QA was always worth it.
The pricing never was.

Why QAShift exists

QAShift started in Bengaluru in 2025, after a decade of watching the same scene repeat from inside startups: a team ships a release, something breaks at 2am, and the postmortem ends with "we should invest in QA" - followed by a quote from a testing vendor that costs more than two engineers.

The economics were the broken part, not the engineering. Manual QA teams can't keep pace with daily deploys. Enterprise testing vendors price for procurement departments, hide their rates behind demo calls, and lock you into their platforms. So most teams choose the third option: ship and hope.

AI changed the cost structure - test generation that took an engineer-week now takes hours. But unreviewed AI output is exactly how you get a green dashboard and a broken checkout. So we kept humans where they matter: every failure verified by a named engineer before it reaches you, every test committed to your repo, every price on the website.

No sales team. No demos required. No contracts you need a lawyer to exit. If the product page can't convince you, a salesperson shouldn't either.

We're a small founding team and we publish names and faces as the business matures - for now, judge us by the things that can't be faked: the sample report, the public pricing, and how fast we answer email.