The audit includes deep QA analysis, identification of software vulnerabilities, guidance for product quality improvement.
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QA auditing is a documented and systematic evaluation of a company’s software product and the overall development processes. A software test consultant performing the QA audit compares the existing work principles and practices with the requirements of defined quality regulations and customer expectations. As a result of a QA audit and software testing consultancy, companies get a better operation flow, streamlined testing, and a more stable product. By making testing more efficient, teams minimize the risk of critical bugs slipping to production close to zero.
Setting up software development and QA flows correctly is critical for creating a good software product. Miscommunication, messy task flow, lack of prioritization, and similar issues always affect the quality of work – the quality of your software. To make your digital products and services user-ready, start by analyzing how things are done. The QA Madness team can help you do this. Based on the findings of QA audits, we’ll offer the QA services that will help deliver the results you expect.
QA and QC allow for ensuring that your software meets technical and business requirements, as well as user expectations. Through testing and identifying areas for improvement, QA specialists help enhance software’s functionality and performance at different stages of its development. With constant monitoring of the live product and working with user feedback, they make sure the quality remains at the same high level after the release and as it evolves.
Manual testing is the basis of quality assurance. It implies a close inspection of the digital product or service from an end-user perspective. In other words, QA engineers look for defects by exploiting software like actual users. This approach lets the team receive detailed feedback on various quality aspects. Manual software testing is especially valuable in estimating the elements that require human feedback (e.g., usability) and creativity (e.g., exploring uncommon scenarios).
With manual QA set up correctly and providing the first results, the team can look into test automation. It facilitates and accelerates the execution of repetitive scenarios. By writing scripts and using special software to run tests, you can receive faster and more accurate feedback. Moreover, automated testing helps shorten release cycles. If relevant to your project at the given development stage, it can be a real game-changer.
This solution is best suited for smaller projects. If you don’t have a proper workload for two full-time specialists, a manual and an automation QA engineer, you can hire an expert who can run both. Thus, you can use all the advantages of automated testing without exceeding the budget or worrying about the sufficient flow of tasks. The QA specialist will set up manual testing first. After a few initial runs, they can write scripts and automate the repetitive tasks.
We have several scenarios for how to strengthen your team. If you don’t have QA specialists on the project, it’s possible to hire one or several people. If you already have QA engineers, you can request full-time or part-time assistance. It can be an extra software tester with duplicate responsibilities or a specialist with a skill set and expertise your team lacks. Besides outsourcing QA, we help with technical recruitment and software engineer cultivation.
A QA consulting company can set up an efficient QA process for teams at the beginning of product development and those with live products tested without involving professional QA. We’ll analyze your product’s requirements and prepare a custom testing strategy that will align with its tech stack and your business goals. You can hire QA engineers to support this strategy by testing and adjusting it to the software’s needs as it evolves.
QA Madness helps tech companies strengthen their in-house teams by staffing dedicated manual and automated testing experts.
As a rule, businesses turn to QA consulting companies when they struggle with software development. The difficulties in question can entail a broad range of problems. For some, it’s a lack of knowledge and skills in QA. For others, the reason in problems with identifying and addressing product issues. It can also be a strive to deliver a flawless product, minimize risks, or improve the way their team functions. The need to audit QA can also be triggered by one of the following issues.
Your app has a low rating because of all the negative feedback you are getting in stores or social networks. If the team finds it complicated to detect the root cause of the problems, an unbiased perspective can help locate it and find the right solution.
A hundred percent bug-free software is a myth. However, a product shouldn’t have critical defects in production. If they appear after each release or in untouched functionality, there’s a good reason to review the way QA and development are handled.
Quality assurance is meant to locate bugs in software. Yet, there’s a limit to a reasonable amount of defects even during the initial testing. If there are a lot of bugs during each testing cycle, there must be something important a team keeps out of their sight.
If testing takes a lot of time and slows down releases, there’s room for improvement. Maybe there are enough repetitive tasks for automation, which would help accelerate testing. However, there might be bottlenecks in the process that require optimizing the testing strategy.
