Startup Quality Engineering
Ship with confidence. Without hiring QA yet.
We install a working QA process inside your startup in three weeks: critical-flow testing, release checklists, and one real piece of automation. Led directly by us, not a junior delivery team.
Thirty minutes, no pitch — just a clear look at where your release process is exposed.
Sound familiar?
It happens to almost every fast-growing engineering team.
Your developers ship fast, but nobody's fully sure a release is safe until it's live. One person on the team quietly knows which flows are fragile. Testing happens, but it's ad hoc, done under deadline pressure, not as part of how the team works. None of this means your team is careless. It means the process hasn't caught up with how fast the product is growing.
No one owns 'is this safe to ship?'
Release decisions live in one person's head instead of a documented process.
Testing grew ad hoc.
Some unit tests, some manual checks, no clear picture of what's covered.
Bugs surface in production, not before.
Customers find issues that a defined critical-path check would have caught first.
How the Sprint works
From 'we should fix this' to a process your developers keep using.
Week 1 — Assess
We map your critical user flows, review your current testing and release setup, and identify where the real risk sits.
Week 2 — Design and Build
We define ownership, write your Definition of Done, build your release and defect-triage checklists, and implement one real piece of automation on a critical flow.
Week 3 — Adopt and Handover
We run a working session with your developers, hand over a 90-day roadmap, and make sure the process is something your team owns.
Every Sprint is scoped on a short call, and the timeline doesn't move once we start.
What you get
A working QA process — not just a report.
Critical-Flow Risk Map
We identify the user journeys that would hurt the business most if they broke, and make sure those are covered first.
QA Ownership and Definition of Done
Clear rules for who decides a feature is done, who owns defect triage, and what 'ready to ship' actually means for your team.
Release and Regression Checklist
A practical checklist your team runs before every release. It connects to your existing workflow, not a separate tool to maintain.
One Real Piece of Automation
One critical flow, fully automated and running in your CI pipeline by the end of the Sprint.
AI-Assisted Testing (where it fits)
We use AI to speed up test-scenario generation, coverage analysis, and defect triage wherever it genuinely saves time — for conventional testing and for AI-powered features you're shipping. A person reviews every output.
90-Day Roadmap
A prioritized plan for what to build next: automation, coverage, tooling.
Why not just...
Why not just hire a QA engineer, or use a testing agency?
A first QA hire
A QA hire without a defined process ends up building the process alone, from scratch, while also expected to test.
Generic testing agencies
Bill by the hour to execute test cases against your product. The decision about what's safe to ship stays with your team.
KriyaFlow QA Foundation Sprint
We install the process your future QA hire, or your current developers, will use. Three weeks, start to finish.
Plenty of people can run test scripts against your product. We're built around fixing how your team decides what's safe to ship.
You will work with us directly.
Chamila Ambahera
Co-Founder, QA & Automation Engineering
KriyaFlow AI · 20+ years
Sajitha Pathirana
Co-Founder, Software & Automation Engineering
KriyaFlow AI · 10+ years · Software Testing & QA Training Consultant of the Year 2026
They met building Infor's Testing-as-a-Service platform — the same problem they now solve for startups, at a different scale.
Based in Poland and Portugal. Working with startups worldwide.
What ad hoc QA actually costs
The cost of not having a process is rarely calculated. When it is, it tends to surprise.
DORA defines an elite change failure rate as under 5%, with 0–15% considered a healthy range — teams outside that range are shipping releases that need immediate follow-up fixes far more often than they should.
DORA — Software Delivery Performance Metrics (dora.dev)Capgemini's World Quality Report found global average test-automation maturity has grown to 44%, while 60% of organizations still struggle with secure, scalable test data and 58% cite challenges adopting AI-powered testing tools.
Capgemini — World Quality Report 2025-26JetBrains' State of Developer Ecosystem survey found a large share of developers who write automated tests spend over 20% of their weekly working time on testing-related tasks.
JetBrains — State of Developer Ecosystem ReportStraightforward pricing
One fixed-scope sprint. No surprise invoices.
QA Foundation Sprint
Most common€7,500 (pilot pricing)
- Critical-flow risk map and QA maturity assessment
- Definition of Done and ownership model
- Release and regression checklist
- One real automation implementation
- Developer workshop and handover
- 90-day roadmap
A startup with a live product and active users that needs a real process, not just advice.
Start with a conversation, not a sales pitch.
The QA Risk Scan is thirty minutes. We review your product before we speak, ask the right questions on the call, and give you an honest read on whether this is the right moment to invest in QA process, or whether it can wait.
No sales process. No proposal before a conversation. Just an honest assessment of what's possible.