QA Team Effectiveness
Structure, skills, coverage, and throughput of your QA team — where the effort goes versus where the risk lives. A clear-eyed review with concrete recommendations, not a reorg pitch.
The One-Week Quality Evaluation
More Quality guidance in one week than your QA team has provided in a year.
We are OurQA, a boutique software-quality consultancy. We spend one focused week inside your engineering organization and leave you with a year’s worth of clarity: what your quality function actually does, what it costs, where the risk really lives, and exactly what to change.
One week. Six stages. One executive readout your leadership can act on immediately.
What we examine
Four lines of inquiry. One engagement.
Every One-Week Quality Evaluation runs all four in parallel. Each produces findings you can act on without hiring us again.
Business Analysis of Quality
From business needs down to the cost/benefit of the quality systems you already pay for. We identify the gaps, the roadblocks, and the decisions that need executive ownership.
QA Tooling & Stack Evaluation
We evaluate your QA tooling against your actual stack — and our recommendations come with working examples built in your context.
Running code, not slideware.
Anonymous Interviews & Direct Feedback
Confidential interviews across your organization, synthesized into direct feedback for leadership. People tell us what never makes it into a retro.
No individual is identifiable in anything you see — feedback is attributable only in aggregate.
The engagement
How the week runs
Six stages, Monday to Friday. You see everything we produce; nothing is padded to fill time.
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Intake
Scope, access, and the questions that actually matter to you. We agree on what a useful answer looks like before we start looking.
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Evidence
We read the artifacts: test plans, tickets, pipelines, incident history, coverage. What your quality function does — not what it claims.
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Interviews
Confidential conversations across roles and levels, protected by our anonymity protocol. Candor in, aggregate out.
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Tooling spike
We build working examples of the improvements we intend to recommend, in your stack, so the readout demonstrates instead of asserting.
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Synthesis
Findings become a prioritized, costed set of recommendations — each one tied to the evidence behind it.
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Executive readout
A direct briefing for your leadership: what we found, what it is costing you, and what to do first. Delivered in writing and in person.
Who it’s for
CTOs and VPs of Engineering at software companies
The week fits when you recognize yourself here:
- You pay for QA every month but can’t say what you get for it.
- Quality regressed — or plateaued — despite adding headcount or tooling.
- You’re deciding whether to build, buy, or replace parts of your test stack and want evidence before budget.
- You suspect your engineers know exactly what’s wrong, and that it never reaches you intact.
- The board asks about quality and the honest answer is a shrug with charts.
We keep the firm small on purpose. One engagement at a time, our full attention on it. We don’t sell staff augmentation, retainers, or a follow-on transformation program — the week is designed to make you independent of us.
If your situation isn’t a fit, we’ll tell you in the first conversation.
Next step
Talk to us
Tell us about your organization and what prompted the question. We’ll reply with an honest assessment of whether the week fits — and if it doesn’t, we’ll say so.
Email us about the week hello@ourqa.net · a member of the team answers personally