Dedicated QA and testing team.
Offshore testers and automation engineers work only on your product, as a dedicated QA and testing team. We hire them for your test stack and employ them in our offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand. You set the release bar. The team builds the tests that hold it, on every merge.
What you get and what you pay.
The QA engineers we assign are employed and coached by Azendo and work from our office on our equipment. That is the part offshore staffing or staff augmentation leaves to you. A service delivery manager checks in with you every two weeks on how the releases are going.
Price examples
Junior level, full time, everything below included. Mid-level and senior levels are priced in your proposal. All 27 things included ››
- QA engineer From USD 2,100 per month
- Test automation engineer From USD 2,100 per month
- Performance test engineer From USD 2,100 per month
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Service
We manage and develop the team
- A service delivery manager who oversees operations and 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 team member
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HR
We are the employer
- Recruitment and technical assessment
- Employment contracts
- Salary and payroll
- Tax and social security
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Facilitation
We provide the workplace
- A desk in our office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
- A Workplace Experience Manager on site
- Team events through the year
- IT support
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Equipment
We supply the tools
- Laptop and hardware
- Software licences
- LinkedIn Learning access
- Device security and management
The QA team's monthly fee, and what sits inside it.
You agree a monthly capacity in hours with us. The fee covers the QA engineer's salary and every layer around it: the service delivery manager who oversees delivery, training and development, the workplace, the equipment and the HR behind the employment. It is the same amount every month.
- One agreement and one invoice, with no upfront fee or management surcharge
- Holidays are already priced in, so April and May cost the same
- A capacity report every month, so you see the hours delivered
Hire QA engineers who pass our tests first.
We headhunt testers for the frameworks and pipeline you run and assess them before you see a name. Only the ones who pass reach your team.
- Roles and seniority
- Stack and domain
- Way of working
- Capacity and time to hire
Talk to our teamBook a scoping call - 25 Week 1 Sourcing Headhunted for your brief
- 12 Week 2 AI processing and screening Matched to your stack
- 5 Week 3 Technical testing Pass technical testing
- 1 Week 4 Mindset, culture and logic Proposed to you
Roles for an offshore QA team.
Automation, manual, performance and general QA work each have a page below. Developers and DevOps engineers can sit in the same team, managed by the same service delivery manager.
What a dedicated QA and testing team covers.
Companies hire QA engineers when releases slow down or start breaking things in production. An offshore QA team that works on one product full time learns where that product breaks and builds coverage there first. Classic QA outsourcing hands testing to a separate vendor at the end of the cycle. With us the testers sit in your sprints, review stories before development starts and report to the same service delivery manager as the developers on your team. You outsource QA testing and keep quality inside the team.
- Test strategyWhat to test, how deep and when, agreed with you and based on your incident history.
- Automated suitesEnd-to-end, API and regression tests in Playwright, Cypress or the framework you already use.
- CI integrationSuites that run on every merge, in your pipeline, with results the whole team can see.
- Manual and exploratory testingThe checks automation can't make: new features, edge cases and real devices.
- Performance testingLoad and stress tests before the traffic arrives, with results you can act on.
- Reporting and triageBug reports with steps to reproduce, prioritised with your product owner.
Stacks we work in
We hire for your test stack. A framework missing here is no problem, because we search for each team instead of filling it from a bench.
- Playwright
- Selenium
- Cypress
- Appium
- Robot Framework
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- CircleCI
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- TestRail
- Jira
- Allure
- Zephyr
- Xray
What a dedicated QA and testing team is.
A dedicated QA and testing team is a group of testers and automation engineers who test one product, full time, on every merge and every release. You set the release bar. The team writes the test strategy and the automated suites that hold it, and Azendo manages the people and answers for the work.
Where it pays off most
It pays off when releases slip on testing, regression bugs reach production, there is no automated suite yet, or developers test their own work. The usual start is a test strategy built from your incident history, then a smoke suite in CI, then regression coverage where the product breaks most often.
