Hire QA engineers who can say not yet
Our engineers have run security testing on a HIPAA-aligned oncology platform and a global SaaS product. They join your repo and your standups, and you interview them before anyone starts.
What you are getting
4 things that decide this
- 01Senior QA engineers only, each with regression and security testing already running on production systems you can read about on this site.
- 02You interview every engineer before they join, so nobody lands on your team from a profile you never met.
- 03They automate the repetitive 80% of testing and spend their own time exploring the 20% that actually breaks in production.
- 04If the fit is wrong, say so and we replace the engineer. Every test they write is yours from the first commit.
The job here is judgment, not clicking through a checklist
Clicking through a staging build is a small part of this job. Most of it is deciding what deserves a test and what deserves an hour of manual poking.
On TrialTriage, an oncology trial-matching platform, they ran SAST, DAST and dependency scanning ahead of a HIPAA-aligned launch. They checked the 23-action audit trail against every user role before it shipped. On Broollie, a meeting platform used across 38-plus countries, they ran continuous security testing through a staging environment. SonarQube gates sit in CI, so a pull request with a known vulnerability class never reaches main.
Two different products, one repeated question: does this release do what it claims, under the account type and the data it will actually see.
What they take off your roadmap
Regression coverage that runs itself
Automated suites for the paths that repeat on every release, so a QA engineer's time goes to the paths that don't.
Security testing before launch, not after a breach
SAST and DAST wired into CI, plus penetration testing on builds that touch patient, financial or personal data.
A gate that can actually stop a release
Quality gates in the pipeline, not a spreadsheet nobody checks. A build with a known defect class fails before a human reviews it.
Escaped-defect tracking, not a test count
What reached a customer and why, tracked release over release. A rising test count with rising escapes means the suite is testing the wrong things.
- Scoping callFree. What you need tested
- ShortlistEngineers matched to the stack
- You interviewYour process, your bar
- EmbedYour repo, standups, pipeline
- ReviewSwap if the fit is wrong
The interview is yours. A vendor that assigns a tester from a bench is skipping the step that predicts whether they will actually push back on a release.
Release confidence on compliance-grade builds
How hiring works
- 01
Tell us what keeps breaking
A free call about the product, the release cadence and where bugs are reaching customers. If the real problem is upstream of testing, you will hear that on the call.
- 02
Meet the engineers
We shortlist people who have run security and regression testing on production systems, and you interview them. Say no and we go back to the shortlist.
- 03
They embed
Your repo, your standups, your CI pipeline. One of our engineers owns test coverage and is named as the person accountable for what ships.
- 04
They hand over
The automated suites, the CI gates and documentation on what they cover, plus someone on your team trained to extend them. Where a client would rather we kept watching releases, we do that under a service level we agree. The first 2 months of support and maintenance are free, with every build.
Stack
Testing and security
Pipeline and infrastructure
Practices
Tell us where bugs keep reaching customers
Bring the last three escaped defects and the release process behind them. The scoping call is free, and you will leave it knowing whether this is a coverage problem or a process problem.
01How is this different from outsourcing manual testing?
You get an engineer who automates the repeatable checks and spends their own judgment on the parts that actually break. There is a company accountable if a defect still escapes. A manual testing shop runs the same script every release and rarely touches your CI pipeline. If our engineer is not right, we replace them.
02Do they only test, or can they also write automation?
Both. Our QA engineers build the automated suites and wire quality gates into CI. Coverage stops depending on someone remembering to run a script by hand. Manual exploratory testing sits alongside that, aimed at the paths automation is bad at catching.
03How much overlap do we get with our working day?
A daily overlap with your hours, fixed before anyone starts. Standups, bug triage and release reviews happen while both sides are awake. A flaky test or a security finding needs a conversation, not a ticket that waits a day. We agree the window during scoping.
04Can a QA engineer actually block a release?
Yes, and that authority is part of what we hire for. A quality gate that fails on a known vulnerability or a broken regression suite stops the build before a human has to argue about it. The engineer's job is to say not yet when the evidence says not yet.
05What actually drives the cost of a QA engagement?
How much of your testing is already automated, and how sensitive the data is. No CI-integrated tests plus sensitive data takes longer to bring to a defensible standard than a product with a suite already running. Scoping calls are free. Where we have to get into an existing codebase before answering, a paid two-week diagnostic produces a fixed price rather than a guess.