Poor performance, in this case, is used in a more general sense: a failure to meet users’ or stakeholders’ expectations. It’s essential to examine your audience’s needs, business objectives, and market state. A QA audit can help align your plans and expectations.
If you want to build or improve your testing team, QA consulting firms can clarify what roles and skills are best to look for. If you don’t have a clear vision of testing results or what the QA team is doing, expert consultation is the best way to outline the strategy and outcomes.
We use consistent benchmarks to provide in-depth, valuable data that you and your team can use to adjust your development plans accordingly. Our software quality audit is structured to give a non-biased review of virtually every aspect of your application. Software QA consulting goes beyond suggestions on potential changes for your software. Our QA engineers can also plan, execute, and maintain the QA procedures.
You’ll receive actionable recommendations based purely on your specific case and date. The QA team will analyze the development pipeline and suggest changes based on the best practices and their experience.
Our experts will help you organize the QA process to match the ISTQB standards. You’ll get various aspects covered, including test planning, test case design, test execution, and defect management.
By uncovering the bottlenecks, you’ll be able to optimize the testing time. Testing consultants will define the coverage, write cases or checklists, select devices, etc., to check everything in the least time.
A better testing process means fewer defects. Fewer defects mean less time for fixes, changes, and retesting. Altogether, correcting mistakes in QA setup helps make development cheaper and more efficient.
Fewer defects also mean lower risks for your company. Determining bug severity and priority correctly minimizes bugs in production. It means better usability, fewer unsatisfied users, and higher performance.
Besides requesting a quality assurance consultant, you can opt for specialist reskilling. We offer comprehensive QA and security training programs that equip teams with the necessary knowledge and skills.
Our team specializes in the full scope of quality-related services. We cover a variety of testing types, including accessibility and security, work with a vast range of testing and management tools, and are proficient in a number of business domains. Our quality assurance consultants have years of experience working with different types of software and companies of all sizes. You can be sure to get the expertise you need.
Our team helps businesses create digital products and services of impeccable quality. The software quality assurance consultants support our partners’ ambitions and do everything possible to help them reach their business goals by securing the QA part of the work. With QA Madness, you’ll be able to fully focus on building software instead of testing it.
The QA experts fully integrate into your team from the first day. Over 80% of our specialists are Middle and Senior QA engineers, some of them ISTQB-certified. You can be sure your software is in good hands.
With QA Madness, you get immediate access to numerous specialists with the required expertise. This can include experience with certain types of software, industries, techniques, tools, and soft skills.
Clients often admit they like our team’s communication style. We guarantee quick responses, detailed reports, actionable feedback, and a proactive approach to quality improvement that goes beyond describing bugs.
QA Madness in an ISO-certified company. We understand the importance of safety and confidentiality in development and fully guarantee that. Our team can also cover security assessment and control.
We take a personal approach to each client, focusing on their specific needs. You can select the collaboration option that suits you best, extend the list of requested services over time, and scale the QA team quickly.
QA consultants start by understanding the ins and outs of your product, team, and goals. The team is committed to the deadlines, very cooperative, and does everything to meet and exceed your expectations.
The client was looking for a QA engineer with experience in mobile testing and knowledge of the gaming industry. They had a new and custom platform and needed to set up the QA process from scratch: define the coverage, prepare documentation, and integrate testing into the workflow.
The product was live, but the QA process was chaotic – without a clear flow or software testing specialists involved. The client sought an external audit and process setup so that other team members wouldn’t have to test the platform and severe defects wouldn’t slip to production.
The company needed to expand its QA department rapidly during hypergrowth. They had high standards regarding the candidate requirements and an extensive list of responsibilities for the new team members. The main challenge was getting the right expertise while scaling quickly and smoothly.
QA Madness helps tech companies strengthen their in-house teams by staffing dedicated manual and automated testing experts.
