SDMRFrom $30/hr · Avg start: 2 weeks · 60%+ E2E coverage delivered

Hire senior QA & Test Automation
engineers in 2 weeks.

5+ year QA & Test Engineering engineers, AI-fluent by default. Embed in your team this month — hourly or fixed monthly. No agency markup.

Book a 30-min hiring callSee engagement modelsFree 2-week replacement · NDA + IP signed before kickoff
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10+
QA & Test Automation engineers on bench
2wk
Avg time to start
94%
Client retention at 6 months
8h+
US/UK time-zone overlap
Stack expertise

What our QA
engineers actually catch.

QA at iTechNotion is engineering, not button-clicking. Bench QA engineers write code, build test infrastructure, and reduce flake. They sit inside the dev team, not next to it.
  • E2E with Playwright.Parallel, sharded, recorded. Auto-waiting, no sleep() shame.
  • Component testing.Cypress component runner + Storybook + Chromatic visual diffs.
  • Mobile e2e.Detox for React Native + Flutter; Appium for native iOS / Android.
  • API + contract testing.Pact, Postman runners, schema diff catches in CI.
  • Performance + load.k6, Artillery. SLO regressions caught before users feel them.
  • Test data + fixtures.Factories, synthetic data, scrubbed prod-like staging.
  • AI-augmented test gen.Use LLMs to draft tests; engineer rewrites and curates.
  • Flake hunting.Statistical analysis, network mocks, deterministic seeds — not just retries.
On the bench this month

Three engineers,
ready this week.

Anonymised samples of who's available right now. Real CVs and portfolios go out within 48 hours of your hiring call. All 10 bench engineers are vetted on a real-world take-home (paid, 4 hr) before being eligible to embed.
T
QA-E04 · Senior
Lead SDET · 8 yrs
Built test infra for fintech startup that scaled from 0 to 1M users with <2% flake rate. Loves dashboards.
Playwrightk6PactGitHub ActionsAllureTypeScript
Rate: $48 / hrAvailable: Now
I
QA-E07 · Senior
Mobile QA Engineer · 7 yrs
Detox + Appium specialist. Shipped automated E2E for 4 React Native + Flutter apps. Strong on device-farm orchestration.
DetoxAppiumBrowserStackFirebase Test LabiOSAndroid
Rate: $45 / hrAvailable: Mar 1
H
QA-E09 · Senior
AI Test Engineer · 5 yrs
Pioneered LLM-driven test generation at previous role. Knows when to trust AI tests and when to rewrite.
PlaywrightAI test genTypeScriptCypressMochaSentry
Rate: $42 / hrAvailable: Now
Get 3 short-listed CVs in 48 hrs
Engagement models

Three ways to hire us.

Most teams start hourly to test fit on a small slice of work, then switch to monthly retainer once the engineer earns trust. No multi-year contracts. Free replacement in the first 2 weeks if there's a mismatch.
Most flexible
Hourly
$35-65/hr

Pay only for hours worked. Best for spikes, prototypes, audits, and trial periods before deeper commitment.

  • Senior engineers only (5+ yrs)
  • 8-hr minimum engagement
  • Weekly invoicing in USD or INR
  • Cancel anytime, no notice
  • Slack + standups included
Start hourly
Best value · 70% pick this
Monthly retainer
from $4,800/mo

One dedicated engineer, 160 hrs/month. Daily standups, your repos, your sprint. Behaves like an FTE.

  • Fully dedicated, no context switching
  • Slack + standups + sprint participation
  • Unused hours roll over (max 20%)
  • 30-day notice to end
  • Quarterly 1:1 review with iTechNotion lead
  • Free swap in first 2 weeks
Book a retainer
Build-Operate-Transfer
Custom

We staff and run a full team (3-8 engineers). After 18-24 months you optionally absorb them onto your books.

  • Hand-picked team of 3-8
  • Embedded into your culture + tools
  • Quarterly knowledge transfer plan
  • Optional buy-out clause at month 18+
  • Local presence in India or Dubai
  • Pre-negotiated transfer cost
Talk about BOT
Hiring process

From call to onboarded
in 7-10 working days.

