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Build the QA foundations Qualyn will score
Qualyn reads the signals your pipeline produces. If there aren't many yet, you don't need a score first: you need a senior QA engineer to set up the quality domain, build the first gates and get real signals flowing. That's the testology half of the same team.
The gap between you and a useful score
If you've clicked through from qualyn.ai, you've probably spotted the honest problem with any release confidence score: it's only as good as the evidence feeding it. Qualyn reads pull requests, test results, coverage and security findings from GitHub. Point it at a repository with 40 tests, no coverage reporting and a release process that lives in one person's head, and it will faithfully report what you already suspect. Before a score can help, something has to produce evidence worth scoring.
That something is a working quality domain, and none of it starts with a tool purchase. A written checklist of the user journeys that must never break. Severity rules agreed before a deadline, so a cosmetic bug can't block a launch and a broken payment flow can't be argued into “known issue”. One place where bugs live, with reproduction steps, whether that's Jira, Linear or GitHub Issues. And a definition of “ready to release” that two different people can apply and reach the same answer. Deliberately small: one page your team will actually follow when a deadline is close.
Then come the gates. A gate is simply a check that's allowed to stop a release: the checkout tests must pass, the open severity-1 count must be zero, the crash rate on the last build must be known. Early on we run them by hand from the checklist. As each one proves stable we automate it, typically Playwright for browser journeys and API checks wired into CI, so every release produces test results and coverage without anyone compiling a report at 6pm. Automation earns its place gate by gate; automating a process that hasn't settled just produces flaky tests faster.
That output is exactly what Qualyn consumes. Once your pipeline generates real signals, connecting it takes minutes, and the 0–100 score finally has something to say: which signals moved it, what would raise it, whether this release is a ship, a review or a hold. We stay through your first few scored releases to calibrate the gates against what actually happens in production. And if you decide Qualyn isn't for you, nothing is wasted; none of what we set up is Qualyn-specific.
How we get you there
Assess
We read how you actually ship: repositories, CI, test counts, and how the last three releases went out. You get an honest gap map, including anything you should not pay us to fix.
Foundations
Critical journeys written down, severity rules agreed, a bug workflow with reproduction steps, and a release checklist a new starter could follow.
Gates
The checks allowed to stop a release, run by hand first, then automated in CI with Playwright and API tests as each one proves stable.
Connect Qualyn
With real signals flowing, we connect your repositories, map the gates to score signals and calibrate through your first scored releases.
What you end up with
Release checklist
One page of the user journeys that must never break, ranked by risk, owned by your team after handover.
Severity rules
Agreed definitions of what blocks a release and what ships as a known issue, decided before deadline pressure, not during it.
Bug workflow
Bugs in one place, whether that's Jira, Linear or GitHub Issues, with reproduction steps developers don't have to chase.
Tests in CI
A lean automation pack for your stable, high-risk flows, producing the test results and coverage Qualyn reads.
Exploratory testing
Human hours spent where automation is blind: new features, odd devices, and the paths real users actually take.
Qualyn onboarding
Repositories connected, gates mapped to score signals, and support through your first few scored releases.
Frequently asked questions
Do we need QA foundations before using Qualyn?
Only if the signals aren't there yet. Qualyn scores the evidence your pipeline produces: test results, coverage, security findings and pull request risk. If your CI already runs tests you trust, connect Qualyn today and skip this page. If a score today would mostly reflect missing signals, foundations first is the cheaper order.
How long does it take to become Qualyn-ready?
Weeks, not months, for most startups. Critical journeys and severity rules are usually agreed within the first two weeks, the first automated gates land in CI within a month, and then it takes a few release cycles for the process to bed in. Release frequency matters more than team size, because every release is a rehearsal.
Can testology run our QA while we adopt Qualyn?
Yes, and that's the usual shape. Our engineers do the testing and build the gates, your team keeps shipping, and Qualyn becomes the shared view of release risk. Over time we hand over as much of it as you want to own in-house, or keep running it as your outsourced QA team.
How is this different from your Setup QA Process service?
It's the same foundations work with a destination attached: everything is scoped so the output lands in the signals Qualyn scores, and the engagement ends with your repositories connected and the score calibrated. If you never switch Qualyn on, everything we set up still works on its own.
What if the team stops following the process after you leave?
It happens, and it's usually a scoping failure rather than a discipline failure: a process that gets skipped under pressure was too big. We'd rather cut a checklist in half than watch it be ignored, and the support period exists precisely to catch this before handover.
Start where you are
Tell us what you ship and how releases go out today. We'll tell you honestly whether you need foundations first, or whether you should simply connect Qualyn. Either way: we find it before your users do.