QaaS for Finance & Payments
QA as a Service for Confident Releases
A dedicated QA team works inside your sprints. Your named QA Lead coordinates testing, maintains test automation, and provides a go/no-go recommendation before each release.
Start with one workflow over two weeks.
- Named QA Lead
- Embedded in your sprints
- Clear release reporting
- Test assets you own
When Your Team Needs Managed QA
A new payment method, partner API, or last-minute mobile update adds work to your release checklist. Existing workflows still need regression testing to check that changes have not affected them.
When regression testing takes longer, automation becomes difficult to maintain, or release decisions rely on scattered updates, your QA team needs more capacity and clearer reporting.
QaaS is ArhamSoft’s managed QA as a Service. A dedicated team works within your development process, alongside your engineers and existing QA team. A named QA Lead owns test planning and execution, automation, defect reporting, and the go/no-go recommendation before production.
Is QaaS a good fit?
- Your releases are becoming more frequent.
- Regression is taking time away from new development.
- APIs and integrations are adding testing complexity.
- Your QA team needs more capacity or specialist support.
- You need a clearer view of coverage and release readiness.
Testing Coverage Included in QaaS
We combine manual testing and automation from requirements to release. Tests check new functionality and existing workflows, giving your engineers findings they can use to investigate and fix defects.
Functional & Regression Testing
We verify new features against requirements and retest existing customer workflows after changes. Coverage includes business logic, everyday journeys, and edge cases that need closer examination.
API & Integration Testing
We validate REST and SOAP APIs, schemas, boundaries, and error responses, including connections to partner systems and services. Automated pipeline checks help identify integration defects as software changes.
Mobile Application Testing
Test native and hybrid iOS and Android apps across an agreed device and OS matrix, using real devices, emulators, and simulators.
Performance & Load Testing
We test application behavior under sustained demand, traffic spikes, and stress. Results establish baselines, identify bottlenecks, and give your engineers findings to investigate and fix.
Test Automation & CI/CD Integration
Suitable regression scenarios become maintainable, version-controlled, peer-reviewed test suites. Running them in CI/CD provides repeatable checks of existing functionality as your software changes.
Test Management & Release Reporting
Keep requirements, test runs, and defects connected, with coverage visibility, defect status, and a formal go/no-go recommendation from your QA Lead.
Coverage for Critical Payment Workflows
For each agreed payment workflow, we test the transaction across the systems it passes through. Your engineers help define expected behavior and failure paths. Coverage applies to both payment software and transaction-processing platforms, with scope agreed around your product.
Authorizations
Check authorization behavior and API responses against your requirements, including product-specific boundary and negative test cases.
Refunds & Reversals
Test refund and reversal journeys, checking their effect on transaction status and behavior across connected services.
Settlements
Check settlement workflows and their integrations against the behavior defined in your product requirements.
Partner APIs & Integrations
Check API contracts, response handling, and end-to-end integration behavior when partners or endpoints change.
A Named QA Lead With Clear Release Reporting
Throughout the sprint, your QA Lead keeps testing priorities, defects, and release concerns visible to engineering leadership, so your team can address issues as development progresses.
What you receive
- A test strategy aligned with your requirements and product risks.
- Documented test cases and requirement traceability.
- Manual and automated coverage for the agreed scope.
- Defect reports with severity, retest status, and supporting evidence.
- Visibility into regression results and remaining coverage gaps.
- A formal QA go/no-go recommendation before production.
Release reporting shows what passed, unresolved defects, and incomplete coverage. Your QA Lead uses these findings to recommend whether to proceed; engineering leadership makes the final release decision.
Two-week QA Proof of Concept
Try QaaS on One Workflow for Two Weeks
Evaluate the QA Lead, testing approach, automation, and reporting on one workflow of your own product.
- Day 1Pick one workflow, such as card authorization, refunds, or a partner API, and agree on the success criteria.
- Inside your sprintA named QA Lead and one tester build test cases and an automated regression suite.
- End of POCReview the results against the criteria agreed on Day 1.
What the POC delivers
- Coverage for one agreed workflow.
- Documented test cases.
- An automated regression suite running in your CI/CD pipeline.
- A defect report.
- A go/no-go recommendation for one release candidate.
You keep everything built during the POC. There is no obligation to continue.
Discuss Your QA POCRuns in your test or staging environment under NDA.
Ways to Work With Our QA Team
During discovery, we agree the scope, team composition, and delivery priorities around your product and development workload. Choose a POC, ongoing QA ownership, or support for your existing team.
Evaluate One Workflow
Start with the two-week POC on your own product before deciding on anything longer.
Discuss this optionAdd Ongoing QA Ownership
A dedicated QA function in your sprints, with continuous testing, maintained regression coverage, and a consistent view of release readiness.
