Aslan Consulting LLC · QA / SDET

Centralize the test platform. Distribute the engineers.

We design a single Playwright architecture your product org actually owns, then staff distributed SDET pods against it. Engineering directors get a flake SLO, a merge-ready pipeline, and delivery that no longer depends on heroic QA.

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Test flakiness

Treated as an SLO, not a Slack thread.

3×

Delivery velocity

Earlier, cheaper signal in the PR loop.

40%

Fewer merge conflicts

Smaller, greener diffs from a shared platform.

Services

Architecture first. Capacity second.

Most QA spend goes into more tests on an unstable base. We invert that: a centralized framework, then pods that ship against it.

Playwright

Playwright test architecture

One system of record for fixtures, auth, traces, and reporting — not a suite per squad.

Layered page objects and test IDs that survive product redesigns
Shared auth, seed, and environment contracts instead of copy-paste helpers
Parallelization mapped to CI budget, with traces you can actually debug
A documented ownership model so the framework does not fork in Q3

CI / CD

CI/CD pipeline integration

PR gates that encode risk, not theater. Green means shippable.

Sharding, artifact retention, and retry policy with a stated cause
Selectors for smoke vs. deep suites so merge queues stay honest
Failure taxonomy wired into Slack/Jira without becoming noise
Earlier signal in the loop — the mechanism behind 3× delivery velocity

Reliability

Test flakiness eradication

Flake is an SLO. We put a budget, an owner, and a quarantine path on it.

Root-cause classes: race, environment, selector, data, third-party
Deterministic waits and network stubs where the product is not the test
Quarantine with expiry — no eternal skipped specs
Dashboards that make <2% flake a managed number, not a wish

SDET pods

Distributed SDET pods

Embedded engineers, your backlog, our platform. Capacity without a hiring freeze.

Pods staffed against the shared architecture, not a private toolbox
Coverage mapped to risk: money paths, auth, migrations, release trains
Knowledge transfer written into the engagement, not left as folklore
A quality function that behaves like platform engineering

Platform

Framework ownership

We keep the platform current after the standing-up is done.

Playwright and browser-matrix upgrades on a cadence
Pipeline health, flake tax, and office hours with your squads
Guardrails so new tests land in the architecture, not beside it
The monthly retainer is ownership, not a ticket dump

About

Embedded leadership. Architecture first.

Led by Majd Aslan, a Senior Full Stack SDET and QA Lead with 9 years of hands-on experience embedding into engineering pods. We don't just write test scripts; we architect resilient CI/CD pipelines and test automation frameworks — Playwright, Java, Cypress — that eliminate bottlenecks.

Engagement

How a director should buy quality work.

Short discovery. Written architecture. Then either a standing platform, embedded pods, or both. No retainers that exist to 'stay in the mix.'

01
Audit the real constraint
We read the pipeline, the flake report, and the merge queue — not a slide about 'quality culture.' You get a written diagnosis of architecture debt vs. staffing debt.
02
Stand up the platform
Fixtures, auth, reporting, and CI contracts land as a shared system. Squads stop inventing private helpers. This is the setup retainer.
03
Staff pods against it
Distributed SDET capacity runs on the platform we just made non-optional. Ownership stays with Aslan or transfers with a runbook — your call.

Pricing

Setup retainers and monthly ownership. Stated as numbers.

Directors should be able to take this to finance without a 'let's hop on a call to discuss packages' fog. Scope is still scoped — the bands are real.

Framework Setup

Engagement

$5K–$10K

upfront, typically 3–5 weeks

A one-time architecture engagement. We replace scattered suites with a Playwright system of record and wire it into CI.

Current-state audit of tests, pipelines, and flake sources
Target architecture and ownership map
Foundation: fixtures, auth, traces, reporting
CI sharding, gates, and artifact policy
Handoff runbook for your staff engineers

Range depends on repo count, browser matrix, and how forked the current helpers are.

Platform Ownership

Ongoing

Most orgs keep this

$2.5K–$3.5K/mo

per month, after setup

Ongoing ownership of the platform. We keep Playwright current, hold the flake SLO, and keep new tests inside the architecture.

Flake SLO ownership and quarantine with expiry
Playwright and browser-matrix upgrades
Pipeline health and merge-queue hygiene
Office hours with squads shipping against the platform
Monthly written status — numbers, not narrative

Month-to-month after the first 30 days. This is maintenance of a system, not a body shop.

Combined engagements (setup plus the first quarter of ownership) are the usual starting point. SDET pods are scoped separately against the same platform — we will not staff a pod onto a framework we would not operate.

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Discovery

A 30-minute working session, not a demo.

Bring the pipeline pain: flake rate, merge queue delay, suite runtime, ownership gaps. We will leave you with an architecture sketch and a clear yes/no on fit.