AI-native API test automation # Your entire API layer, tested and green — in two weeks, not two quarters. QA Watch turns your API docs into a chained, self-maintaining automation suite **in minutes**. You get guaranteed coverage, unlimited execution on every deploy, and a suite you own — **without hiring a QA team**. [Book a demo →](#book) [See how it works](#how) ✓ Live in 2 weeks ✓ You own the code ✓ Unlimited runs ✓ On watch day & night qa-watch · **regression suite** live POST/v1/auth/token✓ pass GET/v1/orders✓ pass POST/v1/orders✓ pass GET/v1/orders/{id}✓ pass PATCH/v1/orders/{id}✓ pass GET/v1/menu/items✓ pass POST/v1/payments/charge✓ pass GET/v1/customers/{id}✓ pass DELETE/v1/cart/{id}✓ pass RestAssured Output $ mvn test Running 120 tests using 8 workers... 0passed 0%coverage 00:00:00.000run time The QA leadership behind QA Watch has built & shipped automation inside OneTrust Publicis Sapient Verizon Foodhub SP+ Corp Minutes.from API doc to a running suite 2 wksto full, live coverage ~85% lessthan a dedicated QA hire ∞ runson every deploy, bundled Is this you? ## If any of these sound familiar, your API layer is under-tested right now. We built QA Watch for exactly one situation: teams shipping API-heavy products faster than their testing can keep up. See if it fits. ### No QA team — or one that's drowning Coverage keeps slipping because there's no one who owns it end-to-end, and the backlog only grows. ### A production incident you didn't see coming A regression slipped through, reached customers, and now leadership is asking how it wasn't caught. ### You tried automation and it flaked out An in-house attempt turned into brittle, red-all-the-time tests everyone learned to ignore. ### You can't hire QA fast enough A senior SDET takes ~3 months and six figures to land — if you can find one at all. ### Releasing faster than you can test Deploys ship daily; regression testing is manual, partial, and always the bottleneck. ### Developers testing their own code Your engineers write and grade their own tests — no independent quality gate before release. The shift ## Testing built for the speed of AI development. Your developers ship faster than ever. Traditional QA — armies of testers billing by the hour — can't keep up, and can't be afforded. QA Watch is built the other way around. ### The old QA shop * 01 Hire testers, wait months for coverage * 02 Pay by the hour — broken tests earn them more * 03 Growth means more headcount, thinner margins for them, higher bills for you * 04 You manage the vendor, the infra, the flakiness ### QA Watch * 01 Your API docs become a running suite in minutes * 02 Flat, per-API pricing — we're paid to keep tests resilient, not broken * 03 Senior QA reviews every suite; the machine does the heavy lifting * 04 We own the build, the runs, the maintenance. You just ship. The Program ## Get a fully running API test suite in 2 weeks. We map and automate up to 60 API endpoints during kickoff, committing clean, runnable Java & RestAssured tests directly to your repository in incremental phases (~30 APIs per week). You see them execute live in your staging environment with zero upfront risk. [Explore the 2-Week Pilot Plan →](pilot.md) 01 #### Days 1-2: Kickoff & Ingestion OpenAPI schema parsed and journeys mapped 02 #### Days 5-10: Automated RestAssured Build Chained script generation and QA validation 03 #### Days 11-14: Integration & Live Runs Alerts configured; live execution runs active on our platform The Standard ## We don't write generic scripts. We automate to the TDS v1.0 standard. Traditional API automation is famously flaky, relying on static values and shared database states. We deliver all suites built to the strict **Test Definition Standard (TDS) v1.0** specifications—featuring absolute database state isolation, dynamic token/parameter chaining, and schema-level verification contract checks. [Read the TDS Technical Spec →](tds.md) TdsApiTest.java // Setup dynamic token auth & state isolation String token = AuthUtils.generateTempToken("user_temp"); // Chain order creation (RestAssured API) Response res = given() .header("Authorization", "Bearer " + token) .post("/v1/orders"); // Teardown database state isolation TearDownManager.registerCleanup(() -> { deleteOrder(res.path("id")); }); Why teams choose QA Watch ## Faster, cheaper, and led by people who've done this at scale. ### Speed A suite generated in minutes, full coverage live in two weeks, and runs that finish in minutes — so QA never becomes the bottleneck between a merged PR and a