Quality systems that outlast the engagement.
We act as your Fractional QA Lead to diagnose process gaps, design the strategy, and build automation architecture — then hand it over to your team, fully capable of running it independently.
You don't need to rent a QA Lead indefinitely. You need a solid foundation.
30 minutes · No NDA · No commitment
Sound familiar?
Many engineering teams reach a breaking point where testing bottlenecks every release — or worse, critical bugs consistently slip through to production. The common solution is to hire an external consultant on a permanent retainer. But that just replaces a process problem with a dependency problem.
Every deployment requires hours of hand-crafted verification. Your developers wait instead of building.
Clients discover issues before your team does. The cost of a bug in production is far higher than catching it in QA.
Testing is ad-hoc, undocumented, and depends on whoever has time — not on a repeatable, reliable process.
Hiring a full-time QA Manager means months of recruitment and a permanent salary. There is a better path.
Our approach
Every engagement is designed to be temporary by nature — and leave you with permanent capabilities. We act as your Fractional QA Lead, build the system, train your team, and hand it over.
We begin with a deep dive into your current state — deployment pipeline, team skills, and business risk areas. Through Risk Storming workshops and process review, we produce a concrete QA roadmap.
We design and implement a robust testing architecture using Robot Framework, integrate it into your CI/CD pipeline, and establish quality gates so every commit is verified automatically.
A framework is only as good as the team running it. We provide targeted training and mentorship so your developers and internal QA staff can maintain, extend, and own the system independently.
What we deliver
Comprehensive quality assurance solutions tailored to your organisation's needs — from strategic leadership to hands-on automation.
Strategic QA direction on a part-time basis — process design, quality gates, metrics, and team mentoring without the cost of a full-time hire.
A comprehensive review of your current testing processes, tooling, and coverage — resulting in a prioritised, actionable 90-day improvement plan.
Design and implementation of robust Robot Framework testing architectures tailored to your technology stack, integrated into CI/CD from day one.
Collaborative workshops to identify, assess, and prioritise testing risks across your software development lifecycle — before they reach production.
Strategic planning and implementation of continuous integration pipelines with quality gates, ensuring automated testing is a first-class part of your delivery process.
Hands-on training sessions covering Robot Framework, modern test automation best practices, and quality engineering thinking — so your team owns the system long-term.
Who we are
SQA is a software quality assurance consultancy built on a single conviction: the best QA systems are the ones owned by the teams building the software.
We work with engineering teams to diagnose process gaps, design quality strategies, and build scalable automation architectures — with the explicit goal of handing everything over. Our engagements are designed to be temporary. The capability we leave behind is permanent.
Founded by Adam Hepner, a specialist in Robot Framework and software quality engineering, SQA combines deep technical expertise with a strategic, leadership-level perspective. Whether you need a Fractional QA Lead to bring order to a chaotic process, a complete automation architecture built from scratch, or a team trained to think like quality engineers — we deliver solutions that outlast the engagement.
Our goal is not to become a permanent fixture on your payroll. Our goal is to build something robust, train your team to run it, and step away knowing your software quality is in capable hands — yours.
Let's talk about your current setup and whether we're the right fit. 30 minutes, no NDA, no commitment.
Come prepared to share your biggest QA challenge. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help — and what that would look like in practice.
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