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Software QA Testing Outsourcing for UK Companies.

Your developers are testing their own code because you can't hire QA fast enough. Deploy ISTQB-certified QA testers from Nairobi — manual testing, automated test scripts, and regression suites — from £13,200 per tester per year.

9:00–18:00 UK time (GMT+3)
|EOR or Managed Services
|7–14 days from signed agreement

Overview

What is Software QA Testing?

Software QA testing outsourcing provides dedicated testers who execute manual test cases, write automated test scripts, run regression suites, and report bugs with structured reproduction steps. Treba's QA testers in Nairobi work inside your testing environment and CI/CD pipeline, ensuring releases are validated before they reach production — without consuming your developers' sprint capacity.

Typical client

UK SaaS companies and fintechs that ship weekly or bi-weekly and need dedicated QA capacity to validate releases, maintain regression coverage, and reduce production bug rates without slowing development velocity

At a glance

How Treba delivers.

The operating facts behind software qa testing: delivery standard, team shape, and compliance model.

Delivery standard
90%+ of bugs caught pre-production with structured bug reports that reduce developer fix time by 40%

What this service is designed to deliver when deployed inside your workflow.

Typical team size
2–6 QA testers per client, with 1 tester typically covering 3–4 developers

Scaled to project load and pipeline.

Compliance model
UK GDPR aligned — IDTA framework

Legal and data-transfer structure for the engagement.

Software QA Testing delivery team

UK loaded cost

£52,244/yr

QA Tester

The challenge

Why UK companies struggle with software qa testing.

Most UK SaaS companies don't have enough QA capacity. Developers test their own code — which is like asking an author to proofread their own book. They miss the edge cases they didn't think of because they wrote the logic. ISTQB-certified QA testers cost £38,000–£50,000 loaded in the UK, and they're harder to hire than developers because fewer people choose QA as a career path. The result: production bugs slip through, customers report issues before your team does, and hotfixes consume sprint capacity that should go to feature work. Some companies skip dedicated QA entirely and rely on automated tests written by the same developers — which catches regression but not usability issues, edge cases, or cross-browser problems. You need human testers with methodology, not just assertions in code.

Outcomes

What you'll achieve.

See the shift from UK in-house benchmarks to Treba delivery outcomes.

Outcome

Cost Per QA Tester (Loaded)

UK in-house
£52,244/yr
With Treba
£13,200/yr
Outcome

Bugs Found Pre-Production

UK in-house
60–70% (dev self-testing)
With Treba
90%+ (dedicated QA)
Outcome

Developer Time on Testing

UK in-house
20–30% of sprint
With Treba
< 5% (code review only)

Capabilities

What we deliver.

Manual Testing & Exploratory QA

Find the bugs your automated tests can't.

Hire a QA Tester

Automated Test Development

Build regression coverage that runs on every deploy.

Hire a Python Developer

API & Performance Testing

Validate your APIs and catch performance regressions before customers do.

Hire a Technical Support (L1/L2)

Meet Your Next Hire

I run QA for a UK HR-tech platform. My team of 3 covers 4 developers. Last release cycle, we logged 47 bugs — 43 caught before production. The 4 that slipped through were cosmetic. Before we joined, the team averaged 12 production bugs per release, including 3 P1s.
AM

Alice M.

Senior QA Engineer

Education

BSc Software Engineering, Strathmore University

Certification

ISTQB Certified Tester — Foundation Level, Cypress.io Certified

Experience

3–7 years in software qa testing roles

Economics

UK loaded cost vs Treba.

Fully loaded comparison — Treba cost includes salary, Nairobi office, equipment, IT infrastructure, and full compliance. No hidden fees.

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UK Cost

£56,796

Treba Cost

£15,600/yr

You Save

£41,196/yr

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How it works

How we deliver software qa testing.

01

Discovery Call

Scope, volume, tools, compliance requirements. 1–2 days.

02

Talent Selection

Pre-vetted candidates matched to your brief. 3–5 days.

03

Tech & Compliance Setup

VDI/VPN access, NDA execution, DPA signing. 2–3 days.

04

Nest Training

2-week onboarding inside your systems with QA checkpoints.

05

Go Live

Full production. Weekly check-ins for first 30 days.

Engagement models

Two ways to work
with Treba.

Choose the model that fits your team. Switch anytime.

EOR (Employer of Record)

Managed Services

Learn more about our engagement models
Treba team
£17kAvg. annual
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Your Treba team

James M.

James M.

KYC Analyst

£9,200
Amina K.

Amina K.

Med. Transcriber

£8,400
David O.

David O.

QA Tester

£10,800
Total / yr£28,400

Compliance built in. Not bolted on.

UK GDPR + IDTA

International Data Transfer Agreement for lawful UK–Kenya data flows. Executed by legal counsel. Annual review.

Kenya DPA 2019

Modelled on EU GDPR. Regulated by ODPC. Enforceable. Equivalent protection.

ISO 27001-Aligned

Biometric access. Clean desk policy. CCTV. Network segmentation. No shortcuts.

Cyber Essentials

UK government-backed baseline cybersecurity certification. Audited annually. Public record.

Industries

Industries using this service.

Software QA Testing outsourcing for regulated UK industries.


FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

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