shipped release. * Suites built in minutes, not months * ~30 APIs delivered per week * 100% parallel execution on every deploy ### Money & savings A fraction of a dedicated QA hire, with no infrastructure bill and unlimited execution bundled in. You replace a six-figure salary and months of hiring with one predictable monthly fee. * No QA salaries, no test infra to run * Flat per-API pricing, scoped to you * Unlimited runs — never metered per test run ### Expertise Every suite is owned by senior QA engineers with enterprise credentials — not an agent left to run alone. We derive the scenarios your team missed, and back it with a defined coverage standard. * 15+ years of enterprise QA behind every account * Senior-reviewed, human-accountable coverage * Auditable, non-gameable test definition The math ## You're not buying test scripts. You're avoiding the cost of not having them. A dedicated QA automation engineer costs around $130,000 a year and takes three months to hire. A single regression bug in production costs far more. QA Watch is the cheap insurance — and it starts next week. Hire a QA automation engineer$130k/yr Time to hire & ramp~3 mo QA Watch — API coverage, managedfrom $1,554/mo Time to first tests live1 week The data ## Untested code isn't a risk you feel. It's a cost the research already measured. We don't sell on fear — we sell on the numbers. Here's what the industry data says about shipping software your APIs aren't fully testing. $2.41T Poor software quality cost U.S. organizations an estimated **$2.41 trillion** in 2022 — much of it defects that reached production. [CISQ, 2022](https://www.it-cisq.org/the-cost-of-poor-quality-software-in-the-us-a-2022-report/) up to 100× A defect caught in testing costs **~15× more** to fix than one caught in design — and **up to 100×** once it has shipped. [IBM Systems Sciences Inst.](https://www.blackduck.com/blog/cost-to-fix-bugs-during-each-sdlc-phase.md) 63% of developers can now ship a **new API in under a week**. Product logic ships in days — manual QA can't keep that pace. [Postman State of the API, 2024](https://www.postman.com/state-of-api/2024/) $118–146k Median U.S. base salary for a QA automation engineer / SDET — and it takes **~3 months** to hire one, if you can. [Glassdoor, 2024–25](https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/qa-automation-engineer-salary-SRCH_KO0,22.htm) QA Watch covers your API layer for a fraction of one of those salaries — with unlimited runs and no hiring wait. Interactive Audit ## Audit your API specification integrity. Identify undocumented request queries, missing error response schemas, and schema design drift between actual code implementation and your Swagger specifications before they trigger client-side integration bugs. [Launch Interactive Spec Scanner →](audit.md) #### OpenAPI Spec Health Action Required 72% Spec integrity score is low. Missing client-side validation models mapped. Missing 400 Bad Request models14 cases Undocumented query parameters8 cases Schema-to-code design drifts6 cases Simple Pricing ## Priced per API. Volume-tiered rates. Every plan includes the complete framework build, unlimited executions, and human-verified bug reports. We support live pricing conversions in USD, INR, AUD, NZD, and CAD. [Try the Pricing Calculator →](pricing.md) What makes us different ## Not another testing platform you have to drive. A ### API-first, by design Most platforms lead with UI and treat APIs as an afterthought. We start where your product's real logic lives — the API layer — with proper chained, stateful coverage. B ### A senior owns your coverage The machine builds; an experienced QA engineer reviews, hardens, and derives the scenarios your team didn't think to ask for. Judgment, not just generation. C ### You own everything Tests are written in open-source Java & RestAssured. The code is exportable and yours from day one — stop any time and keep it all. D ### Done for you, priced to save You don't operate a platform or hire a team. We handle build, runs, and maintenance end-to-end — at a fraction of doing it in-house. How we compare ## The same coverage, without the headcount, the platform, or the hourly bill. AI-native QA that doesn't just run your tests — it figures out what needs testing, keeps it green, and stands behind it. Here's how that stacks up against the alternatives. In-house QA hire DIY / self-serve platform Offshore QA agency QA Watch Time to first coverage 3+ months to hire & ramp Weeks of setup — you drive it 4–8 weeks ~1 week, full