Staff Augmentation
QA EngineersVetted. Embedded. Ready in Days.
Dedicated Manual and functional QA Engineers who join your stand-ups, learn your product deeply, and own quality outcomes, not just ticket counts. Every Engineer is vetted by our Senior QA leadership before they ever meet your team.
Experience levels
Junior · Mid · Senior · Lead
Engagement model
Full-time dedicated, billed monthly
Typical start
Typically within days of a scoping call
Recruitment fee
Zero, monthly billing only
Core stack & skills
An owner of quality, not a pair of hands
There is a version of staff augmentation where a tester arrives, executes whatever is in the tracker, and leaves quality exactly where they found it.
There is a version of staff augmentation where a tester arrives, executes whatever is in the tracker, and leaves quality exactly where they found it. That is not what we are selling. A dedicated QA Engineer from our team joins your stand-ups, learns your product deeply enough to argue with a product owner about an edge case, and takes ownership of outcomes, release readiness, coverage, defect quality, rather than ticket throughput.
In practice that means the first fortnight looks different from what teams expect. Rather than executing a backlog immediately, a good QA Engineer spends it mapping what actually matters: which flows carry revenue or safety risk, where the product has historically broken, what is covered, and what everybody assumes is covered but is not. The coverage decisions made in that fortnight determine the value of the following year.
How we vet, and why it is not a CV screen
Every Engineer is assessed by our Senior QA leadership before they reach a client, and the assessment is practical rather than biographical.
Every Engineer is assessed by our Senior QA leadership before they reach a client, and the assessment is practical rather than biographical. Candidates work through problems from real engagements: diagnose why this suite is flaky, design coverage for this feature under time pressure, review this test code and say what you would change. A CV tells you what someone has been near. A working session tells you how they think when the answer is not obvious.
We also screen for the things that decide whether an embedded Engineer succeeds: whether they write a defect report a developer can act on, whether they push back when a requirement is ambiguous, and whether they can explain a technical risk to a product owner without either patronising them or hiding behind jargon. Those matter more than tool familiarity, which is learnable in a fortnight.
What the role covers day to day
Risk-based test design traced to requirements, so coverage can be evidenced rather than asserted, the discipline described under functional Testing.
Session-based exploratory Testing with written charters, which is where the defects nobody predicted are found.
Ownership of the regression picture: what runs when, what it covers, and what gets added after every production escape.
Reproducible defect reports with evidence, environment and honest severity, reports developers act on rather than bounce back.
API-level verification with Postman, because a QA Engineer who can only test through a UI is Testing the slowest layer available.
A release-readiness view your team can act on: what passed, what failed, what was not covered, and the risk of shipping today.
How the commercials work
Engagements are billed as a monthly rate per Engineer, with no separate recruitment fee and no placement charge.
Engagements are billed as a monthly rate per Engineer, with no separate recruitment fee and no placement charge. You interview the person we match before anything starts, and you can decline, matching is our job, not a fait accompli. An NDA is available before you share any details, and everything the Engineer produces lives in your repositories under your ownership.
Typical time to start is days after a scoping call rather than the weeks or months a hiring process takes, because we are matching from an existing team rather than opening a search. If the engagement needs to end, it ends with a handover rather than a cliff. Full commercial detail, including how project and fractional models compare, is on the pricing page.
Engagement path
From first call to embedded Engineer
Four steps, typically days rather than the weeks a hiring process takes.
Scoping call
Thirty minutes on your product, stack, cadence, time zone and what the role actually needs to own. No sales layer, a Senior Engineer takes the call.
Matching
We match from our existing team on domain fit, seniority and overlap hours, and tell you honestly if the right person is not currently available.
You interview
You meet the Engineer and decide. Declining is a normal outcome and costs nothing, a bad match is more expensive for us than for you.
Embed and own
They join your stand-ups and tooling, spend the first fortnight mapping risk, then own coverage and release readiness from there.
Deliverables
What the engagement includes
Everything the Engineer produces lives in your repositories and your tooling, under your ownership.
Handover pack
6 artefacts · yours to keep
A named Engineer embedded in your sprint cadence and communication channels
A risk-based coverage map produced in the first weeks, not a backlog of tickets
Maintained test suites in your Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail or Xray instance
Defect reports with evidence, environment and severity written from the user's view
Release-readiness summaries stating explicitly what was not covered
Senior QA leadership oversight behind the Engineer at no extra cost
Self-check
Signs you need this role
If more than one of these is true, it is usually cheaper to fix now than after the next release.
Developers are Testing their own work and nobody has time to disagree with them
Releases slip because Testing starts after code complete rather than alongside it
Hiring a permanent QA Engineer would take three months you do not have
Nobody can evidence what was tested before the last release
Quality is everyone's responsibility, which in practice means nobody's
A Senior Engineer replies within one business day. NDA first.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers, written the way we'd say them on a call.
Still curious? Talk to usKeep reading
Where to go next
Teams hiring QA Engineers usually read these next.
Need QA Engineers?
Share your stack and timeline, interview matched Engineers 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
Tell us where quality hurts
Prefer to talk? Book a 30-minute call