QA as a service
QA as a service: on-demand software testing with committed timelines
Get professional quality assurance exactly when your roadmap needs it. You describe the QA work, we commit to a delivery date and a fixed quote, and the finished work lands in your repositories.
Definition
What is QA as a service?
QA as a service (QAaaS) is a delivery model in which an external specialist provides software quality assurance on demand — test design, manual testing, test automation, CI/CD quality gates and performance testing — instead of a company building and managing a full in-house QA team.
Afoxlabs delivers QA as a service by the piece of work. Each task has a written scope, a committed delivery date in days, weeks or sprints, and a fixed quote. You plan around outcomes and dates; we take care of how the work gets done.
Benefits
Why teams choose QA as a service
No hiring or onboarding
QA capability from the first week, without opening roles, interviewing or ramping someone up.
Dates you can plan around
Every deliverable has a committed date in days, weeks or sprints, so releases can be planned with confidence.
A fixed quote for every delivery
You know the cost before work starts. No hourly rates, timesheets or per-person billing.
Scale with your roadmap
Send one task this month and five next month. QA effort follows your release plan, sprint by sprint.
Senior engineering on every task
Work is scoped and led by a Senior SDET with framework, CI/CD, performance and AI testing experience.
You keep every asset
Test cases, automation frameworks and pipeline configuration are delivered into your repositories.
What is included
Every QA discipline, on demand
Pick the work you need now. Each one can be delivered as a single scoped task or planned sprint by sprint.
Who it is for
Built for teams that ship often
- SaaS and product companies with 5–75 engineers shipping every week or two
- Teams with one QA engineer who need more capacity around releases
- Startups preparing for a launch, a big customer or a funding milestone
- Agencies and studios that need QA delivered for client projects
- Teams adding AI features that need a proper evaluation approach
FAQ
QA as a service questions
What is QA as a service?
QA as a service (QAaaS) is a way of getting software quality assurance done by an external specialist on demand, instead of building an in-house QA team. At Afoxlabs it means you hand us defined QA work and we deliver it on a committed date for a fixed quote.
What is the difference between QA as a service and QA outsourcing?
They overlap closely. QA as a service describes the model — quality assurance delivered on demand as a service. QA outsourcing describes the act of handing testing work to an outside team. With Afoxlabs, both mean the same thing in practice: defined work, a committed date and a fixed quote.
Is QA as a service the same as testing as a service (TaaS)?
Broadly, yes. Testing as a service usually refers to test execution; QA as a service tends to include the wider quality process — test strategy, automation, CI/CD quality gates and release recommendations. Afoxlabs covers both.
How is QA as a service priced?
By the delivery. Each piece of work gets a fixed quote tied to its scope and delivery date. Ongoing work is priced per sprint in the same way. There are no hourly rates and no per-person fees.
How quickly can QA as a service start?
You receive a written scope, delivery date and quote within two business days of sharing the work. Delivery begins as soon as you approve it and access is set up.
Do we need an existing QA process to use it?
No. If you are starting from zero, the free QA Health Check shows where to begin, and the first delivery can be the foundation: test cases, a framework and CI integration.
Have a QA task? Get a committed timeline.
Describe the work — a feature to test, a regression pack to automate, a release to validate. Within two business days you get a written scope, a delivery date in days, weeks or sprints, and a fixed quote.