QA Consulting Services

Cloudester’s QA consultants:
• Identify problems in your QA process
• Work out a mitigation strategy
• Analyze risks and build a risk plan
• Implement QA process
• Improvements
• Check if the changes meet KPIs
• Monitor improvements over time and suggest adjustments

Timing: 10 to 20 Business Days
Pricing: T&M or T&M with cap

Cloudester’s QA consultants:
• Analyze your software architecture and requirements
• Outline test scope, team structure, and tools
• Design test strategy and plan
• Estimate testing time and costs
• Evaluate automation feasibility
• Set up the full QA process
• Ensure alignment with development and release cycles

Timing: 10 to 30 Business Days
Pricing: T&M or T&M with cap

Cloudester’s QA consultants:
• Review your current QA process
• Find bottlenecks and inefficiencies
• Propose an action plan for improvement
• Assess QA maturity (custom/TMMi/TPI models)
• Suggest upgrades for better QA
• Provide a risk-based QA health report

Timing: 7 to 14 Business Days
Pricing: T&M or T&M with cap

Cloudester’s QA or compliance experts:
• Review your QA setup and certification needs
• Clarify compliance requirements (e.g. ISO, HIPAA)
• Evaluate QA practices against regulations
• Advise on improvements
• Build a roadmap to compliance
• Re-check readiness after changes
• Support during actual certification audit if needed

Timing: 15 to 30 Business Days
Pricing: T&M or T&M with cap

Cloudester’s test automation professionals:
• Analyze your software and QA goals
• Perform feasibility study for automation
• Design strategy and select tools
• Recommend scenarios for automation
• Guide framework/tool selection
• Set up data generation
• Integrate CI/CD pipeline
• Train your team on automation maintenance

Timing: 15 to 30 Business Days
Pricing: T&M or T&M with cap

Cloudester’s QA engineers:
• Build tailored test strategy for your software
• Support SaaS, enterprise, microservices, big data, IoT, AI etc.
• Define scope, scenarios, and automation fit
• Recommend test team roles and approach
• Provide tool and timeline guidance
• Ensure test coverage matches user expectations

Timing: 10 to 15 Business Days
Pricing: T&M or T&M with cap

Cloudester’s QA consultants:
• Run in-house training for QA and dev teams
• Ensure clear knowledge transfer
• Explain value and usage of improvements
• Recommend changes to team workflows
• Offer custom training material for ongoing use

Timing: 10 to 15 Business Days
Pricing: T&M or T&M with cap

Cloudester’s QA advisors:
• Offer continuous QA guidance for evolving products
• Review test strategy and suggest improvements regularly
• Support new feature rollouts with QA planning
• Monitor KPIs and recommend refinements
• Keep your team aligned with QA best practices
• Provide monthly QA performance reports
• Act as an extension of your in-house QA leadership

Timing: Ongoing or monthly
Pricing: Monthly retainer or T&M

When your QA is limited to hitting the bare minimum KPIs, without driving real product quality or release confidence.

When bugs escape into production, timelines slip, and QA efforts exceed budget expectations without meaningful results.

When your team lacks experience with complex systems (e.g., microservices, AI, IoT) or modern testing practices like DevOps, automation, or CI/CD pipelines.

When you need expert guidance to prepare for industry audits or meet QA standards like HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, or QA maturity models (TMMi, TPI NEXT).

Early defect detection and the right test strategy help eliminate serious issues before release.

Better test planning, reusable test assets, and performance tracking help keep budgets lean.

We improve speed with automation, shift-left testing, and smart resource allocation.

Strong regression and performance testing minimize bugs during updates and upgrades.

• Tailored QA strategies speed up your delivery pipeline.
• Expert consulting helps you release reliable software faster.

• Right-size your QA team and tools to fit project needs.
• Our consultants eliminate wasteful efforts to maximize ROI.

• Early-stage consulting ensures strong defect prevention practices.
• Ongoing quality audits reduce post-release failures.

• We align QA goals with business and development teams.
• Our consultants build a culture of shared quality ownership.

• Consulting identifies the best cases for automation vs. manual.
• Optimized test plans reduce effort while improving accuracy.

• We guide you through proven QA maturity frameworks.
• Consulting helps establish measurable, scalable QA processes.

• Gap analysis ensures critical functions are fully tested.
• Risk-based consulting focuses on coverage where it matters most.

• Consulting ensures QA aligns with user needs and expectations.
• Higher product quality results in stronger trust and loyalty from end-users.

• We design QA processes that give development teams immediate insights.
• Early feedback allows quicker fixes and smoother release cycles.