Testing and automation

Testing & Automation Engineering for Retail and Commerce

UWorx delivers tailored testing and automation solutions that protect revenue, reduce risk and accelerate your release cycles — so your customers never experience the bugs, your board never hears about the outage, and your teams ship with confidence.

Quality isn’t a phase. It’s a competitive advantage.

Retailers and brands operate in environments where a single failed deployment can mean lost transactions, damaged trust and costly rollbacks. UWorx embeds quality engineering across your delivery lifecycle from strategy and test design through automated regression and go-live assurance. We combine deep retail domain knowledge with modern tooling to deliver testing that’s faster, smarter and built around your commercial calendar. Whether you’re managing POS rollouts, ecommerce platform migrations, payment integrations or omnichannel fulfilment, our teams have done it before, and we bring that experience to every engagement.

100+ software engineers.

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25,000+ automated tests.

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1 b+ transactions processed yearly.

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10k+ of successful major releases.

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100 +

software engineers.

25 k+

automated tests.

1 b+

transactions processed yearly.

10 K

of successful major releases.

Testimonial

“UWorx has provided valuable support to Flooid through TAAS automation capability and flexible burst capacity, helping us accelerate delivery, expand automation capability, and strengthen
capacity where it was needed most to support our customers.”

Paul Lynch
Director of Quality Engineering at Flooid

What we Test

Our testing and automation capabilities

Functional & Regression Testing

We design and execute comprehensive test suites across web, mobile, POS and back-office systems. Our retail-specific test artefact library accelerates onboarding and ensures coverage from day one — reducing your ramp-up time and protecting critical trading paths

Test Automation Engineering

We build scalable, maintainable automation frameworks using tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress and Appium. Our engineers don’t just automate test cases — they architect automation strategies that integrate into your CI/CD pipelines, giving you fast feedback loops and the confidence to release more frequently.

Performance & Load Testing

Peak trading events like Black Friday, Back-to-School and Boxing Day put enormous pressure on retail systems. We simulate real-world load conditions to identify bottlenecks before your customers do — ensuring your platform scales when it matters most.

Integration & API Testing

Modern commerce relies on dozens of interconnected systems — OMS, ERP, payment gateways, loyalty platforms, fulfilment engines. We validate the data flows and handshakes between them, catching the integration failures that manual testing routinely misses.

Test Strategy & Consultancy

Not every organisation needs more testers. Some need a better approach. We assess your current testing maturity, identify gaps and design pragmatic test strategies that align effort with commercial risk — helping you test less, but test smarter.

How we work

Flexible engagement models built around your needs

Every retailer’s testing challenge is different. Some need a fully managed test team embedded in their delivery programme.
Others need targeted automation expertise for a specific platform migration. We offer three engagement models designed to flex
with your requirements:

Managed Test Teams:

Dedicated, scaled testing capability operating as an extension of your in-house team, with full accountability for quality outcomes.

Project-Based Testing:

Focused test delivery for defined programmes of work — platform upgrades, new integrations, go-live assurance.

Testing as a Service (UTAAS):

Dedicated experts managing your tech operations, freeing your team to focus on business growth.

WHY UWorx ?

Why retailers and brands choose UWorx.

Retail-first expertise	Our testers understand trading calendars, peak events, POS environments, omnichannel journeys and the commercial pressure of retail IT. We don’t need a six week learning curve.
Proven artefact library	Years of retail testing have produced a comprehensive library of test cases, frameworks and accelerators that reduce onboarding time and increase coverage from the outset.
Embedded, not outsourced	We operate as part of your team. Same standups, same tools, same goals. Our approach is proactive, transparent and built on trus
Commercial accountability	We tie our performance to your outcomes. Clear reporting, joint quality reviews and measurable KPIs mean you always know the value you’re getting.

Ready to make quality your competitive edge?

Whether you’re planning a platform migration, preparing for peak trading or looking to build long-term automation capability, we’d welcome the conversation.