QA
Functional Testing

Your launch date is set.
Your test coverage isn't.

A tester in your team within a week. Embedded in your sprints or on a scoped engagement, filing bugs your developers can act on.

Functional testing checks that your software does what it's supposed to: correct journeys, correct outputs, correct error handling. We find the bugs while there is still time to fix them, embedded in your team or on a scoped engagement. This is the service spriteCloud was founded on in 2009, and it has run across digital agencies, enterprise platforms, and SaaS products at every stage of delivery.

What it is

End-to-end functional testing and UAT from a team that has done nothing else since 2009.

Functional testing done well requires more than a test plan and a checklist. It requires someone who understands the product, knows where edge cases hide, and can communicate findings in a way that actually gets bugs fixed before the launch window closes.

We work inside your team: joining your stand-up, testing in the same environment your users will, raising blockers in time to act on them. And when you'd rather hand testing over entirely, we scope it as a project with its own test lead.

This is the service spriteCloud was founded on in 2009. Digital agencies, startups on tight deadlines, enterprise UAT programmes at scale: we have run functional testing in every context that exists. That experience shows.

Sprint-based or project-scoped.

Join your sprint cycle or take a defined project scope. Flexible enough for agencies on rolling briefs, structured enough for enterprise programmes.

UAT coordination included.

We run UAT sessions, write the test cases, coordinate business stakeholders, and produce sign-off documentation, not just a test report.

Risk-based coverage, not checklist coverage.

We test the journeys that matter most first. If time runs out, the critical paths are covered.

Bugs filed where your developers work.

JIRA, Linear, GitHub Issues, or whatever your team uses. Findings arrive with enough context to reproduce and fix without a back-and-forth conversation.

What we cover

Six test types. One team that does all of them.

Most projects need a combination, not a different supplier for each type. The six below are the core; smoke, system integration, and UI testing come with the same team. One tester who moves between these without a handoff beats a specialist who does only one.

01
End-to-end testing

Full user journey coverage from the front end down to the database. We test what users actually do, including the paths your developers didn't think about.

02
User acceptance testing

Structured UAT sessions with business stakeholders. Test cases written, sessions facilitated, defects tracked, and sign-off documentation produced from start to finish.

03
Regression testing

Confirming that yesterday's code still works after today's release. Risk-prioritised: we cover the highest-impact journeys first, not the longest list.

04
Exploratory testing

Unscripted investigation of edge cases, unexpected paths, and the things users will do that no one wrote a test case for. This is where experience counts most.

05
Cross-browser & device

Consistent behaviour across the browser and device matrix your users actually use, not just the browsers on your developers' desks.

06
API functional testing

Testing the logic layer directly, not just through the UI. Response validation, error handling, and integration paths that a front-end test won't catch.

What embedded looks like in practice
Joined Monday. Filing a blocking bug by Wednesday. Integrated by end of sprint one.

Embedded delivery means a tester who understands your product well enough to anticipate what breaks, raises blockers in time, and communicates with your developers in the format they already expect.

226+
Clients since 2009

The volume of delivery builds pattern recognition. We have seen most failure modes before.

50+
Specialists

We match the tester to the work: experienced enough to lead UAT, hands-on enough to file tickets your developers can act on. We never sell a junior as a senior.

Avg projects per client

Clients come back. That is the metric that matters more than any satisfaction score.

First month with a spriteCloud tester

W1
Week one

Product onboarding and test design

Understanding the product, the tech stack, and what the riskiest journeys are. First test cases drafted by end of week.

W2
Week two

Sprint integration and first findings

We join the sprint cycle and test new features in the same environment your developers use.

W3
Week three

Regression coverage building

Regression coverage growing sprint by sprint. Blockers caught before demo. Coverage documented.

M1
End of month one

UAT and release sign-off

UAT coordinated, test evidence ready for stakeholders. Release goes out with a documented coverage position.

Amsterdam · Barcelona

We can be testing
before your next sprint starts.

Tell us where you are in the project. Scope, timeline, access: one call covers it.

Talk to our team