AI-assisted QA automation

Your team is always behind on test automation. It doesn't have to stay that way.

For engineering leaders and QA teams shipping faster than their automation can keep up.

Urgent manual testing keeps pulling your engineers off coverage. We fix that — a structured pipeline where AI does the heavy lifting and your experts sign off at every gate that matters.

// works with your stack
PlaywrightCypressCucumberRobot FrameworkYour stack
elevate-assurance · run.log
● pipeline live
The problem

Sound familiar? It's the same story on every QA team.

Coverage is the first thing to slip when a sprint gets tight — and the hardest thing to catch back up on.

01

Sprints close with zero new coverage

Automation is always the line item that gets cut when there “wasn't time.” Debt compounds, sprint after sprint.

02

Manual regression eats days — and still misses

Days of repetitive clicking before every release, and the edge cases that actually break production slip through anyway.

03

Your best engineers are stuck executing

Senior QA talent running test scripts by hand instead of designing the systems that would make it unnecessary.

The methodology

From requirements to a running test suite. In a day.

Six stages — five AI-driven, two human review gates. Click any stage to see exactly what goes in, what comes out, and what it produces. Nothing reaches your codebase without an expert sign-off.

stage 1 / 8
stage 01 · AI stage

Feature analysis

AI

Takes your inputs — Jira tickets, Figma designs, existing test cases — and produces a structured analysis: what needs testing, where the coverage gaps are, which flows are reusable, and what's still unknown.

inputJira / Figma / test cases
outputFeature analysis doc
feature-analysis.md
# Feature: Checkout — promo codes
 
## Scope
- Apply valid promo → discount reflects in total
- Expired / invalid code → inline error
- Stacking rules → only one code per order
 
## Coverage gaps
! No existing test for currency rounding
! Tax recalculation after discount untested
 
## Open questions
? Can promo apply to already-discounted items?
What it changes

Coverage stops being the thing that slips.

1–2 days
For suitable stories, requirements become a reviewed, runnable suite in days — not the next sprint.
~90 %
Of test-writing time per story can shift to the pipeline. A pilot target for stories in scope.
2 gates
Mandatory human checkpoints before any code is written or shipped.
3 ×
Retry-and-escalate rule: a test that fails three times stops and flags a human.
How we work

Start with an assessment. Scale from there.

A fixed-scope assessment is the lowest-risk first step — and it pays for itself in the roadmap alone. Larger engagements are scoped and quoted after assessment.

QA Automation Assessment
Best first step
Fixed scope1–2 weeksfrom A$4,500 + GST

A full read on your current testing — coverage gaps, automation bottlenecks, release risks, and AI-readiness. Delivered as a concrete report with a prioritised roadmap, not a slide deck.

  • Coverage & risk map — where you're exposed right now
  • Automation debt diagnosis — what's slowing your team down
  • Tool & process recommendations — specific to your stack
  • 30-day remediation roadmap — prioritised and actionable
  • Follow-up walkthrough — we present findings and answer questions
Book an assessment call

Not sure if it's right for you?
Book a call and we'll tell you honestly.

Automation Framework Build
4–8 weeks

A production-grade Playwright / Cypress framework built to your stack — structured, maintainable, and handed over with your team trained on it.

Quoted after assessment
AI Workflow Implementation
6–10 weeks

We embed the full six-stage AI pipeline into your workflow — with human gates wired to your team — so coverage keeps pace on its own.

Quoted after assessment
Fractional QA Lead
Monthly retainer

A senior QA lead embedded part-time — owning strategy, standards and the pipeline so quality has a seat without a full-time hire.

Quoted after assessment
Senior Consultant Day Rate
Per day

Senior hands for a defined stretch — pairing, unblocking, or a focused push on a hard problem.

Quoted after assessment
What you get

What your assessment report includes.

Five concrete deliverables — not a slide deck. Each one is specific to your codebase, your team, and your release pressure.

Current-state coverage map

A clear picture of what's tested, what's not, and where the gaps are highest-risk — mapped against your release cadence.

Auth flows
82%
Checkout
34%
API integrations
51%
Notifications
12%

Automation debt diagnosis

What's slowing your team down — flaky suites, missing abstractions, brittle locators, or framework choices that don't scale.

Flaky12 tests with timing-dependent assertions
BrittleXPath locators across 6 page objects
GapNo contract tests on 3rd-party APIs

Quick wins

Specific, actionable improvements your team can ship in the first 30 days — prioritised by effort vs. risk reduction.

LowReplace 4 XPath selectors with data-test attrs
LowAdd retry logic to flaky network waits
MedExtract shared login flow into a fixture

Tool & architecture recommendation

A specific recommendation for your stack — not a vendor list. Includes framework choice, CI integration, and test data strategy.

FrameworkPlaywright (TypeScript)
CIGitHub Actions — parallel sharding
Test dataFactory pattern + seeded DB fixtures
ReportingAllure + Slack webhook on failure

30-day implementation roadmap

A phased plan your team can act on immediately — with clear owners, sequencing, and success criteria for each step.

Week 1Locator audit & selector migration
Week 2Core login + checkout suite refactor
Week 3CI pipeline integration & parallel runs
Week 4Coverage baseline locked + team walkthrough

// Sample output — anonymised. Your report reflects your actual codebase and team.

Why us

Built by engineers who lived this exact problem.

Built by two senior QA engineers with 20+ years combined experience across test automation, CI pipelines, regulated delivery, and modern web stacks. We built this methodology for our own team — then realised every QA team is fighting the same fire.

Humans own the decisions

AI drafts; your experts approve. Two mandatory gates mean nothing ambiguous ever reaches your codebase.

Adapts to your tools, not ours

We work inside your stack and coding standards — Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Robot Framework, or whatever you run.

Transparent by design

Every stage produces a reviewable artifact. You see the analysis, the scaffold, the locators — never a black box.

Melbourne based
Senior practitioners only
No offshore delivery
Confidential discovery available
20+
Years combined QA engineering experience
Story 1
Coverage work begins from your first engagement story
Any stack
Adapted to your tools & standards
2 gates
Human oversight at every critical point
Contact

Tell us about your QA challenge.

No sales pitch — just a straight conversation about whether we can help, and where we'd start.

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A specific recommendation, not a deck
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