Ensuring the Quality of your Quality Assurance
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QA is framed as reporting actual results against expectations and surveys show testers spend about 51% of their time testing; most teams are 1–5 testers so hire contractors or user-testers early, use a consultant at 4–7, and hire a senior full-timer at 8+. Budget expectations around 35,000–45,000 USD a year in some markets. Practical steps: set up email/Slack, documentation, milestones, a glossary, use JIRA and Sheets, plan automation and metric dashboards, and get devs to run basic tests.
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