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Tested, then shipped.
In that order.

QA software testing services run as a discipline, not a final-week scramble: a written test strategy, automation where it pays back, real devices rather than emulators alone, and a release gate every build must clear. For code we wrote, or code anyone wrote.

Strategy in writing · Real devices · Runs in your CI

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PixelCrayons provides QA and software testing as a service: test strategy, automated suites, manual and real-device passes, and release gates that decide what ships. Every engagement starts with a written, risk-based test strategy; automation runs in your CI, manual testing covers browsers and real devices, and defects are triaged with severity you can trust. We test software built by anyone, not just our own. Direct for brands, white-label for agencies.

The operating record

Judge the record,
not the adjectives.

Outcomes tied to real engagements, not averages.

2004
Established
500+
Agencies served
4,500+
Projects delivered
340%
Revenue growth · 7 months
Client outcome: eCommerce
+127%
Organic traffic · 5 months
Client outcome: SaaS
85%
Faster delivery · backlog cleared
Client outcome: via agency partner
Where the work happens
ShopifyWooCommerceMagentoWordPressWebflowKlaviyoGoogle AdsMeta AdsGA4Next.js
How it starts

From untested
to gated releases.

01
Days 1 to 2

NDA signed, product read

Access granted, the product walked, bug history and support tickets read: the fastest true map of where quality actually leaks.

02
Complete brief

Test strategy and priced proposal

A written, risk-based strategy covering what gets automated, what stays manual and what gates a release, itemised and priced. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm the date you will receive your proposal.

03
Week 1

Highest-risk flows covered first

A smoke suite over the flows that carry revenue, running in your CI, plus the device matrix agreed from your real traffic.

04
Next

First full pass, reported

The first regression and manual pass complete, defects triaged and reported with severity you can trust: the gate is standing.

Inside Prism

Your engagement, week to week,
in one workspace.

Where the engagement includes it, your build runs in a Prism workspace you log into: requests, approvals, the task list and the weekly review, beside the repository your team already owns.

  • 01

    Requests and approvals

    One queue, beside the repository your team owns.

  • 02

    Owned tasks

    Every task has one owner and a date.

  • 03

    Weekly review

    Each decision recorded, with the expectation attached.

In every engagement

What disciplined testing
actually includes.

01

A test strategy in writing

Before a single case is run, we agree what is being tested, how, at which stage and against what risk. It covers which flows carry revenue, which failures are tolerable, what gets automated and what stays manual. And what 'ready to release' means for you. The strategy is a living document your team can read and challenge: testing without one is just clicking around with confidence.

First
02

Automation where it pays back

Automated unit, integration and full user-journey suites built to run in your CI on every merge. Fast, reliable and maintained, because a flaky suite teaches teams to ignore red. The economics are plain: automation is an investment that pays back on repetition. So we tell you which flows are worth automating and which would cost more to maintain than to test by hand.

Every merge
03

Manual testing where machines are blind

Exploratory passes by testers who actively try to break things. Usability checks that scripts can't feel, and the edge cases that live between the requirements. Manual QA is judgement work: a flow that technically passes can still confuse the person paying for it. That gets written up as a reproducible report, not a vague complaint.

Every release
04

Real devices, not just emulators

A browser and device matrix agreed from your actual traffic, then tested on physical hardware. Mid-range Androids on slow connections included, because that is where real users live and where emulators flatter.

Per matrix
05

Release gates and regression discipline

Every release candidate passes a defined gate before it ships: automated checks green, regression suite run, manual pass complete, defects triaged by severity. It is the same QA-gate promise every PixelCrayons build ships through, offered here as a service on its own. The regression suite grows with the product, so what worked last quarter keeps working this one.

Every release
Proof

Quality upstream,
velocity downstream.

Delivery team coordinating a multi-location healthcare website rollout
Healthcare · US
Via agency partner · white-label

Multi-location healthcare: delivery unblocked.

An agency drowning in backlog handed us their delivery queue. Dedicated pod, their brand, their tools: velocity up 85%.

85%
Faster delivery
Cleared
Delivery backlog
Read the full case
Around the testing

QA plugs into
everything that ships.

Testing is a discipline that attaches to other people's work by design. Each neighbour here is a service in its own right, with QA built in, or bought alone.

Need the builders, not just the testers?

QA as a service tests anyone's code, but if what you actually need is a team that builds and tests as one motion, that arrangement exists too, under your brand or ours. The gate travels with the team.

Before you sign

Our commitments

Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.

Response and start times

We typically respond within four business hours. Eligible engagements can typically start within two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed.

Business hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm IST, excluding published company holidays. Typical expectations, not guaranteed service levels.

