Embedded QA teams that work inside your sprint
Most outsourced QA sits outside your sprint and hands defects back on its own schedule. GoGreenlit embeds a QA engineer directly into your ceremonies, standups, planning, and retros, so testing runs on your team's clock, not a vendor's.
What embedded QA looks like in practice
Not a vendor waiting on a status update, a member of the team who happens to specialize in testing.
- Joins sprint planning, standup, review, and retro like any other engineer on the team
- Gets the same tool access as your developers: repo, CI, and issue tracker, from day one
- Builds real product knowledge sprint over sprint, instead of relearning context every engagement
- Reports coverage and findings in your own standups, not a separate status deck
- Scales up or down with your release cadence, not a fixed headcount line item
Embedded QA vs a testing factory
The difference isn’t effort, it’s whether the person testing your product understands why it was built that way.
A testing factory
- Executes a checklist handed to them, nothing more
- Has no visibility into why a feature was built the way it was
- Reports pass and fail counts, not risk
An embedded QA engineer
- Exercises judgment on what's actually worth testing and why
- Sits in planning, so testing reflects real product context
- Flags process gaps, not just failed test cases
How an embedded engagement starts
- 1
Discovery call
A 30 minute conversation about your stack, release cadence, and where testing is falling through the cracks today.
- 2
Week one ramp
Your engineer gets tool access, reviews the codebase and existing test documentation, and joins their first sprint ceremonies.
- 3
Full sprint participation
By week two, your engineer is writing test cases in planning and executing them alongside development, a full member of the team.
Engagement models
Determined on the discovery call, based on your team size and release cadence, not a fixed package.
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