Partnership · Case Study — Managed Quality Engineering

Turning complex campaign workflows into confident releases

A travel marketing and advertising platform that helps travel businesses create, target, and measure digital ad campaigns — across creatives, audiences, billing, and reporting. As the platform grew, every enhancement risked breaking a workflow somewhere else. 10Decoders built and runs a dedicated Manual QA function that validates the platform end-to-end, release after release.

Functional TestingRegression SuitesRelease ValidationDefect Management
Client
A Travel Advertising Platform
Domain
Travel Technology · AdTech
Model
Dedicated QA Engagement
Disciplines
Manual QA · Regression · Release Validation
Overview

Quality engineering for a platform that never stops moving

The platform's advertising workflows span campaign management, creative management, traveller and audience targeting, reporting and analytics, billing, and reconciliation — all tightly interconnected. As new features and enhancements shipped continuously across these areas, a change in one module could quietly break a workflow somewhere else, and the team needed a way to catch that before it reached production.

10Decoders provides dedicated Manual QA support across the platform's business-critical modules, working alongside development and product teams throughout the sprint rather than testing as a final-stage activity — covering functional validation, regression and release testing, and end-to-end defect management for every release.

Under the Hood

How quality gets built into every release

Functional Testing

Every new feature, enhancement, and change request is validated against real business workflows before it ships.

Regression & Smoke Testing

Structured regression and smoke suites protect existing functionality across every sprint and production release.

Defect Lifecycle Management

Issues are identified, validated, retested, and closed through a consistent, repeatable process.

Release Sign-Off

Every production release goes through structured QA validation and sign-off before delivery.

Cross-Module Validation

Coverage spans campaigns, creatives, traveller capabilities, billing, reporting, and reconciliation as one connected system.

Business Workflow Testing

Test scenarios and checklists are built around real end-to-end advertising workflows, not isolated features.

One change here could quietly break a workflow somewhere else.

The Challenge

  • Frequent enhancements across tightly interconnected modules — campaigns, creatives, traveller, billing, reporting, reconciliation.
  • A change in one workflow could silently affect functionality elsewhere on the platform.
  • Multiple product areas moved in parallel, each needing coverage without slowing releases.
  • Defects had to be caught before reaching the client environment, not after.
  • Every fix needed to be verified before it counted as delivered.

Our Approach

  • A dedicated QA team embedded across every business-critical module of the platform.
  • End-to-end regression and smoke testing built around real advertising workflows.
  • Continuous testing throughout the sprint, not a final-stage checkpoint.
  • Structured defect identification, validation, retesting, and closure for every issue.
  • Formal QA sign-off and release verification before every production release.
The Approach

The Solution

10Decoders provides dedicated Manual QA support for the platform's advertising solution — covering functional testing, regression testing, defect validation, and release-oriented quality activities across every product area. The team works alongside development and project teams throughout the sprint lifecycle, rather than treating testing as something that happens at the end.

Coverage spans creatives and campaigns, traveller-related capabilities, billing and reporting, bulk reconciliations, managed campaign setup, economic impact and business value reporting, and partner and account onboarding activities. New functionality is validated continuously, while regression and smoke testing protect everything already in production.

Creatives, Campaigns & Traveller
Functional testing across every business-critical module, end to end.
Smoke, Sanity & Regression
Structured coverage for every sprint and production release.
Defect Lifecycle
Identification, validation, retesting, and closure — tracked end to end.
Onboarding & New Features
Support for partner and account onboarding, plus validation of every new enhancement.
How It Works

Quality woven through every sprint

Every Sprint

New Features & Enhancements

Development ships changes across campaigns, creatives, billing, and reporting in parallel.

Continuous QA

Functional, Regression & Release Testing

Every module is validated end-to-end, with regression and smoke testing protecting what already works.

Every Release

Defect Closure & QA Sign-Off

Issues are retested and closed, and every production release carries a formal QA sign-off.

Why It Works

Built for a platform where everything is connected

Continuous, Not Final-Stage

Testing runs through the whole sprint

QA happens alongside development, so issues surface early instead of piling up before release.

Sprint QAEarly Detection
Full-Platform Coverage

Regression protects every workflow

Structured regression suites guard campaigns, creatives, billing, and reporting as one connected system.

RegressionCross-Module
Structured Defect Lifecycle

From identification to verified closure

Every issue is tracked, retested, and confirmed resolved before it's counted as closed.

Defect TrackingRetesting
One Team, Every Module

Cross-module ownership

A single dedicated team owns quality across every business-critical area, not isolated feature silos.

Dedicated TeamOwnership
Close Collaboration

Gaps resolved before they become defects

QA works directly with product owners, developers, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements early.

ProductEngineering
Standardized Sign-Off

Every release gets a QA gate

A consistent release-validation process gives the team a repeatable, predictable path to production.

Release ValidationConsistency
What We Built

Reusable QA assets, not one-off testing

01

A structured, cross-module regression suite

Covers every critical end-to-end advertising workflow, reused release after release.

02

Reusable test scenarios & business-flow checklists

Standardized coverage for campaigns, creatives, traveller, billing, and reporting.

03

Standardized release-validation playbooks

Consistent smoke, sanity, and sign-off practices adaptable to other managed-QA engagements.

04

A repeatable defect triage process

Faster identification, validation, and closure across every reported issue.

The Shift

What Changed

1

Quality became part of the delivery cycle

QA runs continuously throughout the sprint, so issues surface early instead of piling up before release.

2

Multiple product areas validated in parallel

The team covers several modules and workstreams at once, without treating each feature as an isolated test.

3

Regression coverage protects existing functionality

New changes are checked against a structured suite so they can't quietly break what already works.

4

Defect validation became a continuous activity

Reported issues are tracked through their lifecycle, with fixes verified before delivery.

5

Stronger release confidence

Functional testing, regression, and defect verification combine into greater confidence in every sprint deliverable.

6

Better visibility into product risk

Consistent QA status and defect reporting give the team clear visibility into outstanding risk.

Delivery, Quality & IP

Built to scale with the platform

Delivery Quality

  • Continuous QA embedded throughout the sprint lifecycle, not bolted on at the end.
  • Smoke, sanity, and regression testing on every sprint and production release.
  • Formal QA sign-off and release verification before every production deployment.

IP & Reusability

  • Structured regression suite reusable across future Travel Tech and AdTech engagements.
  • Business-flow checklists and defect-triage process adaptable to other managed-QA work.
  • Domain test coverage for campaign management, audience targeting, billing, and reporting.
The Outcome

What continuous QA means for the team

Product & Engineering

Move faster without breaking things

New features and enhancements ship continuously, with regression coverage protecting everything already built.

Release Management

Every release backed by a QA sign-off

Smoke, sanity, and regression testing plus formal validation give release owners a consistent, repeatable gate.

Business Stakeholders

Confidence in customer-facing workflows

Campaigns, billing, and reporting stay validated end-to-end, even as the platform evolves around them.

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No 50-page proposals. We'll tell you which level fits your situation, what a realistic engagement looks like, and what it would cost — in one direct meeting.

Who you'll talk to
Thomas, CTO at 10decoders

Thomas

Chief Technology Officer

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Thomas leads 10decoders' AI engineering practice and sits in on the scoping call himself — so the person mapping your engagement is the one who has shipped it before. His teams build and deploy agents for mid-market healthcare and fintech companies, with enterprise grade build experience for clients like IBM, Dedalus and Harris Healthcare. He'll be straight with you about what's worth doing and what isn't.

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