One QA Engineer, assigned to your product and fully managed.

We assign a QA Engineer 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 QA Engineer; 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 QA Engineer, full time, everything below included. All 27 things included ››

  • QA engineer 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 QA Engineer does on an outsourced QA team.

They join your sprint from planning onwards, test each story as it lands and give your team a clear yes or no before anything ships.

QA Engineer skills and technologies

  • Building a test strategy against your actual release risk rather than a generic checklist.

  • Exploratory and regression testing across each sprint, with defect reports a developer can act on.

  • Release sign-off, including saying no when the evidence says the release is not ready.

  • Maintaining the regression suite scope as features are added and others are retired.

  • Working with support to turn recurring customer issues into permanent test coverage.

QA Engineer seniority levels.

Junior to principal. A mid-level engineer covers most regression and release work well. Seniority is one of the inputs into how the monthly fee is built.

When your team needs a QA Engineer.

The first QA role for most teams, before automation is added. Often joined later by a test automation engineer or a manual tester. QA engineers join as part of QA outsourcing at Azendo.

What we look for in a dedicated QA Engineer.

We look for QA engineers with curiosity and backbone: curious enough to find the defect no test script covers, and firm enough to hold a release when the evidence says so. Clear bug reports matter. A developer should be able to reproduce the issue from the ticket alone.

Your remote QA Engineer's first three months.

  1. Weeks 1 to 2Learning your product, release process and known risk areas, and testing the current sprint.
  2. Weeks 3 to 6Writing a test strategy for your release risk and running regression each sprint.
  3. Months 2 to 3Owning release sign-off and turning recurring customer issues into permanent test coverage.
From USD 3,300
Per month for a mid-level qa engineer, 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 QA Engineer to your team.

Does a QA engineer write automated tests too?

Some. When automation is the main need, a test automation engineer is the better fit.

Can the QA engineer stop a release?

They can recommend against one, with evidence. The decision stays yours, with the information you need to make it.

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