Did you know that 72% of organizations commend quality engineering for its role in sustainable IT?
In regulated industries, quality isn’t just a department. It’s a survival mechanism. When you’re working in banking, medical devices, or life sciences, getting it wrong isn’t just a matter of customer satisfaction. It can mean non-compliance, lost certifications, fines, or worse, real-world consequences for people relying on your product to work as expected.
And yet, despite the weight of these responsibilities, many quality teams are still stuck using tools and processes that weren’t built for regulated environments. Manual testing. Flaky automation. Gaps between engineering, QA, and compliance teams. In 2025, that’s starting to shift, not because it’s trendy, but because it has to.
The quality landscape is evolving. And slowly but surely, teams in high-stakes industries are moving toward systems that offer more control, better traceability, and meaningful insights, without slowing everything down.
Here’s what that looks like in practice.
Why Quality Engineering Is Finally Being Taken Seriously
In regulated industries, quality can’t just be a final check. It has to be built into the process from the start. That’s why quality engineering is getting more attention, and more responsibility, than ever before.
Across the medical device industry, pharma, and the manufacturing sector, quality engineers are stepping up. They’re not just catching defective products. They’re helping shape how teams build, test, and deliver, long before anything reaches a customer or an auditor.
Today, the role looks a lot different than it did even a few years ago. Whether someone’s in an entry-level role with an associate’s degree, or leading a quality team from a management position, the expectations are higher.
Teams are looking for people who understand statistical process control, can run root cause analysis, help drive process improvement, and make sense of customer feedback in a way that actually improves product quality.
This work spans departments. Quality engineers now sit with design teams, work alongside software testers, talk to supply chain, and collaborate across other teams. It’s no longer about finding what’s broken. It’s about making sure fewer things break in the first place.
That’s especially true in regulated manufacturing environments (such as medical devices), where it’s not just about speed or efficiency. It’s about proving that every decision, every test, every process meets quality standards and can hold up in an audit.
For companies that take this seriously, quality becomes a competitive edge. Not a bottleneck. Not a formality. A real part of how you build better products, faster, and with fewer surprises.
Compliance is becoming part of the process, not a final check
In the past, it was common to treat quality assurance as a phase near the end of the production process. You’d finish the build, pass it to QA, and expect them to test, document, and sign off. Then you’d package everything up for the compliance team to review.
That model no longer works. Regulatory expectations are higher, and the complexity of today’s manufacturing processes and software development means compliance risks can creep in at any point. If you don’t catch them early, they’ll surface at the worst time: during an audit, or worse, after release.
Today’s best teams are embedding quality into every step of development. That means collaborating earlier, running appropriate tests as features are being built, and creating systems where every test and outcome is traceable, not just for internal teams, but for external auditors.
This is where TestResults comes in.
TestResults is an automation platform designed for teams in regulated environments. It allows you to run fully automated, end-to-end tests across your entire process, from software interfaces to hardware integration, without relying on code. But it’s not just about speed. What makes TestResults different is how it handles traceability, test evidence, and repeatability.
With every test, the platform generates detailed documentation: video recordings, screenshots, logs, and step-by-step tracking. All of this is version-controlled and automatically stored. So when an auditor asks to see how a feature was tested, or when the compliance team needs evidence for a regulatory submission, it’s all there—organized and accessible.
No digging through folders. No scrambling to recreate results. Just clean, traceable proof.
Automation is finally reliable enough for high-stakes work
For years, regulated industries were hesitant to rely on test automation. And for good reason. Most frameworks are fragile, require heavy scripting, and break the moment something in the interface changes. That kind of flakiness isn’t just annoying, it’s dangerous in a compliance-driven setting. You can’t afford to rerun dozens of tests just because a button was moved or a font changed.
This is another area where TestResults changes the game. The platform uses image-based automation and runs tests the way a human would, interacting with the full user interface, rather than relying on unstable element locators. That means fewer false positives, fewer test failures due to small UI changes, and a dramatically reduced need for maintenance.
It also means you don’t need a team of developers to write and maintain your tests. Engineers, testers, and even business users can build reliable automation using a visual flow, and trust the results. In fact, teams using TestResults report up to a 99% reduction in false positives.
For teams in industries like medtech or pharma, where regression tests need to be repeated often, across multiple versions and environments, this kind of reliability isn’t just nice to have. It’s essential.
Documentation, traceability, and audits. All handled automatically
Let’s talk about audits. No one enjoys them, but they’re part of the deal when you work in regulated industries. Whether it’s the FDA, ISO, or internal quality checks, you’re expected to provide a clear record of what was tested, how it was tested, and what the results were.
TestResults automatically generates this kind of documentation in the background of every test run. Screenshots at every step. Full video recordings. Timestamps. Logs. You can go back and review any test, when it was run, what data it used, and what the expected and actual results were.
This isn’t just for peace of mind. It makes it easier to meet industry standards, demonstrate compliance with quality systems, and provide proof that your testing process is both consistent and aligned with your quality standards.
In industries where customer expectations and regulatory requirements are constantly increasing, that kind of transparency can save your team days, if not weeks, of preparation when audit season rolls around.
A smarter way to improve your process quality
In a regulated setting, improving quality isn’t just about reducing bugs or catching more defects. It’s about refining the entire production process to eliminate variability and build more reliable products. That means having systems in place to detect patterns, surface insights, and make data-driven decisions, not just reacting when something breaks.
TestResults gives teams the visibility they need to do this. It’s not just a tool for running tests. It’s a tool for understanding what your tests are telling you.
You can see which areas of your application or system are most prone to failures. You can analyze how long tests take, where they get stuck, and how often they pass or fail. This kind of feedback helps teams run smarter.
It also encourages continuous improvement. If you’re running the same tests over time, across different versions or configurations, you can track trends and spot opportunities for optimization. Over time, this reduces waste, improves overall quality, and makes your manufacturing staff, engineers, and compliance teams more confident in what they’re building.
The human side still matters
All the automation in the world doesn’t change the fact that people still drive quality. It’s the critical thinking of your quality engineers, their attention to detail, and their understanding of both business processes and regulatory constraints that makes systems like TestResults effective.
The best tools don’t replace that, they support it. TestResults was built with that mindset. It empowers quality teams by taking the manual grunt work off their plate, so they can focus on the decisions that really matter.
In 2025, you need to make quality engineering work for you
If you're working in a regulated industry in 2025, the stakes aren’t getting lower. Products are getting more complex. Standards are getting tighter. Expectations are rising.
And yet, many teams are still using tools that weren’t made for this kind of environment. They’re stitching together screenshots, scrambling for test evidence, or re-running flaky scripts that break under pressure.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
TestResults gives regulated teams the stability, traceability, and automation they need to meet today's standards, and stay ahead of tomorrow’s.
Because when quality is critical, your tools should be too.