Software quality assurance consultancy covers two aspects: development process review and QA process review. You can request one of them or both, depending on your team’s needs and QA maturity. QA Madness follows QA audit best practices through a seven-stage audit and consulting process where consultants study the product, communicate with the development team, define the audit scope upfront, review test coverage metrics, assess documentation quality, evaluate CI/CD integration, and check how defects, environments, and responsibilities are managed. With project goals and quality expectations in mind, we identify major quality gaps and turn the findings into an actionable remediation roadmap with clear priorities for improving QA processes, reducing risks, and strengthening product quality.
The work always starts with analyzing requirements.
Software test consulting is not an exception. It’s critical to define and describe software requirements according to the standards. Among other things, it’s advisable to separate business and technical aspects in planning. The requirements should fully match the features delivered to the test environment. Otherwise, contradictions will cause unnecessary arguments.
Requirements should be as detailed as possible. This will allow a QA consultant to prepare test documentation while feature development is still in progress. Teams shouldn’t change requirements during development. If they do, it’s necessary to create new tickets with updates. Only very minor things can go unreported.
Reviewing test environments allows for the creation of user-ready products.
It’s essential to have different tech stacks for manual and automated testing. Both should be similar to the production stack as much as possible. The teams should closely mimic not only user behavior but also conditions for exploitation. Setting up proper test environments and delivering the last versions on time makes it possible to get valid feedback.
Feature development is subjective to specific rules.
Quality assurance consultancy includes their optimization. The rules should be defined and stated in a corresponding document. Developers, QA engineers, analysts, and anyone involved in product development can consult it to deliver their part of the work correctly and resolve issues. Also, there should be onboarding materials for new team members.
It’s best to define ticket management rules at the start of the project. Then, team members should fill in the fields correctly and link all tickets related to the same issue. A software testing consultant can help improve report structure, too. Another important thing is communication. It’s essential to answer questions without delays and agree on the priorities for bug fixing.
Software testing can start before there’s any functionality.
It’s more effective to run a requirement analysis before feature development. The earlier you detect a bug, the cheaper it is to fix. It’s possible to find issues during the requirement review. This stage of audit and software test consultancy also entails reviewing the documentation writing process, documentation quality, testing tools, data, and environment.
Regression testing becomes the first candidate for automation.
At this stage, a software QA consultant focuses on how a type of testing is handled. The audit includes analyzing technologies chosen for test automation, manual test cases, automated scripts, execution flow, report generation, and results review. It’s also necessary to review the CI/CD integration.
Slow loading and frequent downtimes endanger software products.
To handle this with QA audit, software testing consultants review the environment for load testing. It should model the same conditions as the production environment. Additionally, there’s a review of performance testing tools and methods, test scenarios and cases, and reports with test results.
Quality assurance is a continuous process.
After running tests, the team should work with the feedback. During the audit, a software quality assurance consultant will look into the number of critical issues in production, the number of blockers and bugs in total detected during testing, etc. Finally, the audit is concluded by production monitoring after the release.
“QA Madness has established a smooth workflow through effective communication. The team is trustworthy, efficient, and hardworking.”
“Thanks to QA Madness’s efforts, we are able to resolve technical issues and keep our platforms optimized and bug-free.”
“QA Madness was seriously professional. They listened to our needs and gave us the kind of work we expected. As a result of their efforts, we can locate a bug in the test environment, which prevents issues from entering production. I would recommend them, 100%.”
"They’ve always been very professional, prompt, and available when we needed them. We’ve never had any issues or needed to go back and teach them how to meet our standards."
"QA Madness has significantly reduced the number of bugs and issues in our final products. They’ve also improved our internal processes."
"QA Madness generated extensive feedback that developers normally can’t see. We could never have gained this insight without their thorough functionality testing services. I appreciated how quickly they conducted testing despite the high volume of work it entails."
"They are an extremely valuable part of our extended team, and I couldn’t ask for more from a project management standpoint. QA Madness team is extremely professional when it comes to sticking to estimates, scopes, and quotes."
QA Madness consultants answer the most common questions about QA audit and consulting services - from what a QA audit covers and what a QA auditor does, to the difference between QA consulting and QA advisory, when to hire an external QA auditor, and what results to expect.
