Manual & Exploratory Testing
Scripted and exploratory testing across web and mobile — catching the edge cases and real-world usability issues automation misses.
Services & Pricing
What we do — and what it costs.
Two fixed-price wedges to get started fast, a full breakdown of core services, and transparent hourly rates. No "request a quote" games.
Where to Start
Two ways to get started
Most engagements begin with one of these two fixed-price entry points. Full scope and pricing are in the packages below.
Best entry point
QA Audit Express
A senior QA engineer reviews your highest-risk flows and hands you a prioritised action plan — in 1 week.
Most popular
Playwright Migration Pilot
Migrate your highest-priority E2E tests to Playwright with AI-assisted coverage analysis — proof it works, in 2 weeks.
Core Services
The full toolkit, when you need it
Beyond the two wedges — manual testing, API testing, performance testing, and test strategy, available hourly or as part of a broader engagement.
API & Integration Testing
Postman-based REST API test suites, contract testing, and automated regression for your backend services.
Performance Testing
Load and stress testing with k6 to validate your app holds up under real-world traffic — before it matters.
Test Strategy & Process
QA process design, test plan creation, and embedding quality practices into how your team already works.
AI-in-QA Enablement
Help your QA team adopt AI tools in practice — prompt-based test generation, AI-assisted triage, self-healing scripts. Upskill your people, accelerate your pipeline.
Automation Tool Selection
Independent assessment of your stack, team, and goals — so you pick the right automation tool before you commit to the wrong one.
Modernize Automation Frameworks
Legacy suite dragging down your CI? Refactor, restructure, or rebuild your automation layer — any framework, any migration path.
Regression Testing
Systematic regression coverage run on your release cadence — scripted, exploratory, or both. Catch what new code quietly breaks in existing features.
Hourly Rates
Or hire by the hour
Need ongoing or flexible help instead of a fixed package? Here's exactly what each role costs — no markup, no hidden coordinator fees.
Manual QA
$25–30/hr
Automation QA
$32–40/hr
Performance QA
$38–45/hr
QA Manager / Consultant
$45–55/hr
Fixed-Price Packages
Or pick a packaged scope
Every package below is quoted upfront for a defined deliverable — what you're quoted is what you pay.
QA Audit Express
~1 week
$1,200–1,500
A focused audit on your most critical user flows — a fast risk read for early-stage products, without the full two-week deep dive. $1,200 covers a single platform (web or mobile) with up to ~5 critical flows; $1,500 covers multi-platform or up to ~10 critical flows.
QA Full Audit
2 weeks
$3,000
The full audit: risk-ranked bug report, test coverage map, process gap analysis, and a prioritised action plan with effort estimates.
Playwright Migration Pilot
2 weeks
$2,500
Migrate your highest-priority E2E tests to Playwright — proof the framework fits before you scale up.
See what's included ↓Playwright Migration Standard
Scoped (~3–4 weeks)
$6,000–12,000
For teams ready to cover the full application — a production-grade framework your team fully owns, built to run at scale.
See what's included ↓Playwright Migration Full
Scoped to your suite
From $12,000
End-to-end migration and rebuild of a larger test suite (100+ E2E tests) — for teams with extensive legacy coverage or multiple applications. Scoped and quoted individually.
Monthly Retainer
Ongoing
From $2,500/mo
A standing testing partner. Manual and automated coverage scoped to your release cadence, billed monthly.
Playwright packages at a glance
| Pilot$2,500 · 2 weeks | Standard$6k–12k · 3–4 weeks | FullFrom $12k | |
|---|---|---|---|
| E2E tests | 15–30 | 30–100 | 100+ |
| API tests | ≤ 15 | ≤ 40 | Scoped |
| Page classes (POM) | ≤ 5 | ≤ 15 | All |
| Fixture classes | 1 (UI + API) | Multiple (by domain) | Scoped |
| Request helper class | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GitHub CI/CD | Baseline | Advanced PR gates · scheduled · artifacts |
Advanced |
| Parallelization | Basic | Full (sharding) | Full |
| Cross-browser | Chromium | Chromium + Firefox + WebKit | Scoped |
| Multi-env config | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in HTML report | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Screenshots on failure | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Videos on failure | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trace files (on retry) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Allure reporter | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| 30-day support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team training session | — | 1 session (~1.5 hr) | Scoped |
Engagement Models
Three ways to work together
Whichever model fits your situation — all three follow the same rule: one transparent number, no agency markup.
Time & Materials
Billed hourly by role, invoiced monthly. Best for ongoing work with evolving scope, or starting small before committing to more.
Fixed-Price
One quoted number for a defined scope — Audits and Playwright Migrations are both fixed-price by default. Best for a clear, bounded deliverable with a known timeline.
Monthly Retainer
A recurring monthly commitment for continuous QA coverage. Best for teams that ship regularly and need a standing testing partner, not a one-off project.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
The stuff most people ask before booking a call.
How much does a QA audit cost?
Fixed price: $1,200–1,500 for the 1-week QA Audit Express (single platform, up to ~5 critical flows), or $3,000 for the 2-week Full Audit (risk-ranked bug report, coverage map, process gap analysis, action plan). Both are one quoted number — no hourly surprises.
How much does a Playwright migration cost?
Three fixed-price tiers by scope: the 2-week Pilot is $2,500 (~15–30 critical E2E tests), Standard runs $6,000–12,000 (~30–100 tests, 3–4 weeks), and Full Migration starts at $12,000 for 100+ tests. Most teams start with the Pilot to prove fit before committing to more.
What's the difference between the QA Audit and the Playwright Migration Pilot?
The Audit diagnoses — finds and prioritizes what's broken, maps coverage gaps, flags process issues, no code written. The Pilot builds — migrates your highest-priority tests into a working, CI-integrated Playwright suite. Not sure which you need? The Audit is the safer first step if you're not sure where the risk actually is.
How do I get started?
Book a free 30-minute discovery call — no sales pitch, just scoping. If it's a fit, you get one fixed-price quote for a defined scope, and the trial is risk-reversed: you see the work and the results before the first invoice arrives, not after.
How is AI actually used in the work?
AI accelerates the repetitive parts — coverage-gap analysis, prompt-based test generation, self-healing scripts, AI-assisted triage — but a senior QA engineer owns every judgment call: what's actually a bug, what's a product decision, what's worth automating.
Do you work alongside our existing QA team, or only replace one?
Either. Time & Materials is built for augmenting a team or starting small; fixed-price Audits and Migrations work standalone; a Monthly Retainer fits teams that want a standing testing partner. Whichever model, you work directly with the person doing the work — no account manager layer.
What tools and frameworks do you support?
Playwright (JS/TS) is the primary stack, with Selenium (C#) migration experience for teams moving off it. API testing runs on Postman, performance/load testing on k6, cross-browser/device testing on BrowserStack. See the Playwright vs. Selenium vs. Cypress guide → for a full comparison and migration code.
What happens after the engagement ends?
The Playwright Migration Pilot includes 30 days of handover support. Audits deliver a fixed set of documents with no ongoing commitment attached. For continuous coverage after that, a Monthly Retainer picks up where a fixed-price engagement leaves off.
Ready to see what's actually broken?
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. No commitment, no sales pitch.