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Starting price · US dollars

$12per hour

Manual QA testing

Regression run time
Under 1 hr
Journey coverage target
80%+
Framework
You own it
The problem

Releases that need a held breath

Testing happens at the end, by whoever is free, against a checklist in a spreadsheet. Regressions reach production, hotfixes land on Friday nights and nobody can say what coverage actually exists.

  • No automated regression, so every release is manual
  • Coverage that nobody can quantify
  • Performance and load untested until something falls over
  • Bugs reported without the steps to reproduce them
What we do about it

Coverage you can point at

We write the test plan, automate the regression paths, wire it into your pipeline and report coverage as a number you can track. Manual effort goes where automation has no advantage.

  • Regression suite running on every pull request
  • Coverage reported by journey, not just by line
  • Performance and load budgets enforced in CI
  • Defects filed with reproduction steps and evidence

What is inside

8 ways we run QA and testing

Each one has its own page explaining what is delivered and how it is priced.

Always included

What comes with every engagement

Not an upsell list. These are part of the price, on every package.

Written test strategy and plan
Test case library you keep
Automated regression in your pipeline
Defect reports with reproduction steps and evidence
Coverage reported per journey
Performance budgets enforced in CI
Accessibility checks to WCAG 2.1 AA
Release sign-off report
Flaky-test monitoring and remediation
Framework handover and documentation

Packages

Three ways to start

All prices in US dollars. Project ranges are confirmed in a written proposal after scoping; monthly plans are capacity allocations, not unlimited work.

Starter

Manual coverage on the critical paths.

$12 – $18

USD per hour · based on: Manual QA testing

  • Test plan and case library
  • Manual regression per release
  • Defect reporting
  • Release sign-off
  • Up to 40 hours a month
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Most chosen

Growth

Automated regression in your pipeline.

from $300

USD per month · based on: Manual QA retainer

Includes: Up to 20 testing hours

  • Automation framework setup
  • Regression suite build
  • CI integration
  • API test coverage
  • Manual exploratory sessions
  • Monthly coverage report
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Pro

Embedded QA team with performance and security.

from $300

USD per month · based on: Manual QA retainer

Includes: Up to 20 testing hours

  • Dedicated QA squad
  • Full automation ownership
  • Performance and load testing
  • Security testing
  • Mobile device lab
  • QA lead in your planning
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Full price table

Hourly for short engagements, a monthly retainer for regular testing, or a dedicated QA engineer.

All prices in USD
Quality assurance and testing pricing in US dollars
Item and scopePrice (USD)
Hourly rates
Manual QA testingHourly, for ad-hoc and short engagements$12 – $18per hour
QA automationHourly, for ad-hoc and short engagements$18 – $28per hour
Dedicated monthly resources (up to 160 working hours each)
Manual QA engineerDedicated, up to 160 working hours a month$1,600per month
QA automation engineerDedicated, up to 160 working hours a month$2,800per month
Monthly plans (starting price and starting scope)
Manual QA retainerUp to 20 testing hoursfrom $300per month
Device-cloud, test-tool and CI licences are separate. Hours above an allocation are billed at the hourly rate shown for that role, and only after you approve them in writing. Prices exclude any sales tax, VAT or withholding tax that applies to your invoice.

Try it yourself

Test coverage checklist builder

Move the inputs and the numbers move with them. Nothing is submitted until you choose to.

Tick what you already have

Coverage score

35

Thin

Biggest gaps

  • Regression pack of past defects
  • Roles and permission boundaries
  • OWASP Top 10 application review
Price the missing coverage

Process

How the work actually runs

  1. 1Week 1

    Assess

    We review your release process, existing coverage and defect history, then write the test strategy.

  2. 2Week 2

    Plan

    Critical journeys identified and prioritised, test cases written, automation candidates chosen.

  3. 3Weeks 3-6

    Automate

    Framework stood up, first suites built and wired into CI so they run on every pull request.

  4. 4Ongoing

    Run

    Regression on every release, exploratory sessions each sprint, coverage tracked and grown.

Tools and platforms we work in

PlaywrightCypressSeleniumAppiumk6JMeterPostmanJiraTestRailBrowserStackGitHub ActionsOWASP ZAPPlaywrightCypressSeleniumAppiumk6JMeterPostmanJiraTestRailBrowserStackGitHub ActionsOWASP ZAP

Illustrative example — not a client result

Example engagement

B2B SaaS platform, 60 person engineering team

Every release needed two days of manual testing and still produced hotfixes. There was no way to say what was covered, so scope crept and confidence fell.

What we would do

  • Wrote the test strategy and mapped critical journeys
  • Built a Playwright regression suite in CI
  • Added k6 load tests with budgets that fail the build
  • Introduced defect templates with reproduction evidence

Example target: Release testing time

2 days35 min

-97%

Example target: Production hotfixes per month

91

-89%

Example target: Automated journey coverage

0%84%

+84pts

Example target: Escaped defects per release

142

-86%

This is an illustrative example of how we would approach this kind of work and the outcome we would aim for. It is not a client result, and the figures are targets, not achieved numbers.

Software QA and testing: how to choose a QA partner

What do software testing and QA services include?

Quality assurance (QA) is the discipline of preventing and catching defects before customers find them. Software testing services put that into practice: writing test plans, automating regression tests, testing performance under load, checking APIs and mobile devices, and reporting defects with the evidence developers need to fix them.

  • Test automation: Playwright, Cypress and Selenium suites that run on every pull request in CI.
  • Manual and exploratory testing on the journeys that earn revenue.
  • Regression testing so nothing that worked last release breaks this release.
  • Performance and load testing with k6 or JMeter, including soak and spike tests.
  • API testing and contract testing between services.
  • Mobile app testing on real iOS and Android devices.
  • Accessibility testing to WCAG 2.1 AA.

Manual testing or test automation: which do you need?

You need both. Test automation is best for regression paths that run every release, because it is fast, repeatable and cheap per run. Manual and exploratory testing is best for new features, usability and edge cases a script would not think to try. We automate the journeys where failure is expensive, such as checkout, sign-up and permissions, and keep skilled testers on everything else.

How much does QA outsourcing cost?

Our published rates are US$12 to US$18 an hour for manual QA and US$18 to US$28 for QA automation. A manual QA retainer starts at US$300 a month for up to 20 testing hours; a dedicated manual QA engineer is US$1,600 a month and a QA automation engineer US$2,800 a month, each for up to 160 hours. Building an automation framework with the first ten to thirty journeys is scoped and quoted in writing.

How do you measure test coverage?

We measure coverage by user journey rather than code lines, because line coverage can be high while checkout still breaks. We list the revenue-critical journeys, track which are automated, which are manual and which are untested, and report escaped defects and mean time to detect every release.

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Frequently asked questions

QA and Testing: your questions answered

Playwright for most new work because of its speed and reliability. We also work in Cypress and Selenium, and will stay in whatever your team already maintains rather than forcing a migration.

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