WeAreQA

QA recruitment for employers

Hire QA Engineers. Pay Zero Recruitment Fees.

WeAreQA finds and qualifies Automation QA, Manual QA, SDET, QA leadership and AI QA engineers. You interview. You choose. You hire directly. We charge you no recruitment or placement fee.

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  • No recruitment fee
  • No placement fee
  • No salary percentage

Recruitment cost to you

$0

Recruitment fee
$0
Placement fee
$0
Share of salary
0%

You employ the engineer directly.

Hiring QA shouldn't cost you a percentage of someone's salary.

Good QA engineers are hard to hire well. Recruitment is usually priced as a share of the hire’s salary, the screening is done on CVs and keywords, and the technical judgement is left to you.

We do the part that takes QA knowledge: finding people who can do the work, and testing them on it. You don’t pay us for it.

Roles

QA roles we hire for

If your role sits between two of these, tell us. Most of what we do is automation and AI.

  • Automation QA

    • Playwright, Selenium, Cypress
    • Java, TypeScript / JavaScript, Python, C#
    • API automation
    • CI/CD

  • Manual QA

    • Web and mobile testing
    • API testing
    • Requirements analysis
    • Exploratory and regression testing

  • SDET

    • Test frameworks built from scratch
    • Unit, contract and integration tests
    • CI pipelines and test infrastructure

  • QA Lead / Manager

    • Test strategy and planning
    • Leading and growing a QA team
    • Release quality and reporting

  • Quality / Automation Architect

    • Framework and test architecture
    • Tooling decisions
    • Scaling automation across teams

  • API / Integration QA

    • REST, GraphQL and gRPC
    • Contract testing
    • Postman, REST Assured

  • Performance QA

    • JMeter, k6, Gatling
    • Load and stress testing
    • Bottleneck analysis

  • Mobile QA

    • iOS and Android
    • Appium, Espresso, XCUITest
    • Device and OS coverage

  • AI / LLM QA

    • LLM and chatbot evaluation
    • Adversarial and safety testing
    • AI-assisted test generation

Assessment

QA people evaluated by QA people.

A general recruiter reads CVs. Our candidates are assessed by people who do QA for a living.

What we look at

  • Automation stack and frameworks
  • Testing fundamentals
  • API knowledge
  • Software engineering skills
  • Communication
  • English level
  • Seniority fit
  • Availability
  • Time-zone fit
  • Domain experience

  1. Online QA test

    A practical test for the role and stack: manual, or automation in Java, JS/TS, Python or C#.

  2. Technical interview

    With an experienced QA engineer, on real testing problems rather than definitions.

  3. English check

    Spoken and written, for working in an international team.

  4. References

    From people they have worked with.

How it works

Four steps, and you only pay the engineer

  1. Tell us who you need

    Role, seniority, technologies, location or time zone, and when you want them to start.

  2. We search and qualify

    We find QA engineers who match the technical need and put them through our assessment.

  3. You interview

    You meet the candidates you want to evaluate, and only those.

  4. You hire directly

    You decide, and the engineer joins your company on your terms.

Recruitment cost to you:$0

Pricing

No recruitment fee. Really.

This is how the service works, not a promotion. When you hire directly, there is:

  • No upfront charge
  • No placement fee
  • No success fee
  • No percentage of salary
  • No obligation to buy anything else from us
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Rather we provide and manage the engineers for you? That’s a Quality Operations engagement, priced separately, and only if you ask for it.

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A different way to hire QA

  • Recruitment fee

    Traditional recruitment
    Usually a share of salary
    WeAreQA QA Talent
    $0

  • QA specialisation

    Traditional recruitment
    Often generalist
    WeAreQA QA Talent
    QA only

  • Technical qualification

    Traditional recruitment
    CV and keyword screening
    WeAreQA QA Talent
    QA test and interview by a QA engineer

  • Direct hire

    Traditional recruitment
    Yes
    WeAreQA QA Talent
    Yes, the engineer joins your company

  • Obligation to buy other services

    Traditional recruitment
    Varies
    WeAreQA QA Talent
    None

Why WeAreQA

We know what a strong QA engineer looks like

Because we build and run quality engineering ourselves: test architecture, automation, API and integration testing, AI validation and managed quality operations, for teams shipping regulated and software-heavy products.

What we do day to day

Where our QA experience comes from

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Tell us who you're looking for.

Four required fields. We follow up by email for the rest.

  • No recruitment fee
  • No placement fee
  • No salary percentage

No recruitment or placement fee.

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FAQ

Questions employers ask

How is WeAreQA different from a QA recruitment agency?

We specialise in QA recruitment for employers. Candidates take an online QA test, a technical interview with a QA engineer, an English check and reference checks. You interview and hire directly, with no recruitment or placement fee.

Is hiring through WeAreQA really free for employers?

Yes, when you hire the engineer directly. You pay us no recruitment fee, no placement fee and no percentage of salary, not upfront and not at hire. You pay the engineer, as their employer.

Do you charge a placement fee or a percentage of salary?

No. Neither, and there is no success fee either.

Which QA roles can you help us hire?

Automation QA, Manual QA, SDET, QA Lead or Manager, Quality or Automation Architect, API and Integration QA, Performance QA, Mobile QA and AI or LLM QA. If your role sits between these, tell us.

Can you find Automation QA engineers?

Yes. We look at the stack you actually use, such as Playwright, Cypress or Selenium with Java, TypeScript, Python or C#, and test candidates on it rather than on keywords.

Can you find Manual QA engineers?

Yes: web, mobile and API testing, exploratory and regression work, and requirements analysis. Candidates take a practical QA test as part of the assessment.

Can we hire candidates directly?

Yes, that is the model. The engineer joins your company on your contract, and we are not in the middle.

Do we need to buy other WeAreQA services?

No, there is no obligation. If you later want us to provide or run a QA team for you, that is a separate, paid engagement, and only if you ask for it.

Which countries and time zones do you cover?

We search worldwide, for remote roles. Tell us the location or the time-zone overlap you need, and we search for that.

How are candidates evaluated?

Through an online QA test, a technical interview with an experienced QA engineer, an English check and references.

What happens if none of the candidates fit?

Tell us why, and we search again with that in mind. If you decide to stop, you stop: there is nothing to pay and nothing to cancel.

Can you help us hire several QA engineers?

Yes. Put the number in the form, and we plan the search around the roles and the order you need them in.

You need a QA engineer. We know QA.

Tell us who you’re looking for. You won’t pay a recruitment fee.

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