Test automation foundations for CI/CD pipelines
Releases stop waiting on manual regression cycles. We build a layered test suite wired into your pipeline, with the ownership standards to grow it — foundations, not full coverage of every legacy system.
An unreliable test suite is worse than no test suite
QA that scales by adding people hits a ceiling: validation depends on long manual cycles and on the few engineers who hold the system in their heads. When automation exists but flakes, red builds get re-run instead of investigated, and the suite quietly stops protecting anything.
Foundations fix the layer, not the count. We agree with your teams what belongs in unit, integration and end-to-end tests, where contract tests guard service boundaries, and how flaky cases get quarantined and fixed rather than muted. The question is not how many tests you have, but which layer each check belongs to — that is what makes defects surface early instead of in production.
The engineering standard this offering builds towards
These are the levels Plain Concepts states for an industrialized SDLC. Where your teams stand today is what the assessment measures.
Deployments via CI/CD pipelines
Automated test coverage
Deployment success rate, fully traceable
Reduction in lead time, commit to production
What the engagement includes
A layered suite your teams trust, the standards to extend it and the pipeline stage that runs it on every merge. Not for teams without a working CI pipeline, and not a replacement for an in-house QA function.
Duration
Agreed after the coverage and stability assessment, then co-delivered with your squads
Team
Test architect plus automation engineers working inside your QA and engineering teams
What we need from you
Repository access, a CI/CD pipeline we can write to, and a named QA owner per squad
What you take away
A layered suite that runs green, the automation standards to extend it, and the merge gate that enforces it
What you take away
- Test strategy document
- Automated suites in CI
- Stabilized existing suite
- Test data and environment setup
Assess your suite before automating more
Two sessions with your QA and engineering leads. You leave with a coverage and stability map and the three fixes that matter most.
Book the coverage assessment