Software Testing
A UK-based software testing team for mid-market enterprises. Functional, performance, security, accessibility and regression testing, automated where it pays back and manual where it does not, delivered by senior SDETs (Software Development Engineers in Test) under ISO 27001 controls.
Free 30-minute test-strategy call · UK senior SDETs · First test results within 14 days
Median automated test coverage on stabilised apps
From kickoff to first regression report
Certified UK test engineers on every shift
Certified information security controls
The pattern we see
Three problems show up in every software testing engagement we replace. If any of these sound familiar, your current release cadence is paying for it.
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Unit tests pass but no one runs the end-to-end suite before deploy. Production incidents become your QA. Customers find the bugs your build did not.
✓
Automated regression suite gating every merge. Median defect-escape rate under 4% within 90 days of engagement start.
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Half the QA team spends two weeks each release running the same manual checks. Velocity drops. Senior testers leave for places that automate.
✓
Test pyramid built: unit + API + UI, with the right ratio. Most clients cut regression time from 2 weeks to under 4 hours.
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Tests fail randomly because data is stale, environments drift, and no one owns the seed scripts. Flaky tests get muted. Quality steadily erodes.
✓
Synthetic + masked-production test data, ephemeral environments, deterministic seed scripts. Flaky-test rate under 1%.
Four core capabilities. One UK QA team.
Automated functional, performance, security and accessibility testing, plus the CI/CD integration to run them on every commit, delivered as one accountable service by UK senior SDETs.
80% automated
Unit + API contract + UI end-to-end, in the right ratio for your stack. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Pact, JUnit, pytest, RSpec.
JMeter + ZAP
k6, JMeter, Gatling for load. OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite for security. Realistic user models, peak-load simulations and guidance per finding.
Every PR
Tests gate every merge in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins. Parallel execution, sharding, smart retries, deterministic seeding.
WCAG 2.2 AA
Coverage dashboards (SonarQube, Codecov), test-trend reports, WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility scans, board-level quality KPIs every sprint.
How we ship a test programme
A predictable three-phase delivery so your release confidence improves measurably from the first sprint, not the third quarter.
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Days 1 – 4
Audit existing test coverage, defect escape rate, flaky test rate, and environment state. Score against industry benchmarks. Agree on the gap and the plan.
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Days 5 – 10
Build the missing layers of the pyramid. Stabilise existing tests. Move regression from manual to gated CI. First report inside 14 days with actionable insights
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Day 11 onwards
Maintain the test suite, triage flaky tests, expand coverage to new features. Quarterly quality review with your engineering leadership.
Why Transputec
Not the cheapest QA outsourcing. Not the largest. But the team that consistently lifts defect-escape, regression time and release confidence in measurable numbers your board will sign off on.
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No offshored manual-only QA. Every engagement led by a UK-based senior SDET with at least 5 years' automation + framework experience.
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Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, RestAssured, Karate, Postman, Pact, JMeter, k6, ZAP. We adopt what you have or recommend what fits your stack.
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Coverage %, defect-escape %, mean-time-to-detect, mean-time-to-fix, flaky-test rate, tracked monthly, reported to engineering leadership.
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Documented runbooks, paired engineering for the first 90 days, exit clause every contract. You own the test estate when you decide to.
Trusted by UK engineering teams
Generative AI platform, security testing
Bespoke business app, functional QA
Legal services, web app testing
Software Development Services
Software testing sits inside our wider Software Development pillar. Most clients combine continuous testing with mobile app development, legacy modernisation, and a UX design programme to keep digital products competitive.
← Back to Software Development ServicesSoftware Testing FAQs
Software testing as a service is a continuous, outsourced programme covering test strategy, automation engineering, CI/CD integration, performance + security + accessibility scans, reporting and ongoing maintenance, delivered by an external team under a fixed monthly fee. Unlike traditional outsourced QA (which is usually manual testers running scripted checks), Software Testing as a Service is automation-first, framework-agnostic and integrated into your developers’ pull-request flow. Transputec’s testing is delivered by UK-based senior SDETs under ISO 27001 controls. For wider context on test cost, read our blog on how penetration testing services reduce cyber risk for SMEs. Our practice aligns with the OWASP ASVS standard.
Functional + E2E: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, TestCafe. API + contract: Postman, RestAssured, Karate, Pact. Mobile: Appium, XCUITest, Espresso. Performance + load: k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust. Security: OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite Professional, Trivy, Snyk. Accessibility: axe-core, Pa11y, Lighthouse, WAVE. CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, CircleCI. We adopt your existing stack or recommend what fits, never force a tooling change for tooling’s sake. Read our deeper take on how DevOps and cloud work together.
UK Software Testing pricing is typically a fixed monthly retainer, with bands by application count and test scope. Single-app maintenance + automation (regression suite, 1 environment, 4-hour suite runtime): £6K-9K per month. Mid-market platform with performance + security + accessibility (3-5 apps, multi-environment, CI gated): £14K-28K per month. Enterprise estate with multi-stack coverage and SDET-as-a-service: bespoke quote. Fixed monthly fee, no day-rate top-ups. For the wider cost framing of cyber risk in untested code, read our blog on penetration testing for AI startups.
Yes. Security testing (DAST + SAST + SCA + dependency scanning) and accessibility testing (WCAG 2.1 + 2.2 AA) are first-class capabilities, not add-ons. DAST uses OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite. SAST uses Semgrep, SonarQube and Snyk Code. Accessibility uses axe-core, Pa11y, Lighthouse and manual screen-reader testing on real assistive tech. See a real security-testing engagement in our generative AI penetration testing case study for Beagle.
We report monthly on six measurable KPIs: automated test coverage %, defect-escape rate (bugs found in production / total bugs), mean-time-to-detect, mean-time-to-fix, flaky-test rate, and regression suite runtime. Each is benchmarked against industry medians and tracked as a trend, not a snapshot. Your engineering leadership and board both get the same report. See a real-client legal-services engagement in our website development case study for the City of London Law Society, and explore the wider Software Development Services pillar.
Software testing is the act of executing tests (unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, security) to find defects and verify behaviour against requirements. QA (Quality Assurance) is the broader discipline of designing processes, environments, gates and metrics that PREVENT defects upstream, code review standards, definition-of-done, test pyramids, CI/CD quality gates and shift-left culture. Modern UK engineering teams treat testing as one tool inside QA, not the whole job. Our service covers both: automated testing across the pyramid plus QA process design tailored to your release cadence.
Ready to lift release confidence?
Free 30-minute test-strategy call. We assess your current coverage, defect-escape rate and regression time, and give you a costed plan to your first stabilised release. No deck. No sales pitch.