--- title: "QA Engineer | Outsourced QA Team | Azendo" description: "Assign a QA Engineer to your roadmap under one monthly agreement, working from Thailand with an Azendo service delivery manager accountable for delivery." url: "https://azendo.co/services/qa-engineering-and-test-automation/qa-engineer/" --- [← QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/qa-engineering-and-test-automation/) # QA Engineer assigned to your roadmap. A QA Engineer owns whether a release is safe to ship. That means test strategy and judgement, not only executing a script someone else wrote. Assigned under one service agreement with a minimum monthly capacity in hours, run by a service delivery manager in Chiang Mai, Thailand — five hours ahead of Northern Europe. [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/qa-engineering-and-test-automation/) This role is delivered as part of our QA and test automation services. Take the role on its own, or the whole discipline as one delivery team. ## What a QA Engineer does on an outsourced QA team. Skills and scope are agreed before delivery starts, so the first sprint is productive rather than a ramp-up month. The work runs to the same backlog, the same repositories and the same definition of done as your own team's. ### QA Engineer skills and technology we assign for * [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. ## Seniority levels we assign. Junior through principal. Mid-level covers most regression and release work well. Seniority is one of the inputs behind the [committed monthly capacity](https://azendo.co/pricing/) written into your agreement. ## When a QA Engineer is the right assignment. The first QA assignment for most teams, before automation capacity is added. On an ongoing roadmap this role is most often assigned alongside a Test Automation Engineer or a Manual QA Tester. All 4 roles in this service line can sit on the same agreement, and capacity moves between them at the monthly cycle rather than requiring a new contract. The work is delivered as part of [QA outsourcing](https://azendo.co/services/qa-engineering-and-test-automation/) at Azendo. 160 h Typical monthly capacity for this role Fixed Monthly price, unaffected by leave or holidays 4–6 weeks From signed scope to delivery starting Monthly Cycle to raise or lower committed hours ## Other roles in QA and test automation. [Test Automation Engineer QA and test automation role](https://azendo.co/services/qa-engineering-and-test-automation/test-automation-engineer/)[Manual QA Tester QA and test automation role](https://azendo.co/services/qa-engineering-and-test-automation/manual-qa-tester/)[Performance Test Engineer QA and test automation role](https://azendo.co/services/qa-engineering-and-test-automation/performance-test-engineer/) The same delivery team, on your product, month after month. Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand — five hours ahead of Northern Europe ## Questions about assigning a QA Engineer. Does a QA engineer write automated tests too? Some. Where automation is the main need, a Test Automation Engineer is the better assignment and we will say so. Can the QA engineer block a release? They can recommend against one with evidence. The decision stays yours, but you will have the information to make it. ## Add QA engineer capacity to your roadmap. Tell us the scope and the stack. We come back with the profile, the capacity and what the first month looks like, or you can [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/) ## Assign a QA Engineer to your roadmap.