For teams without dedicated QA
ENTRY DIAGNOSTIC - FIXED EUR 1,500Build Your QA Function
Diagnose your release and quality risks before adding testers, tools or process—then build the smallest effective QA operating model in the right order.
Your engagement path
QA & Release Risk Diagnostic
Independent assessment with clear findings and a prioritized 90-day roadmap.
Fixed price: €1,500Quality Operating Model Sprint
Build the capability, followed by optional Ongoing Quality Advisor support.
The question this service answers
Do we need QA now—and if we do, what should we actually build?
Developer-led testing may have been enough at an earlier stage. Now regression is becoming painful, customer-reported defects are increasing, or releases carry more risk. Yet immediately hiring several testers could create the wrong operating model.
The engagement begins with a QA & Release Risk Diagnostic across your product and engineering system. You receive a clear assessment and prioritized 90-day roadmap before deciding whether to build anything with me.
The answer may include a QA hire. It may instead be better engineering practices, clearer ownership and more targeted automation before a dedicated QA department exists.
The diagnostic
The whole quality system—not only test execution.
The assessment connects product risk, engineering practices, delivery flow and organization design before recommending new QA activity.
Development lifecycle
How work moves from idea and implementation through release and operation.
Developer testing
Current unit, integration and end-to-end practices and where gaps matter.
Release and regression
How the team builds confidence today and where releases become slow or risky.
Defects and incidents
Patterns in customer-reported issues and production failures.
Critical journeys
The workflows where failure carries the greatest customer or business impact.
Quality ownership
Who makes quality decisions now and where accountability is unclear.
What you receive
Four decisions your team can act on.
Risk Diagnostic
A clear view of the quality and release risks, weaknesses and opportunities in the current development process.
Quality Strategy
What should be tested, where, by whom and where automation provides meaningful value.
90-Day Quality Roadmap
A prioritized implementation sequence—not a large list of theoretical improvements.
QA Organization Recommendation
Whether you need dedicated QA yet, what the first hire should look like and how the capability should evolve.
The service path
Diagnose, build, then retain support only if you need it.
QA & Release Risk Diagnostic
I assess the current system and deliver the risks, target operating model and prioritized 90-day roadmap.
Quality Operating Model Sprint
If you want implementation support, I help establish the ownership, practices, metrics, automation priorities and hiring plan.
Ongoing Quality Advisor
Retain senior QA judgment for reviews, difficult trade-offs and continued evolution without creating permanent dependency.
What this is
- An objective decision about the QA capability you need
- A risk-led quality and automation strategy
- A practical roadmap connected to your current stage
- A foundation for hiring the right QA profile
What this is not
- A generic QA maturity presentation
- An automatic recommendation to hire more testers
- Thousands of test cases or unnecessary process
- A permanent replacement for internal ownership
Build the quality capability before you build the department.
Start with a focused view of the release and quality risks your organization actually needs to solve.