Solution
Outsourced QA automation for US teams, from India
This page is for engineering managers and founders in the US who need test automation done well without hiring a full-time SDET. It explains how working with us looks week to week: the hours, the tools, what can be done from India and what stays with your team, and what you can inspect before a call. The service itself, and the background behind it, is on the QA and test automation page; this page is about the engagement.
You need test automation done well without hiring a full-time SDET, and the hours have to work with your team.
A QA engagement in your repo and CI, with IST hours that overlap your morning and a first PR within the week.
A suite your team can trust, written reports, and live demos and open-source code you can inspect first.
Hours that overlap with your mornings
Standard hours are IST, which overlap with US Eastern and Central mornings. We shift the schedule further for teams on the West Coast when a project needs it. In practice that means a standup at 9 or 10 am Eastern is mid-afternoon for us, the pull request you asked for before you logged off is waiting when you log in, and a failing build at the end of your day is looked at during your night.
Rushi studied and worked in the US for five years, on QA and Java teams at Freddie Mac (through Hexaware Technologies) and at Casenet on TruCare, a healthcare management platform, and works in US hours when needed. The working style you get is the one those teams used: written updates, PRs with context, and no surprises in the standup.
An offshore QA team in India: what it does, and what stays with you
Most of the QA work: writing and maintaining automated tests, running regression on every build, exploratory testing with proper bug reports, keeping the suite green, and triaging failures so your developers see the cause rather than a wall of logs. We work in your tools: your repo, your CI (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI), your tracker.
What stays with you is product knowledge and access decisions: which features matter most, which environments we may touch, which data we may use. Credentials and customer data stay in your systems; we ask for the least access that lets the work happen, and read-only wherever that is enough.
Teams in other time zones
Most of our QA clients are in the US, but the same setup works for teams elsewhere. IST sits inside the UK working day for most of its afternoon, overlaps Australian afternoons with Indian mornings, and covers nearly all of the working day in the UAE and Singapore, which makes offshore QA testing for UK, Canadian, Australian and Gulf teams as practical as for US ones.
The rhythm stays the same wherever you are: standups in the overlap, pull requests and a short written report every week, and failures triaged before your team starts its day. For Canadian teams on Eastern or Central time, the US arrangement applies as it is.
The tools
Selenium and Playwright for browser automation, Cypress where a team already uses it, TestNG and JUnit on the Java side, and the reporting your CI already produces (JUnit XML works everywhere). If you already have a Selenium suite we extend it; for a new project we usually suggest Playwright. Both work: Selenium has the larger ecosystem and more engineers who know it, Playwright is faster to set up and handles modern web apps with less flakiness.
AI is part of the toolkit, with a caveat we state everywhere: AI output is a strong first guess, not a guarantee. We use it to triage failures and propose locator fixes faster, and a person checks the result before it goes into your pipeline.
What the first week looks like
After the call and access, the first few days are reading: your suite, your CI history, which tests fail most and why. You get a short written plan, usually one page, that separates three things: tests worth automating now, tests that exist but are flaky and should be stabilized or deleted, and areas that should stay manual for the moment. Then the first pull request: a few real fixes or new tests in your framework, with the reasoning written in the PR. You review it like any other PR. If the way we work does not fit your team, that first week is when you find out, at the cost of a week.
Proof you can inspect before a call
Two live demos run on this site. AI Test Triage: paste a failing test's error or stack trace and get the likely cause, a confidence score and a suggested fix, from a real model. Self-healing locators: paste a broken Selenium locator and the page's current HTML and get a replacement with a confidence score and a backup. Both run on real open-source projects you can read on GitHub: an AI-augmented Selenium and TestNG framework with self-healing locators, and the AI Test Triage GitHub Action, which posts a plain-English explanation of a failed build on the pull request.
On a hand-written accuracy test the triage model got 39 of 40 labelled failures right, the same in three runs, including 10 of 10 tricky cases where the exception name points the wrong way. The cases were written by us, so this is an early test, not proof. The build log on this site records what broke on our own site and how it was fixed, including the day we shipped a demo with a retired model ID.
How an engagement works
- Step 1A 20-minute call about your stack, your suite and what keeps breaking
- Step 2Read-only access to your repo and CI so we can see the real failures
- Step 3A short written plan: what to automate first, what to stabilize, what to leave manual
- Step 4The first week: a few tests fixed or written in your framework, in a pull request you review
- Step 5From then on, a weekly rhythm: PRs, a short written report, and overlap with your mornings for standups
No tool is forced on you. We work in your repo, your CI and your framework, in pull requests your team reviews.
See it working
A live model reads the error and gives the cause, a confidence and a fix. Inputs are logged; do not paste secrets.
Paste a broken locator and the page HTML; a live model proposes a replacement with a confidence score.
All demos. Every demo uses sample data, and the browser demos never send anything to a real phone.
Questions
How does outsourced QA from India work with a US team's hours?
Standard hours are IST, which overlap with US Eastern and Central mornings, so standups and reviews happen in your morning. For West Coast teams we shift the schedule further when a project needs it. Work requested at the end of your day is usually waiting as a pull request when you start the next one.
How much of our QA can actually be done remotely?
Most of it: writing and maintaining automated tests, running regression on every build, exploratory testing and bug reports, triaging failures and keeping the suite green. What stays with you is product decisions and access to systems. We work in your repo, CI and tracker.
Selenium or Playwright?
Both work. Selenium has the larger ecosystem and more engineers who know it; Playwright is faster to set up and handles modern web apps with less flakiness. If you already have a Selenium suite we extend it; for a new project we usually suggest Playwright. Cypress, TestNG and JUnit are fine too.
Do you have US experience?
Yes. Rushi studied and worked in the US for five years, including QA and Java work at Freddie Mac through Hexaware Technologies and on TruCare, a healthcare management platform, at Casenet. He works in US hours when needed.
Is the AI part reliable?
It is useful and it is checked. AI output is a strong first guess, not a guarantee: on our own hand-written test set the triage model was right on 39 of 40 cases across three runs, which is an early test, not proof. A person reviews anything AI proposes before it enters your pipeline.
What is the first step?
A 20-minute call about your stack and what keeps breaking. If it makes sense, you give read-only access to the repo and CI, we send a one-page plan, and the first pull request follows within the first week. You review it like any other PR.
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