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About Certance

Certance was built on one belief: coverage matters when it maps to what the business depends on. We make software quality visible and defensible for regulated teams, with judgement earned in financial services, life sciences, and defence systems.

About

I started Certance after watching a portfolio dashboard pass every test it had and still show the wrong numbers. In regulated financial services, the gap between what a test suite checks and what the business depends on is everywhere, and almost no one can see it.

I have spent 13 years in regulated software delivery, building and leading test automation, and today I am a Chapter Lead at a global investment bank. Earlier, I worked in life sciences and defence systems, where a missed failure has real consequences. I built the test framework and the AI agent pipeline Certance runs on, and learned which quality practices survive audits, refactors and the load of continuous integration. Certance turns that judgement into something your team can own. Our work as a quality engineering consultancy starts with the Coverage & Evidence Audit.

Ivan Stepantsov, Founder, Certance Advisory · GitHub
What we believe
Coverage matters when it maps to what the business depends on.
A flaky test is an unreliable quality signal that erodes trust in every release.
The work should outlast the engagement. Everything we build can be owned and run by your team.

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