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Dedicated QA and testing for your products.

Overview

Manual, automated, test plans, CI/CD integration.

Dedicated QA and testing means a senior quality engineer joins your product as an extension of your team. They run manual and automated tests, write structured test plans, integrate checks into your CI/CD pipeline, and track regressions, so you ship with confidence instead of catching bugs in production.

Target

For Swiss SMBs and growing commercial companies running a live web app, e-commerce platform, or business application where production bugs cost trust and money. Ideal when your team ships fast but lacks a dedicated QA specialist and wants senior coverage without a permanent hire.

Details

Your team ships fast, but without dedicated QA, production bugs erode trust and cost money. Hiring a QA profile for a growing product is non trivial.

We bring a senior dedicated QA. Exploratory manual testing, automated scenarios (Playwright, Cypress), structured test plans, integration into your CI/CD pipeline, regression tracking. Real case : EMS (dedicated QA testing on business application).

Why dedicated QA matters when you ship fast

Your team moves quickly, which is exactly the point. The problem is that speed without dedicated QA pushes the cost of a defect onto your users. A bug that reaches production erodes trust, generates support tickets, and quietly slows your roadmap.

The defects that hurt most are regressions: a checkout flow that broke when someone refactored the payment module, a login that fails on Safari after a frontend update, a report that silently returns the wrong totals once the data model changed. These are not new features failing. They are working features that quietly stopped working, and without a structured test plan nobody catches them until a customer does.

Hiring a full quality engineer for a product that is still growing is rarely the right first move. The volume of testing fluctuates, the skillset is specialized, and onboarding takes months. Meanwhile your developers keep testing their own work, which is the least reliable way to find problems, because the person who wrote the code already assumes it behaves as intended.

  • Production bugs reach customers before anyone on the team notices.
  • Developers QA their own code, so blind spots stay hidden.
  • No structured test plan means coverage depends on memory and luck.
  • Each release feels risky, so the team ships slower to stay safe.

Our dedicated QA approach: manual, automated, CI/CD

We embed a senior QA engineer who works as a true extension of your team. No intermediaries, no extra layers. They learn your product, your users, and your risk areas, then build a quality process that fits how you already work.

Here is how a dedicated QA engagement typically runs from the first week onward:

  • We audit your current quality state and map the highest risk flows in your product.
  • We run exploratory manual testing to surface the defects automated suites never catch.
  • We write structured test plans tied to your real user journeys and edge cases.
  • We build automated scenarios with Playwright or Cypress for the paths that matter most.
  • We integrate those checks into your CI/CD pipeline so every commit is tested.
  • We track regressions and report clearly, so the team always knows what is stable.

What a dedicated QA engineer actually delivers

A dedicated QA engineer is not a checklist you outsource. It is a senior human who owns quality across your product and gives your developers room to build.

Dedicated QA and testing combines two complementary layers. Manual testing means a senior engineer explores your product the way a real user would, finding the broken flows, the confusing states, and the edge cases that only surface under pressure. Automated testing means writing repeatable scenarios in Playwright or Cypress that run on every change, so the bugs you already fixed never come back. Structured test plans tie both layers to your real user journeys, while CI/CD integration moves the checks left, catching defects before they ever reach a branch you ship. The result is a product your team can release with confidence, on its own schedule, without the slow and anxious manual sign-off that drains momentum from a growing engineering team. This is the model we ran with EMS, where dedicated QA testing on a business application kept critical workflows reliable as the product evolved.

  • Fewer production incidents and a measurable drop in regression bugs.
  • Developers focused on building, not on testing their own work.
  • Releases that ship on schedule because quality is no longer a bottleneck.
  • Clear reporting so stakeholders trust the state of the product.

Who dedicated QA is for

This service fits Swiss SMBs and growing commercial companies running a product that real customers depend on, where a bug is not just annoying but expensive. If you have a web app, an e-commerce platform, or a business application that keeps growing, dedicated QA gives you senior coverage without the overhead of a permanent hire.

A test plan in this context is concrete, not bureaucratic. It documents the critical user journeys, the expected result of each step, the edge cases worth checking, the browsers and devices in scope, and the data conditions that tend to break things. That plan becomes a shared reference your developers, your founders, and your QA engineer all trust, so coverage no longer depends on who remembers what.

CI/CD integration turns that plan into an automatic gate. The automated suites run on every commit and every pull request, and if a critical test fails the pipeline blocks the merge before broken code reaches your main branch. Instead of discovering a regression in production, the team sees it in minutes, next to the change that caused it.

It is equally valuable for a senior team that ships frequently and wants automated, repeatable confidence in its CI/CD pipeline, and for founders who feel every release becoming riskier than the last.

  • Swiss SMBs with a live product that customers rely on daily.
  • growing companies shipping fast and feeling release risk grow.
  • Teams that need automated testing in CI/CD but lack a QA specialist.
What it includes
  • Senior QA dedicated to your product
  • Manual and automated testing
  • Structured test plans
  • CI/CD integration (Playwright, Cypress)
  • Regression tracking and reporting
Deliverables
  • A senior QA engineer dedicated to your product, working as part of your team.
  • Exploratory manual testing that catches the defects automation misses.
  • Automated test suites in Playwright or Cypress for your critical user flows.
  • Structured test plans mapped to real user journeys and edge cases.
  • CI/CD integration so every commit is tested before it ships.
  • Regression tracking and clear reporting on the real state of your product.
Comparison

Full-time QA hire vs. dedicated QA with MAWT

Full-time QA hireDedicated QA with MAWT
Months of recruiting and onboardingSenior QA productive in days
Fixed cost regardless of test volumeScales with your release cadence
One profile, one skill levelSenior expertise across manual and automated
You build the QA process from zeroProven process and CI/CD integration included
Hard to justify before product maturesRight-sized for a growing product
Takeaways
  • Dedicated QA puts a senior quality engineer inside your team as an extension, not an outsourced checklist.

  • It combines manual testing, automated suites (Playwright, Cypress), structured test plans, and CI/CD integration.

  • You ship faster and with more confidence because quality stops being a release bottleneck.

  • It scales with your release cadence, making it right-sized for Swiss SMBs and growing growing companies.

  • We applied this model with EMS on a business application to keep critical workflows reliable.

Real projects

EMS

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Frequent questions

What is the difference between manual and automated testing?

Manual testing is a senior engineer exploring your product like a real user, finding broken flows and edge cases. Automated testing is repeatable scenarios in Playwright or Cypress that run on every change. You need both: manual finds new bugs, automation stops old ones from returning.

Is dedicated QA right for a small team?

Yes. A growing team rarely needs a full-time QA hire yet, but it does need senior coverage. A dedicated QA engineer gives you that expertise scaled to your release cadence, so you get reliable testing without the cost and delay of recruiting a permanent specialist.

How is the cost of dedicated QA structured?

Pricing scales with your release cadence and the depth of coverage you need, not a fixed salary. You pay for senior QA capacity matched to your product, which keeps it right-sized for a growing team and far more flexible than a permanent in-house hire.

How quickly can a dedicated QA engineer start?

Within days, not the months a full-time hire takes. We begin with a short audit of your highest risk flows, then run manual testing immediately while building automated suites and CI/CD integration in parallel. You see value in the first week of the engagement.

Which automation tools do you use?

Primarily Playwright and Cypress for end-to-end and integration testing, chosen to fit your stack and CI/CD pipeline. We integrate the suites so they run on every commit, giving your team automated, repeatable confidence without slowing down the way you already work.