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Hire a QA Tester.

Test plans run and bugs found before your customers do.

Also called: Software QA Tester, QA Engineer, Test Engineer

From AUD $7.50 an hourAUD $7.50-33/hr

  • SaaS & tech
  • Startups
  • E-commerce
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  • Works your hours
  • Philippines hub, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney
  • Month to month
What your QA Tester gets doneSample day
  • Reviews requirements and user storiesTest planning
  • Runs functional, smoke and regression tests before and after each releaseTest execution
  • Logs reproducible bugs with steps, expected and actual resultsDefect management
  • Writes and maintains end-to-end tests in Playwright, Cypress or SeleniumAutomation and API testingDoing
In your tools
  • Jira
  • Linear
  • TestRail
  • Qase
  • Cypress
  • Selenium WebDriver

Pick the level. See the price.

AUD $12.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costsAUD $31.11/hr
A tested Intermediate QA TesterAUD $12.50/hr
At least 59% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Super and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns testing for a feature end to end: writes test cases from stories and runs exploratory sessions.

  • Feature test plan and test cases
  • Postman collection with assertions and environments
  • Automated smoke suite for critical paths

1.5-3 years testing web or mobile products in an agile team.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude GST.

What you hand to your QA Tester

Tasks

  • Test planning

    • Reviews requirements and user stories
    • Writes test plans and test cases using risk-based coverage
    • Maintains the test case library and regression suite

  • Test execution

    • Runs functional, smoke and regression tests before and after each release
    • Runs charter-based exploratory testing sessions on new features
    • Tests across browsers and devices on BrowserStack, real devices
    • Supports user acceptance testing with scripts and sign-off tracking

  • Defect management

    • Logs reproducible bugs with steps, expected and actual results
    • Assigns severity and priority, retest fixes
    • Investigates root cause with browser DevTools, application logs

  • Automation and API testing

    • Writes and maintains end-to-end tests in Playwright, Cypress or Selenium
    • Builds API test collections in Postman
    • Runs automated suites in CI

  • Reporting and non-functional checks

    • Publishes release test summaries and quality metrics
    • Runs basic accessibility checks and performance smoke tests

Tested before you meet them

  1. Bug report writing testAll levels30 min
  2. Exploratory test of a seeded appAll levels60 min
  3. Test case design exerciseIntermediate and up45 min
  4. Postman API testIntermediate and up45 min
  5. Automation take-homeIntermediate and up3 hrs
  6. Release go/no-go role-playExpert and Specialist30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

92%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern QA Tester is AUD $7.50 an hour, Intermediate AUD $12.50, Expert AUD $19 and Specialist AUD $33, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude GST.

Test planning, test execution, defect management and automation and api testing, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including bug report writing test, exploratory test of a seeded app and test case design exercise. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your QA Tester works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to Australia & NZ clients is in the Philippines, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney.

Yes, where it helps. Your QA Tester works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate QA Tester owns testing for a feature end to end: writes test cases from stories and runs exploratory sessions. An Expert QA Tester owns release quality: sets test strategy and builds and maintains the automation framework. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every QA Tester is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Jira and Linear, before you meet them.

In week one: gets access to test and staging environments, test user accounts; gets BrowserStack or device-lab access and TestFlight; and gets the Postman workspace, API documentation and staging environment variables. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Software QA Tester, QA Engineer and Test Engineer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

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