We are an independent QA outsourcing company: 50+ engineers in Cluj-Napoca, inside the EU, testing other people's software since 2018. A team can be working on your product in about two weeks, and the first month is a trial.
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We start as soon as the contract is signed; you get a written proposal within 2 business days; NDA and DPA from day one.
Most engagements start as one of these and turn into another. The contract flexes.
There are three ways to work with us. The difference is who directs the testing day to day.
| Model | How it works | A good fit when |
|---|---|---|
| Managed testing team | We own the testing function: strategy, people, tools and reporting. You get release reports and a clear answer on whether a build can ship. See managed testing services. | You have no QA function yet, or you want an outcome rather than extra headcount. |
| Engineers inside your team | Dedicated testers join your stand-ups, your tracker and your process. Your QA lead or engineering manager directs them. This is outstaffing, also called staff augmentation. | You already have a QA lead and need more capacity or a specialist on the team. |
| Project-based testing | A defined piece of work with an end date: a major release, a migration, a performance or security round, an accessibility audit. We scope it, run it and hand over the findings. | The need is real but temporary, and hiring for it makes no sense. |
The same terms apply to all three. €20-45 per hour. Engagements start from one month, and the first month is a trial: if you are not happy with the first two weeks, they are complimentary. After the first month, either side can end it with 30 days notice. We sign an NDA and a DPA from day one, and our five tools come with every model.
We only test. We do not build software, so we never sign off code we wrote.
QA outsourcing means handing your software testing to a company outside your development team. We work for clients in the US and across Europe, under EU data protection law (GDPR). We are not the team that wrote yours, and we have no development contract to protect by staying quiet about defects.
Independent engineers working with agentic test pipelines built on our own tools: more coverage and more value, for less than an in-house QA team.
Speed of standing up. Hiring five QA engineers takes months in most markets. An embedded team of ours can be productive in two weeks, which suits a post funding sprint.
Specialists you cannot justify hiring. Performance engineers, security testers and accessibility auditors are expensive and idle most of the year on a single product. Ours are shared across accounts.
Tool fatigue. Playwright, Cypress, JMeter, OWASP ZAP and the rest have to be chosen, licensed and maintained by somebody. We bring our own, and the five we built ourselves are included.
Objectivity. Internal QA answers to the person asking whether it can ship on Friday. We do not sit in that meeting. We report what we found and the pressure to round it down is not on us.
Time zone overlap. Most of the working day with the UK and Europe, and the start of the US East Coast day. The hours for your location are in the table below.
0:59Why independent QA matters
When developers test their own work, things get missed. An independent team gives your product a fresh, unbiased look.
Our engineers work from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, inside the EU. Romania is on Eastern European Time (GMT+2, GMT+3 in summer). We work under EU data protection law (GDPR), so your test data never has to leave the EU to reach us.
| You are in | Shared working hours | How it works in practice |
|---|---|---|
| UK and Ireland | About 7 hours | Almost your whole day. We are two hours ahead, so live calls, pairing and same-day retests are normal. |
| Continental Europe | Most of the day | One or two hours apart. Day to day it works like a team in the next building. |
| US East Coast | About 2 to 4 hours | Your morning is our afternoon. Stand-ups and triage fit there, and what you merge at the end of your day is usually tested by your next morning. |
| US West Coast | About 1 hour | Mostly asynchronous. Bugs, retests and reports are waiting in your tracker when you start, and a short scheduled call covers the rest. |
If your team needs builds tested overnight, the gap helps.
In an online shop, a bug is lost revenue you can count by the hour. The work that matters most is narrow and repetitive, which is why many retailers hand it to a dedicated outside team.
Two models fit retail well: engineers inside your team all year, with more added in the run-up to a peak, or a project-based round before a replatform or a major sale. Ecommerce clients sit alongside healthcare, SaaS and fintech on our case studies page.
