Embedded QA engineer
A manual or automation QA engineer joins your team, stand-ups and tools, full-time or part-time. Monthly contract, 30-day notice. If an engineer leaves or is away, we propose a replacement.
Send your requirementsQA engineering team · Belgrade · CET
QA engineers for your team, without hiring.
We place vetted manual and automation QA engineers inside your team on a monthly contract. Review CVs within 48 hours, interview the engineer yourself, and start with a 2-week trial. Our senior lead reviews their work.
Company-to-company contract · 30-day notice · No recruitment fees
- CVs in 48 hours
- 2-week trial
- Weekly senior review
- Your repo, CI and tools
Usually, it starts with one of these.
Developers or the PM test before every release, and releases slip.
You have been trying to hire a QA engineer for months.
The automated suite is flaky, and nobody trusts a red build.
Manual regression takes days and grows every sprint.
Tests exist but do not run in CI.
You are an agency, and the client asks who tests this.
Even when the symptom is tooling, the first gap is often capacity: someone has to own the tests, CI and release feedback. We bring that capacity and the standards behind it.
Services
Three ways to work with us.
Project delivery
A defined piece of work with an end date: a Playwright or Cypress framework in your repo, API test coverage, a Selenium-to-Playwright migration, flaky-suite stabilisation, performance testing, CI integration and reporting, workflow automation, or an automation audit with a written plan. Scoped and quoted up front.
Send your requirementsWhite-label QA for agencies
Our engineers test your client projects under your name. Your client sees your team. Per project or as a monthly retainer.
Send your requirementsAcross the three, we cover UI, API, mobile and performance testing, CI/CD, AI-assisted QA and workflow automation outside testing.
For software agencies.
You sell design and development. Your clients still expect tested software. We work as your QA department: under your brand, in your project tools and on your client's schedule. Start with one project. Scale up when another lands, and scale down when it ends.
We sign your NDA, work product belongs to you or your client, and we do not contact your client outside the project.
How it works
From the first call to an engineer in your team.
- 01
Intro call (30 min) with the founder
We go through your stack, release cycle and what hurts.
- 02
CVs within 48 hours
Two or three engineers matched to your stack.
- 03
You interview
Use the same technical interview you would give a hire.
- 04
2-week trial
The engineer works on your project. You can stop at any point during the trial and pay only for the days worked.
- 05
Monthly contract
The engineer works inside your team. Our lead reviews their work weekly and checks in with you monthly.
Engineers
Who you get.
A small bench of QA engineers we know personally and have worked with. Not a database of strangers. Mid-level and senior engineers, with every engagement under senior technical leadership.
Manual QA
Exploratory and regression testing, test design, clear bug reports, and test management in Jira, TestRail, Qase or Xray.
Automation QA
Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, API testing with Postman and Rest Assured, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins.
English
Working proficiency and daily communication with your team. CET working hours.
Before they join us
Every engineer goes through a technical interview and a practical task on a real application with our senior engineers.
Before they join you
You get their CV, interview them yourself the way you would interview a hire, and start with a 2-week trial.
While they work with you
A senior lead reviews their work every week and checks in with you every month.
You receive full CVs after the intro call. Every engineer works to the same written standards for test design, code review and reporting.
Our platform
Our engineers can bring TestBlocks.
TestBlocks is the test automation platform we build and use. It crawls your app into page objects, lets you build tests visually and export plain Playwright .spec.ts files, and runs them on your machine or in CI through an agent.
AI failure analysis is in beta. TestBlocks itself is in public beta. Your tests remain standard Playwright in your repo, so nothing locks you in.
Pricing.
Monthly rate per engineer, invoiced company to company. No recruitment fee and no long lock-in.
Embedded engineers
Fixed monthly rate based on seniority, stack and full-time or part-time engagement, from 20 hours a week. You get the exact rate with the CVs.
Project delivery
Fixed quote per scope, within 48 hours of the intro call.
Agencies
A flat rate per engineer, per project or as a monthly retainer. What you charge your client is up to you.
Good QA is more than filling a seat.
Aleksandar Stojanovic, founder. Finding someone with the right tools on their CV is the easy part. Finding someone who tests well, communicates clearly and can work inside an engineering team is harder. I have spent 10 years in IT and 7+ in QA and QA automation seeing that difference firsthand.
That is why I choose the engineers, set the standards and stay involved in the quality of their work.
What that means for you
The engineer joins your team. The quality responsibility stays with us.
FAQ
Who will actually do the work?
One of our QA engineers, whom you interview and approve before anything starts. Our lead reviews their work weekly.
Can we interview the engineer?
Yes. You choose from the CVs we send and interview the engineer before committing.
What if it does not work out?
The first two weeks are a trial. After that, there is 30 days' notice. If an engineer leaves or is away, we propose a replacement.
Do you work with our existing framework and tools?
Yes. Our engineers work in your repo, your CI and your test management tool.
Can you build a framework from scratch?
Yes, as project delivery: architecture, the first suites, CI integration, documentation and handover.
Can you fix flaky tests or migrate from Selenium?
Yes. We take both on as project delivery.
We have no QA at all. Where do we start?
Usually with one manual QA engineer and a short audit, then automation once the critical flows are known.
Do you work part-time?
Yes, from 20 hours a week.
Who owns the work, and what about confidentiality?
You own everything our engineers produce for you. We sign an NDA before we see any code or documentation.
How do contracts and invoices work?
Company to company, with a monthly invoice in EUR or USD issued by Code Test Repeat, the company behind Automate with Alex.
Do we have to use TestBlocks?
No. It is there when it helps.
Contact
Tell us what you need.
Book a 30-minute intro call, or send a few lines about your team, stack and what you need help with. We reply within one business day.
Training.
A live, instructor-led QA automation course covering Playwright with TypeScript, API testing, CI/CD and AI-assisted testing, taught by Aleksandar in small groups. Also available as private training for your QA team.