Why hire an outside QA team instead of one more developer?

Developers test what they built the way they built it — it is hard to find your own assumption. An independent QA team arrives without it, and since we have no development arm, we never grade our own homework.

What are the contract terms?

QA retainers run month to month after an initial three-month term with 30 days' notice. Growth retainers need three to six months because SEO compounds. Fixed projects are billed 50% up front and 50% on delivery.

Independent QA · No dev arm · No bias

Every release gets a verdict.
Ship, or hold.

Q: What do you need from us to start?

Staging access, test accounts, whatever requirements exist, your issue tracker, and one person who can answer questions. Discovery call within 48 hours; the free 3-day pilot can start the following Monday.

We're a software testing studio. We write the tests, build the automation, and put the call in writing before you release — with the evidence to back it.

Start the free pilot → What we test

3 days · pilot, free 48 hrs · first audit back ISTQB · aligned process

npx playwright test — release/2.4 Live

BUG-0417 filed · P1 evidence: recording + HAR caught in staging — not by a customer

Built for teams in

SaaSFintechE-commerce HealthcareEdTechMarketplaces

01Testing services

Seven ways software breaks. We cover all of them.

Manual and automated software testing services — functional, API, performance, mobile and accessibility — scoped by a risk map, so you pay for what moves your defect escape rate.

Functional & regression

Every user journey, every edge case, every browser — before each release.

TestRail · BrowserStack

Test automation

A real framework that runs on every pull request. We build it, we maintain it.

Playwright · Cypress · CI/CD

API & integration

Contract checks and failure simulation, so a breaking change never ships quietly.

Postman · Pact · WireMock

Performance & load

We find where your system bends — and which component gave first.

k6 · JMeter · Grafana

Mobile

Real devices, bad networks, low battery. Not a simulator that always behaves.

Appium · Firebase Test Lab

Accessibility

WCAG 2.2 AA audits with screen-reader walkthroughs, not just automated scans.

axe · NVDA · VoiceOver

QA audit & strategy

For teams that already test but keep shipping bugs. We find where the process leaks.

Risk map · Quality gates

02The promise

Four things we put in the contract.

Not values on a wall. Terms you can hold us to.

P—01

Every bug ships with proof

Steps, screen recording, network log. If your developer can't reproduce it in a minute, that's our failure, not theirs.

P—02

A written verdict, every release

Ship or hold, with the reason. You'll never guess whether it's safe to press the button.

P—03

Same-day response

Anything raised in your working hours gets an answer in your working hours. It's in the SLA.

P—04

No lock-in

Month to month after the first term, 30 days' notice. If we're not finding bugs, you shouldn't be paying us.

03A real deliverable

This is what a bug looks like when we file it.

No "login sometimes broken" tickets. Severity, revenue impact, exact steps, evidence attached — so your developer fixes it the same day instead of arguing about whether it exists.

P1 · HighBUG-0417 CheckoutReproducible 5/5

Discount code applies twice when payment is retried after a card decline

Steps: Add item → apply SAVE20 → pay with declining card → retry with valid card
Expected: Total $80.00 — discount once
Actual: $60.00 charged — discount twice
Impact: Revenue loss on every retried payment
Evidence: Recording, HAR file, request log attached

04Reporting

Four numbers, every month. No 40-page decks.

This is the scorecard your leadership sees. Sample data below — yours comes from your builds.

Defects that escaped to users last release

Target · always 0

Regression suite automated and running in CI

Grows every sprint

0min

Full automated regression, per run

Was 3 hrs manual

Open release blocker — BUG-0417, checkout

Verdict · hold

05How it runs

Call to coverage in two weeks.

STEP 1

Discovery call

What you ship, how often, and where bugs keep escaping.

30 min · free

STEP 2

Free pilot

One module. Real test cases, real defects filed in your tracker.

3 days · free

STEP 3

Scope & SLA

What gets tested, on what cadence, with a fixed monthly number.

Signed in writing

STEP 4

Embedded delivery

Your standups, your Jira. Automation grows, regression time shrinks.

Verdict every release

06Second practice — Growth

Product solid, nobody's found it yet?

We run marketing the way we run QA: baseline, change one thing, verify. No vanity metrics.

Web design & build

Fast, conversion-focused sites. Core Web Vitals green at handover.

Technical SEO

Crawl, indexation, schema, speed — the work that lets everything rank.

Content strategy

Keywords mapped to buying intent, briefs your writers can execute.

Link building

Editorial placements. Every link verified live, with its metrics.

Paid search & social

Google, Meta, LinkedIn — with tracking wired up properly first.

Analytics & CRO

GA4 that reflects reality, A/B tests on pages that carry revenue.

07Pricing

Published rates. No quote games.

Pilot

Prove it works before you pay anything.

Free

3 working days · one module

10 test cases written & executed
5 real defects filed in your tracker
Coverage gap assessment

Claim a slot

Most common

QA Audit

A tester embedded in your sprint, part-time.

$1,500/mo

~80 hrs · manual + regression

Functional + regression, every sprint
Cross-browser & mobile-web matrix
Evidence-backed defect reports
Ship / hold verdict per release

Book a scoping call

Dedicated engineer

Full-time, automation included.

$4,000/mo

160 hrs · one named engineer

Everything in QA Audit
Automation framework, built & owned
API coverage + CI/CD gating
Works only on your product

Book a scoping call

Hourly — QA engineer $20 · Senior / Lead QA Automation Engineer $30 · Bundle — QA + Growth together: second practice −15% · Website build — one-off from $1,200

08Reviews

We could fake these. We test software for a living.

So the wall stays empty until it's real. Every review here will link to a person who exists and a project we shipped.

Slot 001 · Reserved

Our first client gets the pilot free, our sharpest engineers, and this spot — permanently. Come collect it.

Slot 002 · Open

Waiting on client #2. Verified name, company and live link — or it doesn't go up.

Slot 003 · Open

If a QA agency's reviews can't survive scrutiny, what does that say about their testing?

09Straight answers

Before you ask.

Why an outside QA team instead of one more developer?

Developers test what they built the way they built it — you can't easily find your own assumption. We arrive without it. And since we have no dev arm, we never grade our own homework.

What do you need from us to start?

Staging access, test accounts, whatever requirements exist (rough is fine), your issue tracker, and one person who can answer questions. Discovery call within 48 hours; pilot can start the following Monday.

Is our code and data safe?

NDA before the first call if you want one. We work in staging with synthetic data and never ask for production database access. HIPAA / GDPR / PCI scope — tell us early, it changes the plan.

Contract terms?

QA retainers: month to month after an initial three-month term, 30 days' notice. Growth needs longer because SEO compounds — three months on Launch, six on Grow. Fixed projects: 50% up front, 50% on delivery.

10Start here

Let's find out what's broken.

One call, then a free 3-day pilot on a module of your choice. You get real bugs and a risk map — whether or not you hire us after.

hello@defectshunter.com +971 50 376 2617 Al Jawahra Apartment, Port Saeed, Dubai

Every release gets a verdict.Ship, or hold.