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Insight Brief:

What QA Teams Are Doing Differently in 2025

Strategic insights from 300+ QA leaders in SaaS, finance, and regulated industries


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Market Reality: Tool Sprawl Is the Default

72%

Disconnected Tools

Use 3+ disconnected tools (Jira, Excel, CI/CD)

41%

Excel Reliance

Still rely on Excel for QA tracking and reports

71%

Limited Visibility

Only 29 % percentage have full visibility into product quality

Tool chaos hides risk, duplicates effort, and slows decisions.

Market Reality: Tool Sprawl Is the Default

Financial Impact

Escaped bugs = $50K–$200K per incident

*the cost of poor software quality in the US has grown to at least $2.41 trillion (CISQ)

Productivity Loss

Significant QA inefficiency — technical debt burns 25% of effort; poor quality costs devs up to 42% productivity (arxiv.org)

Visibility & Compliance Risk

Disconnected systems make compliance and visibility far harder, risking audit failure and missed defects
Tool chaos hides risk, duplicates effort, and slows decisions.

What Leading QA Teams Are Doing Differently

Orchestration, Not Just Integration

Jira, Selenium, CI/CD — unified in real time and seamlessly connected.

Let developers work inside Jira/Azure, while QA customizes their environment — with full two-way sync and embedded panels.
Run multiple automation frameworks — consolidate test results into a single, granular view.
Connect Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and others into a unified, always-updated quality picture.

Smart AI on Every Step of the QA Process

QA leaders are looking into AI not just to automate, but to understand their process — to assist, accelerate, and deliver insights across the QA lifecycle.


Identify overlaps, redundancies, and duplicate test efforts before they’re executed.
Prioritize based on risk coverage, not just test count — focusing QA on what matters most.
Surface blind spots by analyzing test gaps, flaky areas, and historical failure trends.
Accelerate every step of testing with insights, from planning to triage to reporting.

Dashboards Built for Leadership

From test metrics to strategic insights shared in real-time with all stakeholders.


Executive-level dashboards that map QA activities to business KPIs.
Filterable views for QA, product, and engineering leadership.
Connect Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and others into a unified, always-updated quality picture.
When QA shifts to orchestration, it stops reporting bugs — and starts guiding decisions.

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