QA glossary
What is a dedicated QA team?
A dedicated QA team is a group of testers assigned full-time to one client's product, usually supplied by an outside QA company. The team learns the product, works in the client's sprints and tools, and stays with it for months, unlike project-based testing, where testers move on when the project ends.
An example from QA practice
A software company with twelve developers and no testers ships every two weeks, and regressions keep reaching customers. It brings in a dedicated team of two QA engineers. In the first month they write regression tests for billing and sign-up. By the third month they sit in sprint planning and flag stories nobody can test before the work starts, not after release.
Dedicated team, staff augmentation or project testing
The three models differ in who manages the people and how long they stay.
- Dedicated team. The QA company hires, manages and replaces the testers; you get a stable team and its results.
- Staff augmentation. Individual testers join your team and you manage them day to day, like your own staff.
- Project testing. A fixed scope, such as a release or an audit, that ends when the work is delivered.
A dedicated team fits when you release often, product knowledge takes months to build, and nobody in-house leads QA.
How BetterQA does it
Our QA engineers in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, test independently of your developers and work inside your sprints and tools. Every engagement includes the tools we built: BugBoard, Flows, Auditi, BetterFlow and the AI Security Toolkit. When an engagement ends, your bugs, test cases and tests stay with you, and Flows tests export to Playwright, Cypress and Selenium.