A QA audit service is a structured, documented evaluation of your software product and development processes – comparing current practices against quality standards, ISTQB benchmarks, and business expectations. QA Madness QA audit services cover seven areas: requirements audit, test environment review, feature development process, manual acceptance testing assessment, automated regression testing review, performance testing evaluation, and test results analysis. The output is an actionable improvement plan with prioritized recommendations, not just a list of findings.
A QA auditor is an external specialist who evaluates a company’s software development and testing processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and quality risks. Specifically, a QA auditor reviews test documentation quality, test coverage, defect management practices, tool selection, CI/CD integration, environment configuration, and team communication patterns. QA Madness QA auditors produce structured reports with concrete recommendations – and remain available to support implementation after the audit is delivered.
A QA audit process starts with understanding the product, team workflow, quality goals, and current testing setup. QA Madness then reviews requirements, test environments, documentation, test coverage, automation, CI/CD integration, defect management, and test results. The audit ends with a structured findings report and a remediation roadmap with prioritized recommendations for improving QA processes and reducing product risks.
QA consulting typically refers to hands-on engagement – a consultant who analyzes your processes, identifies problems, and either implements improvements directly or provides a detailed roadmap for your team to follow. QA advisory services refer to a more strategic, ongoing relationship – an external expert who provides guidance on QA strategy, team structure, tooling decisions, and quality maturity over time without necessarily executing the work. QA Madness provides both: one-time audit and consulting engagements and ongoing advisory support depending on what the team needs.
Hire an external QA auditor when your internal team cannot identify why quality problems keep recurring, when you need an unbiased assessment before a major product launch or migration, when critical bugs consistently reach production despite active QA, or when you want to benchmark your current QA maturity against industry standards. Internal teams have blind spots from familiarity with the product and process – an external QA auditor brings objectivity, cross-industry pattern recognition, and ISTQB-aligned evaluation criteria.
QA consultancy and QA consulting company are used interchangeably – both refer to an external organization that provides quality assurance expertise, process evaluation, and improvement recommendations to software development teams. The distinction is primarily linguistic. A QA consultancy may imply a smaller, specialist firm; a QA consulting company may imply broader service coverage. QA Madness operates as both: a specialist QA consultancy with deep testing expertise and a full-service QA company covering audit, consulting, testing, and team augmentation under one roof.
A software QA consulting engagement delivers three categories of output: process improvements (clearer requirements, better test coverage, optimized defect management), team capability improvements (defined roles, documentation standards, toolchain optimization), and product quality improvements (fewer bugs per sprint, fewer critical defects in production, shorter release cycles). QA Madness consulting engagements result in a prioritized, implementable roadmap – not a generic report. Teams typically see measurable reductions in production defects and testing cycle time within the first 1-2 sprints after implementation.
Yes. QA Madness delivers QA audit and consulting services fully remotely to software teams globally. The engagement runs through your existing communication tools (Slack, Jira, Confluence, or equivalent), with structured review sessions, asynchronous documentation analysis, and written deliverables in English. Remote delivery does not reduce audit depth – all seven audit stages are completed regardless of geography. QA Madness operates across 6 global technical offices and has delivered consulting engagements for teams across Europe, the US, and beyond.
Best practices for QA audits include defining a clear audit scope, reviewing test coverage and documentation, assessing automation health, and identifying gaps in QA processes, tools, and workflows. A strong audit should also evaluate defect patterns, release risks, test environments, and team responsibilities before turning findings into a prioritized remediation plan. QA Madness follows this structured approach across audit engagements to help teams improve quality, reduce testing bottlenecks, and plan practical next steps.
QA Madness follows a structured audit methodology: define scope, review test coverage and documentation, assess automation health, identify critical gaps, and deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap with clear next steps.
The cost of a professional QA audit depends on the scope of the assessment, the size and complexity of your software, the number of applications or environments involved, and whether automation, infrastructure, or SDLC processes are included in the review. Larger, organization-wide audits naturally require more effort than focused reviews of a single product or QA process. After a short discovery call, QA Madness provides a tailored proposal based on your specific goals and audit scope.
