End to end suites
The critical paths automated: signup, checkout, the three journeys that must never break. Run on every commit rather than before every release.
Testing and release confidence
Hire QA Automation Engineers
QA engineers who write automation rather than tickets. A suite that runs on every pull request, catches the regression before it merges, and gives your team a reason to release on a Friday.
What our QA Automation Engineers do
QA is the first role teams cut and the one they regret cutting. Not because bugs reach production, though they do, but because without a suite nobody trusts, every release becomes a manual event that needs three people and a quiet afternoon.
So we place QA automation engineers who write tests rather than tickets. A suite that runs on every pull request, catches the regression before it merges, and is trusted enough that a green build is actually a decision to ship.
The honest caveat: automation pays back over months, not weeks, and a suite nobody maintains becomes noise that people learn to ignore. If you need one release tested and nothing after it, hire manual QA for a fortnight instead. We will tell you that rather than sell you the larger engagement.
What they build
The work this role actually does here, on client products that are live.
API and contract testing
Testing the layer underneath the interface, which is faster to run, far less brittle, and catches more than clicking through screens does.
Load and performance testing
Finding where the system gives way before your customers do, with a number attached rather than a feeling.
CI gates and reporting
Tests wired into the pipeline so a failure blocks the merge, with reporting that says what broke rather than that something did.
What they know
Named rather than implied, so you can check it against your own job description before we talk.
Web
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Selenium
- TestCafe
API and load
- Postman and Newman
- REST Assured
- k6
- JMeter
- Pact
Mobile
- Appium
- XCTest
- Espresso
- Detox
Pipeline
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- Allure
- BrowserStack
Is this the right way to buy?
Hire this way when
- Releases are slow because everything is checked by hand
- The same bug has come back more than once
- You release often and want the confidence to keep doing it
- A rewrite or migration is coming and you need a safety net first
Look elsewhere when
- The product is a prototype still changing shape weekly, where tests would be rewritten faster than they run
- You want a manual tester, which is a different and also useful role
- Nobody will fix a failing test, because then the suite gets ignored within a month
- There is no CI pipeline yet, which has to come first
How hiring runs
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Tell us the gap
What the team is building, what is missing, and how long you expect to need it. A rough answer is enough to start.
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Profiles within a week
You get a shortlist of engineers who are actually free, with the work they have shipped here. Not a database of people we would have to recruit first.
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You interview them
Technical interview, pair programming, take-home, whatever your normal process is. You decide, not us. Nobody joins your team without your yes.
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They start inside your process
Your repository, your board, your standups, your review standards. We do not run a parallel process alongside yours.
Agreed before anyone starts
Written into the contract rather than promised on a call. These are the terms people forget to ask about until they need them.
You interview and approve every engineer before they start
One month notice either way, so neither side is trapped
A replacement at our cost if someone is not working out in the first month
Code, accounts and credentials are yours from the first commit
An NDA before any of your systems are discussed, not after
No recruitment fee if you later hire someone permanently
Questions we get asked
How much should we automate?
Not everything. The critical paths and anything that has broken twice. Chasing full coverage produces a slow, flaky suite that people learn to ignore, which is worse than no suite at all.
How long before it is useful?
The first critical path is usually running in the pipeline within two weeks. Broad coverage takes longer, and the order is decided by what breaks most, not by what is easiest.
What about flaky tests?
A flaky test is a bug in the test. We fix or delete them. A suite people have learned to re-run until it passes is not protecting anything.
Do they do manual testing too?
Exploratory testing on new features, yes. If your need is primarily manual regression, say so and we will staff it differently rather than automate it badly.
Tell us what your team is missing.
Send the role, the stack and how long you expect to need it. You get profiles of engineers who are actually free, not a sales call.