Full terms

30-Day Corrective Maintenance

Applicable development work includes 30 days of corrective maintenance after production launch.

Development engagements only; not marketing services or retainers.

Full terms

Clear IP & Ownership Terms

Your materials remain yours. Bespoke deliverable rights, licences and handover are agreed before work starts.

All engagements.

Full terms

Clear Delivery & Escalation Ownership

Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.

All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.

Full terms

Questions buyers ask before they commit

How do we know the work will be good?

Every delivery is reviewed before release by QA, your Project or Account Manager and a senior delivery lead, and you then review it against the acceptance criteria agreed at the start. Our specialists use AI to support delivery, with people responsible for reviewing the work. Applicable development work includes 30 days of corrective maintenance after production launch.

Who owns the ad accounts, the data and the work?

Your materials, data and accounts remain yours, and we prefer to work in advertising and analytics accounts you own, with access delegated to our team. Agreed ownership rights in bespoke deliverables transfer under the engagement terms and applicable payment; third-party software and assets keep their licences. We do not withhold customer-owned data or accounts over a payment dispute.

What if we want to stop?

Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.

How will we know what you are doing?

Before work starts we agree how often you get updates, what the reports cover and who sends them. You know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue. For hourly and retainer work, time is recorded in Workstatus, so you can see the time records behind your invoice.

How we handle claims, credentials and your data: group credentials, dated ratings, how case figures are signed off, client permissions and data handling.

Questions

Frequently
asked.

No, and no honest QA software testing company can. Software of any real complexity cannot be exhaustively tested, and anyone promising bug-free delivery is promising something they cannot verify. What we commit to is the process that makes escaped defects rare and survivable: a written risk-based strategy, automated suites on every merge, manual and real-device passes before release, severity triage you can trust, and a release gate that nothing skips. A regression suite on top of that ensures a bug fixed stays fixed. That is a commitment we can put in writing and be held to.

Both, in a ratio that depends on your product, which is what the strategy works out before you commit. Automation excels at repetition: regression checks, integration contracts, the flows you need verified on every single merge. Manual testing excels at judgement: exploratory work, usability, visual quality, the edge cases nobody wrote down. The trap we help you avoid is ideology in either direction: automating everything (expensive to maintain, blind to experience) or hand-testing everything (slow, unrepeatable, morale-sanding). The written strategy states which flows get which treatment and why.

Yes, most QA-as-a-service work is exactly that: code written by your in-house team, another supplier or a developer who has since left. We start with a no-blame read of the product, its bug history and its support tickets. Then we build the strategy around the risks we actually find rather than the ones the original builders assumed. Defect reports come back reproducible: steps, environment, evidence, so your developers spend their time fixing, not deciphering. Independence is the point: a quality assurance software testing company with no stake in the code's reputation reports what is true.

The matrix is agreed from your analytics, not from a standard list: testing browsers your users don't visit with is theatre. Typically that means the current and recent versions of the major browsers across desktop and mobile, plus physical iOS and Android hardware weighted towards what your traffic actually carries. That includes the mid-range Android on a patchy connection that emulators are too polite to simulate. The matrix is written into the strategy and revisited as your traffic shifts.

Inside them. Automated suites are built to run in your CI on every merge (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or what you already have), so the gate is enforced by machinery rather than memory. Defects land in your tracker in your format, reproducible and severity-triaged; testers join your standups where that helps. If your pipeline itself needs building before suites have somewhere to run, that is our DevOps service, and the two engagements dovetail cleanly. The intent throughout is that the testers work as part of your team, not as a report that arrives from outside.

The difference is how the work plugs in. Our testers work as part of your team: suites run in your CI, defects land in your tracker, and testers join your standups where that helps. Every engagement starts with a written, risk-based test strategy your team can read and challenge. The suites are built in your repositories, with IP and ownership terms agreed before work starts.

Your materials, data and accounts remain yours. Agreed ownership rights in bespoke deliverables transfer under the engagement terms and applicable payment; third-party software and assets keep their licences. We do not withhold customer-owned data or accounts over a payment dispute. The suites are built in your repositories and documented. And yes, agencies white-label QA constantly; independent testing is one of the easiest services to add to an agency offer because it attaches to work you already sell. Your brand on the reports, our testers behind them, NDA-backed. We do not approach the clients you introduce to us for direct business. That protection runs through the work and for twelve months after the last assignment for that client ends, and it is written into the agreement.

Put a gate
in front of your releases.

Tell us what you're shipping and what keeps breaking. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm the date you will receive your written test strategy and itemised proposal.

Reply within four business hours (typical) · NDA standard · Clear IP & Ownership Terms

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