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Hire Dedicated QA Engineers
A senior-only QA pod, embedded in your team in days — your standups, your Slack, your CI, your hours. The capability of a whole QA department, the speed of a contractor, the commitment of a hire — without the hiring, the lock-in, or the juniors.
what it is
Hiring one QA engineer takes 3 months. Hiring a pod takes 3 days.
A dedicated QA team is a senior pod that works as part of your team — not a faceless outsourcing contract and not a single freelancer. They join your standups, live in your Slack, commit to your repos, and work your hours. The difference from a hire: you get a whole bench — automation, performance, security and AI-testing skills on tap — available this week, scalable next month, and removable without severance.
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who you get
Named seniors. Your bench, not our trainees.
A pod is assembled to your stack from our senior engineers — here is the shape of a typical growth pod. [Replace with real named engineers, photos and LinkedIn profiles before launch — staffing promises belong in the contract.]
Owns the framework and CI strategy. Playwright · Cypress · Appium. ~9 yrs. [name · LinkedIn]
Risk-based functional & exploratory; the skeptical human in the loop. ~8 yrs. [name · LinkedIn]
On call for load & scalability when releases demand it. JMeter · k6. ~7 yrs. [name · LinkedIn]
VAPT and API security as a shared resource across pods. OWASP. ~8 yrs. [name · LinkedIn]
Eval design, prompt regression and agent testing for AI features. [name · LinkedIn]
Your single point of contact — not an account manager between you and the work.
see it run
Watch a pod assemble to your stack.
A 15-second simulation of how we compose and embed a pod — from your stack and needs to a team live in your tools: days, not a hiring quarter.
how we embed
Your tools. Your hours. Your way of working.
A pod isn\'t a vendor you email — it\'s teammates in your channels, in your standups, committing to your repos. The only difference from employees is that they arrive in days, bring a whole bench, and scale with a message instead of a reorg.
what you get
A QA department, without building one.
The people you meet are the people on your account — dedicated, not rotated.
Automation, performance, security, AI-testing skills available without separate hires.
In your tools, your standups, your hours — contributing, not "ramping" for a quarter.
Scale up for launches, down after — without contracts to renegotiate or people to lay off.
Tests, frameworks, docs live in your repos under your accounts. No lock-in, ever.
Nine years of QA process and the Escaped-Defect Response Guarantee come with the people.
proof
Embedded in days. Trusted for years.
A team that couldn\'t hire QA fast enough started with a one-month pilot pod. The engineers embedded in their standups and CI within the first week; the engagement has run for three years and the pod scales up and down with their release calendar. Our engagements range from one-month pilots to multi-year partnerships exactly like this.
"Since partnering with QACraft, our software quality has improved dramatically — defect rates dropped and our release cycles are faster than ever."
pricing logic
A whole pod. Less than one senior hire.
Dedicated Growth Pod
2–3 engineers + architect, priced monthly by flows kept green. Typically less than one senior US QA hire — for a whole bench.
scale monthly · no lock-inOne-Month Pilot
A scoped pod for a single month so you can feel the fit before any commitment — most long engagements start here.
prove it, then scalestraight answers
Asked on every team call. Answered here.
How do I hire dedicated QA engineers?
We scope a pod against your stack, staff it from a senior bench with named engineers, and embed them in your standups, Slack and CI — kickoff within 48 hours, productive in week one, no long hiring cycle and no lock-in.
How much does a dedicated QA team cost?
Priced monthly by composition and flows kept under test — typically less than one senior in-house QA hire in the US or Western Europe, but you get a whole pod with a bench behind it. A 30-minute scoping call gets you one exact number.
How fast can the team start?
Kickoff within 48 hours, embedded in your tools within the first week, first defect report within 72 hours. No job req, no three-month onboarding.
Will we get the same engineers throughout?
Yes — named and dedicated, not anonymously rotated. Staffing changes require your written sign-off, and the pod works your hours with daily standup overlap.
Can we scale up and down?
Monthly. Surge for release periods, ease off afterward — no renegotiation, no lock-in, and all test assets stay yours regardless.
How is this better than a freelancer or in-house hire?
A pod brings a whole senior bench, not one person: automation, performance, security and AI-testing skills on tap, backed by process and a guarantee, available in days instead of months — and removable without severance if your needs change.
The QA team you need — working with you next week.
Build your pod in 60 seconds — or bring your situation to a 30-minute call and leave with a pod composition and one number.