We’re software developer and product management consultants
Technology can be a competitive advantage, but many software investments fail. Engineering teams struggle to go as fast as the business needs—especially when saddled with complex legacy systems. Product teams are pressured to deliver outputs instead of outcomes like a feature factory.
Test Double helps technology and business leaders get to a better place with software built to be maintainable now and in the future, teams that achieve repeatable returns on software investments, and new experiences that delight customers to grow the business.
How we work
Making scary things boring
Stale thinking causes teams to thrash. Fresh thinking blows away the cobwebs. Test Double helps tech leaders like you get the most out of software investments so you can scale without thrashing. We advise, consult, and implement—with no management required.
SERVICES
We get things done from strategy to execution.
We uncover root causes across the entire software lifecycle—and embed with your team to solve them.
Software Delivery
Accelerate quality software delivery
You don't have to choose between speed and quality with Test Double embedded on your team. Achieve maintainable software with better planning, more productive collaboration, and greater visibility. We onboard seamlessly with your team and help you reach your software investment goals faster. Whether you need quality capacity you can trust or senior experience in specific areas and tech stacks, we strive to be your team’s favorite collaborators and software problem solvers.
Product Strategy & Performance
Level up your product strategy and product performance
Validate product-market fit early with rapid AI prototyping and discovery, before you invest in development. Align product strategy to business outcomes so you can make critical decisions to pivot or iterate. Activate and radiate change to mature your product org and scale products. Experienced product consultants embed to align teams with customer needs and business goals. You get a boost to product strategy and product performance.
Legacy Modernization
Modernize legacy systems
From refactoring to rewrites, we’ve got you covered. We apply a pragmatic approach to automated testing and release monitoring tactics. So you can safely refactor with confidence and renovate existing systems—while avoiding an expensive, time-consuming rewrite. If circumstances point to a rewrite as the best option, we’re still here for you. We have experience with large and complex rewrites, including training on new tech.
Upgrade Rails
Upgrade Rails seamlessly
Upgrade to secure, stable, and supported versions of Rails (and other mission critical languages, frameworks, libraries, and tooling). Clients like GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, and more chose Test Double to upgrade existing Rails applications forward and avoid risks. You get more than a predictable upgrade plan: we mentor your team to stay updated. Because there’s always another Rails version update.
DevOps
Scale DevOps smoothly
Evolve your DevOps to achieve more predictable costs and observable infrastructure for better decision making. We help cut cloud costs, increase security, and uncover more efficient processes so you scale sustainably in the right way at the right time. We go further, and ensure DevOps tooling is understood and can be managed by everyone on the team.
Technical Recruitment
Build tech teams from leaders to ICs
To recruit the right-fit software engineers, product managers, and tech leaders you need to speak their language. We do. Collaborating with our 90+ developers and product managers offers ongoing insights into the software landscape. We make candidate-centric placements, plus improve processes for lasting impact. So you hire the right people faster, and are prepped for future hiring success.
Technical & Product Assessments
Uncover root causes with assessments
Trying to get more out of your software investment, but don't know where to start? Sometimes you need a fresh perspective. Our technical assessments, product assessments, and due diligence assessments uncover blockers and areas for targeted improvement. We've seen a lot over the years, from growing pains to process clusters. We’ll identify low-hanging fruit and where to focus the work.
Tech & Techniques
We also speak a bunch of languages, frameworks, tooling, and techniques. And we’ll meet your team where they are, using your tools and processes.
Working with Bob, Kevin and the Test Double team has been a great experience. Bob jumped into product at IGS and started providing value day one. Through his coaching, mentoring and actionable advice, Bob was able to elevate our product org as a whole.
The last time I hired TD, their devs had a production commit by end of day one and were completing stories just like staff by end of week one.
We're not only building this fast, we're building it RIGHT. We're building it to be scalable and highly maintainable while also striking a balance between current optimization and premature optimization.
Test Double wasn’t just in a rush to fill open seats. Instead, they worked with us as a business partner to ensure optimal technical and cultural fit.
Hot take: just have Test Double build all your stuff.
A software project delivered on time. Who would have guessed?!
Test Double delivered a performance that in one case doubled our throughput . . . Steve continues to see around corners— identifying gaps in our architecture, proposing and implementing new approaches. I couldn’t imagine this project succeeding without his technical leadership.
Kenneth delivered features quickly from week one and enabled us to catch the school sales cycle for our new product. He also did extra credit beyond the sprint: raised the bar on automated testing and proactively helped ramp up new team members. Kenneth reshaped my views on the value an embedded contractor can bring to a team.
No task is too big or small, too glamorous or dirty—they are all handled with care and attention to detail. Test Double has been by far my favorite consulting experience in my career.
Test Double just works. I never have to worry about the level of skill and experience. Test Double always has it. I also never have to worry about trying to work their way. Instead, they work in my way—but always seek to improve it.
Each and every Test Double agent brings a spirit of empathy, humility, and earnestness to their work. They bring new and exciting ideas to the team without a lot of fanfare or ego. They coach and educate without being corrective or judgmental. They empowered our employees to lead efforts and encouraged them along the way. They became part of the fabric of the team—not them and us, but one team.
Matt Jones is a rock star. He has taken it upon himself to resolve several thorny issues. Just this morning he spiked out some code that made my request for the team to get a round-trip of a use case done super obvious about how to proceed. Bravo.
I love Test Double. I’m going to be working with them until I retire.
After one detailed conversation, Anya was able to anticipate our business needs and create a customized approach to recruiting that would work for our team and our industry. We accomplished what we set out to do—and Anya made suggestions for improvements that would directly impact recruitment.
Give Test Double your hardest problems to solve.
Working with the Test Double team was very comfortable. They had deep experience with Rails and jumping into new codebases. They have good communication skills, they’re collaborative and are able to move forward quickly.
The Test Double team’s deep understanding of AWS and the DevOps tooling translated into a streamlined project schedule and immediate infrastructure cost savings.
Test Double has provided invaluable insight and resources to Pink Ribbon Girls. Their work on Metabase and the app has allowed us to grow our services exponentially with room to expand into other locations throughout the country.
The technology backbone developed by Test Double made this project possible at the scale that was achieved. Test Double instantly jumped in to help bring the Curbside Concerts project to life. By providing two developers they worked several weeks to stand up the online interface and a custom scheduling tool to receive concert requests and schedule routes for the driver and artist that enabled us to bring joy to over 700 seniors amidst the height of the pandemic.
Since engaging Test Double, attrition has gone down and morale has gone up. It was a really easy discussion with my finance team to explain why we wanted to keep working with you all.
Test Double has been a pleasure to work with, and they’ve been instrumental in revamping our platform. Their work has streamlined our deployments and sharpened our focus on delivering to our customers.
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