AQE
ADAMS
QUALITY
ENGINEERING

Scotland-based · Independent Consultancy

Quality
engineered
in from the start.

21 years of QA, test automation, and software engineering across FinTech, LegalTech, MedTech, and beyond. One person. Full accountability.

Get in touch What I do
AQE
21 Years experience
7+ Sectors served
100% Independent

About

Built on two decades of finding what breaks.

Adams Quality Engineering is Joseph Adams — a Certified Scrum Master and ISTQB-certified QA professional with a PgCert in Web Technologies. The practice spans the full quality lifecycle: from strategy and architecture through to hands-on automation implementation and CI/CD integration.

ISTQB Foundation Certified Scrum Master PgCert Web Technologies (Distinction)
01
Independent & accountable One point of contact. No account managers, no hand-offs. Direct engagement with the work from day one.
02
Automation-first mindset Deep expertise in Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Selenium and Appium — the right tool for the right context.
03
Quality built in, not bolted on Shift-left testing, CI/CD integration, and stakeholder visibility from sprint zero.
04
Development capability Beyond testing — full-stack development capability to bridge the gap between QA and engineering teams.

Areas of speciality

What I do best.

From test strategy through to automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and stakeholder reporting — end-to-end quality engineering.

Test Automation

End-to-end, API, and component test frameworks designed for stability, speed, and maintainability. Scalable page object models, parallel execution, and CI integration from day one.

PLAYWRIGHT CYPRESS WEBDRIVERIO SELENIUM APPIUM

QA Strategy & Leadership

Test strategy definition, process design, and quality gate implementation. Embedded Automation Test Lead capability for teams that need senior QA presence without a permanent hire.

TEST STRATEGY QUALITY GATES TEAM MENTORING AGILE / SCRUM

CI/CD & Pipeline Integration

Test automation wired into your delivery pipeline. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and beyond — with Allure or custom reporting so stakeholders always have visibility of quality status.

JENKINS GITHUB ACTIONS ALLURE K6

Performance & Load Testing

Baseline performance benchmarking, spike and soak testing, and bottleneck identification before they become production incidents. Browser and protocol-level testing with k6.

K6 GRAFANA LOAD TESTING SPIKE TESTING

Test Management & Reporting

Requirements traceability, test coverage reporting, and release readiness dashboards that give non-technical stakeholders a clear view of quality without needing to read a test report.

TESTRAIL JIRA COVERAGE MAPS DASHBOARDS

Development & Tooling

Custom QA tooling, test scaffold generators, and reporting platforms built with modern web technologies. Full-stack capability when testing needs to go beyond the framework.

NEXT.JS TYPESCRIPT NODE.JS REACT

Sectors

Experience across industries.

Quality engineering looks different in every domain. Regulated environments, high-throughput platforms, and complex data pipelines each bring distinct challenges — and require distinct approaches.

FinTech LegalTech GreenTech MedTech Media Government Payroll SaaS

Contact

Let's talk.

Whether you need an embedded Automation Lead, a framework built from scratch, or a second opinion on your current quality approach — get in touch.

Email joseph@adamsqe.co.uk
Based in Scotland, United Kingdom
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/josephadams6
Availability Currently accepting new engagements