For decades, Apache JMeter has been the industry standard for load testing, especially for performance engineers and QA teams working with web applications, APIs, and microservices. It’s open-source, widely adopted, and extremely powerful in terms of simulating user traffic under load. But if you’ve ever tried using JMeter at scale, you know it comes with its fair share of…
A few years ago, we consulted for a rapidly growing SaaS company that had just completed a massive Salesforce implementation. The leadership team was excited. The system was expertly designed to enhance customer interactions, automate sales workflows, and improve reporting. However, they were missing a crucial component — Salesforce QA Testing. As a result, within weeks, their sales team…
Let me start with a story I think many of us in tech leadership can relate to. Picture this: your dev team just wrapped up a huge deployment. The QA process went off without a hitch, everything looked great in staging, and everyone’s feeling good about hitting that launch button. However, a few hours post-deployment, your inbox lights up…
A few years ago, I was consulting with a fast-growing SaaS company that had just launched a major update to their flagship product. Initially, the release was met with excitement as users eagerly explored the new features. However, within hours, the celebration turned into a crisis. Customers began reporting critical bugs—applicatiqons crashed on certain browser versions, payment integrations failed…
Back in 2023, I sat across from a frazzled QA lead at a client meeting. The project had been delayed—again—because their test suite was crawling. Regression tests were taking hours, the flaky tests kept breaking, and the team was at their wit’s end. Their automation suite? Built entirely on Selenium. Their Selenium-based tests were running for hours in their…
