Manual, Automation & Performance QA

Quality Assurance & Software Testing

We catch bugs before your users do. Manual QA, end to end automation, performance and security testing delivered by a senior QA team that thinks like your customers and tests like attackers.

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  • Fixed-scope or retainer engagements
  • Teams in Canada and Nigeria

Why teams pick us

QA that prevents incidents, not just files them

Most QA contracts produce great spreadsheets of bugs and not much else. Ours produce a calmer roadmap, fewer rollbacks and engineers who stop dreading release Fridays. We measure ourselves on incident reduction, not ticket count.

70%+

Bugs caught pre release

After 60 days of engagement

<24 hr

Bug triage SLA

On retained engagements

5x

Faster regression cycles

With automation in place

60%

Fewer rollbacks

Median across clients

Why Dafe Software

What you get when you work with us

Senior QA, no script readers

Every QA engineer we send has at least 4 years experience and can write a regression suite, not just check a checklist.

Manual and automated, integrated

Automation covers the boring 80%, humans cover the cases real users care about. We design the split case by case.

Inside your release pipeline

Tests run on every PR, every staging deploy and every release. Failures are caught before merge, not in production.

Performance & load

k6, JMeter and Locust based load tests to validate your system survives Black Friday, an investor demo or a viral post.

Security testing

OWASP Top 10, mobile MASVS, API fuzzing and authenticated tests, run by engineers who think like attackers.

Clear executive reporting

Weekly readouts in plain English. Founders and engineering leads see risk and progress at a glance.

What we deliver

Quality Assurance & Software Testing we ship every quarter

Manual & exploratory QA

Senior testers running structured exploratory sessions on your web and mobile products, catching the issues automation misses.

Test automation

Playwright, Cypress, Detox, Appium and Selenium suites for web, mobile and API testing.

Performance & load testing

Scenario based load tests, stress tests and capacity planning so you know exactly where your system breaks.

Security & penetration testing

OWASP aligned penetration tests, mobile security audits and ongoing API fuzzing with a written report.

QA team augmentation

Embed senior QA engineers into your team on a monthly rolling contract.

Release readiness audits

Fixed price pre launch audits with a clear go/no go recommendation and a fix prioritisation list.

How we work

A process built for shipping, not stalling

1

Audit & strategy

We audit your current test coverage, release pipeline and incident history, then propose a target test pyramid.

2

Quick wins

First 2 weeks: smoke tests for your top user journeys, integrated into your CI. Immediate confidence on every release.

3

Build the safety net

Layered automation, manual exploratory sessions and performance baselines, expanding coverage sprint by sprint.

4

Operate & report

Weekly reports, monthly executive reviews, and a clear quality KPI dashboard you can share with the board.

Tech stack

Tools we lean on for quality assurance & software testing

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PlaywrightCypressDetoxAppiumk6JMeterPostmanBrowserStack

Start the conversation

Two ways to talk to us about your quality assurance & software testing

Send a written brief and we will reply with a real plan, or grab a free 30 minute call on our calendar. Whichever is faster for you.

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  • Senior engineer on the first call, not a sales rep
  • No pressure, no hard sell, no recurring nudges

Project Inquiry

Tell us about the quality bar you want to hit

Share a short brief. A senior QA lead will reply within one business day with a recommended approach, price and timeline.

Min 10 characters. The more detail, the better.

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Common questions

Frequently asked

Can you start before our product is finished?+

Yes. Often the best time to start is right now. We can build the test foundation in parallel with development so quality is engineered in, not bolted on.

Do you replace our QA team or work with them?+

Both. We take on full QA ownership for some clients and augment in house teams for others. We adapt to your structure.

What if we have zero tests today?+

Very common. We start with smoke coverage of your top 5 user journeys, then build out from there. You will see CI green checks inside 2 weeks.

How do you handle confidentiality?+

NDAs, restricted environment access and per engineer audit logs are standard on every engagement.

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