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Hire QA engineers

Testers who write a test plan you can read, automate the checks worth automating, and report defects a developer can reproduce.

What a Tankar QA engineer does

Writes the test plan before the build, keeps it current as scope changes, and reports defects with enough detail that a developer can reproduce one without a call. Automated suites cover the flows that run every release; the rest is tested by a person who is looking for trouble.

Where the value shows up

On products that release often, on anything with a payment or a booking in it, and on applications that must work on old Android devices and in screen readers. A suite that runs in the pipeline turns a two-day regression pass into a fifteen-minute check.

How the engagement is set up

A named engineer on your board and in your tracker, a weekly demo of the suite as well as the product, test data that is generated or masked rather than copied from production, and the automation code in your repository from week one.

What each level brings

LevelWhat they bring
Junior
  • Executes test cases across browsers and devices and records results against the plan
  • Writes defect reports with steps, expected and actual behaviour, and the evidence attached
  • Maintains existing automated suites and investigates a failure before escalating it
Mid-level
  • Writes the test plan for a release, including what is deliberately out of scope
  • Builds and stabilises automated suites for the flows that matter, and removes flaky tests
  • Tests APIs directly rather than only through the interface, including error responses
Senior
  • Sets the test strategy across unit, integration, end-to-end and manual work, and defends the split
  • Owns the quality gate in the pipeline and the definition of what blocks a release
  • Adds performance and accessibility testing to the plan, with thresholds agreed before the build

Engagement terms

The terms that hold for every developer placed on this stack.

TermDetail
IP and source codeFull IP assignment at final payment. Test plans, automation code and defect history sit in your repository and tracker from week one, and an NDA is signed before discovery.
Test dataTests run on generated or masked data. Production data is not copied into a test environment, under the ISO 27001 process.

Related case studies

Platforms built with QA and test automation developers on the team.

Questions buyers ask

What buyers ask before they add a developer on this stack.

Manual testing or automation?

Both, in a ratio the engineer should be able to justify. Automate the flows that run every release and pay for themselves. Test by hand where the value is in judgement, such as a new screen or an unusual device.

Can they write automated tests for our existing application?

Yes. The first weeks go on the flows that break most often and on making the suite reliable, because a suite that fails at random gets ignored and then deleted.

Do they test APIs and performance as well as the interface?

API testing is standard at mid level and above. Load and performance testing is planned separately, with the target numbers agreed before the run so the result means something.

Who decides what blocks a release?

You do. The QA engineer writes the gate as an explicit list, such as no open severity-one defects and the critical paths passing, and applies it consistently rather than case by case.

Can a QA engineer work alongside our own testers?

Yes, and it is common. The usual split is your team on domain knowledge and exploratory testing, the placed engineer on the automated suite and the release plan.

Request a developer

Tell us the level, how many people and when they should start. A named person replies within one business day. NDA on request.

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Level

From 1 to 20.

Include the country code.

The product, the team they would join and the hours of overlap you need.

Other stacks

Every stack has the same page: levels, vetting, terms and a request form.

Tell us what you are building.

NDA on request. Written estimate within 48 hours of a scoped call. Reply within one business day.

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