testfish

The Challenge

QA teams often rely on outdated, overly complex, or expensive test management tools that are not designed for modern development workflows. Existing tools lack performance, flexibility, and intuitive UI, making it hard to manage test cases efficiently.

Our goal was to design a simple, modern, and affordable test management system that boosts QA productivity, enables better test documentation and execution, and seamlessly integrates with existing project management workflows.

The Discovery

Through user interviews and research with QA engineers and PMs, we identified key pain points:

Fragmented workflows: test case management, execution, and defect tracking scattered across tools
Cumbersome UI/UX in legacy systems
Lack of actionable insights and real-time dashboards
Limited integration with modern agile tools
High costs and bloated features in enterprise-grade solutions

We validated the need for a snappy, single-page app experience with intuitive test planning, defect tracking, and integrations—all in one place.

The Outcome

We built a modern test management platform using a lean and efficient tech stack:

Frontend: React + Next.js for fast, SPA-like interactions
Backend: Rails + Ruby for robust API design
Styling: TailwindCSS for a sleek, consistent UI

Key features delivered:

📊 Dashboard: Instant project insights with metrics and tasks
📁 Test Case Repository: Organized by suites for easy access
📦 Test Plans: Group reusable test cases for streamlined execution
✅ Test Runs: Execute tests, capture results, and log defects
🐞 Defect Management: Independent or test-run-linked issue tracking
📋 Project Backlog: Epics, user stories, and tasks unified with QA
🔌 3rd-Party Integrations: Seamless defect and project tool sync

Conclusion

We delivered a clean, modern, and performant QA tool designed to scale with agile teams. The result is a platform that balances simplicity and power, helps QA teams focus on quality over process, and integrates tightly into the tools teams already use.

By combining a thoughtful UX with a modern full-stack approach, we made test management fast, intuitive, and cost-effective.

Features

Get better insights about your project

A dashboard that will show you the current state of the project with all the necessary metrics and tasks assigned to you

Manage your test cases organised by test suites

A repository is the heart of the project where you can organise and document your test cases

Group your recurring test cases for execution

By creating a test plan, you can group recurring test cases together for execution

Manage quality of your project using test runs

Execute your selected test cases as a test run and capture results, and defects effectively

Defect management

Capture all the defects that were observed while running the test runs or manage them independently with integrations for third party defect management tools