The QA Platform That CFOs, CTOs, and Product Leads All Finally Agree On.
From cost forecasting to quality assurance, Olmeqa's Stripe-integrated ecosystem keeps finance happy, engineering fast, and leadership stress-free.
Anne-Marie Dubois
CFO
Published on February 7, 2025
February 7, 2025
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The QA Platform That CFOs, CTOs, and Product Leads All Finally Agree On
Ask any CTO what frustrates them most about software quality, and they'll say "inconsistency."
Ask a CFO, and they'll say "unpredictable costs."
Ask a Head of Product, and they'll say "missed deadlines."
Three different frustrations, one shared cause — broken visibility.
When QA lives in silos, every team works off different assumptions.
Engineering measures test coverage. Finance measures spend. Product measures velocity.
But none of them see the same truth in real time.
That disconnect doesn't just slow releases — it erodes trust between teams.
A 2024 Deloitte report found that 75% of SaaS scale-ups experience communication breakdowns between engineering, product, and finance during QA cycles, resulting in unnecessary delays, duplicated work, and uncontrolled budgets.
In short: the tech team thinks they're optimizing quality, while leadership thinks they're overspending to fix mistakes that shouldn't exist.
The cost of misalignment
When QA becomes reactive, everything else follows.
Budgets balloon because estimates are made blind. Roadmaps drift because rework eats sprint time. And leadership ends up managing fire drills instead of strategy sessions.
The irony? None of these teams are wrong — they're just looking at fragmented data.
QA metrics rarely translate into business metrics. "Test coverage" doesn't mean much to a CFO. "QA backlog" doesn't mean much to a CEO. And "release velocity" doesn't mean much to a product manager juggling customer deadlines.
But what if everyone could finally see the same numbers — in their own language?
A story from the boardroom
A scale-up in Amsterdam, fresh off a Series B raise, was bleeding productivity from misaligned teams.
The CTO was frustrated with unpredictable QA timelines. The CFO couldn't explain variance in testing costs. The Product Lead was missing delivery dates because no one trusted QA readiness data.
Then they adopted Olmeqa.
Within weeks, they had one shared dashboard that connected QA progress, cost estimation, and release forecasting across departments.
The engineering team saw real-time testing metrics. Finance saw clear, Stripe-backed QA spend forecasts. And product finally had live readiness reports synced directly to their roadmap tools.
The result? QA variance dropped 52%. Sprint predictability rose 47%.
And for the first time, all three departments were speaking the same language — data.
From technical to financial confidence
Olmeqa isn't just another QA tool. It's a visibility platform that turns testing into a measurable business function.
Every QA task is tracked, estimated, verified, and connected to spend — giving you complete transparency from developer commit to customer delivery.
You can forecast cost before testing begins. You can measure ROI on QA spend per release. And you can finally quantify what your quality process is worth to the business.
That's what makes it a leadership tool — not just an engineering one.
Why alignment matters now more than ever
The SaaS industry is maturing. Investors want efficiency. Customers expect reliability. Teams need predictability.
And the companies that survive aren't the ones that move fastest — they're the ones that move together.
Olmeqa gives leadership a shared lens to measure, manage, and optimize software quality with clarity and confidence.
Ready to unify your teams? Run a free cross-department QA audit and turn quality into a shared success metric.
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