Who is on the team
- QA engineerStrategy, execution and release evidence
- Test automation engineerRegression suites in your pipeline
- Manual QA testerExploratory and acceptance testing
- Performance test engineerLoad, stress and endurance testing
- Service delivery managerOversees delivery on our side and reviews it with you every two weeks
- Talent Success managerFor every specialist: a quarterly development plan and coaching tailored to it
- Your product ownerSets the priorities and accepts the work
Other ways to build a QA and testing team, compared.
| Dedicated team, Azendo | Staff augmentation | Project outsourcing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Agreed monthly capacity from people who work only on your product | A person's hours, billed by the hour or the month | A defined scope, at a fixed price or on time and materials |
| Who manages the team | Azendo, day to day, with you setting the priorities | You do, day to day: Azendo's estimate is four to eight hours a week per specialist | The vendor's project manager |
| Who answers for delivery | Azendo, scored by you every Friday | You do | The vendor, against the agreed scope |
| How long people stay | On your product, and with Azendo for 3.3 years on average | Until the contract ends | Until the project is handed over |
| Best fit | A product that releases often and needs the same people guarding quality | A short gap in a team you already run | One project with a clear end |
Try us, at zero risk.
- No deposit
- No upfront fee
- No commitment
We agree a time to hire with you. If we can't find the right people for your team within it, you walk away with no commitment and nothing to pay.
Get in touch"We are 100% committed in a partnership. We go above and beyond, which is why we can say that it is truly a managed service we offer."
Mikkel Schmidt, CEO and founder
Questions about a dedicated QA and testing team.
What does a dedicated QA and testing team do?
A dedicated QA team owns quality for one product full time: test strategy, automated suites, manual and exploratory testing, and the release checks in your pipeline. With Azendo the QA engineers are ours, managed from Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and they work inside your sprints.
Manual testing or test automation?
Both, in proportions that fit your product. Automation covers what repeats on every release, from regression to API checks. Manual and exploratory testing covers new features, usability and edge cases. A common start for a dedicated testing team is one automation engineer and one tester who covers both.
How much does it cost to hire QA engineers this way?
Every QA role, from manual testers to automation and performance specialists, starts from USD 2,100 per month at junior level, full time. Each tester's fee includes delivery management, a Talent Success Manager and training, a desk and equipment, and HR and payroll. See how the monthly fee is built.
When should QA join a development team?
When features arrive faster than they can be checked, release becomes the bottleneck. Adding QA at that point often speeds delivery up more than another developer would, because the developers stop spending their time on manual regression.
Can the testers use our existing test tools?
Yes. They work in the framework and test management tools you run, from Playwright, Selenium or Robot Framework to TestRail, Zephyr or Xray. They extend what you have before proposing anything new, and any change to the tooling is agreed with your team first.
Where does the team test?
In your environments. The testers work in your staging and test setups under your access rules and file issues in your tracker. Delivery is followed through tracked hours, the score you give us every Friday and a report every month, so our managers stay out of your systems.
Can the QA team work alongside developers from Azendo?
Yes. QA and a dedicated software development team can run under one agreement, in the same sprints and with the same service delivery manager. Quality and delivery are then planned together, and a failing test reaches the developer who can fix it the same day.
Do the QA engineers work remotely?
Yes, two days a week at most, through a secure VPN. The rest of the week they test from our offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, in your environments, your tracker and your release process. Each QA engineer is employed by Azendo and assigned to your product full time.
Service areas you can add to an offshore QA team.
Each role joins under the same agreement, works in the same sprints and reports to the same service delivery manager. You add one when your product calls for it.
QA and testing team QA Engineer, Test Automation Engineer, Manual QA Tester, Performance Test Engineer. The core of the team. On the team 
Software development Web platforms, APIs and integrations Add to the team → 
Mobile development Native and cross-platform apps Add to the team → 
Cloud and DevOps Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability Add to the team → 
Data engineering Pipelines, warehouses and reporting models Add to the team → Let's scope your QA and testing team.
Thirty minutes with a service delivery manager. You leave with a clear picture of the team you would need, what it would deliver and how we would hire it in four weeks.
- No deposit and no upfront fee
- No commitment until the right people are on your team
- If we can't find them inside the agreed window, you walk away at no cost
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