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Application Testing Services from an ISO 17025 Accredited QA Lab
Vervali provides application testing services for web, mobile and API products: functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, UAT support, cross-browser and device testing, run manually and with automation where it pays. We are an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited testing laboratory with CMMI Level 3 process, 275+ engineers in Mumbai, Dubai and Auckland, and US-hours coverage for American product teams.
150+ clients
450+ projects
275+ engineers
15+ years
ISO/IEC 17025:2017Accredited testing laboratory
CMMI Maturity Level 3The process is written down and repeats
ISO 9001:2015Quality management
ISO/IEC 27001Information security
What Application Testing Covers
A release you can defend: the feature works, last month still works, the joins hold, and the business can sign off.
Functional Testing
Does the feature do what the requirement said. If there is no written requirement, which is most of the time, we reconstruct intended behaviour from the product owner, last release notes and how the current version actually works, then test against that. You get a signed-off expected result before execution, so a fail is a product decision, not a debate with QA.
Regression Testing
Does last month's feature still work after this month's release. The suite is the set of paths users still take, not a museum of every closed ticket. That is also where automation testing pays, when the path is stable enough to keep alive. For a CTO, this is the difference between shipping weekly and discovering last quarter's checkout broke in production.
Integration Testing
Do the parts behave when joined, including the third-party services nobody on your team controls: payments, identity, CRM, shipping, tax. Timeouts, partial payloads and version drift show up here first, not in a UI screenshot. We treat those joins as first-class coverage, because that is where enterprise releases stall.
UAT Support Services
Preparing the business users' scripts, sitting with them, and turning what they report into something a developer can act on. UAT is not a second round of functional testing by another name. It is the business confirming the product is fit to use, with evidence a VP can take into a go/no-go call.
Cross-Browser and Device Testing
The matrix is taken from your own analytics, not a standard list. We test the browsers, OS versions and devices that actually generate sessions. See web app testing and mobile application testing for platform-specific depth. You are not paying to certify browsers your customers do not use.
API Testing
The layer beneath the screen, which is where most integration defects actually live. Contract breaks, auth failures and silent 200s with empty bodies do not show in a click-path until a user is already stuck. API testing services is the dedicated page for that work. On this page it is in scope whenever the product has a backend your UI depends on.
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Book a CallManual, Automated, or Both: How We Decide
You are not buying 100% automation. Stable money paths are automated, judgement stays with a person, and that split is in the quote.
Automate When
The check will run at least as often as it is cheaper to maintain than to re-execute by hand, and the pass/fail condition is a fact a machine can read: login, checkout, API contracts, the journeys that still make money after last month's release. Those go into CI/CD once they are stable, so a broken build is visible before it reaches a customer.
Keep It Manual When
A person has to judge layout, copy, a new workflow, or a third-party screen that shifts without notice. Two examples: a checkout experiment whose fields change every sprint, and an accessibility pass that depends on whether a screen reader announcement makes sense to a person. Automating those is how suites rot and quotes inflate.
The Recommendation Arrives Before the Quote, Not After
On the scoping call you see which paths are manual, which are automated, and why. That is the document procurement can compare, not a promise to "add automation later". The longer write-up of tooling lives on the automation testing services page; this is the decision rule, written once, that page should point back to.
How an Engagement Runs
You sign the coverage, defects land in your tracker, and a named tester is on the go-live call. First report inside two weeks.
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Requirements
We read whatever exists: tickets, Figma, old test cases, analytics. When there is no specification, which is most of the time, we ask for a walkthrough of the paths that make money or create risk, write those down, and send them back for a yes. You are not asked to produce a 40-page spec to start.
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Test Design
A coverage model against those paths, with the manual/automated split already decided. Nobody runs anything until that design is signed off. What changes hands is a test list your product owner can argue with, which is the document that later protects a go-live decision.
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Execution
Cadence follows your release train. Defects are logged in your Jira, with reproduction steps, environment and evidence. A blocker is escalated the same day to the named owner on both sides, in US hours, not buried in a weekly pack.
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Reporting
What lands in the inbox is a short status: what ran, what failed, what is blocking release. Daily in a live cycle, otherwise at an agreed cadence. The raw tickets stay in your tracker. Leadership gets a release-risk view, not a 40-page PDF nobody reads.
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Release Support
A named tester is on the go-live call in US hours. Smoke on the production-like build, then a watch on the first hours after release. You do not discover a blocker from a customer tweet or an app-store review.
Start to First Report
A named team is usually assigned within a week of NDA and access. First execution, and the first written report, land inside two weeks, using existing frameworks rather than a greenfield build. The free two-week pilot on one module is that first cycle, priced at zero, so a CXO can see cadence, communication and defect quality before a longer contract.
Engagement Models and Rates
An outcome we own, named people on your team, or a fixed-price release. Typical work starts at $25 to $49 per hour.
Managed Testing Services
Vervali owns the outcome against an agreed scope: coverage, cadence, reporting. You still provide environments, credentials, representative test data, and a product owner who can sign off design. This is the model when you want one accountable vendor for quality, not a bench of testers to manage.
