QA & software testing.
QA engineers embedded in your sprints — manual and automation, working alongside your developers rather than gating them at the end.
Release confidence, without a bottleneck
Good QA doesn't slow delivery — bad QA does, when it lives at the end of the pipeline. Our QA engineers embed inside the sprint: writing test plans alongside engineering, running exploratory sessions on new features, and building the automation that lets releases stay boring even as the surface area grows.
Manual and automation, in one team
Manual testing
Exploratory sessions, test plans on new features, and the kind of human-eyes coverage that catches UX and edge-case bugs before customers do.
Test automation
API, integration, and end-to-end suites built into your CI so regression takes minutes, not days.
Regression & release
Regression cycles owned by QA rather than improvised at release time. Release checklists, staged rollouts, and post-release checks.
Non-functional testing
Performance, load, and security-oriented testing when the product has enough scale to need it.
QA inside the sprint, not after it
In planning
Our QA engineers join sprint planning and refine acceptance criteria with product and engineering before a single line is written.
During the sprint
Features are tested as they land, not held for a release-day gate. Bugs come back to the engineer who wrote the change, while the context is still fresh.
In CI
Automation runs on every pull request. Broken suites block merges rather than turning into background noise.
At release
Regression is scripted and repeatable. Post-release monitoring closes the loop so recurring issues are found, not lived with.
Ten days from brief to embedded
Same process as the rest of our engagements — a 30-minute brief, a shortlist within days, your interview process, and the engineer live in your standups by day 10. See our full staff augmentation process →
Common questions
Do you place manual, automation, or both?
Both, and we usually recommend both on the same team. Manual testing catches the things automation misses; automation frees the manual work up from repetitive regression runs. The mix depends on the product's maturity.
Where does QA sit in the sprint?
Inside the sprint, not after it. Our QA engineers join planning, refine acceptance criteria with product and engineering, and test features as they land — so release day is boring rather than dramatic.
What do you cover on the automation side?
API, integration, and end-to-end coverage against the stack your team already uses. We reach for well-supported tools rather than pushing a specific framework onto your codebase.
Can you run a release / regression cadence?
Yes. On products with a heavy release cadence we own regression suites, release checklists, and post-release monitoring alongside the engineers who wrote the change.
How fast can a QA engineer start?
Same 10-day timeline as the rest of our engagements: brief, shortlist, your interviews, embedded by day 10.
HIPAA Patient Platform
A regulated healthcare platform where release confidence isn't optional. Our QA engineers embedded alongside development to run manual test plans, automation suites, and a regression cadence that made shipping feel routine.
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