live in 2 Who operates it You manage the person You operate the platform You manage the vendor Fully managed for you Cost basis $118–146k+/yr salary Per-seat + per-run + your time Hourly — flakiness earns more Flat per-API, unlimited runs API depth (chained, stateful) Depends on the hire UI-first, API secondary Varies by team API-first by design Accountability One person — attrition risk An agent left to run alone Rotating offshore staff Named senior QA owns it You own the code If they build it well Locked to the platform Sometimes Yes — open-source Java/RestAssured Scales with volume More headcount More seats & cost More headcount Cheaper per API as you grow Not another testing platform you have to drive — the done-for-you outcome, priced to undercut all three. Proof, not promises ## This isn't a first attempt. It's a track record, productized. QA Watch packages automation that has already run at enterprise scale — the same senior QA leadership that built these suites reviews and stands behind every account. 590+ APIsautomated with a ~3-minute full execution cycle on a single production platform (Foodhub) 140+ testschained API suite stood up in just 15 days for an enterprise client (SP+ Corp) 0 → 77+QA engineers hired, trained and led across global enterprise QA orgs Built by Softknack ## Two decades of enterprise QA, now moving at the speed of AI. 800+APIs automated in 30 days on a single enterprise platform 1 wk → 4 hrsregression cycle compressed on a Fortune-scale suite 15+ yrsbuilding test frameworks for telecom, SaaS & commerce leaders The Leadership ### TMS Deepak Founder & Principal Architect (Associate Director — Quality Engineering & Digital Transformation) A seasoned Quality Engineering leader with over 15 years of experience driving QE transformation across startups and global enterprises (including OneTrust, Publicis Sapient, and Verizon). Deepak has scaled global QA teams from 0 to 77+ members and architected robust, full-stack test automation frameworks across UI, API, Mobile, Windows, and RPA layers. Notably, he delivered API automation for 590+ endpoints with an ultra-fast 3-minute execution cycle at Foodhub, and stood up 140+ API tests in just 15 days at SP+ Corp. He founded QA Watch to productize this high-speed parallel automation, helping SaaS and e-commerce companies achieve bulletproof testing coverage at scale. [Connect on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmsdeepak/) FAQ ## Got questions? We've got answers. Find detailed answers to questions about CI/CD repository webhooks, restricted database staging access, VPN configurations, Dell hardware cluster hosting, and test code ownership. [View Developer & Enterprise FAQs →](faq.md) How does the 2-week pilot work? + We scope up to 60 API endpoints during kickoff. Over the next 10 business days, we deliver the runnable suites in increments (~30 APIs per week). You see them run live in your staging environment. If you aren't convinced, you walk away paying nothing. Who owns the test code? Is there lock-in? + You do. All generated scripts are written in standard open-source REST-assured (Java) as our default stack, which allows your test suite to expand cleanly across web, mobile, and API layers (Playwright is still available on request). We commit them directly to your repository. They contain no proprietary SDKs, so if you decide to cancel, you keep the code and can run it in-house forever. Partner Program ## Become a local QA Watch Reseller Partner. We offer consultants, development agencies, and technical leaders in Australia and the US an ongoing **15% referral commission** on build and monthly subscription revenue. Introduce QA Watch, and we handle scoping, deployment, and testing end-to-end. [Learn Partner Program Details →](partner.md) 1 Referrals Payout ~$250 - $600 / mo 5 Referrals Payout ~$1,250 - $3,000 / mo 10 Referrals Payout ~$2,500 - $6,000 / mo ## See your API suite built — live, in minutes. Give us a hoot — book a 20-minute demo and watch us turn a real API doc into a running, all-green suite. No commitment, no slideware. [Book a demo →](#book) [Get a free coverage-gap report](#report) ✓ Custom pilot scoping proposal QA Watch by Softknack #### Select Date & Time Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 7 8 9 10 11 9:30 AM 11:00 AM 2:00 PM 4:30 PM Continue #### Enter Details Name Work Email API Spec URL (Optional) July 7 at 9:30 AM Back Confirm Booking ✓ #### Demo Booked! A calendar invitation has been sent to your email. We look forward to meeting you. Close Window