Shifting testing left
Challenges forcing companies opt for independent QA providers
Resistance to change
If QA teams aren’t ready to alter their previously established communication frameworks, tech stack, workflows, mindset, or organizational structure (e.g. testing and development teams are siloed), they are likely to fail implementing shift-left testing and risk wasting spent resources.
Issues with new tools
Shortage of efficient management when adjusting existing or implementing and integrating new tools required by the transition to shift-left testing can cause forced downtime, higher maintenance costs, security loopholes, performance degradation, and the need for extra work to cope with integration problems.
Concerns about measuring success
Ineffective assessment of testing progress and lack of accurate metrics (e.g. test coverage, percentage of automated tests, defect detection) can lead to deviation of QA activities from business goals (e.g. boosted time to market), issues with decision-making, lack of understanding the effectiveness of a new approach, and problems with meeting quality gates.
Shortage of expertise
Lack of vital skills, especially those related to automated testing or setting up QA activities in early SDLC stages, can lead to problems with embedding QA early in the development cycle, ensuring sufficient test automation coverage, and providing high software quality.
Problems with early issues resolution
Inability to effectively detect and manage software defects as early as possible can result in a more costly fixing process, occurrence of issues in the production environment, accumulation of technical debt, and concerns with overall quality level.
Rely on a1qa’s spectrum of services for shifting QA left
QA consulting
Our QA consultants help implement this advanced testing approach by analyzing existing development and testing workflows, forming a list of stakeholders, conducting interviews and surveys with your teams, and identifying process gaps. Then, they come up with a unique implementation strategy tailored to your specific project needs and requirements.
Customized training sessions
We conduct tailored, practice-oriented programs for your experts to help them successfully implement a shift-left testing strategy, including test-driven and behavior-driven development approaches, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, specific toolkit, effective collaboration between software testing and development teams, and other priority aspects.
Functional testing
We help you ensure that all the features of your digital solutions operate in line with requirements and contain no defects that can negatively affect user experience. Our QA engineers take part in the project from the requirements stage, prepare test documentation, write tests, and verify every software module to help deliver high-quality solutions at speed.
Cybersecurity testing
We help ensure that security loopholes are identified and mitigated as early as possible to protect your digital solutions from threats before they can have a critical effect on your business. We enable a DevSecOps approach, helping incorporate security verifications (penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, compliance testing) from the start of development activities and proactively address risks.
Documentation services
We create comprehensive test documentation, including technical writing, early in the development and regularly update it to ensure the alignment of QA processes, requirements, and results with shift-left practices. We interact with business analysts and product owners, accurately document requirements, test plans, and test strategy, write test cases and automated scripts, and generate detailed test reports.
Test automation
We help you introduce automated QA workflows from the beginning of the development process to ensure continuous quality assurance, mitigate issues when they are cheaper and easier to fix, and speed QA up. We define scope, strategy, and toolkit, write scripts, set up a CI/CD pipeline and integrate automated tests in it, implement a BDD approach, and establish automated monitoring for early feedback.
Industry-leading toolkit to support shift-left transition
A proven QA partner for global businesses
Why a1qa?
20+ years in QA
We offer a full set of QA services to help companies across 10+ industries ensure high technical health of their digital solutions, speed up testing cycles, and drive down costs.
10+ CoEs and R&Ds
We accumulate industry and technical expertise, foster continuous upskilling of our QA specialists, and craft in-house solutions to enable effective shift-left testing.
1,000 QA experts on board
We provide properly-skilled QA managers, engineers, and architects within 2 weeks and quickly ramp teams up if necessary to close any expertise gap and fully achieve the client’s business goals.
Cutting-edge toolkit
We leverage popular frameworks, tools, and programming languages as well as our own AI-powered testing solutions to establish more efficient and cost-effective QA workflows.
All-inclusive support
We always go the extra mile and support our clients even after the project is over. With tailored QA workshops, we help the customer’s teams independently master established testing solutions.
Continuous improvement
When we see space for enhancement, we leverage every opportunity and implement best practices to optimize QA processes and provide extra value to clients.