A dedicated QA team that grows with your product and owns every release

A dedicated QA team is a fixed pod of QA engineers, SDETs and specialists assigned exclusively to your product over a continuous engagement: typically six months or longer. Unlike staff augmentation, which places individual contractors inside your team, a dedicated QA pod operates as a structured unit with a defined lead, documented scope, agreed reporting cadence and SLA-backed delivery. The pod takes accountability for quality outcomes, not just hours worked.

A QAble dedicated QA pod usually ranges from three to twelve engineers depending on product scope and release cadence. A typical mid-size pod includes one QA Lead, two manual / exploratory engineers, two SDETs for automation and one specialist (performance, security, mobile or domain). Pods scale up or down on a two-week notice as your release pressure shifts.

Active testing usually begins within one week of contract signature. Week one is reserved for environment access, tooling setup, product walkthroughs and test strategy alignment. Week two onwards the pod is sprint-aligned and producing executed test runs, defect reports and weekly status summaries. For urgent releases, QAble can accelerate this with a focused kick-off and pre-prepared test charters.

Your organisation owns all artefacts: test cases, automation frameworks, scripts, defect logs and reports from day one. Code is committed to your repositories, documentation lives in your knowledge base and access is structured so any handover is clean. QAble retains no ownership of artefacts produced during the engagement.

Yes. QAble shares engineer profiles with relevant skills aligned to your stack and domain. You participate in introductory calls and confirm the pod composition before the engagement starts. Replacement requests during the engagement are handled within ten working days at no additional cost, with knowledge transfer documented to maintain continuity.

Continuity is built into the model rather than dependent on individuals. Every pod maintains shared documentation: test strategy, environment runbooks, automation framework guides and defect history, so context lives in artefacts, not in heads. If an engineer rolls off, a replacement is onboarded in parallel with a structured handover and the QA Lead absorbs ongoing work to prevent any coverage gap.

QAble pods operate from India and offer overlap windows that cover working hours across Europe, the United Kingdom, the Americas and APAC. Most engagements settle on a four to six hour synchronous overlap window with daily standups, asynchronous reporting through your tools and emergency contacts for production-priority issues.

Engagements are priced on a fixed monthly pod rate based on team size and seniority mix, not per ticket or per hour. Indicative ranges: a Starter Pod (three engineers) starts around the typical cost of a single mid-level in-house QA hire. A Scale Pod (eight to twelve engineers, multi-disciplinary) is billed at the equivalent of a mid-size internal QA function, without recruitment, attrition or management overhead.

Coverage is shaped by your product but typically spans functional and exploratory testing, regression, API and integration testing, automation framework design and maintenance, mobile QA across iOS and Android, performance and load testing and security and accessibility validation. Specialised disciplines like AI/ML testing, OTT, ERP, blockchain and IoT are added through senior specialists as the scope demands.

Every dedicated QA team produces a defined reporting cadence: daily standup notes, weekly execution and defect-density summaries, sprint sign-off documents and a release report covering coverage, open risks and recommended sign-off status. Quarterly reviews cover KPI trends, automation maturity and roadmap adjustments. Reporting is shared in your tools: Jira, Confluence and Slack. Not external dashboards.

A QAble dedicated QA team engagement typically starts at three months to allow proper onboarding and meaningful coverage build-up. Most engagements continue beyond twelve months as the pod accumulates product context, owns growing automation suites and becomes embedded in the release process. Shorter, scoped engagements are better served by a Sprint QA Pod.

A short discovery conversation is enough to scope an initial proposal. We need a high-level product overview, your release cadence, current QA setup if any, the platforms you support and your primary quality concerns. From there QAble returns a recommended pod composition, engagement plan and indicative pricing within five working days.