WebDepend - a UK-based independent website testing company

About WebDepend

Testing software and websites for over 15 years

WebDepend was founded in 2009

We began life in December 2009, as a UK-based independent website, web application and mobile app testing company. We've been providing testing services to our customers for over 15 years.

What we test

We test a wide variety of projects including websites, ecommerce sites, mobile apps and web applications, and have built up a huge range of experience, testing hundreds of projects over the years. Sometimes we test individual projects for our clients, we call this project testing. More often, our testing services are utilised frequently on an ongoing basis, either as and when required or on a retained basis.

Who we work with

We work with brands, businesses, SaaS and digital agencies, providing functionality, browser and mobile compatibility testing and user experience testing services. Our services extend to providing accessibility testing, automation testing and test planning.

We're their 'QA department'

For many of our customers, we are their QA department, testing everything built by their in-house development team before launch. Check out our Services page for more details.

Browsers and devices covered

We test across all major web browsers and mobile devices, updating the standard browsers we support as new versions are released. We also continually refresh our in-house mobile devices so that we're always testing on the latest iPhones and Android phones. There are many benefits to asking us to test your website, here are some of them.

Testing Manager

Our testing services are underpinned by our in-house Testing Manager platform, which we use to manage projects, raise and track bugs, integrate with your project management software.

Small businesses to global brands

Our Clients

Customers of WebDepend range from small firms and ecommerce businesses to global brands and multinational corporations.
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We also work with many digital agencies, testing the sites and apps they are building for customers. We are equally at home whether we are testing a small Wordpress build or a critical web application for a FTSE 250 organisation.

Key Clients: Poundland, Integrate, The Thinking Traveller, Crafter's Companion, Filter, David Lloyd Leisure, Foolproof, Direct Wines, VOA.

Projects Tested For: Philips, Coca-Cola, AstraZeneca, Volkswagen, SEAT, Volvo, Vauxhall, Fyffes, Crystal Palace FC, Camelot, JP Morgan and Virgin Active.

Sectors: Healthcare, Startups, Agencies, Automotive, Hospitality and Retail.

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Remote first

Meet our team

We're a remote-first company with offices in Exeter, United Kingdom. Headed up by Tom Batey, our 9 team members are predominantly located throughout the UK , with a couple of the team based in Spain and the Middle East.

Each of our testers has a minimum 3 years of commercial testing experience, some testers have been finding bugs for well over 15 years and several of our team are ISTQB certified. Above all, every team member has a thirst for testing, an innate curiosity and desire for finding issues and a collaborative spirit to work with developers, engineers, product and project managers and designers to deliver a robustly tested product, app or website.

Continual learning is a key aspect of life at WebDepend and in 2023 we launched WebDepend University, to accelerate each team member's learning. Each tester has paid time allocated to them for learning and training plus access to a set of training resources, guides and courses.

Tom Batey

Founder & Lead Tester

Experienced tester, manages all our clients and projects whilst supporting the team with whatever they need.

Janette Bryant

Senior Tester

Internal Auditor by profession, began testing almost 20 years ago, joined us in 2022 and tested over 50 projects.

Priya Mahajan

Senior Tester

Over 12 years experience testing apps, ecommerce, websites and, more recently, AI. ISTQB Certified.

Pat Walsh

Senior Tester

Tech-savvy tester who gets quality results, specialising in application and website QA. ISTQB Certified.

Sam Nickson

Senior Tester

Skilled and meticulous, Sam joined WebDepend way back in 2014 and has lead hundreds of testing projects.

Duha Dagmosh

Junior Tester

Over 5 years experience across UI, API, accessibility, performance, SEO and automation. ISTQB certified.

Becky Smith

Administration Assistant

Becky looks after all our admin, manages our schedules and keeps everyone and everything in check.

Want to know more?

We're a friendly team, easy to work with and we're dependable, let's have a chat.

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Our Values

Our core principles guide us in our business conduct and, allied with our skills and considerable experience, ensure our clients benefit from our approach and our abilities. We also find a lot of bugs.

Integrity

Complete honesty in everything that we do.

Transparency

We work with and alongside our customers, providing total transparency to build a long-lasting and strong working relationship.

Trustworthiness

A key component of testing, it is vital that our clients trust us to carry out effective testing of their applications.

Reliability

We will always do what we agreed we'll do, test to the best of our abilities, be objective and become dependable QA partners to your organisation.

Recent Projects

Case Studies

Get a better idea of how we work by looking at our latest projects. From large global companies to more local endeavours we can test any project size.

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