QA and Test Automation with Playwright and Cypress
Smart-UI provides manual testing, Playwright and Cypress automation, API testing and regression suites wired into CI. Automated tests can be added to an existing project rather than only to new work. Smart-UI has delivered more than 315 projects since 2018 for clients in the UK, US and Australia.
What testing does Smart-UI provide?
Smart-UI provides manual and exploratory testing, automated end-to-end suites in Playwright and Cypress, API and integration testing, and regression suites wired into a CI pipeline.
Automated tests can be added to an existing project rather than only to new work, starting with the paths where a failure is most expensive.
| Engagement models | Retainer or dedicated QA engineers |
|---|---|
| Typical duration | Ongoing, or fixed-scope audit |
| Team shape | 1-2 QA engineers |
| Stack | Playwright, Cypress, Postman, CI pipelines |
| Markets served | United Kingdom, United States, Australia, European Union |
Playwright, Cypress, and where each earns its place
Playwright for cross-browser end-to-end suites, Cypress where a team already knows it, Postman and REST clients for API coverage, and manual testing for everything a script cannot judge. Suites run in CI on every merge, because a test nobody runs is documentation with a green tick on it.
Core QA Services Ensuring Quality at Every Stage of Development
What a QA engagement covers, from a first manual pass through to a suite that runs on every merge.
Functional Testing
Every feature checked against what it is meant to do, including the paths users take by accident. Findings arrive with steps to reproduce rather than a description of a feeling.
Performance Testing
Load and stress runs against a staging environment that matches production, to find the point where it slows down before a launch day finds it for you.
Security Testing
Authentication, authorisation, input handling and where the keys live. Covers the ordinary failures that actually get exploited, not only the ones with names and logos.
Usability Testing
Whether somebody who has never seen the product can finish the task, which is a different question from whether the feature works.
Regression Testing
The suite that catches what a new feature quietly broke somewhere else. It is the reason automation has usually paid for itself by the third release.
Automation Testing
Playwright and Cypress suites over the flows that must never break, wired into CI so a red build stops a release instead of starting a discussion.
Cross-Browser and Cross-Device Testing
Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge, plus real iOS and Android handsets, because emulators agree with each other far more than actual phones do.
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Running the scenarios your business defined, with your people, so sign-off is against requirements rather than against a demo that went well.
API Testing
Contract, validation and error-path coverage against the API itself, which catches problems days before they surface in an interface.
End-to-End Testing
The whole journey through the real stack: sign up, pay, receive the email, find the record. Where integrations break, and where nobody thinks to look.
Releasing on hope and a quick click-through?
Tell us what breaks most often and how you release. A fixed-price estimate and a plan come back within 48 hours.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We provide manual testing, automated test suites (Playwright, Cypress, Jest), API testing (Postman, REST Assured), performance testing, and basic security audits. We tailor the testing strategy to each project.
Yes. We regularly onboard onto existing codebases to introduce test coverage. We start with a test audit, identify critical paths, and build automated regression suites incrementally without blocking development.
Yes. All our automated tests are built to run in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins). We configure pipelines to run tests on every pull request and block merges on test failure.
We can typically start a QA engagement within one week. We begin with a kick-off call to understand your stack, testing requirements, and risk areas, then provide a testing plan within the first two days.
Send the scope, the deadline and what it has to connect to. A fixed-price estimate and a delivery plan come back within 48 hours, with no obligation to proceed. If it is easier to talk it through first, the numbers below reach the same people.