One Manual QA Tester, assigned to your product and fully managed.

We assign a Manual QA Tester to your team full time and run everything around them: a service delivery manager who answers for the work, training and coaching, the office and equipment, and HR and payroll. The price below is for a mid-level Manual QA Tester; junior and senior levels are priced in your proposal, and how the monthly fee is built explains the arithmetic.

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One mid-level Manual QA Tester, full time, everything below included. All 27 things included ››

  • Manual QA tester From USD 3,300 per month
  • Service

    We manage and develop the team

    • A service delivery manager who runs the team and answers for delivery
    • A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks
    • Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports
    • A Talent Success Manager for every specialist
  • HR

    We are the employer

    • Recruitment and technical assessment
    • Employment contracts
    • Salary and payroll
    • Tax and social security
  • Facilitation

    We provide the workplace

    • A desk in our own office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
    • A Workplace Experience Manager on site
    • Team events through the year
    • IT support
  • Equipment

    We supply the tools

    • Laptop and hardware
    • Software licences
    • LinkedIn Learning access
    • Device security and management

What a Manual QA Tester does on an outsourced QA team.

They test each feature as it lands in your sprint, on real browsers and devices, and attach evidence to every ticket so your developers can act on it.

Manual QA Tester skills and technologies

  • Exploratory testing against new features, following the product rather than a script.

  • Acceptance testing against requirements, with clear evidence attached to each ticket.

  • Cross-browser and cross-device checks where real hardware behaviour differs from emulation.

  • Accessibility checks with a screen reader, which automation catches only partially.

  • Verifying fixes and closing the loop, so a ticket marked done has actually been confirmed.

Manual QA Tester seniority levels.

Junior to mid-level. The role rewards curiosity and product knowledge more than seniority. Seniority is one of the inputs into how the monthly fee is built.

When your team needs a Manual QA Tester.

Often added alongside automation to cover the areas scripts deliberately leave out, working with a QA or test automation engineer. Manual QA testers join as part of QA outsourcing at Azendo.

What we look for in a dedicated Manual QA Tester.

We look for testers with an eye for detail and a habit of asking what happens if. Written English matters, because every defect report has to make sense to a developer they have never met. Product knowledge grows fast when someone is this curious.

Your remote Manual QA Tester's first three months.

  1. Weeks 1 to 2Learning the product and its users, and testing features in the current sprint.
  2. Weeks 3 to 6Running exploratory and acceptance testing on their own, with clear evidence on every ticket.
  3. Months 2 to 3Covering cross-device and accessibility checks and closing the loop on every fix.
From USD 3,300
Per month for a mid-level manual qa tester, fully managed
160 h
Typical monthly capacity for this role
Fixed
The same fee every month
4 to 6 weeks
From signing to our specialist starting
Monthly
Add or reduce hours at each cycle

Questions about adding a Manual QA Tester to your team.

Is manual testing still worth it?

Yes. Automation confirms what you already thought to check. Exploratory testing finds what no one thought of.

How do you report defects?

With reproduction steps, environment, expected and actual behaviour, and evidence attached, so a developer can act without follow-up questions.

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