--- title: "Manual QA Testers to Hire Who Catch What Automation Misses" description: "Manual QA testers find the visual defects, confusing flows and odd edge cases that automation skips. Dedicated to your product, with HR and delivery covered." url: "https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/manual-qa-tester/" --- 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. Manual QA Tester # Dedicated manual QA testers for your offshore team. Offshore manual QA testers in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, working full time on your product and managed by us. A manual QA tester finds what automation misses: visual defects, confusing flows and the unusual sequences no test script covers. One fixed monthly fee, with the hiring, managing and training of the testers handled by us in Thailand. [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 area as one delivery team. ## One Manual QA Tester, assigned to your product and fully managed. We assign a Manual QA Tester to your team full time and run everything around them: a service delivery manager who oversees delivery, training and coaching, the office and equipment, and HR and payroll. The price below is for a junior Manual QA Tester; other levels are priced in your proposal, and [how the monthly fee is built](https://azendo.co/pricing/) explains the arithmetic. From price One junior Manual QA Tester, full time, everything below included. All 27 things included ›› * Manual QA tester From **USD 2,100** per month * 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 * 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 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 Manual QA Tester does on a dedicated QA and testing team. They test each feature as it lands in your sprint, on real browsers and devices. Evidence goes on every ticket, so your own developers can act on it. ### Manual QA Tester skills and technologies * [Exploratory and session-based testing](https://azendo.co/skills/exploratory-testing/) * [acceptance criteria validation](https://azendo.co/skills/acceptance-criteria-validation/) * [Jira](https://azendo.co/skills/jira/) * [TestRail](https://azendo.co/skills/testrail/) * [BrowserStack](https://azendo.co/skills/browserstack/) * [cross-device testing](https://azendo.co/skills/cross-device-testing/) * [bug reporting with reproduction steps](https://azendo.co/skills/bug-reporting-with-reproduction-steps/) * Exploratory testing against new features, following the product rather than a script. * Acceptance testing against requirements, with clear evidence attached to each ticket. * Cross-browser and cross-device checks where real hardware behaviour differs from emulation. * Accessibility checks with a screen reader, which automation catches only partially. * Verifying fixes, so a ticket marked done has been confirmed. ## Manual QA Tester seniority levels. Junior to mid-level. The role rewards curiosity and product knowledge more than seniority. That keeps the level modest, which matters for how the monthly fee is built. ## When your team needs a Manual QA Tester. Often added alongside automation to cover the areas scripts deliberately leave out. The tester works with a QA or test automation engineer in [a dedicated QA and testing team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/). Manual testers fit companies that [hire offshore developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) for consumer-facing products, where real devices and real flows matter most. ## What we look for in a dedicated Manual QA Tester. We look for testers with an eye for detail and a habit of asking what happens if. Written English matters, because every defect report has to make sense to a developer they have never met. Product knowledge grows fast when someone is this curious. ## A remote Manual QA Tester's first three months on your team. 1. Weeks 1 to 2Learning the product and its users, and testing features in the current sprint. 2. Weeks 3 to 6Running exploratory and acceptance testing on their own, with clear evidence on every ticket. 3. Months 2 to 3Covering cross-device and accessibility checks and verifying every fix. From USD 2,100 Per month for a junior manual qa tester, fully managed 160 h Typical monthly capacity for this role Fixed The same fee every month 4 weeks Time to hire, from signing Weekly Delivery scores from you every Friday ## Other roles in QA and test automation. [QA Engineer QA and test automation role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/qa-engineer/)[Test Automation Engineer QA and test automation role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/test-automation-engineer/)[Performance Test Engineer QA and test automation role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/performance-test-engineer/) Each manual tester learns one client's product and tests nothing else. Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand · UTC+7 ## Questions about adding a Manual QA Tester to your team. Is manual testing still worth it? Yes. Automation confirms what you already thought to check. Exploratory testing finds what the scripts never looked for: confusing flows, visual defects, odd sequences and real-world device quirks. The two work best together, with manual testing focused on new features and the areas where users are most likely to stumble. How do you report defects? With reproduction steps, environment details, expected and actual behaviour, and screenshots or recordings attached, so a developer can act without follow-up questions. Defects are logged in your own tracker, with severity agreed with your team, and the tester verifies each fix before the ticket is closed. ## Add remote manual QA testers to your team. Tell us what you ship, who your users are and which devices and browsers they use. We'll suggest a tester profile and send the monthly fee. You sign, and four weeks later the tester is hired. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [How it works](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/) ## Tell us what your manual QA tester would work on.