A deep-dive audit of your test coverage, automation framework health, CI/CD integration, and team practices — with a prioritised improvement roadmap showing exactly what to fix and in what order.
QA programmes degrade gradually — tests become flaky, coverage gaps accumulate, automation frameworks become unmaintainable, and CI/CD pipelines develop workarounds nobody documented. An audit reveals the current state clearly.
Signs your QA programme needs an audit: Bugs are reaching production despite a large test suite. Your CI/CD builds are frequently red for reasons that aren't real failures. Developers have learned to ignore test results. Onboarding a new QA engineer takes months because nothing is documented. Test execution time has grown so long that developers avoid running the full suite locally. Any one of these symptoms indicates systemic QA health problems that an audit can diagnose and quantify.
At 360 Fahrenheit, our QA audits are structured, evidence-based reviews — we look at your actual test code, actual defect data, actual CI/CD pipeline configuration, and actual team workflows, not self-reported surveys. We produce a written audit report with every finding supported by specific evidence and a prioritised remediation roadmap showing which improvements will have the greatest impact in the shortest time.
We deliver QA audits to software organisations across Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the United States — at any stage of their quality journey, from teams establishing their first automated testing practice to mature organisations troubleshooting why their extensive test suite isn't preventing production incidents.
Our QA audit covers eight critical dimensions — giving you a complete picture of your quality programme's health across every layer.
Coverage by feature, risk tier, and test type. Gap analysis against your application's critical paths and business rules.
Code quality, maintainability, design pattern adherence, selector stability, and flakiness rate analysis.
Pipeline configuration, trigger strategy, quality gate effectiveness, parallel execution, and reporting quality.
Defect escape rates, defect distribution by type and severity, time-to-detect, and trend analysis over releases.
Test creation process, code review practices for tests, documentation quality, and knowledge distribution across the team.
Tool fitness for current needs, licensing and support status, integration quality, and upgrade path assessment.
Test planning cadence, entry/exit criteria usage, release gating process, and quality metrics tracking.
Whether the right metrics are being measured, baseline availability, target-setting, and reporting to leadership.
A detailed written report covering every audit dimension with specific findings, evidence, severity ratings, and root cause analysis. Every finding is documented with enough detail for your engineering team to understand exactly what the problem is and why it matters — not vague observations that require further investigation to act on.
A phased remediation roadmap prioritised by the impact-to-effort ratio of each improvement — identifying the quick wins that deliver significant improvement in 1–2 weeks alongside the strategic investments that require 1–3 months. Your team can start acting on audit findings the day after the report is delivered.
A detailed mapping of your application's critical user journeys and business rules against your existing test coverage — showing exactly which features have no test coverage, which are inadequately covered, and which are over-covered relative to their risk. Coverage gaps are ranked by business impact so your team prioritises the right areas to close first.
A quantified health assessment of your automation framework — measuring flakiness rate, maintainability score, design pattern adherence, selector quality, and code duplication. A scored assessment gives your team a baseline to measure improvement against after implementing remediation recommendations.
A curated list of the highest-impact improvements your team can implement immediately — typically 5–10 specific changes that meaningfully improve QA programme quality within two weeks. Quick wins build momentum for larger improvements and demonstrate the value of the audit investment to engineering leadership rapidly.
We present audit findings to your engineering team and leadership in a structured working session — explaining the evidence behind each finding, answering technical questions, and facilitating discussion about remediation priorities. The presentation ensures findings are understood and owned by your team, not just read and filed.
We agree the audit scope and obtain read access to your test repository, CI/CD platform, defect tracker, and any relevant documentation. We set up access to your application in a non-production environment for coverage analysis. Clear scope prevents scope creep and ensures the audit focuses on your highest-priority areas.
We analyse your test codebase — reviewing framework architecture, test code quality, selector patterns, configuration management, and CI/CD pipeline configuration. We extract defect escape data from your tracker, CI/CD build history, and test execution metrics. Technical evidence collection takes 3–5 days depending on codebase size.
We conduct structured interviews with QA engineers, developers, and engineering managers — gathering perspective on pain points, process challenges, and priority areas from the people closest to the work. Technical data tells us what is happening; stakeholder interviews tell us why and what the team has already tried.
We synthesise technical findings and stakeholder input into a structured audit report — identifying root causes rather than symptoms, connecting individual findings to systemic patterns, and prioritising recommendations by impact. This phase typically takes 3–5 days to produce a rigorous, evidence-based report rather than a superficial checklist.
We present findings and the improvement roadmap to your team. We remain available for questions during the first month of implementation and offer follow-on consulting support if your team needs assistance executing specific roadmap items.
A comprehensive QA audit covering all eight dimensions typically takes 2–3 weeks — 1 week for data collection and technical review, 1 week for analysis and report writing, and a presentation session at the end. Focused audits covering specific dimensions (framework health only, or coverage analysis only) can be completed in 1 week.
We need read-only access to your test code repository, CI/CD platform (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), defect tracking system (Jira, Azure DevOps), and your application in a non-production environment. We do not need write access to any systems. All access is revoked at the end of the engagement. We sign NDAs before beginning audit work.
A QA audit is a specific, time-boxed diagnostic engagement — assessing your current state, identifying problems, and producing a prioritised remediation roadmap. It is the diagnostic phase. QA consulting typically follows an audit — it is the ongoing advisory and implementation support that helps you execute the audit's recommendations. Many clients start with an audit to establish a clear picture of where they are before committing to a longer consulting engagement.
Yes. 360 Fahrenheit is based in Lahore, Pakistan and delivers QA audits fully remotely to clients across Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the United States. All technical review is conducted against your repositories and systems via standard remote access. Stakeholder interviews and the findings presentation are conducted via video call.