Case studies Healthtech

Resource Augmentation for a Healthtech Platform

Healthtech Startup (Patient Care Transition)

Stood up a full-stack development squad inside a fast-growing healthtech client's sprints — doubling delivery velocity in three months.

  • resource augmentation
  • frontend
  • backend
  • qa automation
Sprint velocity (38 → 75 pts)
1 week
Squad time-to-productive

Challenge

A rapidly growing healthtech platform was outpacing its internal engineering capacity. Feature delivery was slipping, and the team had no QA automation discipline to support the release cadence their customers expected. They needed people on keyboards in days, not months.

Solution

We deployed a senior front-end and back-end squad with embedded project management and QA. The team ramped up inside the client's sprint cadence in one week, took ownership of feature workstreams, and stood up an automation testing framework alongside the build.

Outcome

Sprint delivery velocity grew from 38 to 75 story points — a ~2× increase — within three months. Feature roadmap commitments started landing ahead of schedule rather than behind it. The QA automation framework outlived the engagement and is still in use.

Challenge

The client operated a fast-growing patient-care-transition platform. Engineering capacity hadn’t kept pace with the customer commitments the business had made — and the gap between what was on the roadmap and what was actually shipping was widening every sprint. They also had no automated test coverage backing their release cadence, which meant every deploy carried more risk than the team was comfortable with.

Solution

We deployed a senior squad — front-end and back-end engineers, an embedded project manager, and a QA engineer — into the client’s existing sprint cadence. The team was contributing PRs by the end of the first week.

In parallel, our QA engineer stood up an automation testing framework that the client’s existing engineers could extend. This wasn’t a parallel deliverable; it was tied directly to the feature work the squad was already shipping.

Outcome

Sprint velocity grew from 38 to 75 story points within three months — roughly a 2× improvement. Roadmap commitments started landing ahead of schedule rather than slipping behind. The QA automation framework outlived our engagement and is still in use as the backbone of the client’s release pipeline.

Tech & capabilities

  • TypeScript / React
  • Node.js
  • Cypress
  • PostgreSQL
The team was contributing to our codebase by the end of week one. By month three our roadmap was ahead, not behind.

— Engineering Lead

Healthtech Platform

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