SimQA — Ship or Die: the QA management sim

SimQA is a 5-minute browser-based management sim where you play the QA lead at a startup the day before a major launch. You triage a backlog of failing tests, decide which checks to ship and which to quarantine, allocate a fixed budget across automation, manual testing, and dev fixes — and then watch what happens when 100,000 users hit production.

Use it for onboarding new QA leads, running retro exercises on incident response, or as a low-stakes way to teach engineers what tradeoffs the QA function actually makes under deadline pressure. There's no "correct" playthrough — the game models the same uncomfortable choices real teams face when coverage is thin and the calendar is fixed.

Your final score combines user satisfaction, post-launch bug volume, and team morale. A high score means you balanced velocity against reliability under pressure. A low score usually means you either over-invested in coverage and missed the launch window, or shipped fast and got crushed by P0 bugs in week one. The post-game scoreboard breaks each metric out so you can spot which lever you misused.