About
Kazandim Solutions partners with organizations to build, scale, and elevate their software quality capabilities, from strategy to execution. Our focus is on quality strategies that survive real teams, real budgets, and real production systems.
We were founded by Erik van der Kamp, a Quality Assurance leader who specializes in transforming legacy testing practices into modern, shift-left quality disciplines. Erik started his career as an individual contributor and grew into an organizational leader. His experience ranges from establishing QA departments to directing globally distributed testing teams.
This is not a staffing agency. Our goal is to help organizations evolve from reactive testing to proactive engineering through sustainable automation, sound processes, and measurable outcomes.
If your organization is ready to treat quality as a competitive advantage:
Our Services
We don’t just find defects. We help you build the systems, culture, and processes that prevent them.
Quality Strategy
Assess your current quality posture and define a roadmap aligned to your business objectives, development cycles, and technology stack.
- Current-state quality assessment
- Test validation strategy
- Automation suitability and ROI analysis
Quality Engineering
Transform your deployment process to catch issues before they hit production.
- Architecting scalable automation frameworks
- CI/CD integration with quality gates
- API, cloud, and AI-assisted testing
Quality Leadership
Stand up or scale QA functions including manual, automated, mobile, and performance testing with the governance and metrics to prove value.
- Building and scaling globally distributed teams
- Vendor management and governance
- Building a culture of quality
Quality Governance
Develop the test plans, traceability matrices, and reporting frameworks that give leadership visibility and teams clarity.
- Test plans and test cases
- Requirements traceability matrices
- Results and quality reporting
How we work
A clear, collaborative path from first conversation to measurable quality.
Discover
We learn all about your product, team structure, and quality goals to establish a baseline.
Assess
We evaluate your release process, tools, and risks to identify the biggest wins.
Execute
We build the strategy, frameworks, and controls that support your team.
Improve
We report results, prove value, and drive continuous improvement.
Experience that scales
Selected results from a career focused on building, scaling, and governing quality.
Enterprise QA at scale
- Directed enterprise Quality Services for 2,000+ stores and 100,000+ employees
- Led global onshore and offshore vendor teams across manual, automation, and performance testing
- Set KPI-driven quality metrics to proactively reduce defect escape rates and delivery risk
Global teams, zero-downtime releases
- Led a global QA organization of 30 across the U.S. and India
- Oversaw QA for 50+ websites serving 12M+ members, including the TRICARE West program
- Ensured release readiness for 100+ projects a year, driving automation adoption and team upskilling
Tool strategy, vendors, and licensing
- Migrated and validated 130,000 legacy test artifacts into a modern test management platform
- Led a test automation upgrade migrating 3,000+ scripts across 20 project teams
- Owned vendor relationships, licensing strategy, and renewals, with budget oversight across Security, Legal, Finance, and Engineering
Building quality from the ground up
- Founded a company’s first dedicated QA department, with its strategies, standards, and policies
- Standardized test scope, estimation, and defect lifecycle processes, and added early automation that eliminated extra resource needs
- Led a Defect Causal Analysis program that significantly reduced defect escape rates
Recommendation
Erik is a strategic thinker with a strong understanding of testing methodologies and best practices. Their meticulous attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality results have been instrumental in elevating our testing standards and improving our overall product quality.
Author & Speaker
Sharing the lessons of a lifetime focused on quality, both in print and on stage.
New book from Apress
Much Ado About Automation
A Playwright Guide for Java
Framed as a theatrical production, this book uses Acts and Scenes to walk you through building a professional, sustainable automation system from the ground up: from your first script to a fully integrated CI/CD pipeline with quality gates that protect your main branch.
- Master Playwright’s core capabilities, including reliable locators with the Bullseye Model
- Build scalable, maintainable frameworks integrated with CI/CD
- Apply automation strategy and ROI analysis to build a culture of quality
- Understand the opportunities and limits of AI in test automation
Keynote at TestIstanbul 2026
“Much Ado About Automation: A Playwright Roadmap From First Test To Enterprise Architecture”
A roadmap from a first Playwright test to enterprise automation architecture, drawn from the book. The 17th International TestIstanbul Conference is organized by the Turkish Testing Board, an ISTQB member organization.
Conference details (opens in a new tab)In the long run, superior quality is the only way to achieve enduring success.
Frequently asked questions
The Journey Starts Here
Tell us about your project and we will help you ship with confidence.
- Bay Area, CA
- Available worldwide, remotely
- Erik van der Kamp on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
