Software test automation is a competitive advantage. We’re making it accessible to everyone.Today, we’re launching our no-code QA platform with a free-forever plan, making software test automation accessible to any product contributor in any company.

By
Fred Stevens-Smith
August 17, 2021
Remote Culture Tips From a Distributed TeamLet's talk about some crucial key components of company culture which are necessary for remote work to thrive.

By
Fred Stevens-Smith
April 29, 2020
A guide to running offsites for remote companiesRunning an ROI-positive company offsite requires careful planning and a clear cultural purpose. We share our learnings from 20 offsites over 5 years.

By
Fred Stevens-Smith
October 9, 2019
Deep Dive into Rainforest Test Writing ServiceLearn how Rainforest Test Writing Service works, and how you can use it to scale up and streamline your test case management workflow.

By
Rainforest Team
May 6, 2019
Rainforest QA Brings Simple and Secure Online Payment Testing to Ecommerce Industry with Virtual Credit CardsRainforest announced Virtual Credit Cards (VCC), a new, patent-pending innovation allowing companies to rapidly and reliably test credit card payments on their web or mobile app.

By
Rainforest Team
April 17, 2018
Growing the Rainforest Team: How 94% of Our Offers Turn into HiresRainforest has a 94% offer-to-hire conversion rate. In this post we share how we've designed an interview process that keeps candidates excited and engaged as they interact with the Rainforest team.

By
Rainforest Team
January 26, 2018
We just raised a Series B. Now it’s time to tackle the QA problem.This new injection of capital allows us to expand our scope to tackle more of the ‘QA Problem’. We’re working towards a day when our customers will be able to rely 100% on Rainforest to drive a multifaceted, nuanced and business-appropriate investment in quality.

By
Fred Stevens-Smith
January 22, 2018
New Feature: Payments Testing on Web & Mobile ApplicationsWe’re excited to release our new feature that enables eCommerce teams or anyone who needs to test credit card transactions on their web or mobile app: virtual credit cards.

By
Rainforest Team
January 18, 2018
9 Essential Blogs Every QA Team Should Read in 2018Are you making testing resolutions for 2018? Check out 9 of our favorite QA blogs and resources for staying up to date with the latest QA and software testing news.

By
Rainforest Team
December 21, 2017
How to Make the Most of Mechanical TurkAmazon’s Mechanical Turk, or mTurk is a powerful, under-appreciated crowdsourcing platform that allows businesses to allocate work to humans programmatically and at scale.

By
Russell Smith
October 12, 2017
Why Vista’s Acquisition of Applause is Bad for Applause CustomersRainforest QA co-founder and CEO Fred Stevens-Smith weighs in on the impact that Vista's acquisition of Applause will have on Applause customers, and why Rainforest provides an innovative alternative.

By
Fred Stevens-Smith
September 5, 2017
How We Maintain a Trustworthy Rainforest Tester NetworkHow do we keep the Rainforest tester network secure? In this post, we’ll dive into how we secure the actual crowd to make sure they are real, trustworthy people (and not robots).

By
Rainforest Team
August 2, 2017
Benefits of a Distributed TeamAt Rainforest QA, having a distributed team is an important part of our culture. In this post, we explore the benefits that we reap from having a distributed team.

By
Derek Choy
June 20, 2017
A Day in the Life of a Rainforest TesterRainforest QA’s software is powered by thousands of testers worldwide. We get a lot of questions about who our testers are and how they interact with Rainforest’s platform in order to deliver fast results to our customers.

By
Rainforest Team
May 30, 2017
An Intro to How We Use VMs for QA TestingAn introduction to the Rainforest Virtual Machine (VM) infrastructure that covers everything from why we use VMs and how we build them to what we do to ensure that they keep us moving fast.

By
Russell Smith
April 25, 2017
Introducing Rainforest Exploratory TestingWe're excited to announce that Rainforest QA now offers Exploratory Testing to super-power our customers' QA efforts.

By
Rainforest Team
March 9, 2017
How We Train Rainforest TestersLearn how Rainforest testers are onboarded and trained, and how Rainforest ensures that testers provide reliable, consistent test results for each run.

By
Lita Stephenson
April 21, 2016
Shipped: JIRA IntegrationProject managers rejoice — we developed a JIRA integration for the Rainforest platform! This integration lets Rainforest users automatically create issues in JIRA when a test fails in Rainforest.

By
Lita Stephenson
March 8, 2016
We just raised a $12mm series A!Today is a big day for QA. I’m incredibly excited to announce that Rainforest QA has raised a $12mm Series A, led by Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners.

By
Fred Stevens-Smith
February 17, 2016
Rainforest QA Series A Press ReleaseRainforest QA, the company replacing the QA team with a QA-as-a-Service platform, today announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by BVP with participation from Rincon Venture Partners, Industry Ventures and Marc Benioff.

By
Rainforest Team
February 16, 2016
Rainforest QA Raises $12 Million in Series A Funding Led by Bessemer Venture PartnersRainforest announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by BVP with participation from Rincon Venture Partners, Industry Ventures and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. Byron Deeter, partner at BVP, will join Rainforest QA’s board of directors.

By
Rainforest Team
February 15, 2016
Using HubSpot? Ad Blockers Are Costing You LeadsHere’s how I uncovered a bug in the HubSpot Marketing Automation platform that is probably hurting you, too, and how you can fix it!

By
Rainforest Team
November 11, 2015
What our $4m seed round means for the QA CommunityIn brief it means much more engagement with all the amazing QAs, QEs and SDETs that make up our community.

By
Russell Smith
February 10, 2015
We just raised $4m!I'm so happy to be able to finally announce that we just closed $4m in Seed funding, to keep building out our vision of new-school QA.

By
Fred Stevens-Smith
February 10, 2015
Introducing Http::ExceptionsRainforest is built on open source and we’ve been doing our best to contribute back to it by extracting Http::Exceptions from the main application.

By
Russell Smith
August 15, 2014