No 6-week recruiter loops. No theatrical whiteboard rounds. You meet the engineer, you decide.
1
Day 1

Share the role

30-min call: stack, scope, deadline, soft skills. We map it to bench in real time.

30 min
2
Day 2-3

Get 3 CVs

Three short-listed engineers, with portfolios, past project metrics, and Loom intros. You pick 1-2 to interview.

48 hrs
3
Day 4-7

Trial sprint

Optional 1-week paid trial. Real work on a sandboxed branch. You see code, comms, and velocity before committing.

1 week
4
Day 8-10

Embed

Slack, GitHub, Linear, your standup. NDA + DPA signed. Engineer is shipping by end of week.

2 days
Why us

What you get
that recruiters miss.

We're an engineering studio, not a body shop. Every engineer on the bench has shipped real production code on a real iTechNotion client project. They eat our own cooking.
  • Senior-only roster.5+ yrs minimum. No bait-and-switch with juniors mid-project.
  • AI-fluent by default.Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code daily. They ship faster + cleaner.
  • Embedded into your team.Slack, Linear, your repos, your standup. FTE-grade integration.
  • 8-hour US/UK overlap.Real-time pairing, code review, decisions in the same window.
  • Free 2-week replacement.Wrong fit? We swap. No friction. No charge.
  • No agency markup.Direct rates. You pay for the engineer, not the layer above.
  • Background-checked.NDA, IP assignment, GDPR DPA, SOC 2 (in progress) signed before kickoff.
  • Quarterly delivery review.We grade ourselves. You get the report. Anything red, we fix.
From a customer who hired through iTechNotion
★★★★★
“We had a 28% E2E flake rate and shipping was a coin flip. iTechNotion's SDET rewrote our Playwright suite, fixed the network mocks, and added k6 perf gates. Flake dropped to 1.8% in 6 weeks. Ship-confidence is a feeling I'd forgotten.
DK
Daniel Kapoor
Eng Manager · Aura Wallet · Toronto
1.8%
Flake rate (was 28%)
6wk
From hire to stable suite
+62%
Coverage increase
0
Sev-1 incidents post-stabilisation
Common questions

Hiring a QA & Test Automation
engineer, real questions.

Most-asked questions from founders, CTOs and engineering managers. If yours isn't here, ask [email protected] — we reply within one business day.
Do you do manual QA too, or only automation?+

We staff both. Manual QA engineers exist on the bench (8 of 10 have exploratory testing experience), but our bias is to automate anything that ships twice. Manual is for week-1 exploration, accessibility audits, and weird edge-case hunting.

Can your QA engineers write tests against AI features?+

Yes. Three of our QA engineers specialise in LLM eval pipelines and AI-feature regression testing. They use gold-set datasets, semantic similarity scoring, and structured-output validators — not 'does the bot say something nice'.

Can your engineers work in my time zone?+

Yes. All bench engineers commit to at least 4 hours overlap with your team. Most pick US East / UK / EU schedules. For West Coast US, we have engineers on a late shift earning a 15% overlap bonus. Dubai-based engineers cover Europe + EMEA naturally.

What if the engineer is not a fit?+

Free replacement inside the first 2 weeks. No reason needed. We re-shortlist from the bench within 48 hours and start the next engineer within a week. We track fit-failure rate publicly — it's 6% over the last 4 quarters.

Will the engineer own my code?+

No. We sign IP assignment before any code is written. You own every line. Engineers carry skills and learnings forward, not your code or your designs. Standard MSA + DPA available on request.

Can I hire the engineer directly after a few months?+

Yes — that's our Build-Operate-Transfer model. Pre-negotiated transfer fee, paid once after 18+ months. No surprise ‘you stole our person’ lawyer letters.

What if my project needs more than one engineer?+

We routinely staff teams of 3-8 engineers + lead + QA. Same hiring process, three CVs per role. Average time to fully-staffed team: 3 weeks.

Available · This quarter · 10 QA & Test Automation engineers open

Hire a senior
QA & Test Automation engineer
in 2 weeks.

30-min call. Tell us the role and stack. We'll send 3 short-listed CVs within 48 hours. You interview, we close. First engineer onboarded inside 10 working days.

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