Dedicated QA Team
Named engineers embedded in your process, billed monthly. You still add them to stand-ups, Jira and the pipeline, and you still own environments and data. This is the model for a product that ships every week and needs the same people next month, without a US payroll for a full QA function.
Project Testing Services
Fixed scope, fixed price. You still freeze the build we will test, provide a spec or a walkthrough, and keep the environment up. Scope changes are a change order, not a silent extension of the same price. This is the model for a release, a migration, or a board-level deadline with a defined end.
What Application Testing Costs
Clutch lists Vervali at $25 to $49 per hour. Our published 2026 cost guide sets out the role bands behind that: manual testers typically $15 to $35, automation engineers $20 to $50, test architects $45 to $80. Dedicated teams and managed QA are billed monthly; projects are quoted as a fixed price. Typical application-testing engagements start in the Clutch band. Tool licences, production-like data and extra device coverage are named in the estimate so they are not a surprise after kickoff. The scoping call is where that estimate is built, against your product and release risk, not a rate card emailed in isolation.
$25–$49 / hour (Clutch)
Managed · monthly outcome
Dedicated team · monthly
Project · fixed price
Read the ranges by role and model in How much does QA outsourcing to India cost in 2026, then the buyer checklist in the QA outsourcing guide 2026.
Case Studies
Airline, finance and government work where coverage went up and customer issues, testing time or regression time went down.
India · major airline · booking and check-in
Before: coverage on the booking and check-in platform was too thin for the release pace, so customers were reporting issues that testing had not seen. Vervali built a functional and regression suite around the paths that sell seats and get passengers to the gate, with automation on the stable journeys. After two release cycles: 85% test coverage, and 70% fewer customer-reported issues.
85% test coverage 70% fewer customer-reported issues Two release cyclesUAE · SME finance platform · web and mobile
Before: testing time was eating the sprint, and users were paying for it in a clumsy web and mobile experience. Vervali put automation on the repeatable finance journeys and kept exploratory and UAT support in human hands. After: 98% user satisfaction, and 40% less testing time.
98% user satisfaction 40% less testing time Web and mobileUAE · Dubai government · border-security and immigration
Before: regression took days and still missed coverage, which is not acceptable on a border-security and immigration platform. Vervali expanded automated regression across the products in scope and cut the manual remainder to what still needed a person. After: coverage from 70% to 80%, regression from days to hours, and manual regression effort more than halved.
Coverage 70% to 80% Regression in hours Manual effort more than halvedAccreditation and Process
An accredited lab method and a process that repeats. That is what procurement can put in a file when comparing vendors.
ISO/IEC 17025:2017
How tests are designed, how environments are controlled, and how results are recorded. An accreditation body assessed that method.
CMMI Maturity Level 3
The process is written down and repeats: the same coverage model, defect fields, escalation path and report shape.
ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001
Quality management and information security. They sit beside 17025. They are not a substitute for it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Application testing is scoped to the product and the depth you need, then quoted before work starts. Clutch lists Vervali at $25 to $49 per hour. Managed testing is billed against an agreed outcome, a dedicated QA team monthly, a project as a fixed price. Role bands are in our 2026 cost guide. Typical work starts in that Clutch band; the estimate names environment, data and tool costs so they are not a surprise.
Application testing is the work of finding whether this build behaves as specified: functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, UAT support, browsers, devices and APIs. QA is the wider system that decides what to test, when to stop, and how quality is measured across releases. We do both. Testing is the lab work. QA is the process CMMI Level 3 requires us to write down and repeat.
A named team is usually assigned within a week of a signed NDA and access. First execution starts inside two weeks, using existing frameworks rather than a greenfield build. The first written defect and coverage report follows that first cycle. A free two-week pilot on one module is the fastest way to see that cadence before a longer contract.
Yes. The same engagement can cover web, native iOS and Android, hybrid and API layers. Mobile work uses real devices as well as simulators. Web work uses a browser matrix taken from your analytics, not a generic list. Platform-specific depth is on our web app testing and mobile application testing pages.
Selenium, Cypress, Playwright and Appium for UI automation. Postman and REST-assured for APIs. Jira, or your tracker, for defects. CI/CD hooks sit in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps. The tool list follows what you already run. We do not force a rewrite of your pipeline to match ours.
Yes. Defects are logged in your Jira or Azure Boards with reproduction steps, environment and evidence. Automated checks can gate a build in your CI/CD pipeline once the suite is stable. You keep ownership of the board and the pipeline. We work inside them.
Yes. An NDA is signed before we receive source, credentials, environments or production-like data. ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO/IEC 27001 both require controlled access. The NDA is the commercial counterpart of that control. If you have a paper, we sign yours.
Yes. Coverage is 9am to 1pm Eastern for stand-ups, blockers and go-live calls, with delivery from India. That overlap is how a US product team gets answers in their morning without a US-based payroll. Book a scoping call or use the form below for that window.
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