Discuss this optionStrengthen Your Existing QA Team
Close specific gaps in capacity, automation, API, mobile, or performance testing while your internal team stays involved.
Discuss this optionHow QaaS Works
From your first QA review to ongoing release support.
Review Your Product & Coverage
We discuss your architecture, release process, existing QA setup, and the workflows that need attention, then define the scope and what successful coverage looks like.
Align the Team & Test Environment
We establish QA ownership, agree working practices, and arrange access to the tools and test environment the engagement needs.
Test Inside Your Sprints
Your QA team joins the development workflow, designs and runs tests, reports defects, and builds appropriate automation as the product changes.
Review Readiness & Improve Coverage
Before production, your QA Lead reviews test results, open defects, and coverage gaps to form a release recommendation. Those findings also help define the next testing priorities.
Delivery includes 4 to 5 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern engineering hours.
Testing Tools and CI/CD
We choose testing tools around your application and existing workflow, connecting test execution and reporting with the way your engineers build and release software.
Where useful, AI-assisted tooling supports test authoring and maintenance. Human review and QA Lead accountability remain part of the process.
- Web automation
- Playwright
- Selenium
- Mobile automation
- Appium
- API testing
- Postman
- Rest Assured
- Performance testing
- JMeter
- k6
- Grafana
- Test and defect management
- Jira with Zephyr or Xray
- TestRail
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD integration
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Azure Pipelines
You Own Your Test Assets
- Test cases, automation scripts, and documentation created through QaaS belong to you. This includes work from the POC, whether or not you continue.
- We work under NDA. Production data is not replicated without your written authorization.
- Access requirements and test-environment arrangements are agreed before delivery begins.
QaaS FAQs
About QaaS
QaaS means QA as a Service. ArhamSoft provides a dedicated QA function within your development workflow, led by a named QA Lead. The service includes manual and automated testing, defect reporting, and formal release recommendations for your engineering team.
With QaaS, the service includes ownership of the agreed QA function: planning, coverage, execution, reporting, and release recommendations. Your named QA Lead is accountable for coordinating that work with engineering leadership.
Yes. We can complement your team where capacity, regression depth, automation, or specialist testing needs support. We agree responsibilities during discovery so the teams work toward the same priorities.
The offering focuses on financial software vendors, payment technology companies, credit-card platforms, and transaction-processing operators with active engineering teams. We scope coverage around the APIs, integrations, mobile experiences, and transaction workflows relevant to your product.
QaaS is led by people. Automation and AI-assisted tooling can support repeatable testing, authoring, and maintenance, while your QA Lead remains accountable for coverage, findings, and release recommendations.
Getting Started
A named QA Lead and one tester work on one agreed workflow in your test or staging environment. You receive test cases, an automated regression suite running in your CI/CD pipeline, a defect report, and a go/no-go recommendation for one release candidate. Success criteria are agreed on Day 1.
We review your engineering workflow, release frequency, product complexity, existing QA coverage, and testing priorities. We then agree the team composition, responsibilities, tools, environments, and deliverables in a proposal tailored to your requirements.
No. The POC carries no obligation to enter an ongoing engagement. You retain the test cases, automation scripts, and documentation created during it.
Monthly QaaS plans have a three-month minimum. After that, service continues month to month with 30 days’ notice. The POC carries no obligation to enter a monthly engagement.
We agree the required inputs during scoping. These typically include the selected workflow’s requirements, access to a suitable test environment, approved test data, relevant tools and pipeline access, and an engineering contact for questions and defect review. The delivery schedule is agreed around readiness and scope.
Delivery & Ownership
We support tools including Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Postman, Rest Assured, Jira, TestRail, and Azure DevOps, with pipeline integration through Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure Pipelines. We review your setup before agreeing the implementation.
You own the test cases, scripts, and documentation produced through the engagement. That includes everything built during the POC.
We work under NDA and agree the required access with your team. The POC uses your test or staging environment. Production data is not replicated without your written authorization.
Your QA Lead provides a formal go/no-go recommendation based on the agreed testing scope, results, and unresolved issues. Your engineering leadership retains the final decision to release.
The standard offer covers the testing and release-reporting scope described on this page. Dedicated security testing or certification work should be scoped separately. QaaS provides documented test coverage and release evidence; it does not provide a PCI DSS certification or a compliance guarantee.
The delivery model includes 4 to 5 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern engineering hours. We agree the working schedule and communication arrangements during onboarding.
Let’s Review Your QA Needs
Tell us about your product, release frequency, and testing challenges. We’ll review the coverage you need and discuss whether to start with a two-week QA POC, ongoing QaaS support, or help for your existing QA team.
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