Methodology

How we work, in writing.

Six principles we don't compromise on. Most clients find one of them surprising. By the sixth week, they all make sense.

01 · No account layer.

There is no account manager between you and the person doing the work. The senior who scopes the engagement reads the build on day one. When you have a question, you send it to the person who can answer it. This sounds obvious. In most QA engagements, it isn't how it works.

02 · Written, not streamed.

We don't live in your Slack. We don't send you running commentary on what we're finding. We work, we write it down carefully, and we send it at the end of the week. Writing forces precision. Streaming encourages noise. The written report is the product, not a summary of the chat log.

03 · The weekly report.

One document, every Friday. It covers: what we tested, what we found, severity distribution, what we're watching, what we'll hit next week. Short enough to read in fifteen minutes. Rigorous enough to act on Monday morning. Not a dashboard. Not a ticket dump. A document written by the person who played your build.

04 · Bug reports as a discipline.

Every bug filed with platform, build hash, reproduction steps a developer can follow in under five minutes, severity classification, and a one-line note on why it matters. We don't file observations. We file problems. The difference is that problems get fixed and observations get triaged into a backlog nobody reads.

05 · Coverage documented.

We keep a running coverage map: what we've tested, what we haven't, and why. At any point in the engagement, you can ask us where we are and get a specific answer. This also means the handover artifact at close is real - not a document assembled in the last week, but a record we've been building throughout.

06 · We leave cleanly.

At close, you get: the test plan, all test cases, the coverage map, the full bug history, and a handover document a new QA team can pick up without a briefing call. Nothing is held hostage. Your next vendor can start where we left off. We consider this a basic professional obligation.

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