reviews.
          • Evidence packs that make audits straightforward for compliance teams.
        • Straight talk

          • No invented certifications or vague security promises.
          • Privacy and data boundaries handled in your environment wherever possible, with clear documentation of what runs where.
        Security & Compliance for QA

        AI/LLM-Assisted Testing

        Put AI in the flow of QA work, where it speeds learning and triage, not decision accuracy.

        Our teams already work with corporate-approved AI such as Copilot and internal AI services that can safely connect to company accounts.

        A QA engineer describes the pattern:

        “AI is great for generating test ideas or summarising a failure, but the final decision sits with the engineer. We always read what it suggests, clean it up, and make sure the method is valid and does not break anything before we commit it.”

        • Where it helps

          • Test idea generation from specifications, user stories and change diffs.
          • Failure summaries across logs, traces and screenshots to speed up triage.
          • Natural language draft tests that humans refine into stable code and assertions.
        • How we keep it safe

          • Human review gates for every model-generated change.
          • Seeded data and reproducible flows, no blind autonomy.
          • Prompts and changes tracked in your Azure tenant, with approvals and phased rollouts.
          • The same governance we use for security-sensitive work now supports QA flows and has already shown measurable savings in analyst time and flake triage.
        AI/LLM-Assisted Testing
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        Our Technology Stack

        Secure, scalable, and yours to own.

        • 01
          Azure and DevOps

          Azure AD, private networking, Key Vault, Monitor, Pipelines.

        • 02
          Automation

          Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, xUnit, REST API testing, contract tests such as Pact.

        • 03
          Observability

          Grafana, Prometheus, App Insights, OpenTelemetry, Power BI scorecards.

        • 04
          Data and AI

          Azure ML, embeddings for search, guarded LLM helpers in your tenant.

        • 05
          DevOps/MLOps

          registries, environments, CI checks, blue-green and canary patterns, drift alerts.

        • 06
          Ownership

          you own source, infrastructure, and data. No lock-in, no hidden platforms.

        Azure and DevOpsAutomationObservabilityData and AIDevOps/MLOpsOwnership

        On the desktop PAM project, tests run on remote machines across different operating systems with nightly runs to catch regressions early, and additional builds during the day when teams need feedback fast. This kind of setup is typical for our QA outsourcing work.

          Case Studies

            SharePoint Permissions Utility
            for MetaVis / Metalogix / Quest

            A long-term client in the SharePoint ecosystem (MetaVis → Metalogix → Quest) asked us to help turn a set of ideas about permissions into a reliable product.

            Our team started small (2–3 people) and, over more than ten years, grew into a 16-person group of developers and QA engineers working directly with the CTO. Together we:

            • Helped build a SharePoint utility from scratch that manages permissions, analytics, and permission cloning.
            • Covered key flows with automated tests: permission inheritance, cloning when employees change roles, and reporting for specific users, files, and site collections.
            • Validated that only authorised users could inherit permissions and that cloning rules worked exactly as expected, even across complex SharePoint and Office 365 environments.
            SharePoint Permissions Utility for MetaVis / Metalogix / Quest

            Because the client was working with large enterprises and going through M&A, every release had to be evidence-ready. Our QA work gave them:

              • Confidence that migrations and upgrades preserved permissions correctly.
              • Proof for stakeholders during acquisitions that access control and reporting worked as designed.


            This partnership now spans SharePoint migration, administration, backup, Office 365 admin/migration/backup and unstructured content transformation, all supported by the same mix of automation and hands-on SDET work.

             

            Salesforce ML Data Deduplication App

            A startup building a data deduplication app for the Salesforce AppExchange needed to move quickly and still compete with established players. Their product was the only dedupe tool on the marketplace powered by machine learning instead of static rules, which added both value and testing complexity.

