About TestScope
We're a small team of QA professionals who got tired of terrible estimation tools and decided to build something better.
How We Started
TestScope began in early 2025 after our founder witnessed one too many projects derailed by testing estimate disasters. The final straw came during a product launch where QA was blamed for a two-week delay, even though the "three-day testing estimate" was based on nothing more than a gut feeling and wishful thinking.
The pain was everywhere. QA teams constantly caught between impossible timelines and quality expectations. Developers frustrated because "testing always takes longer than expected." Product managers losing credibility with executives because release dates kept slipping. And everyone pointing fingers at QA for "not knowing how to estimate."
But here's the thing - it wasn't really QA's fault. The industry was asking teams to predict the unpredictable with zero tools or methodology. Imagine if engineers estimated code complexity by just "feeling it out" or if finance teams did budgets based on hunches. Yet that's exactly what QA was expected to do with testing.
"I watched brilliant QA professionals - people who could find the most obscure bugs and design incredible test strategies - get completely demoralized because they couldn't systematically estimate their work. The problem wasn't their skill; it was that we were asking them to be fortune tellers instead of giving them proven methodologies."
The breaking point stories kept piling up: A startup that missed their funding milestone because testing "took twice as long as estimated." An e-commerce company that launched with critical bugs because they cut testing short to hit a deadline. Teams working 80-hour weeks trying to squeeze weeks of testing into days because someone promised an impossible timeline.
Our founder started researching how other industries handle complex estimation challenges. Project management uses Planning Poker for consensus-building. Finance uses Monte Carlo simulation for risk analysis. Engineering uses Work Breakdown Structure for complex projects. Manufacturing uses Function Point analysis for capacity planning. Why wasn't anyone giving QA teams access to these proven methodologies?
That weekend in March 2025, instead of relaxing, our founder started coding the first prototype. The lightbulb moment: instead of forcing everyone to guess, why not give QA teams multiple proven estimation approaches they can choose based on their specific situation and team dynamics?
Six months of nights and weekends later, the first version of TestScope was ready with Monte Carlo simulation as the initial approach. We shared it with QA friends, got feedback, and quickly realized different teams needed different tools. Some wanted the collaborative consensus of Planning Poker. Others needed the structure of T-Shirt sizing. Teams with historical data loved statistical methods, while new teams needed bottom-up approaches.
Today, we're still a small, bootstrapped team focused on solving real problems for real QA professionals. No venture capital, no pressure to "scale fast" - just building useful estimation tools for people like us.
How We Build
TestScope is built by a small, focused team of QA professionals who understand the daily challenges because we live them ourselves. Most of us still work in QA roles at other companies, which means we're constantly using our own product and feeling the pain points firsthand.
We don't have a grand 10-year roadmap or fancy investor presentations. Instead, we ship features based on real feedback from real users. Every support email gets read. Every feature request gets logged and considered. When users tell us something is frustrating, we actually fix it.
"The best product feedback comes from people actually trying to get work done. We'd rather hear 'this method doesn't fit our team' from someone using TestScope for real estimates than get praise from people who just clicked through a demo."
Our development process is pretty simple: we build something, get it in front of users, listen to feedback, and iterate. We're not trying to be the everything-tool for everyone. We're trying to be the best collection of estimation methodologies for QA professionals who need systematic approaches that actually work.
Being bootstrapped and independent means we can focus on what actually matters to our users instead of what looks good in growth metrics. We measure success by whether QA teams are getting better estimates with methods that fit their workflow, not by vanity numbers.
What Drives Us
Build for Real Problems
Every feature starts with "Does this actually solve a problem QA teams face?" If it's just cool tech without clear value, we don't build it.
Keep It Simple
QA professionals are busy. Our tools should make their jobs easier, not give them another complex system to learn. If it needs a manual, we're probably doing it wrong.
Methods Over Guessing
We'd rather have an imperfect estimate backed by a proven methodology than a "perfect" guess based on gut feeling. Systematic approaches can be improved and refined over time.
QA Community First
We're QA professionals building for QA professionals. Our roadmap comes from user feedback, not boardroom strategies. The community's success is our success.
How We Work
We're a fully remote team spread across different time zones. We believe good work happens when people have flexibility and autonomy.
Most of us still work other QA jobs (TestScope isn't quite full-time sustainable yet), so we understand the real-world constraints our users face.
Remote First
Team members in Portland, Austin, and Toronto. We've never met in person but ship code together daily.
Async Communication
Most communication happens in writing. We record demos instead of scheduling meetings across time zones.
User Feedback Driven
Every feature request gets logged. We read every support email. Our users shape what we build next.
Sustainable Pace
We ship when it's ready, not when arbitrary deadlines say so. Quality over speed, always.
Get In Touch
Questions about TestScope? Want to share feedback? Just want to chat about QA challenges?
support@testscope.co