Dedicated QA teams
Why build your dedicated QA team with a1qa?
Fully transparent workflows
Knowledge retention frameworks
Zero overheads
Smart on-demand scalability
Skilled QA professionals you can choose from
Impeccable work ethic
Dedicated QA teams, a1qa way
Quick start
- Fast team ramp-up
- Hand-picked candidates
- Interviews with selected specialists upon request
Smooth team integration
- Seamless communication with your specialists
- Efficient task prioritization
- Smart resource management
Team scalability
- Access to a pool of 1,100+ QA professionals
- Specialists with a high level of relevant tech skills and industry-centric expertise
- Quick team upscaling and downscaling on demand
Refined approach
- Well-established and clear workflows
- Time-tested bug tracking and PM tools
- Ready-made testing toolkits
Process maturity
- A choice of testing methodologies
- Customizable and controllable processes
- Adherence to the ISTQB best practices
IP protection
- Strict confidentiality
- Data security assured
Domain-focused expertise
- Teams selected with proven experience in the client’s business sector (BFSI, gaming, telecom, eHealth, etc.)
- Deep knowledge of domain-specific risks, processes, compliance needs, and user expectations
- Tailored QA workflows aligned with applicable industry standards and the client’s unique project needs
Transparent team management
- Direct communication with a dedicated QA project manager for a smooth team coordination
- Regular reporting cycles with clear visibility into testing progress and status
- Quality metrics and performance indicators to ensure project accountability and predictability
Exceptional flexibility
- An ability to scale from short-term QA support to long-term strategic partnership
- An option to evolve a managed QA team into a fully client-owned resource (Build-Operate-Transfer model)
- An engagement model tailored to match evolving business and resource needs
Cooperation scenarios
On-site presence
The experts you’ve selected as your dedicated QA team members arrive at your premises and work as a part of your existing team.
Our facilities
Your dedicated QA team works remotely from our office and reports to you on their progress online via secure and reliable communication channels.
Mixed engagement
Your dedicated quality assurance team operates at your facilities and our offices as needed or in a fully distributed environment, working from home in case emergency policies are enforced.
Our stage-by-stage cooperation
Your involvement
Stage
Our responsibilities
- Business needs elicitation
- Project scope definition
- Requirements identification
- Requirements analysis
- Expertise mapping
- Process design
- Roadmap development
- Candidate review and approval
- Knowledge transfer
- Team formation
- Knowledge acquisition
- Working environment setup
- Project methodology adjustment
- Acceptance of deliverables
- KPI monitoring
- Progress reporting
- Team adjustment
- Performance optimization
- Knowledge accumulation
What our customer says
Our dedicated team at a1qa is very competent and responsive. Not just once did they provide help and worked longer hours when we had emergency at our end. Their feedback on our test models is always detailed and valuable. And we are more than happy with the testing quality.
Engagement at any SDLC stage
Analysis
- Requirements testing
- Timeline review
- Test planning
- Test scenarios creation
Development
- System testing
- Integration testing
- Performance testing
- Usability testing
- Bug fixing
Deployment
- Smoke testing
- User acceptance testing
- Test automation
- Migration testing
- Final test report creation
Maintenance & support
- Regression testing
- Test plan updates
- Automation script updates
Our approach to dedicated QA teams’ delivery
Complete dedication
Our dedicated testers work on only one project at a time, so the specialists you hire are fully committed to your business goals and values.
Transparent communication policy
You can communicate with your QA team via regular meetings and one-on-ones with team members and managers, as well as track the project’s progress using PM tools with shared access.
Reduced over-budgeting risks
Our billing model is based on preset monthly payments, which helps accurately plan your spendings and avoid unexpected costs.
Knowledge accumulation and transfer
As the work goes on, your dedicated team relies on our proven knowledge management practices to retain project knowledge and share it with new team members or your staff.
Proactive quality assurance
In addition to regular reporting, your dedicated software testing specialists will proactively share their recommendations on how to optimize your testing processes and your product quality overall.
Strict security policies
Your QA team ensures full compliance with NDAs and contracts, adheres to strict data protection measures throughout the entire testing life cycle, and implements strong safeguards to keep all code and deliverables exclusively under your ownership.
Frequently asked questions
Dedicated QA teams work exclusively on a single client’s project on a long-term basis. They provide consistent testing, ensure smooth communication, and create in-depth product documentation while reducing the risks of project delivery delays and validating high software quality throughout the SDLC.
Dedicated QA teams provide end-to-end quality assurance services, including test planning, manual and automated testing, usability and performance testing, and regression testing. They also assist with testing process optimization and can join the project at any SDLC stage.
Building dedicated QA teams is a multi-staged process that includes project scope definition, candidate review, team formation, environment setup, and specialists onboarding. Once the team is set up, its performance is monitored using KPIs and can be adjusted for optimal results.
With dedicated QA teams, clients benefit from predictable monthly testing costs. Such teams also help reduce overheads by working remotely or in hybrid setups and having established workflows that support efficient task management and faster releases.