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QA & Test Automation

Manual Functional & Exploratory Testing

Investigate how an application behaves across normal, unusual and interrupted user journeys.

Manual Functional & Exploratory Testing
Manual Functional & Exploratory Testing: illustrative workflowReview checklistDEMO
UnderstandImplementVerify & handover

Illustrative workflow. No customer records, traffic figures or test results are shown.

A practical view of the work. The agreed scope and verification below define the engagement.
THE WORK

What this engagement can include

This service focuses on manual functional & exploratory testing. We agree the exact platforms, deliverables and acceptance criteria before implementation, so the proposal describes a bounded piece of work.

Test charter and scenario planning

Understand the current setup and agree the decisions this part of the work depends on.

Functional and exploratory sessions

Implement the agreed behavior in a suitable environment and share it for review.

Defect evidence and retest results

Exercise the important paths and document the result, limits and next operating steps.

A POSSIBLE ENGAGEMENT

How this could work in practice

A new onboarding flow is checked with missing fields, expired sessions and users who navigate backward or retry an action.

This is an illustrative scenario, not a claim about a completed client project.

EVIDENCE & HANDOVER

How we check the work

Evidence of explored scenarios, reproducible defects and retest results for the fixes included in the engagement.

What you receive at handover

The agreed implementation or assessment, the relevant verification evidence, known limitations and instructions for the tasks your team will own. Access and source ownership, third-party licenses and any ongoing support are identified in the proposal.

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YOUR INPUT

What we need from you

Requirements or expected behavior, supported environments, test data and access to the relevant user roles.

A named decision maker helps resolve questions, approve the scope and review work at the agreed checkpoints.

THE BOUNDARIES

What we agree separately

Manual testing complements automation rather than exhaustively covering every possible state. The test window and boundaries are defined.

Requirements discovered during the work are reviewed before they are treated as additional deliverables. Timelines and fees follow the approved scope.

YOUR QUESTIONS

Before we get started

What if the requirements are incomplete?

We document assumptions and raise behavior questions during testing. An accountable product owner decides whether an observed behavior is acceptable.

What should we share in the first conversation?

Requirements or expected behavior, supported environments, test data and access to the relevant user roles. If those details are incomplete, start with the problem, the current setup and the outcome you need. We can identify what must be clarified before quoting the work.

How will scope, timing and acceptance be agreed?

We review the requirements and dependencies, propose deliverables and milestones, and define who approves the result. For this engagement, verification includes: Evidence of explored scenarios, reproducible defects and retest results for the fixes included in the engagement.

CONNECTED SERVICES

Need a different part of qa & test automation? These are separate scopes that can be combined when the project requires them.

QA & Test Automation

Start with what needs to work better.

Tell us about your current setup, the problem and any deadlines. We’ll discuss whether this service is the right fit before proposing the work.

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