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

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.
Scaled to project load and pipeline.
Legal and data-transfer structure for the engagement.

UK loaded cost
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.
Cost Per QA Tester (Loaded)
Bugs Found Pre-Production
Developer Time on Testing
Capabilities
What we deliver.
Manual Testing & Exploratory QA
“Find the bugs your automated tests can't.”
Automated Test Development
“Build regression coverage that runs on every deploy.”
API & Performance Testing
“Validate your APIs and catch performance regressions before customers do.”
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.”
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.

Remote from Nairobi
BIM Modeler
Pre-vetted · Interview in 48hrs · Start in 7 days
UK Cost
£56,796
Treba Cost
£15,600/yr
You Save
£41,196/yr
How it works
How we deliver software qa testing.
Discovery Call
Scope, volume, tools, compliance requirements. 1–2 days.
Talent Selection
Pre-vetted candidates matched to your brief. 3–5 days.
Tech & Compliance Setup
VDI/VPN access, NDA execution, DPA signing. 2–3 days.
Nest Training
2-week onboarding inside your systems with QA checkpoints.
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

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Your Treba team

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QA Tester
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.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
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