performance engineering

Streamlining software for safer, more productive, and cost-effective operations

Our mission is to find the fastest path to value to support reliable performance, boost work efficiency, and improve employee and customer retention.

QA Consultants Difference

Our approach to performance engineering sets us apart. We’re not just a tool or an hourly labor service; we’re problem solvers dedicated to addressing your business’s unique software performance challenges.

Unlike most companies that wait for the testing phase to hunt for issues, we proactively identify performance issues during development. By catching problems early, we make solutions more cost-effective and seamless. Choose QA Consultants for a strategic, insightful approach that transforms performance engineering into a driver of success and innovation for your organization, resulting in peace of mind.

Achievable Value and Outcomes

Reduce response time

27 minutes

per day, per person is lost due to slow software (Managed 24/7)

Reduced Costs

$300,000

$300,000 per minute is the potential cost of a website crash (LogicMonitor)

Higher Conversion Rates

1.9%

Research shows pages that load in 2.4 seconds have an average 1.9% conversion rate (Cloudflare)

Increase revenue

$18B

in sales are lost annually due to cart abandonment (Forrester)

Performance Engineering Services

  • Performance Assessment and Benchmarking
  • Traditional Performance Testing
  • Stress Testing
  • Endurance Capacity
  • Failover
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Performance Optimization and Tuning
  • Performance Monitoring and Management
  • Cloud Cost Reduction
  • Bottleneck Identification and Resolution
  • Performance Engineering Strategy
  • Performance Engineering Consultation

Success in Action

Discover how one national government entity increased the number of concurrent app users, after a DIY launch, from 10,000 (with a high number of errors and slow response time) to over 1MM concurrent users (with almost zero errors and super-fast response time).

Challenge

This organization struggled with app performance, user experience, and incomplete transactions due to extreme load on the platform after a DIY launch failed. The system suffered from a surge of errors, below industry minimum response times, and abandonment.

Solution

QA Consultants applied performance engineering principles to the application we were testing, as well as the load generation infrastructure to match it our needs.

Results

Increased the total number of concurrent users from 10,000 to 1M+ with an >1% error rate and within the span of a concentrated four weeks.

Achieved the largest scale ever achieved on a single controller on any Neoload test

Website response time increased by 63%

The project was completed within six weeks; two weeks ahead of schedule

Trusted by Clients for Performance Engineering since 1994

QA Consultants supports clients across all industries and sizes with performance engineering services

Jewelers Mutual
Toronto Hydro
Digital.ai
Amica

Touchdowns Beyond the Screen Webinar

In this webinar from February 2024, we explored prior Super Bowl commercial performance and why some fail, as well as how to mitigate future risk with large spot advertising campaigns.

Spot Sales Readiness Guide

Discover the brands that suffered from the most visible and epic ad failures from Super Bowl 58, and learn why these websites failed. These lessons learned are great use cases to employ performance engineering best practices in your own organization before your launch your next large load event.

Optimizing eCommerce Websites for Large Load Events Webinar

QA Consultants’ Chief Performance Engineer James Pulley and IT Influencer Scott Moore hosted a webinar on August 13 to discuss software performance and what you can do to address performance issues today to prepare your systems for your largest load events tomorrow.

Optimize eCommerce Websites for Large Load Events Checklist

Earn more revenue by identifying the main five patterns that impact website performance and assess whether your websites are at-risk for crashing with your next large load event with this checklist.

Black Friday Website Readiness Webinar

Don’t allow lack of preparation, limited resources, and limited testing result in cart abandonment, website outages, lost customers, lost revenue, and even reputational damage turn your Black Friday into “Red Friday.” Understand and validate your readiness.

Optimize eCommerce Websites for Large Load Events Checklist

If you aren’t well underway with website performance engineering and testing on your retail and eCommerce websites by early September, you may be too late to ensure a seamless consumer experience. Download our Readiness Guide to help.