Instant Offices
Global flexible-workspace group — Instant Offices, coworker.com, easyoffices
Three brands. One QA strategy. Cloud-migrated, end-to-end.
We rebuilt the entire QA and test automation programme for one of the world’s largest flexible-workspace groups — covering Instant Offices, coworker.com and easyoffices. One scalable, reusable Playwright + TypeScript framework across all three brands, full CI/CD test integration on every build, and engineering support across a major cloud migration with disaster recovery.
A global workspace platform with three brands and no real automation.
Instant Offices powers the search, listing and booking of flexible workspace at a global scale — through three consumer-facing brands: Instant Offices, coworker.com and easyoffices. Three different domains, three different audiences, one shared engineering platform. They needed a QA programme that could keep up — and an infrastructure migration off ageing servers without a regression nightmare.
One framework. Three brands. Reusable everywhere.
We built a robust, scalable and highly reusable test automation strategy that spans all three brands inside the group. The same framework, the same patterns, the same conventions — instead of three disconnected suites that age separately. Reuse is what made it sustainable: when a flow is shared across brands, it’s tested once and trusted everywhere.
- Single Playwright + TypeScript framework across all three brands
- Shared page objects, fixtures and utilities
- 200+ end-to-end tests per project / per brand
- Auditing & QA gates at every point in the delivery pipeline
Playwright — UI and API, in the same framework.
We built out the company’s automation capability from scratch using Playwright and TypeScript. One framework covers both the front-end UI flows and the backend API contracts — no second tool to maintain, no second context to keep in your head. Tests are stable, parallel-safe and engineered for reuse across the three brands.
- UI end-to-end automation with Playwright
- Backend / API automation in the same framework
- Stable selectors and page-object architecture
- Tests treated like product code: reviewed, typed, peer-merged
From PR build to production smoke — fully automated.
Every project — Instant Offices, coworker.com, easyoffices — runs the relevant tests on every pull request and every staging deployment. Once a release ships to production, an automated smoke suite fires against the live site to confirm the critical paths are still green. Manual exploratory testing fills the gaps automation will never catch.
- PR builds run the relevant suite before merge
- Staging deployments trigger full regression
- Production smoke tests run automatically post-release
- Manual exploratory testing alongside the automation
Rackspace → AWS, including disaster recovery.
We supported a major infrastructure migration off ageing Rackspace servers onto AWS, including disaster recovery setup. The CI/CD tooling moved alongside — from Azure / TeamCity onto AWS-native pipelines. Test coverage was the safety net throughout: every regression risk in the migration was something the automated suite was already watching.
- Rackspace → AWS server migration
- Disaster recovery configured and validated
- CI/CD migrated from Azure / TeamCity to AWS
- Migration validated with the same regression suite that runs every PR
Migrated, supported, tested.
We supported the CMS migration that ran in parallel with the cloud move, and provided testing support for the internal CRM system that powers the workspace operators side of the business. SEO support went hand-in-hand with the CMS work — making sure the migration didn’t cost the brands hard-won search rankings.
PHP Laravel on the back. React on the front.
The engineering platform behind the brands runs on PHP / Laravel with a React front end. We worked the seams between the two — validating contracts, catching regressions, and contributing to testability conventions on both sides.
Stakeholders, developers, accessibility — all in the room.
We worked agile (Scrum) with stakeholders to define requirements, testability, user experience and accessibility up front — not after. We worked alongside developers to improve performance, raise the testability bar and feed real-user observations back into the roadmap. Defects were triaged and prioritised in Jira on a tight cadence so nothing got buried.
What we delivered
- Test strategy from scratch
- Scalable, reusable, multi-brand test architecture
- Playwright UI + API automation
- Full CI/CD test integration
- Production smoke testing
- Manual exploratory testing
- Cloud migration support (Rackspace → AWS)
- Disaster recovery validation
- CI/CD migration (Azure / TeamCity → AWS)
- CMS migration support
- CRM system testing support
- SEO support during migration
- Stakeholder & accessibility partnership
- Defect triage & prioritisation
Tech & tools
- Playwright
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Laravel
- React
- AWS
- Rackspace (legacy)
- Azure (legacy)
- TeamCity (legacy)
- Jira
- Agile (Scrum)
Each of the brands we delivered the QA programme across.
- Instant OfficesGlobal flexible workspace platform — official site
- CoworkerCoworking spaces directory — official site
- Easy OfficesOffice space search — official site
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Multi-brand programme on the horizon?
If you run more than one brand on a shared engineering platform, we’ve done it — properly.
