--- title: "Dedicated QA Engineers | Outsourced QA Team | Azendo" description: "Hire dedicated offshore QA engineers who work full time on your roadmap. A remote team from Thailand, managed by Azendo, for one fixed monthly fee." url: "https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/qa-engineer/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. [Services](https://azendo.co/services/) 3. [QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/) 4. QA Engineer # Dedicated QA engineers for your offshore team. Offshore QA engineers in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, working full time on your roadmap and managed by us. A QA engineer owns whether a release is safe to ship: test strategy and judgement as well as running the tests. One agreement and one fixed monthly fee, with a service delivery manager in Thailand who runs your team day to day. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [See pricing](https://azendo.co/pricing/) Part of our service line [QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/) This role is part of a dedicated QA and test automation team. It's [staff augmentation](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/staff-augmentation/), fully managed: take one role on its own, or the whole discipline as one delivery team. ## 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](https://azendo.co/pricing/) explains the arithmetic. ### From price 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 * [Test strategy and planning](https://azendo.co/skills/test-strategy-and-planning/) * [exploratory testing](https://azendo.co/skills/exploratory-testing/) * [Jira](https://azendo.co/skills/jira/) * [TestRail](https://azendo.co/skills/testrail/) * [Zephyr](https://azendo.co/skills/zephyr/) * [Xray](https://azendo.co/skills/xray/) * [Postman](https://azendo.co/skills/postman/) * [SQL](https://azendo.co/skills/sql/) * [risk-based testing](https://azendo.co/skills/risk-based-testing/) * 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](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/) 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 ## Other roles in QA and test automation. [Test Automation Engineer QA and test automation role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/test-automation-engineer/)[Manual QA Tester QA and test automation role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/manual-qa-tester/)[Performance Test Engineer QA and test automation role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/performance-test-engineer/) The same team, on your product, month after month. Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand · UTC+7 ## 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. ## Add remote QA engineers to your team. Tell us your roadmap and your stack, and we'll come back with the right profile, the capacity and a start date. You can also [talk to a service delivery manager](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) first. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [How it works](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/) ## Add QA engineers to your remote team.