Embedded QA for SaaS startups

Your team ships fast. Bugs shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.

You're a 15–50 person SaaS team with no QA — or one manual tester who's underwater. We embed an experienced QA engineer into your workflow who owns testing end to end: documentation, manual coverage, and automation in Playwright + TypeScript.

No long contract. The trial ends with real deliverables — a test plan and your first automated tests running in CI.

We work in your stack

Playwright
TypeScript
GitHub Actions
Allure
REST APIs
The problem

Shipping weekly without QA catches up with you

At 15–50 people, product velocity is high and regressions start slipping into production. Hiring a full-time QA lead is slow and expensive. This is the gap we fill.

Bugs reach production

Developers test their own code. Edge cases and regressions ship to customers, and you find out from support tickets.

No test documentation

Nobody knows what's actually covered. Onboarding a tester or automating anything means starting from zero.

Releases feel risky

Every deploy is a manual scramble. There's no regression suite, so "did we break anything?" is answered by hoping.

How we work

From zero coverage to automated regression in weeks

We start with documentation, cover your critical paths manually, then automate the regression and wire it into your pipeline. Here's the sequence.

WEEK 1

Map the product

We audit what exists, write a test plan and test cases for your critical flows, and flag the highest-risk areas.

Test docs & plan
WEEK 2

Cover critical paths

Manual and exploratory testing on core user journeys. Clear, reproducible bug reports your devs can act on immediately.

Manual coverage
ONGOING

Automate the regression

We build an E2E suite in Playwright + TypeScript and cover your API, so regressions get caught before release, not after.

Playwright + API
ONGOING

Wire into CI/CD

Tests run automatically on every pull request in GitHub Actions, with Allure reports so the whole team sees what passed.

CI + reporting

Want the whole sequence on a real project — plan, live tests, bug reports, dashboards?

See exactly how we work, end to end →
What's included

One embedded engineer, the full QA function

Your QA engineer works inside your tools and your standups — not as an outside vendor throwing reports over the wall.

📋

Test documentation

Test plans, test cases, and checklists so coverage is explicit and anyone can pick it up.

🔍

Manual & exploratory testing

Hands-on testing of critical flows with clear, reproducible bug reports.

⚙️

E2E automation

Maintainable end-to-end suites in Playwright + TypeScript, built for your app.

🔌

API testing

Contract and integration checks so your backend is verified independently of the UI.

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CI/CD integration

Tests running on every PR in GitHub Actions, gating releases automatically.

📊

Reporting

Allure reports and a regular readout on quality, coverage, and what's flaky.

Stack & tools

Modern tooling, no lock-in

We standardize on tools your developers already respect, so the test suite is something your team can own after we're gone.

PlaywrightE2E automation
TypeScriptTest code
API testingREST / contract
GitHub ActionsCI/CD
AllureReporting
PostmanAPI exploration
WebdriverIO + AppiumMobile automation
Getting started

Start small. Scale when it works.

Prove the value in two weeks before committing to anything ongoing — then an experienced QA engineer embedded in your team, month to month. No per-hour billing, no surprises. Typically a fraction of the fully-loaded cost of an in-house experienced QA hire — without the months-long hiring cycle.

Step 1

2-week trial

A low-risk pilot

Kick-off within days, not months. See exactly how we work before any ongoing commitment — and walk away with real deliverables either way.

  • Test plan for your critical flows
  • Manual testing & bug reports
  • First automated tests running in CI
  • No commitment beyond the two weeks
Start the trial
Who it's for

Built for SaaS startups between 15 and 50 people

We're a fit if you're moving fast, quality is starting to hurt, and hiring a full QA team isn't the right move yet.

No QA in-house

Developers are testing their own work and it's not scaling. You need someone who owns quality without a lengthy hire.

One overloaded tester

You have a manual QA who can't get to automation. We add the automation and process depth alongside them.

Shipping weekly

Frequent releases mean frequent regressions. You want a safety net in CI, not another manual fire drill each deploy.

Proof & confidentiality

Our client work is under NDA. Here's what we can show.

We don't publish client names, logos, or case studies — your product gets the same discretion. What we can show is the exact shape of what your team receives from week one:

Test planbilling-v2

Checkout & billing — coverage map

  • Payment happy path — 12 cases
  • Failed card & retries — 8 cases
  • Proration & plan upgrades — 9 cases
  • Invoices & tax edge cases — 7 cases
P1 · MajorBUG-214

Discount code applies twice on checkout

  • Steps:add plan → apply code → back → pay
  • Expected:20% off, once
  • Actual:discount stacks to 40%
  • Repro:5/5 · staging · Chrome
✓ Checks passedPR #482

e2e-regression · GitHub Actions

  • Playwright E2E — 128 passed, 0 failed
  • API contract — 46 passed
  • Allure report published
  • Run time: 2m 41s
These are samples — not client data. Want to see the whole thing, live?

A complete, interactive walkthrough of our process on a real demo project — the test plan, the tests running in your browser, bug reports, Slack alerts and the full Allure report.

See a full example →
FAQ

Questions teams ask before starting

How fast can we start?

Days, not months. We start with a short kick-off call, get access to your product, and the first deliverables — a test plan and first bug reports — arrive within the first week of the trial.

What if we already have a manual tester?

That's a common setup. We work alongside your tester: they keep owning day-to-day checks while we add test documentation, automation in Playwright + TypeScript, and CI integration — the parts a single manual tester rarely has time for.

Who owns the tests, code, and documentation?

You do, from day one. Test cases, Playwright code, and CI configuration live in your repositories and your tools. If we ever part ways, everything keeps working without us.

How does the engineer integrate with our team?

Like a team member, not a vendor: your Slack, your standups, your sprint board and PR flow, with working hours that overlap US and European time zones.

What happens after the trial?

You decide. Continue month to month with an embedded engineer, take the deliverables and run them in-house, or walk away. The test plan, bug reports, and automated tests from the trial are yours either way.

Is our code and data safe?

We sign an NDA before looking at your product, work inside your infrastructure with the minimum access needed, and never move code or data outside your environment.

Can you share case studies or references?

Our client work is under strict NDAs, so we don't publish names, logos, or case studies — and your product will get the same discretion. What we can share is a complete, public example of our whole process on a demo project — see the live example →. On a call, we'll walk through how we'd set the same up for your product.

Why not just hire a QA engineer in-house?

Hiring an experienced QA takes months and a full salary plus overhead. We start in days at a fraction of that cost — and if you later decide to build an in-house team, you inherit documented processes and a working automation suite instead of starting from zero.

Get started

Let's find out where your product is breaking

Book a free 30-minute call. We'll review your release process, show you where bugs are slipping through, and tell you honestly whether a 2-week trial makes sense. No commitment.

Pick a time that works for you — the call takes 30 minutes, no prep needed.