Staff Augmentation
Add Engineering CapacityWithout the Six-Week Hiring Cycle
Dedicated QA, Automation, and AI Testing Engineers who join your team, your stack, your sprint cadence, vetted, ready, billed monthly.
Days, not weeks
Typically within days of a scoping call, not a six-week hiring cycle.
Vetted by Senior Engineers
Every Engineer is screened by Senior practitioners before meeting your team.
Zero recruitment fee
One monthly rate. No placement fee, no surprise line items.
Roles
Five Roles, One Standard of Vetting
Staff augmentation done in a way that survives month six
The staff-augmentation model has a bad reputation for a reason.
The staff-augmentation model has a bad reputation for a reason. Too often it means a CV arrives, a body starts, and quality is unchanged three months later because nobody scoped what the person was supposed to own. We treat it as an ownership question first: what outcome is this Engineer accountable for, and what would have to be true for them to deliver it?
That is why every engagement starts with a scoping call taken by a Senior Engineer rather than a salesperson, and why the first fortnight of any embedded role is spent mapping risk rather than clearing a backlog. An Engineer who understands what actually hurts in your product makes better decisions for the following year than one who was handed a ticket queue on day one.
Five roles, one standard of vetting
Every one of them is assessed by our Senior QA leadership through practical work rather than a CV screen: diagnose a flaky suite, design coverage under time pressure, review test code and justify the changes.
Every one of them is assessed by our Senior QA leadership through practical work rather than a CV screen: diagnose a flaky suite, design coverage under time pressure, review test code and justify the changes. We also screen for the behaviours that decide whether an embedded Engineer succeeds, writing a defect report a developer can act on, pushing back on an ambiguous requirement, explaining risk to a product owner without jargon.
QA Engineers: risk-based test design, exploratory depth, defect quality and release-readiness ownership.
Automation Engineers: framework architecture, selector contracts, CI runtime budgets and the flake backlog.
AI/LLM Testing Engineers: golden datasets, evaluation harnesses, prompt regression and agent validation.
DevOps Engineers: pipelines that gate rather than merely deploy, reproducible environments and resilience validation.
Full-stack developers: React, Node, Java, Python and .NET Engineers who ship features with coverage attached.
How this compares to the alternatives
Hiring permanently is the right answer when the need is long-term, the role is well understood, and you can absorb a three-month search plus a ramp.
Hiring permanently is the right answer when the need is long-term, the role is well understood, and you can absorb a three-month search plus a ramp. Augmentation is the better answer when the need is immediate, the specialism is narrow, or you want to prove the shape of the role before committing a headcount to it. A project engagement is better again when the work has a defined end, a framework build, an audit, a migration.
We would rather tell you which of those fits than sell the one we happen to be on. Our honest comparison of the options, including the case for not hiring us at all, is in QA Outsourcing Alternatives, and the case for augmenting a team that already has QA is in Why Outsource QA Even When You Have an In-House Team.
Engagement path
From first call to embedded Engineer
Typically days rather than the weeks a hiring cycle takes, because we are matching from an existing team rather than opening a search.
Scoping call
Thirty minutes with a Senior Engineer on your product, stack, cadence and what the role must own. No sales layer, no discovery deck.
Matching
We match from our existing team on domain, seniority and overlap hours, and say plainly when the right person is not currently free.
You interview
You meet the Engineer and decide. Declining costs nothing, a mismatch is a more expensive problem for us than for you.
Embed and own
They join your stand-ups, tooling and repositories, map risk in the first fortnight, then own the outcome from there.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers, written the way we'd say them on a call.
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Where to go next
The engagement models, markets and services around staff augmentation.
Tell Us Who You Need
Share your stack and gaps, we'll propose Engineers you can interview this week.
- A Senior Engineer replies, not a sales layer
- Within one business day, every time
- NDA available before you share any details
16+
Years QA leadership
16
Testing disciplines
6
Markets served
1
Business day to reply
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