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QA Outsourcing
We recruit, hire, and retain your QA professionals in Mexico. You manage the work. Your VP of Engineering, Director of Product, or Head of QA sets sprint assignments, coverage priorities, and release gates directly. We build outsourced QA services around your engineering leadership, not ours.
Manual QA Testers
We place trained manual QA testers who own the test work that does not fit a script. Exploratory testing, user flow validation, defect documentation, and test case execution across web, mobile, and API surfaces. They work under your team's daily direction.
Test Automation Engineers
We provide automation engineers who design and maintain scalable test frameworks. They develop automated test suites using tools like Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright, and integrate testing into your CI/CD pipeline under your engineering team's direction.
QA Leads
We source experienced QA leads who own test planning, coverage strategy, defect triage, and release readiness reporting. They manage your QA team directly under your VP of Engineering or Director of Product.
API & Integration Testers
We hire specialists who validate API contracts, test integrations between services, and run regression checks across microservices and third-party connections using Postman, RestAssured, or equivalent tools.
Performance & Load Testing Specialists
We recruit engineers who find the breaking point of your system before your users do. Load testing, bottleneck identification, and peak traffic validation using JMeter, k6, or Locust. Tests are timed to your release calendar and infrastructure milestones.
Mobile QA Engineers
We recruit mobile QA specialists who test iOS and Android applications (manual and automated) across devices, OS versions, and screen sizes using Appium, XCUITest, or Espresso. They report into your product team.
Active QA teams in SaaS, fintech,
healthtech, eCommerce, and
enterprise software
English and Spanish native QA
engineers who join your
standups and sprint reviews
First shortlist in 10-12 business
days, your team is fully
operational in 30 days
SOC 2 in progress, controlled
access and IP protection on
every engagement
Across all active nearshore
engineering and QA
engagements
Open QA roles do not just slow your releases down. They push testing into developer time, compress your release cycles, and force your engineering lead to choose between shipping fast and shipping clean.
QA Talent Is Expensive and Slow to Hire Domestically
A senior QA automation engineer costs six figures fully loaded in the U.S. Takes 3 months to fill. And they might give notice to you in a year. Your release calendar slips. Your developers are forced to do the testing.
Your Engineers Are Doing QA Instead of Building
When QA seats sit empty, testing rolls into developer time. Your engineers end up writing test cases, validating regressions manually, and filing bug reports instead of shipping features. Velocity slows and the team burns out on work that should not be theirs to begin with.
Offshore QA Teams Break Your Sprint Cadence
12-hour time difference. Async-only defect triage. Test results that arrive after your standup. Offshore QA teams cannot participate in your sprint ceremonies, cannot respond to same-day blockers, and cannot attend your release reviews. Your clients are already pushing back.
Test Coverage Gaps Compound With Every Sprint
Every sprint without dedicated QA coverage means more untested code in production. Regression bugs stack up. Edge cases go unchecked. By the time you hire, your test debt is months deep and your engineering team is patching instead of building.
QA Knowledge Walks Out the Door With Every Departure
Your QA engineers know where your product breaks. The edge cases, the integration points, the failure modes that took months to find. When 25-35% of them leave every year, that knowledge leaves with them, and every replacement starts from zero on your codebase.
Miss one critical regression per release. That is 12 production hotfixes a year. What does each rollback cost your engineering team in lost velocity?
Our name comes from "amalgamate." We unite U.S. companies and Latin American engineering talent into one codebase, one sprint, one team. Not two disconnected QA cycles. Not a vendor relationship. One team.
Other providers stop at placement. Amalga handles the parts that actually keep a QA team together: recruiting, vetting, onboarding, HR, and retention.
Your QA engineers report to your Head of QA or VP of Engineering, join your daily standups, commit to your sprint test plans, and operate in your tools from day one. We handle everything behind the scenes (recruiting, payroll, benefits, and retention) so your engineering leadership only manages the quality work.
Your engineering managers run the work. Amalga keeps the team stable. Our leadership team comes from General Electric, Bloomberg, Concentrix, Teleperformance, and Apollo Global Management. We have built engineering teams at scale before. We will build yours next.
Under 3
Months
to Full
Sprint Parity
40-50%
Cost Savings
vs. U.S.
100%
Retention
First
6 Months
2.2% Monthly
Attrition
vs. 3-4% Industry
Average
Our financial services client went from zero nearshore presence to a 10-person engineering team in 5 months, with plans to scale to 25 engineers this year. Full sprint parity in under 3 months. Across all engagements, our monthly attrition average is under 2.1%, well below the 3-4% industry average.
You have probably weighed nearshore vs. offshore before. Here is what actually changes when you go nearshore with Amalga for quality assurance outsourcing.
Not sure? Talk to us. We will help you figure out the right model.
QA outsourcing works best when your team operates in your time zone. Monterrey and Mexico City offer direct flights from all major U.S. cities, which means real oversight, sprint standups that actually happen live, and same-day site visits when you need them.
