Hire Dedicated QA EngineersVetted by Miracuves · Embedded in Your Release Pipeline

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 six-stage vetting process that ends in a paid trial sprint, and come with a 2-week replacement guarantee, not a handoff-and-wait testing factory.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Part-time is $1,499 a month for 20 hours a week, with staging and CI access and weekly quality reports. Full-time is $2,499 a month for 40 hours a week, with regression suite ownership, a place in your release cadence and at least 4 hours of time-zone overlap. A QA Squad of 3-5 people, led by a QA lead with an automation engineer, is quoted per team. Every engagement is month-to-month with two weeks' notice, and the rate stays fixed for the agreed structure unless the scope changes materially. Every quote is written before payment, with no surprise invoices after kickoff.

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.

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.

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.

Yes. The QA Squad is 3-5 people - typically a QA lead, an automation engineer and a performance or mobile tester - quoted per team, month-to-month with two weeks' notice. If you need developers and testers together under one delivery lead, the Dedicated Teams model covers that instead.

Yes. They join refinement to make acceptance criteria testable, test each story in the sprint it is built, automate its regression checks before the sprint closes and run an exploratory session before the review. There is no separate testing phase at the end.

Yes. A QA developer or SDET is a QA engineer whose main output is test code: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or Appium suites, API contract tests and the CI jobs that run them. Say so in your brief and the shortlist is weighted toward automation profiles, each showing the frameworks the engineer has shipped suites in.