Team size no longer predicts how much testing you need. A small team shipping with coding agents produces several times the code it produced two years ago, and the defects scale with the output rather than with the headcount. No one added review capacity to match.
If you want the long version with the cost arithmetic worked through, we keep it in our guide to in-house vs outsourced QA. It argues both sides.
A one-month trial, and the first two weeks are complimentary if you are not happy. We sign an NDA and a DPA from day one, then embed, learn the product, write tests and file real bugs against your actual software. By the end of the trial you have the bugs we found in BugBoard, the written tests and a final report. If the first two weeks do not convince you, you do not pay for them. At the end of the first month you decide whether to carry on, and from then on either side can end it with 30 days notice.
We do this because nobody can judge testing quality from a proposal. Every QA company describes itself the same way. Two weeks of real bug reports against your own product settles it in a way that a reference call cannot.
After that: a named team, the same people month to month, a maintained suite, and reporting you can forward without rewriting.
€20 to €45 an hour, depending on seniority, how long you commit for, and the mix of manual, automation and specialist work. Longer commitments move down that range.
Every engineer on your product has shipped commercial releases before. The rate moves with seniority, commitment length and the mix of work, never by swapping in people new to testing. We compete on what the testing is worth, not on being the cheapest quote in your inbox, and we would rather lose to a lower bid than win by staffing your product with people who have not seen your domain before.
Included at no licence cost: BugBoard for test management and AI test generation, Flows for automation that heals its own selectors, Auditi for GDPR, WCAG and FDA auditing, BetterFlow so you can see what the hours went into, and our AI Security Toolkit. We built all five because the off the shelf versions did not keep up with us.
Every QA company describes itself the same way, us included. These are the questions that separate them, and you should ask them of us too.
Our answers: we only test; the first month is a trial and the first two weeks are complimentary if you are not happy; NDA and DPA from day one; €20-45 per hour with 30 days notice; ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001; and you keep your test suites when we part.
Our ISO 27001 covers how we handle your data, credentials and test environments, and our ISO 9001 quality system governs how every engagement runs. We send the certificates with their scope statement, so your procurement team reads it first-hand.
Different rather than worse. You gain specialists and objectivity, and you lose some product intuition in the first month. Keeping the same engineers on your product for six months and longer is how we close most of that gap.
We sign NDAs, we work inside your VPN and tooling where you want us to, and the handling is covered by our ISO 27001 management system. For a regulated product, ask us for the scope statement rather than the certificate.
If you are not happy with the first two weeks, they are complimentary. The first month is a trial, and after it either side can end the engagement with 30 days notice, so you are never locked into a long contract. When engagements end, you keep the test suites, the documentation and the tooling configuration.
Most of our work is this. Your lead keeps the process and we add capacity or specialists underneath it.
With us, €20 to €45 per hour, depending on seniority, commitment length and the mix of manual, automation and specialist work. Our five tools are included, so there is no separate licence bill.
An embedded team can be working on your product in about two weeks.
One month. The first month is a trial, and if you are not happy with the first two weeks they are complimentary. After the first month, the notice period is 30 days.
We work from Romania (GMT+2, GMT+3 in summer). That gives most of the day with the UK and Europe, about 2 to 4 hours with the US East Coast, and about an hour with the US West Coast, where we work mostly asynchronously.
Yes, for the weeks around a major release or a sale, within the one-month minimum. Tell us early: the people who join need time to learn your product before the busy week.
We work in your tracker and to your release process, you see every bug as we file it, and BetterFlow shows what the hours went into. You set the priorities, and the test suites stay yours.
No. We only test. That is the point: a testing company with no development contract has no reason to soften what it finds.
Close. Testing as a service, QA as a service and managed testing all mean buying testing as an ongoing service instead of hiring testers, which is our managed testing team model: we own the strategy, people, tools and reporting. If you would rather have dedicated testers working inside your own team, that is outstaffing, and we do that too.
Tell us what you ship, how often, and what is going wrong, and we will tell you where outsourcing helps.