Houston
1 hr
Monterrey
Dallas
1.5 hrs
Monterrey
Miami
3 hrs
Monterrey
Los Angeles
3.5 hrs
Mexico City
Chicago
4 hrs
Mexico City
Compare that to 15+ hours to Manila or Bangalore. Your QA team cannot triage a P1 defect in real time when they are 12 time zones away.
Same-day site visits. Real-time defect triage. No jet lag. Your QA team works when you work.
Top Universities
Tec de Monterrey, UNAM, ITAM
55K+ BPO/Tech Talent
Monterrey + Mexico City
Culturally Fluent
No scripts that sound translated
Stable & Secure
ISO 27001 certified Management System
How Amalga built a nearshore engineering team for a financial services client running a compliance-heavy trading platform.
The Challenge
The Solution
The Results
Under 3 months
100% in the first 6 months
10 Engineers, Scaling to 25
Director of Engineering, Financial Services Client
VP Delivery Operations, Technology Client
*Results vary by engagement. This case study reflects one client's experience.
Want Us to Manage the QA Operation?
All of our current QA outsourcing engagements are client-managed. If you want Amalga to own QA delivery outcomes (managing your test cycles, coverage targets, and release gates end to end), we can do that too.
Talk to Us About Managed QA ServicesWe do not ask you to change your tools. Your nearshore QA engineers work in your repos, your CI/CD pipeline, and your test management platform from day one.
And many more. Python, Java, .NET, JavaScript. If your team tests in it, we can work in it.
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“The EOR model let us move fast without legal or operational drag, and the talent quality exceeded expectations."
"Amalga's stability has translated directly into better client experiences and smoother day-to-day operations."
"Amalga didn’t just fill seats, they understood our culture, our standards, and our urgency. The engineers they placed have become some of our most valuable contributors."
We provide client-managed QA teams. You direct the sprint assignments, test priorities, and release decisions. We recruit, onboard, and support the team to ensure stable QA capacity and long-term test knowledge continuity. We do not run your QA process as a managed service, though if you want that model, we offer it as well.
We support manual testers, test automation engineers, QA leads, API and integration testers, performance and load testing specialists, and mobile QA engineers for iOS and Android. We staff individual contributors or cross-functional pods that embed directly into your existing engineering org. For larger QA teams, we introduce QA leads to support quality, coordination, and performance management.
Common frameworks include Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright for web automation, and Appium for mobile automation. For API testing we work in Postman and RestAssured. Performance testing tooling includes JMeter and k6. Test management runs through TestRail, JIRA, or your platform of choice. We also administer your own technical assessments before hiring, and we encourage it.
Our QA teams in Monterrey and Mexico City operate on Central Time, which overlaps fully with U.S. business hours. Your QA engineers join your daily standups, attend sprint planning and retrospectives, and triage defects in real time. They are reachable on Slack or Teams the same way any local hire would be, with no overnight handoff, no async defect queue, and no typical offshore communication gaps.
Amalga is ISO 27001 certified, with SOC 2 certification in progress. You own the code and the test assets, full stop. NDAs, role-based access controls, and secure environments using VPN or VDI are standard on every engagement. Your IT team provisions access directly and retains full control over repository and environment permissions.
We handle replacement recruiting immediately using the same role profile and technical requirements. Our consistently high retention across active engineering engagements reflects how seriously we take stability. When turnover does happen, we manage the entire backfill process. Same vetting depth, same technical assessments, same onboarding.
We typically present qualified QA candidates to your hiring manager within 10-12 business days from the start of our engagement. From there, ramp time depends on your interview process, system access, and internal onboarding. Our financial services client had a 10-person engineering team (including QA) deployed and operating at full sprint parity in under 5 months.
We recruit across Mexico's top engineering talent hubs, with a focus on Monterrey and Mexico City and graduates from universities including Tec de Monterrey, UNAM, and ITAM. Every candidate goes through technical screening specific to the QA function: manual test case design, automation framework proficiency, or performance testing methodology, depending on the role. We can also administer your own coding challenges and technical assessments. You approve every hire before they start.
You pay a flat monthly rate per QA team member that covers everything: their fully loaded compensation plus Amalga's recruiting, HR, and infrastructure support. No per-bug pricing, no test cycle fees, no hidden overhead. Most clients see 40-50% savings compared to equivalent U.S. fully loaded QA costs.
Our active QA engagements include fintech, healthtech, and financial services clients operating under HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 requirements. Beyond our ISO 27001 certification and ongoing SOC 2 work, we layer in whatever controls your compliance program requires: dedicated workstations, restricted device policies, audit logging on test environments, segregation of duties on test data access, and documentation that holds up in a compliance review.
Tell us what you are building and where your QA gaps are. We will come back with a plan that fits your stack, your sprint cycle, and your timeline.
