Agile Without Quality Just Ships Defects Faster.
The three failure modes that prevent agile programmes from delivering the quality they promise.
Testing Still Bolted On at the End
Sprint velocity looks good — but testing is a week-long phase after every sprint closes. Defects discovered after development are expensive to fix and create the next sprint's debt. True shift-left means testers in refinement, acceptance criteria before development starts, and automated verification running in CI.
BDD Adopted in Name Only
Teams write Gherkin after features are built and never use scenarios to drive development. The documentation exists but the living specification doesn't. Resync coaches the ‘three amigos’ practice so that business, development, and QA co-create acceptance criteria — before a line of code is written.
Capability Leaves When the Coach Does
Agile coaching engagements improve velocity for 3 months, then teams revert to pre-coaching behaviour once the external coach leaves. Resync builds internal capability — embedded QA working alongside your team, not just advising from the outside.
How Resync Builds Agile Quality That Sticks
Resync doesn't run agile coaching workshops and leave. We embed QA specialists inside your delivery teams — working in your sprints, joining your standups, and coaching through real work rather than theoretical exercises. The practices we introduce are demonstrated on your actual backlog, with your actual team, on your actual architecture.
We focus on the quality fundamentals that make agile work: a meaningful Definition of Done that engineering teams respect, BDD scenarios that drive development rather than document it after the fact, a test pyramid that gives fast feedback without brittle UI tests, and CI pipelines where every commit is verified automatically.
When the engagement closes, the capability remains — because it was built inside your team, not imported from the outside.
What We Coach and Deliver
Embedded QA capability, practical agile quality practices, and coaching that builds lasting team-level discipline.
BDD / ATDD
Co-create executable acceptance criteria with business, development, and QA using Behaviour-Driven Development. Scenarios drive development and become living regression documentation.
Definition of Done
Design and embed a meaningful Definition of Done that engineering teams genuinely follow — covering unit test coverage, integration test pass rate, code review, and acceptance criteria sign-off.
Test Pyramid Design
Build a balanced test pyramid: fast unit tests at the base, targeted integration tests in the middle, minimal UI tests at the top. Eliminate brittle test suites that slow down CI pipelines.
CI/CD Test Integration
Automate test execution in your CI pipeline so every commit is verified. Test failures block deployment — creating the fast feedback loop that makes agile delivery trustworthy.
Three Amigos Facilitation
Facilitate the three amigos practice: business analyst, developer, and tester co-authoring acceptance criteria in sprint refinement — eliminating the ambiguity that causes defects.
QA Coaching & Capability Transfer
Pair Resync QA specialists with your team members, building internal test engineering capability. The goal is a team that no longer needs external QA coaching.
Capability Transfer
We Measure Success by What You Do
After We Leave.
Most agile coaching creates dependency. Teams improve while the coach is present, then revert when they're gone. Resync builds internal capability by working inside the team — not advising from outside it. Our success metric is a team that practices quality without prompting.
Why Resync for Agile Quality?
Independent. Embedded. Built to transfer.
Independent of Tooling
Resync doesn't push a specific agile framework or test tool. We select practices and tooling based on your team's maturity, your architecture, and your delivery context — not a vendor certification.
Embedded, Not Advisory
Our QA coaches work inside your sprints — attending standups, joining refinement, pair-programming test scenarios with developers. Real embedding, not periodic check-ins.
Capability Transfer Is the Goal
Every Resync engagement is designed to make itself unnecessary. We track internal capability growth alongside delivery metrics and close the engagement when your team can sustain quality independently.
Frequently Asked Questions
What programme directors and delivery leads ask before engaging Resync for agile quality coaching.
Q.How is embedded QA coaching different from hiring a test manager?
A test manager owns quality process — they manage a test team and report status. An embedded QA coach builds quality into the delivery team itself. Resync's coaches work at the team level: writing test cases alongside developers, introducing BDD practices in refinement, and building the internal capability that a test manager would normally be the bottleneck for.
Q.Can you work with SAFe programmes as well as team-level agile?
Yes. Resync has experience with team-level Scrum, SAFe PI planning and ART-level quality practices, and Kanban flow-based delivery. The embedded approach scales from a single delivery team to a programme increment with multiple ARTs.
Q.What does a typical engagement look like?
A typical embedded QA coaching engagement runs for one PI (8-12 weeks). The first sprint establishes a quality baseline — Definition of Done, test pyramid state, CI pipeline coverage. Subsequent sprints introduce practices incrementally on real work. The final sprint focuses on handover and internal capability validation.
Q.How do you handle teams that have existing automation suites?
Resync starts by auditing what's working and what isn't. Many teams have automation that's rarely run, brittle, or disconnected from CI. We stabilise what's valuable, remove what isn't, and extend coverage systematically — rather than rebuilding from scratch.