Integration & Testing
Quality Woven into Every Sprint
Comprehensive QA and test automation that catches defects where they cost nothing to fix — not in production where every one costs a customer, a compliance incident, or a regulatory finding.
Testing That Ships Confidence, Not Just Coverage
Coverage percentages are a proxy for quality, not a measure of it. A codebase with 90% test coverage and a poorly designed test suite will still fail in production — often in the exact same ways it would have failed with no tests at all. The discipline of testing is about designing tests that actually find the bugs worth finding, before they reach users.
SWA's QA practice builds test strategies from the risk profile of the system — not from a tool preference or a coverage target. We embed testers in delivery teams from sprint one, build automation where it adds ongoing value, and apply manual testing where only a human can validate the outcome. The result is a testing programme that your team trusts to be accurate and fast enough to keep up with your release cadence.
- Test strategy and QA maturity assessment from sprint zero
- Test automation: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, REST Assured
- API and contract testing with Postman, Pact, and k6
- Performance and load testing with JMeter, Gatling, and k6
- Security testing: DAST with OWASP ZAP, SAST tooling in CI, pen test coordination
What We Deliver
Test Strategy & Planning
Risk-based test strategies that prioritise the highest-value tests for your system's failure modes — built before code is written, not assembled from templates after the fact.
Test Automation Engineering
Maintainable automation suites using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or Appium — architected using the Page Object Model or component testing patterns that survive UI changes without constant rework.
API & Integration Testing
Contract testing, consumer-driven contract tests with Pact, API regression suites, and integration environment management — ensuring your service contracts hold up as teams deploy independently.
Performance & Load Testing
Scripted load scenarios in JMeter or Gatling, baseline benchmarking, stress and soak testing, and bottleneck analysis with actionable recommendations — not just reports showing the system breaks at N users.
Security Testing
DAST scanning with OWASP ZAP integrated into CI, SAST tooling (Semgrep, SonarQube), dependency vulnerability monitoring, and structured coordination of external penetration testing engagements.
UAT & Acceptance Support
Business acceptance test scripting, UAT session facilitation, defect triage support, and go/no-go criteria definition — making UAT a structured quality gate, not an informal checkbox.
Why Choose SWA for Integration & Testing
Risk-Driven Test Design
We test against failure modes, not coverage targets. Our strategies prioritise the defects that would actually harm users or the business — not the easiest paths through the application to automate.
Embedded From Sprint Zero
QA is embedded in your delivery team from the start of the project — contributing to acceptance criteria, reviewing designs for testability, and building automation as features are shipped, not after.
Fast Enough to Ship With
We design automation suites that can complete in under 10 minutes for a core smoke suite — so your pipeline doesn't become the bottleneck to your deployment cadence.
Shipping Too Many Bugs to Production?
Start with a QA maturity assessment — we'll identify the gaps in your current strategy and propose a testing programme that improves quality without slowing your team down.