How is a dedicated Miracuves QA engineer different from outsourcing QA to a separate vendor?
Vendor QA often sits outside your sprint cadence and reports through ticket queues you do not control. Miracuves QA engineers embed in your CI pipeline, repository, and release process — writing and maintaining automation in your codebase, joining standups, and owning release readiness alongside your developers. They pass a 98% rejection vetting process and come with a 2-week replacement guarantee, not a handoff-and-wait testing factory.
Do your QA engineers write automation code, or only execute manual test cases?
Senior matches write and maintain automation as engineering work — Playwright, Cypress, Appium, REST contract tests, or whatever framework you already use. Manual exploratory testing remains part of the role for edge cases automation misses, but we vet for candidates who treat quality as a codebase concern. Profiles that only run scripted checklists without improving coverage do not pass Miracuves vetting.
We have almost no automated tests today. Can someone start without blocking feature delivery?
This is a common starting point, not a disqualifier. Matched engineers begin with a risk-based coverage audit, prioritize critical user paths and payment or auth flows, and add suites incrementally alongside feature work — not a six-week 'testing freeze.' The goal is measurable release confidence within the first sprint, with a roadmap for regression depth over subsequent months.
Can they integrate quality gates into GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI?
Yes — pipeline integration is included in the engagement, not a separate SOW line item. Engineers configure fail-fast gates, flaky-test triage, artifact capture, and environment promotion checks aligned to how your team already ships. Vetting includes live scenarios where candidates must debug a failing pipeline under time pressure, not just describe CI concepts in an interview.
Do you cover mobile, API, and performance testing — or only web UI?
Coverage depends on the match profile you approve. Senior QA engineers on Miracuves rosters include mobile device-farm workflows, API and contract validation, load-test interpretation, and accessibility checks where required. Matching is filtered by your stack — we do not send a web-only profile when you need Appium and backend contract discipline.
How quickly can a QA engineer become productive on our codebase?
Most clients have a matched engineer reviewing repositories and staging environments within 48 hours of signing. Productive test contributions typically begin in the first sprint once access, seed data, and definition-of-done expectations are aligned. Specialized compliance or hardware-in-the-loop requirements may extend matching to one week.
What if release quality does not improve or the engineer cannot keep pace with our team?
The 2-week replacement guarantee applies if the match is wrong — Miracuves replaces at no additional cost and manages continuity so you are not restarting recruiting from zero. Engagements are month-to-month thereafter with two weeks' notice. Part-time at $1,499/mo is available for release-window support, audit sprints, or pre-fundraise hardening.
Who owns test suites, fixtures, and QA documentation when the engagement ends?
Your organization retains all intellectual property. Test code lives in your repositories, documentation in your wiki or Notion, and credentials remain under your governance. IP assignment is signed before access is granted. Miracuves engineers hand off with runbooks and coverage maps — not a black-box vendor tool you cannot maintain.
