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title: "Hire Exploratory Testing Specialists for QA | Azendo"
description: "Exploratory testing specialists work in focused sessions and find the defects scripted tests never reach. A dedicated QA team, managed for you in Thailand."
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# Exploratory testing specialists for your dedicated team.

Exploratory testing combines learning, test design and execution: a tester investigates the application with a defined charter, following what they find as they go. Session-based management gives it structure and reporting.

## Where exploratory testing fits in a long-term product team.

Scripted tests verify what someone already thought of. That is necessary and naturally limited: automation only re-checks expectations someone already had. Exploratory testing is where unexpected problems are found, and automation can't replace it.

The objection that it is unstructured misunderstands the practice. Session-based management gives each session a charter, a time box and a debrief, producing notes, defects and coverage information. It is reproducible as an activity even though individual steps are not scripted in advance.

## What your dedicated team does with exploratory testing.

Effectiveness depends heavily on product knowledge. A tester who has worked on a product for a year knows where it is fragile, which recent changes are risky and which areas have historically broken; someone new is guessing at where to look.

That accumulated knowledge is the strongest case for continuity in testing, and it is why our testers stay with your product through [a dedicated QA and testing team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/), release after release.

## Common exploratory testing use cases.

* Finding what no script anticipated Defects outside anticipated paths, which is the category automation structurally cannot reach.
* New features before scripts exist Early investigation while the behaviour is still settling and writing scripts would be premature.
* Structured sessions with real output Charters, time boxes and debriefs, so the activity produces evidence.

## Adding exploratory testing skills to your team.

Continuity is part of what makes exploratory testing effective, because product knowledge is the input. Testers are developed for that depth through the Talent Success and Academy programme.

You can add exploratory testing capacity as one dedicated specialist or as part of a wider remote team, with the people managed by us from our offices in Thailand. Companies [hire dedicated developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) this way under one agreement and one monthly fee.

## Roles that use exploratory testing

* [Manual QA Tester QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/manual-qa-tester/)
* [QA Engineer QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/qa-engineer/)

## Service areas that use exploratory testing

* [QA and test automation](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/)

Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill.

## Related in testing practice

* [risk-based testing, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/risk-based-testing/)
* [Test strategy and planning, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/test-strategy-and-planning/)
* [acceptance criteria validation, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/acceptance-criteria-validation/)
* [bug reporting with reproduction steps, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/bug-reporting-with-reproduction-steps/)
* [cross-device testing, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/cross-device-testing/)

## Tell us what you need exploratory testing for.

A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

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