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Automation, at the scale
the traffic actually arrives

Software, financial systems, connected fleets, back-office process. Different domains, one constant: throughput is where automation either proves itself or falls apart.

The throughput case

Automation is easy at ten users.
It is a different craft at scale.

A suite that passes on a developer machine tells you almost nothing. The engineering problem is holding correctness while volume climbs — and having the instrumentation to know which of the two just broke.

On a connected-vehicle fleet platform covering 50,000 vehicles, we validated the system at 56,000 requests per minute across baseline, spike, capacity, stress and endurance profiles. On a core banking platform, 2 million transactions per test cycle and peak profiles reaching 5.4 million transactions per hour.

Those numbers are not trophies. They are the reason we can tell you where your platform bends before your customers find it.

56,000 requests / minute
NFR ceiling ramp plateau soak

Ramp, plateau and soak — the shape of an honest load test

Domains

Four automation domains
we take on directly.

The tooling differs. The method — model the real load, instrument everything, gate the pipeline — does not.

Software test automation
End-to-end UI, API, GraphQL and contract automation. BDD frameworks in C#, Playwright, Cucumber, Selenium, TestNG, Test Cafe, xUnit and Appium. Built to be maintained by your engineers, not by us in perpetuity.
Financial systems automation
Payments, settlement, statements, direct debits, cash advance, limit changes, product transfer, automatic payment scheduling and invoice generation. Validated end to end on core banking and card platform replacement programmes, including a full Visa-to-Mastercard migration across six financial domains.
Connected vehicle & high-volume telemetry
Fleet platforms where tens of thousands of devices report continuously. Load modelling for sustained ingest, integration testing across fifteen-plus downstream systems including SAP, MuleSoft, Boomi, Salesforce and ServiceNow, and APM coverage over the whole chain. This is the throughput end of the discipline.
Process & operational automation
SMS and voice notification flows, automatic escalation, on-call scheduling, and the messaging and middleware layers underneath them — IBM MQ, DataPower, Azure Service Bus, Kafka. The unglamorous plumbing that takes an entire operation down when it fails.
AI-assisted, carefully

We use AI where it earns
its place, and audit it where it does not.

On a live e-commerce replatform, AI-assisted scenario generation accelerated coverage by 40% across complex user journeys. That is a real, measured result from a real engagement.

It is also a capability that needs supervision. Generated scenarios drift toward the obvious cases and quietly skip the ugly ones — the partial refund, the expired token mid-checkout, the fulfilment split that strands a line item. We review every generated case against the risk model before it enters the suite.

We are standardised on Anthropic’s Claude for this work, and we work inside a client’s own model estate where they mandate one. Either way the governance is identical: mandatory human review, no client production data into a model, and no model anywhere in the test execution path.

Our principal's doctoral research is in machine learning applied to software testing, with post-graduate AI and ML study at Caltech. We are enthusiastic about the tooling and sceptical about the claims, in roughly that order.

Risk model Generate Human review Execute Compare Gate

Generation is a step in the process, never the whole process

Toolchain

Performance

  • JMeter
  • LoadRunner
  • NeoLoad
  • Gatling
  • NBomber
  • HP Performance Center

Automation

  • C#
  • Playwright
  • Selenium / TestNG
  • Cucumber / Gherkin
  • Test Cafe
  • xUnit
  • Appium
  • Bruno
  • Postman
  • AccelQ

Observability

  • Dynatrace
  • New Relic
  • Splunk
  • Kibana / ELK
  • Grafana
  • CloudWatch
  • Azure Monitor
  • Nagios

Platform

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • Service Bus
  • Redis
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
Next step

Bring us the release you are
least comfortable shipping.

A short, specific conversation is usually enough to tell whether we can help. No discovery deck, no bench to feed — just an engineer who has broken systems like yours on purpose, many times.

Typical first engagement: a two to three week assessment producing a workload model, an instrumented baseline and a ranked list of what will fail first.