Offload QA so engineering can ship faster

Your developers are writing code and testing it themselves. Bugs reach production because the person who wrote the feature is the same person reviewing it. Hotfixes eat sprint time. Release cycles stretch because nobody wants to ship without confidence, but there's no dedicated QA process to provide that confidence.

Every bug that reaches a customer costs more than catching it before release ever would have.

The painful path

You've tried having developers write their own tests. It works in theory. In practice, developers skip tests when they're under deadline pressure, which is always. You've tried "QA Fridays" where the team tests each other's work. Adoption lasted three sprints before it quietly died.

You've looked at hiring a QA engineer locally. A mid-level one costs $6,000 to $8,000 a month in the US or UK. Hard to justify when your engineering team is four people and the budget is already tight. You've considered automated testing tools, but somebody still needs to write the test cases, maintain them, and make the judgment calls about what to test manually.

So your engineers keep testing their own code, bugs keep reaching production, and release cycles keep getting slower.

What changes with SoTalented

You get a dedicated QA engineer working only for your team, from a premium SoTalented Satellite Office in India. They own the test plans. They run regression before every release. They document bugs with reproducible steps. They sign off on releases so your developers can focus on building, not testing.

A dedicated QA engineer starts around $2,200 a month, all in. That includes the person, the office, the equipment, and everything else. They work in your tools (Jira, Linear, GitHub, whatever your workflow uses) and participate in standups and sprint planning. First hire takes about 3 weeks. 30-day cancellation if it's not the right fit.

What your team looks like now

Your QA engineer handles:

• Test plan creation and maintenance for every feature

• Manual testing and exploratory testing before each release

• Regression testing across critical user flows

• Bug documentation with clear reproduction steps and severity tagging

• Release sign-off with a go/no-go recommendation

• Automated test script development as the product matures

Release cycles get shorter because there's a dedicated person catching issues before they ship. Developers stop context-switching between building and testing. Hotfix frequency drops. Your customers experience fewer bugs, and your engineers experience less firefighting.

Ready to ship with confidence?

Hire a QA Engineer and we'll match you with someone who fits your tech stack and workflow.