QA, test, and quality engineering — assessed for judgement, delivery, and team fit.
A boutique firm for the engineers who own test, quality, and release — from QA and test engineers to SDETs, QA leads, and test architects. Every candidate we introduce is technically assessed by practising engineers and matched to the way your team actually ships.
This creates three predictable failures — each one visible only after a hire has already been made, and each one expensive to correct.
Strong on paper, weak in delivery. The cost doesn't appear until weeks in — when velocity drops, standards slip, and the team absorbs the slack.
Problems surface after delivery slows. By the time the pattern is clear, the team has shipped around it — and the hire is now a structural issue, not a judgement call.
Engineers are evaluated on self-reporting, not evidence. Interviews test articulation. They rarely test the judgement that determines whether a release actually goes out clean.
Four non-negotiable pillars. No candidate is introduced who has not cleared every one of them.
We go deep on the engineer's real delivery history — the projects, the decisions, the trade-offs — so you see the substance behind the CV, not just the keywords.
Technical judgement, delivery ownership, communication, and team fit — evaluated by practising senior engineers.
Each introduced candidate is accompanied by a structured Technical Audit Record outlining capability, delivery profile, and alignment to your brief.
We headhunt to your brief. If we do not identify a delivery-capable match, we do not introduce. Volume is the opposite of signal.
We map your stack, domain, delivery cadence, and team shape. The evaluation is calibrated to your environment — not a generic scorecard.
We headhunt across our network of practising QA and SDET engineers. Most are not actively on the market.
Structured assessment covering technical judgement, delivery behaviour, framework and CI/CD ownership, and team communication — conducted by senior practitioners.
We talk through real delivery history in depth — the projects claimed, the role actually played, the decisions made — as part of the audit. Substance over self-report.
Shortlist presented with a signed Technical Audit Record per candidate. Selective by design. Never padded.
We evaluate against the conditions of real delivery — regulatory pressure, integration complexity, platform scale. Below are the environments we know best.
Compliance-aware QA for payments, trading, lending, and identity platforms.
Test strategy and SDETs for multi-tenant platforms and API-first products.
End-to-end and cross-browser QA for complex enterprise portals and workflows.
QA for ETL, pipelines, warehousing, and systems where data integrity is the product.
First QA hires and founding SDETs who will set the bar for the next ten engineers.
Two ways to start a conversation, depending on which side of the table you sit. We reply within two working days.
A short brief is enough. A senior engineer — not a sales pipeline — reads your submission and responds within two working days.
Thank you. A senior engineer will review your brief and respond within two working days.
We work with a small number of engineers at a time. You are never introduced to a client without your explicit consent.
We review each submission individually. You will hear from a senior practitioner within five working days.