Is finding bugs earlier really cheaper?
The "100x more expensive in production" figure gets repeated a lot. The research suggests detection timing matters, but how much depends on the defect and on how the team handles it.
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Managed QA for teams of 3 to 20
Ship with confidence, without hiring a QA team.
Full-time, AI-powered QA engineers who join your sprints, overlap your workday, and catch what slips through before your users do. We manage them, so you get a QA function, not another hire.
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Our Success Stories
The ProblemYour developers shouldn’t be your QA team.
When engineers test their own work, they test it the way they built it. The same assumptions that shaped the code shape the testing, so the gaps stay invisible.
What slips through shows up later as production incidents, slower releases, and engineers spending their week on testing instead of the work they were hired for.
your-app - npm test
- user signs up with a valid email
- dashboard loads for a logged-in user
- the form rejects an empty field
- checkout completes on the happy path
24 passing · 0 failing↑ green ≠ covered
but no one tested
- what happens on a slow connection
- the email address with a + in it
- the user who double-clicks submit
- the path you never thought to build
Why Outsource QAA second set of eyes finds what your team can’t see.
Fresh eyes on every release
A team coming in fresh has no idea how the product is meant to behave. That's the point. They find the paths your developers never thought to check.
Quality is the whole job
There's no sprint to ship, no feature waiting behind the testing. QA gets the full attention it rarely gets in-house.
Engineers stay on the build
Your developers get their week back and spend it shipping features instead of chasing regressions.
Why GetQA, not an In-House HireA managed QA function for the price of one hire.
In-House Hire
GetQA
- The supervision is yours
We manage and direct the engineers
Direction, oversight, and accountability sit with us. You give the feedback, we act on it, and you get the outcome instead of one more report line.
- The training is yours
We train them and bring the process
Onboarding, tooling, and test practice come with the team. Hands-on testing from day one, with automation added as your product and risk grow.
- One salary buys one tester
Two to three engineers for that cost
What one QA hire costs in the US covers two to three of our engineers, so far more of your product gets tested every sprint.
- Testing stops when they are out
Coverage that never rests on one person
Test plans, suites, and history live with our team, so a holiday, a sick day, or a resignation does not reset your testing.
- You piece together what got tested
Reporting you can act on
After each cycle you see what was tested, what passed, and what broke, in plain terms.
How It WorksFrom a first call to a QA engineer in your sprint, in three steps.
- Step 1
The Intro Call
Thirty minutes with a QA engineer to understand how you release and where you need us.
Free- A seasoned QA engineer on the call, not a salesperson
- We walk through how you build, test, and ship
- An honest read on whether QA is actually your bottleneck
- Where an outside QA team would move the needle, and where it wouldn't
- If we're not the right fit, we'll say so
- Step 2Optional
The QA Audit
A close look at your product and your pipeline, written up as a case study of where quality is leaking and how to improve it.
$900Credited back if you continue with an engineer.Start the auditone-time- Hands-on review of your product, test coverage, and release process
- Where defects escape today, and what each escape is costing you
- Assessment of your tooling, environments, and CI setup
- A written report and a walkthrough call with your team
- A prioritized plan you can run with us or on your own
- Step 3
Embedded QA Engineers
Full-time QA engineers working inside your team, at the seniority your product actually calls for.
From $3,200Senior, mid, and junior available. Month to month, 30 days notice.Talk about scope/month per mid-level engineer- A dedicated engineer picking up tickets in your tracker from week one
- Manual and exploratory testing on every feature that ships
- An automation framework built on Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium
- Regression and load testing before each release
- Test execution wired into your CI/CD pipeline
- Reporting after every cycle: what was tested, what passed, what broke, what needs to be done
From the BlogWhat we learn testing other people’s products.
Four famous software failures and what they teach us about QA
Knight Capital, CrowdStrike, Ariane 5 and Therac-25 failed in different ways. In each case a check that could have stopped it was missing or ignored.
4 min readQA, QC and testing are not the same thing
QA prevents problems, QC evaluates the product, and testing is one of the activities used to do that. Mixing them up pushes quality to the end of the process.
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FAQShort answers, no fine print.
Still curious?
No bots, no sales team. The founder reads every message and replies within one business day.
Talk to a humanFast, because the hiring is already done. We interview all year, so you meet a shortlist from engineers we already know, pick one, and they join your next sprint.
Our engineers work a shifted day that covers the US East Coast morning, so standups and urgent fixes happen live. By the time your team logs in, testing has already started.
Both. Manual and exploratory passes where judgment matters, automated regression in Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium for the paths that break repeatedly. You own every line we write.
We work in your tools: your tracker, your CI, your Slack. Bugs land where your team already looks, with clear repro steps and no new dashboard to babysit.
You get a triaged report with severity, repro steps, and context, not a raw dump. Critical issues are flagged immediately, the rest batched on your cadence.
Yes. The QA Audit is a fixed-scope week inside your product and pipeline. You get a written plan you can run with us or on your own, and no commitment afterward.
A freelancer is a person you manage. We are a function we manage: we train, supervise, and direct the engineers, cover holidays and handovers, and answer for the quality.
Every engineer signs an NDA before they see anything, and access stays least-privilege: only the repositories, environments, and test data the work actually needs.
ContactTell us what you need tested.
Not ready for a call?
Tell us what you’re shipping and where it hurts, and we’ll come back with how we would test it.
Stop shipping bugs to production.
Hand off testing to a team that treats your releases like their own.