Case Study · Gaming
Manual testing, Figma design checks and a Playwright framework in progress, for a platform built by an outside development team.
The Result
What the Startup Gets
Overview
A gaming and live-streaming startup is building its platform with an outside development team. SprintSynergy is the client's independent QA team. Two QA engineers, led by our founder, test the web app and the admin panel and check screens against the Figma designs. They maintain 2,000+ manual test cases for web. The vendor tests its own work first. Our pass comes next, and a milestone is signed off only after it. A Playwright and TypeScript automation framework is being built alongside. The client is not named.
The Problem
A startup that builds with an outside vendor needs someone on its own side to check the work. The vendor's QA shows that the build works the way the vendor understood it. An independent pass shows whether it works the way the client asked.
This platform has a lot that can go wrong at once: accounts and security, paid packages, a wallet with payouts, games and live streams with chat. An admin panel controls all of it.
What We Test
How We Test
What We Found
Three bugs from regression testing of the first milestone. All three are now fixed.
With sales switched off in the admin panel, the buy button still worked and a real purchase request went through. Two other paid products had the same fault. This switch is the store's emergency brake, so a failure here means selling when the business must stop.
An admin raised a subscription price while a player was already in checkout. The player went on to payment at the higher price, with no warning. A player who agreed to one price and pays another is how chargebacks and complaints start.
An admin picked a new setting, lost the network, clicked Save and then Cancel. When the network came back, the held request went through and the live setting changed. The browser's offline simulation never showed this bug. Only a real network drop did.
Where It Stands
What Comes Next
Questions
With an independent QA pass after the vendor's own. The vendor checks its work against its own reading of the requirements. We check it against what the client asked for. On this platform, every milestone goes through the vendor's QA first and ours second, and it is signed off only after both.
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