40%
faster time to market
27h
saved per month
$1550
saved per month in QA costs
Challenge
Konsultfaktura, a company providing self-employment services, has seen rapid growth over the past few years. With a user base exceeding a thousand freelancers and an annual turnover projected at 20 million SEK, maintaining high-quality operations while managing costs, with a lean team, has been a significant challenge. Previously reliant on expensive consultants for QA testing, Konsultfaktura was searching for a more efficient and cost-effective solution.
Before using QA.tech
- On average $60 per hour on external consultants.
- Time spent on testing per month: 30h
- QA cost per month: $1,800
Since using QA.tech
- 40% faster time to market
- Time spent on testing per month: 3h
- Hours saved per month: 27h
- QA cost per month: $250
Challenges
Konsultfaktura’s core platform was built with a focus on streamlined processes, ensuring that freelancers could easily manage their invoices and client interactions. However, QA was a persistent challenge. The company relied heavily on external consultants through Upwork and partners such as Proxify, to handle the bulk of testing and bug fixes. This approach, while thorough, became costly and cumbersome over time, with external consultants averaging 30 hours of work per month.
“It’s been very easy to integrate QA.tech’s platform into our workflow. The AI detects and suggests tests that we haven’t even thought of before, which is quite impressive.”
“Each update required an intensive review process. Even small changes meant days of coordination and testing. And when something broke, fixing it would often cause something else to break. It was a never-ending loop,” recalls Dawid Borowiec, CEO at Konsultfaktura. “It slowed down our development pace and impacted how quickly we could roll out improvements.”
Konsultfaktura’s application is built on Fortnox as its foundation, ensuring smooth financial processes and enabling self-employed users to manage their work, create invoices, send them out, and add their clients. However, whenever Fortnox would update its software, it led to compatibility issues that demanded immediate attention, which escalated both time and expenses. The limitations of relying on traditional testing methods created bottlenecks that restricted the company’s ability to scale effectively and build new features.
Solution
Konsultfaktura decided to incorporate QA.tech into its development workflow, to utilize the platform’s AI-powered end-to-end testing capabilities. The move provided a dual advantage: reduced dependency on costly consulting hours and enhanced test coverage with minimal manual intervention.
“It’s been very easy to integrate QA.tech’s platform into our workflow. The AI detects and suggests tests that we haven’t even thought of before, which is quite impressive.” says Dawid Borowiec.
“We went from quite long, drawn-out testing cycles with consultants to a quick, streamlined, in-house QA process that we can manage ourselves. This has allowed us to shift focus on scaling and improving the product.”
QA.tech’s dynamic AI agent mimics real user behavior, allowing Konsultfaktura to automate repetitive testing scenarios and address potential vulnerabilities faster. The platform’s user-friendly interface has enabled Konsultfaktura’s lean team to easily oversee QA processes in-house without needing deep technical expertise or using expensive consultants for manual testing.
“The reduction in QA costs was immediate. We’ve been able to reinvest those savings into client-focused improvements and new feature development.”
Result
QA.tech has made testing easier for Konsultfaktura, reducing the burden on their team. Automated processes have allowed for quick identification and resolution of issues without disrupting ongoing operations. Compared to the previous reliance on external consultants, Konsultfaktura has cut manual QA costs by nearly 90%. Additionally, the company has reduced the turnaround time for implementing updates and bug fixes by 50%, ensuring that they’ve stayed responsive to changes in integrated systems like Fortnox.
“Switching to QA.tech was a game changer for us. We went from quite long, drawn-out testing cycles with consultants to a quick, streamlined, in-house QA process that we can manage ourselves. This has allowed us to shift focus on scaling and improving the product. We can deploy confidently without worrying about missing critical bugs,” says Dawid Borowiec.
This newfound efficiency has enabled Konsultfaktura to allocate resources towards strategic growth areas, including onboarding new clients and building new platform features. As a result, they’ve been able to focus on expanding their service offerings while maintaining a high standard of reliability.
