Darksiders is a software testing practice based in Everett, Washington, working with engineering teams who need to know — not hope — that a release is ready.
Plenty of testing suppliers optimize for the size of the report. We optimize for what your team can still run six months after we've gone. The artifacts we leave behind — the suite, the pipeline config, the test data tooling — should be earning their keep long after the invoice clears.
That shapes how we work. We test against production-realistic data rather than the three happy-path records in your staging database. We raise defects in your tracker the day we confirm them, not batched into a document at the end. And we pair with your engineers throughout, because a suite nobody on your team understands is a liability we'd rather not hand you.
We don't sell licenses for tools we also recommend. We don't pad defect counts to justify a day rate — a quiet week is a good outcome, and we'll say so. And we won't take on a suite we think should be deleted rather than rescued; sometimes the honest answer is to start again, and that conversation is cheaper before you've paid us.
Darksiders is led by Richard Rico. You deal directly with the person doing the testing — no account manager in the middle, no handoff to a team you haven't met, and no discovering on week three that your engagement was staffed with whoever happened to be free.
Based in Everett, Washington, and set up to work remotely with teams in any time zone. On-site engagements around the Puget Sound region are straightforward to arrange.
The situations where we tend to be most useful.
Developers testing their own work, coverage drifting, and nobody with the time to own quality end to end.
Tests that fail randomly, get re-run until green, then get skipped entirely the moment a release is urgent.
A migration, a launch, or a compliance deadline where "we think it's fine" isn't a good enough answer.