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Hire QA Managers Who Build Quality Engineering Organizations

Quality at scale requires leadership — not just more testers. A QA Manager is responsible for building the testing strategy, the team, the tools, the processes, and the quality culture that makes software delivery reliable. The QA managers who can do this — who’ve built QA organizations from scratch, scaled them through hypergrowth, and transformed reactive bug-hunting into proactive quality engineering — are rare and valuable.

We match you with senior QA Managers who’ve led quality engineering at SaaS companies, enterprise software organizations, and consumer platforms through significant product and team scaling. Leaders who combine deep testing expertise with the management skills to build effective teams and the influence to embed quality into the entire engineering organization.

Start in days, not months. Pay 50% less than equivalent US-based QA management talent.

What Our QA Managers Deliver

Quality Strategy & Test Architecture

Defining the testing strategy for your product: the right mix of unit, integration, and E2E testing, automation coverage targets, manual testing scope, performance testing requirements, and the toolchain that makes the strategy executable.

QA Team Building & Management

Hiring, onboarding, and developing QA engineers, SDETs, and automation engineers. Career development, performance management, workload planning, and building the team culture that attracts and retains quality-focused engineers.

Quality Metrics & Reporting

Defect escape rate, test coverage trends, automation coverage percentage, release quality scores, and mean time to detect — the quantitative basis for quality improvement conversations with engineering leadership and executive stakeholders.

Process Design & Quality Gates

Designing the testing checkpoints that protect production: Definition of Done standards, release go/no-go criteria, bug triage processes, severity/priority frameworks, and the automation quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.

Cross-Functional Quality Advocacy

Embedding quality into the broader engineering organization — working with engineering managers on code review practices, with product managers on acceptance criteria quality, and with DevOps on release pipeline safety.

QA Manager Expertise Stack

Team Leadership: QA team hiring, SDET hiring, performance management, career laddering, remote team management

Testing Strategy: Test pyramid design, automation portfolio management, risk-based testing, coverage targets

Quality Metrics: Defect escape rate, MTTD, automation coverage, release quality scores, DORA metrics

Tools: TestRail, Zephyr, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Allure, Grafana, New Relic

Frameworks: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium (strategic oversight, not daily coding)

Methodologies: Shift-left testing, BDD, TDD advocacy, agile QA integration

Client Success Story: Scale-Up SaaS — Built a 12-Person QA Team from Zero

A Series C SaaS company had 80 engineers and no dedicated QA function — quality was nominally owned by engineers, but production defect rates and release anxiety told a different story. Our QA Manager joined as the first quality hire. In 18 months, she hired and onboarded 12 QA engineers and SDETs, implemented a testing strategy with explicit coverage targets by product area, built a Playwright-based automation framework that reached 65% critical path coverage, and established release go/no-go criteria that the engineering VP used to make release decisions with confidence. Production defect escape rate dropped 74%. Engineering team satisfaction with the QA partnership, measured quarterly, improved from 3.2 to 4.6 out of 5.

Client Success Story: Enterprise SaaS — QA Transformation During Acquisition Integration

A mid-market SaaS company being acquired needed to integrate two separate QA teams with conflicting processes, toolchains, and quality standards — while maintaining continuous delivery for both products during an 18-month integration. Our QA Manager designed the integration roadmap: assessed both teams’ strengths, standardized on a unified toolchain, merged test management systems, and created a combined testing strategy that maintained each product’s quality standards while building toward a unified process. Both products continued quarterly releases throughout the integration. Zero quality incidents attributable to the integration process. The combined QA team was rated as one of the acquisition’s “integration success stories” in the post-close executive review.

Why Companies Choose Our QA Managers

• Builder mindset: They build QA organizations from scratch and scale them — they don’t just manage inherited processes
• Quality culture: They embed quality into the engineering organization as a shared responsibility, not a separate gate
• Metrics-driven: They measure quality improvement with data and present it to leadership in terms of business impact
• 50% cost savings: Senior QA management expertise at a fraction of US market rates
• Fast start: Most engagements begin within 1–2 weeks

Engagement Models

• Individual QA Manager — One senior QA Manager leading your quality organization as a department head or QA lead.
• QA Manager + Team — A QA Manager paired with QA Engineers and SDETs — a complete quality engineering function.
• Fractional QA Director — A senior QA leader in a part-time strategic role, setting quality strategy and mentoring existing QA staff without requiring a full-time hire.
• Contract-to-Hire — Evaluate a QA Manager’s leadership style and quality strategy thinking before committing long-term.

How To Vet QA Managers

Our vetting identifies QA managers who build effective quality organizations — not just senior testers with a management title.

1. Quality strategy design — Given your product, team size, and current quality situation, how would they design a testing strategy in the first 90 days? We assess strategic thinking, prioritization, and realistic execution planning.
2. Team building track record — Who have they hired? How did they assess candidates? What QA careers have they developed? We probe for evidence of actual team building and people development.
3. Metrics & outcomes review — What quality metrics did they own? How did they improve them? What was the business impact? We look for quantified improvement, not just process descriptions.
4. Cross-functional influence — How have they worked with engineering managers, product managers, and executives to improve quality across the organization? QA Managers who only manage down are limited in impact.

What to Look for When Hiring QA Managers

Strong QA managers improve quality as an organizational system — they don’t just manage a team of testers.

What strong candidates demonstrate:

• They describe quality strategy in terms of risk coverage and business impact — not just test case counts and pass rates
• They’ve had influence at the engineering leadership level: changed Definition of Done standards, moved quality gates in the development process, shifted cultural attitudes about quality ownership
• They can articulate a testing strategy for your specific product architecture — web, mobile, API, or complex distributed systems
• They’ve managed through quality crises: production incidents, release failures, and the recovery that followed

Red flags to watch for:

• Defines quality management as “making sure testers execute their test cases” — no strategic depth
• Has never built a QA team from scratch — has only managed inherited teams with inherited processes
• No experience with test automation strategy — can’t speak to automation ROI, coverage prioritization, or automation portfolio management
• Measures quality only by bug counts — no defect escape rate, coverage metrics, or business outcome correlation

Interview questions that reveal real depth:

• “Walk me through the quality strategy you’d implement for a 50-engineer SaaS product with no existing automation in the first 6 months.”
• “Describe a situation where you had to push back on a release on quality grounds. How did you make the case and what was the outcome?”
• “How do you build a testing culture in an engineering organization where developers don’t believe QA adds value?”

Related Services

• SDETs — Software engineers who build test automation frameworks — the individual contributors QA Managers often hire and lead.
• QA Engineers — Manual and exploratory QA engineers who form the core of most QA teams.
• QA Automation Engineers — Automation-focused QA engineers who bridge manual testing and SDET-level work.
• Performance Engineers — Load testing and performance specialists who often report into or partner with QA leadership.

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We source, vet, and place senior QA Managers who build quality engineering organizations — leaders who set testing strategy, build effective teams, and create the quality culture that makes software delivery reliable. Whether you need a QA Manager to lead an existing team or build a quality function from scratch, we make it fast, affordable, and low-risk.

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