Test automation
Rely on automated testing to:
Save effort and time on high-volume testing activities
Enhance the breadth of in-house testing capabilities without hiring extra human resources
Eliminate human error in high-risk QA processes
Get fast feedback of the software quality at any environment
The benefits of testing automation for your SDLC
Acceleration
Automation facilitates shifting quality assurance left and uncovering critical bugs faster and earlier in the SDLC.
Testing cycle optimization
By automating repetitive and time-consuming test cases, teams reduce bottlenecks and make Agile practices like iterative development more efficient and scalable.
DevOps transformation
Automation enables setting up a continuous testing environment, which is an inherent part of DevOps.
Granular quality assessment
We embed quality gates into the testing life cycle, ensuring top-tier verification. Test automation then enables you to attain these gates with greater speed and precision.
Competitive edge
Automation is rapidly replacing manual and model-based QA, becoming an essential requirement in any competitive software development project.
Implementation of automated testing helped decrease manual resources and more quickly receive status on the quality health of the applications due to more frequent test launches.
Testing automation by types
Functionality
Rely on the a1qa engineers to develop an efficient solution for automating laborious smoke testing and continuous evaluation of the developed software against established functional requirements.
Performance
When in need of an exhaustive assessment of your software’s operational stability under an array of ordinary and extreme conditions, turn to a1qa for performance testing automation. To help you easily detect bottlenecks and limitations, we’ll devise a framework for streamlining:
- Load testing
- Stress testing
- Endurance testing
Integration
Involve the a1qa specialists at the early development stages to set up an automated testing system that uncovers faults and bottlenecks in interactions between system modules, components, third-party tools, and other elements.
Security
If you are looking to speed up security QA workflows without compromising the quality and scope of the analysis, a1qa can upgrade your CI/CD pipeline with an automated security testing framework. We streamline the following cybersecurity testing activities with automation:
- Vulnerability scanning
- Penetration testing
- Compliance testing
- Static code analysis
Multi-platform operation
When you need to verify the end-product’s uniform look and feel and seamless performance across a multitude of operating conditions, a1qa offers to automate this labor-intensive process with proven tools and practices. Our QA automation team provides for:
- Cross-browser testing
- Cross-platform testing
- Cross-device testing
How we future proof our test automation processes
We apply advanced test automation practices to ensure our clients gain maximum value in both quality and delivery speed.
A rich ecosystem of testing tools
We leverage a wide spectrum of modern, industry-leading tools — including Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, and more — to ensure seamless testing across web, mobile, and hybrid applications. Using them allows us to build scalable, maintainable, and high-performance test automation solutions that align with your product’s complexity, architecture, development pace, technology stack, and business goals.
Intelligent automation through AI and ML
Using AI/ML tools for building our automation workflows, we go beyond traditional testing, generating smart, context-aware test scenarios, and interpreting outcomes with greater precision. This approach accelerates delivery cycles, minimizes manual overhead, and empowers teams with deeper quality insights at every stage of development. For instance, using GitHub Copilot, we helped an online game developer decrease development time of an automated test by 28%, saving 788 hours in a nine-month span.
High QA robustness due to adaptive self-healing
Our automation frameworks support advanced self-healing capabilities, allowing tests to automatically detect and adapt to common UI changes, such as modified element locators or layout shifts, without manual intervention. This not only ensures greater test execution stability and resilience, but also significantly reduces maintenance effort and minimizes delays in the development pipeline.
Continuous integration and delivery support
We seamlessly integrate automated tests into your CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster feedback loops, earlier and more accurate defect detection, and more reliable deployments. Such integration ensures that quality checks are continuous and consistent across environments, reducing risks, boosting confidence, and accelerating delivery without compromising stability. Namely, after creating a tailored test automation solution with a1qa’s proprietary framework and configuring CI pipelines, we helped a Japanese IT service provider reduce regression testing time by 22.5X.
Tailored testing solutions
We assemble flexible test automation frameworks using a broad set of proven tools and create turn-key solutions, such as AI-driven test cases creation, a framework for testing with an industrial collaborative robot, solutions for image-based QA, to match your project’s unique needs. As a result, you get a tailored system that accelerates your time to market, reduces your technical debt, and ensures long-term maintainability of your automation assets. For example, by relying on a1qa’s in-house AI-driven test automation framework, a provider of consumer and commercial automotive services sped up regression testing time by 50%.
Usage of tried-and-true testing practices
We apply best practices like behavior-driven development, data-driven testing, Page Object Model, and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, alongside language-specific coding standards. These approaches help ensure business-readable, maintainable tests with improved coverage and reusability. By promoting better cross-team collaboration and enabling earlier detection of issues, we accelerate delivery, trim costs, and improve software outcomes.
Supporting both codeless and code-driven testing
Test automation isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. Some teams benefit from visual, codeless tools that simplify test creation and reduce the learning curve, while others require full-code frameworks to meet complex integration or customization needs.
We can cater to both groups, assessing your team’s technical strengths, release cadence, and product complexity to design a suitable test automation strategy that fits, whether you’re building tests with drag-and-drop logic or writing them in code.
These are the key milestones of our refined QA automation roadmap:
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Automation scope definition
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Tool selection
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Framework implementation
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Environment configuration
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Test data preparation
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Test script development
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Test run and result analysis
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Automated test support and monitoring
Test automation consulting
What it is
Our team interviews your key stakeholders to outline the target automation scope and desired transformation outcomes. We also explore your current testing workflow to recognize opportunities for automation.
What you get
We work out a set of processes and tools, which are most suitable for testing automation in your particular case, and deliver a roadmap of your QA automation journey.
What comes next
At the final stage of our test automation consulting services, you can choose to proceed with any of the three engagement models:
- The a1qa team takes full control over your testing automation and trains your staff to operate QA automation tools and write effective scripts.
- After you set up your automated testing workflow, we oversee its performance and mitigate any arising issues.
- Our testing engineers augment your in-house team and share the automation implementation workload the way you see fit.
Our toolkit
The outcomes of test automation
Reduced software TCO
Shortened time to market
Enhanced user experience
Optimized testing workloads
Expanded test coverage
Increased QA efficiency
Frequently asked questions
a1qa automates testing for web, desktop, and mobile software applications, helping validate their functionality, performance, integration, security, and multi-platform operation.
Our team approaches QA automation with a strategic mindset. Each project begins with an in-depth review of the system architecture, the project’s release cycles, and business-critical workflows. Based on this, we outline which tests bring the most value when automated and define realistic coverage goals.
We select tools and frameworks based on the project’s tech stack, team expertise, and integration needs. We configure environments and prepare reliable, context-specific test data to avoid redundant tests. Integrated into CI/CD pipelines, our tailored testing solutions deliver quick feedback and adapt alongside the product through continuous refinement.
Companies should choose automated testing to eliminate human error in high-risk QA processes, extend their in-house testing capabilities without additional hiring, and swiftly detect and resolve software issues, ultimately ensuring higher software quality and reliability.
Post-consultation, a1qa offers three engagement models: full control over testing automation with staff training, ongoing testing automation oversight and issue resolution after initial workflow setup, or augmentation of your existing QA team with a1qa specialists that handle a part of the testing automation workload.