            Softwarium assembled a compact team (frontend, backend, QA) and worked closely with the co-founders to:

            • Integrate the Node.js application with Salesforce without extra downloads or configuration for users.
            • Design and validate ML-driven deduping algorithms, including merge rules, data cleansing, and verification flows.
            • Build and maintain regression coverage around every new feature and UI tweak, so frequent releases did not break existing customers.
            Salesforce ML Data Deduplication App

            Our QA engineers tested each release end-to-end: from configuration in Salesforce to matching, merging, and reporting on cleaned records. As the product grew, automation around core merge logic and API integration helped the team:

              • Roll out new dedupe and cleansing features safely on a regular cadence.
              • Reach functional parity with bigger competitors and then move beyond them with ML-driven behaviour.
            Jeff Sobble
            I had some hesitation in working remotely with an overseas development group. However, Softwarium was quick to understand my application requirements, very professional throughout development and testing, and has delivered the application I was hoping for. I feel very comfortable with our working relationship. I will continue to use them.
            Jeff Sobble
            CEO Amaji, LLC
            Ian D. Mead
            Having worked with Softwarium for over a year I have been very pleased with the results that have been achieved and value that has been added to my products as a part of this. Outsourcing development work has many risks and having had bad experiences in the past, I was concerned about the quality of the work that I would receive. The final product was well worth it, and Softwarium were willing to make any necessary changes along the way. I would highly recommend them to anyone in need of quality development work.
            Ian D. Mead
            IDM Computer Solutions, Inc.
            Allan Holtz
            Having now completed 3 projects with Softwarium, we can say that outsourcing projects with them has continued to be a completely positive experience. Their pricing is reasonable, their turnaround times are fast, and their ability to understand, implement and fine-tune designs is excellent. We expect to continue using their software development services on an ongoing long-term basis.
            Allan Holtz
            Roundtable Software, Inc.
            Steven Pogrebivsky
            Over the past 3 years we have executed dozens of projects with Softwarium. Whether a short term engagement or a long term development effort, Softwarium resources have been knowledgeable, dedicated to the work and quick to learn new applications and technologies. We will be looking forward to broadening our relationship with Softwarium as our firm continues to grow.
            Steven Pogrebivsky
            CEO Vital Path, Inc.
            David Muir
            After a previous bad experience, I was a bit hesitant on doing business with an overseas development firm. But Softwarium's persistent availability while biding on my project combined with a very attractive price point persuaded me to try again. In the end, my solution was delivered on time, the code was extremely clean, and they met & exceeded all functional requirements defining the project. I will certainly be utilizing their services again.
            David Muir
            President ACP Systems, Inc.
            Igor Klinchin testimonial
            We have been very impressed with the quality of the work Softwarium has produced for us. We carefully evaluated several offshore development companies from several different countries. We found that Softwarium Offshore Development Team provides the highest level of service and quality.
            Igor Klinchin
            Stelex, Inc.

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            • 40% fewer escaped defects
            • Stronger CI quality gates
            • Smarter LLM-assisted triage
            • KPIs that guide decisions
            • A 10-day start plan
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            FAQs

            • How is a custom automation framework cheaper than tool vendor lock-ins?

              You avoid per-seat and per-run fees, keep all IP, and tune the framework to your stack and release rhythm. Over time, fewer regressions, faster releases and less manual retesting tend to outweigh the licence and subscription costs of closed platforms.

            • Can you integrate with our CI/CD and cloud testing labs?

              Yes. We integrate with GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab and Jenkins, as well as BrowserStack, Sauce Labs or your existing device and browser labs. We usually go through a sandbox, then a pilot pipeline, and only then roll out widely so your current releases stay safe.

            • How long does it take to reach 70–80% regression automation?

              This depends on domain, architecture and data. For many teams, a stable core regression suite takes around 8–16 weeks. We start with golden paths and high-impact flows, then expand coverage gradually. Nightly runs and bug leakage metrics show when you are ready to move more scenarios from manual to automated checks.

            • How do you handle security in QA?

              We follow zero-trust ideas: restricted access, secrets rotation, signed runners, clear separation of client and server responsibilities, and SIEM integration where needed. Test data is masked or synthetic when regulations require it. All of this is documented in runbooks that your security and compliance teams can review.

            • Who owns the IP?

              You do. Source, frameworks, infrastructure as code, pipelines and data are client-owned. If you later decide to hire your own SDET team or change partners, you keep the full setup.

            • Do you support mobile apps?

              Yes. We work with Appium, XCUITest and Espresso and can run tests on your in-house labs or third-party device farms. Performance and basic UX behaviour on real devices can be included where it affects customer experience.

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