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What Afoxlabs actually does

Six capabilities, deliberately in this order. We start with web and API testing plus automation and CI/CD, because that is where the leverage is for a team that ships often. Performance and AI quality get added when your product needs them.

01

Manual & functional QA

The foundation everything else is built on: knowing what your product is supposed to do, and having it written down.

What it includes

  • Requirement and user-story analysis, with ambiguities raised before code is written
  • Test scenario and case design, versioned and reviewable
  • Functional and regression testing against agreed acceptance criteria
  • Exploratory testing sessions aimed at the areas that changed
  • Release validation and sign-off with evidence attached
  • Defect reports with reproduction steps, environment, logs and severity

What you end up with

A documented, repeatable regression pack — so quality stops living in one person’s memory.

Right for you when

You have no written test cases, or your regression depends on whoever happens to be available.

02

API testing & automation

Where we usually start. API tests are an order of magnitude faster and more stable than UI tests, and most logic regressions surface here first.

What it includes

  • Functional coverage of endpoints, including auth, pagination and error paths
  • Negative and boundary testing — the cases that actually break production
  • Schema and contract validation against OpenAPI or Swagger definitions
  • Data-driven suites covering many input combinations without many tests
  • Integration flows that span several services end to end
  • Test-data setup and teardown so runs stay independent and repeatable

What you end up with

A fast automated suite that runs on every change and finishes in minutes, not hours.

Right for you when

You test through the UI only, or you have an API surface nobody has systematically verified.

03

Playwright UI automation

Browser automation for the journeys that matter — built to stay green for reasons you can trust.

What it includes

  • Playwright suites in TypeScript, structured with page objects and fixtures
  • Coverage prioritised by business risk, not by what is easy to automate
  • Stable locators, explicit waits and isolated data — the three causes of most flakiness
  • Cross-browser runs on Chromium, Firefox and WebKit where it is worth the cost
  • Parallel and sharded execution to keep total runtime sane
  • Traces, screenshots and video on failure so a red build is diagnosable
  • Visual regression checks where the UI is the product

What you end up with

A suite your team believes. When it goes red, people investigate instead of re-running it.

Right for you when

You have no UI automation, or you have a suite that is too flaky to gate a release on.

04

CI/CD quality gates

Tests that only run when someone remembers are not a safety net. Automation earns its cost when it is enforced.

What it includes

  • Suites wired into GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI or your existing pipeline
  • Layered execution: fast checks per pull request, broader on merge, full pack nightly
  • Branch protection and merge gates, with overrides possible but logged
  • Containerised, reproducible test environments
  • Secrets handled through a secrets manager rather than pasted into config
  • Dashboards and reports a non-engineer can actually read
  • Optional synthetic monitoring — the same tests running against production

What you end up with

A release decision made from evidence, in minutes, without a meeting.

Right for you when

Tests exist but are not enforced, or a red build can still reach production.

05

Performance & resilience testing

Added when your product needs it. Usually before a launch, a migration, or a customer who is ten times bigger than your current largest.

What it includes

  • Load, stress and soak scenarios modelled on realistic usage, not round numbers
  • API and endpoint performance profiling under concurrency
  • Baselines you can compare releases against, so drift is visible
  • Bottleneck analysis across application, database and infrastructure
  • JMeter and k6 scripting, integrated into CI where it makes sense
  • Chaos engineering with Gremlin — deliberate fault injection to find what breaks when a dependency fails, not when everything is healthy
  • Results observed through Grafana, so the failure mode is visible rather than inferred

What you end up with

Numbers you can commit to in a sales conversation, an early warning when they move, and evidence of how the system behaves when part of it is broken.

Right for you when

You are about to scale, migrate, answer a procurement questionnaire about performance, or you genuinely do not know what happens when a downstream service goes down.

06

AI-assisted QA & AI product quality

Two distinct things: using AI to make our delivery faster, and testing products that have AI inside them.

What it includes

  • AI-drafted test candidates from requirements and OpenAPI specs, reviewed by an engineer before use
  • Synthetic test-data generation for realistic, non-sensitive datasets
  • Failure triage and probable-root-cause summaries across large runs
  • Flaky-test detection and classification over historical results
  • Change-aware test prioritisation, so the right subset runs first
  • Evaluation harnesses for LLM features: correctness, RAG grounding, tool use, guardrails

What you end up with

Faster delivery on our side, and a real evaluation strategy if AI is part of your product.

Right for you when

You want automation built faster, or you are shipping AI features with no way to test them.

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Scope discipline

What we will not do

A service catalogue that lists everything tells you nothing. These are deliberate exclusions, and we would rather say so here than discover it halfway through an engagement.

Body-shop staffing

We do not place testers on your payroll and hand you the management problem. If that is what you need, a staffing firm will serve you better and cost you less.

Unlimited scope for a fixed fee

Engagements define coverage, release frequency and response times. Genuine growth is welcome — it just goes through change control rather than quietly expanding.

Penetration testing and security certification

We will test authorisation logic, input validation and access control as part of functional work. We are not a security audit firm and will not pretend otherwise.

24×7 on-call from day one

Working hours and response windows are agreed in writing. Promising round-the-clock cover we cannot staff would be the fastest way to fail you.

Not sure which of these you need?

That is what the health check is for. Twelve questions, and you will see which of these six areas is actually your constraint — with a roadmap you can act on whether or not you hire us.

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