Fixed prices
- One agreed scope.
- One fixed price.
- Binding delivery.
Catch user-facing bugs before users do. Manual testing, automation, and the outside eyes your team can’t have on its own code, paired with a No-Bullshit Guarantee so the first week is risk-free.
First week not worth it? Refunded, no questions.
Release pipeline
DIRECT ANSWER
Choose independent QA when a live product needs ongoing manual testing, automation, regression gates, and an external view of release risk.
BEST FOR
NOT BEST FOR
A personalized evaluation of your current QA challenges and opportunities.
Clear next steps tailored to your specific software quality needs.
Identify immediate opportunities to reduce development costs and prevent expensive bugs.
First week not worth it? Refunded, no questions.
Manual Testing
Test from the user’s seat, not the developer’s.
Test Automation
Automate the repeatable checks so releases do not wait on a manual regression pass.
Managed Testing
Hand off the entire testing process to a dedicated QA lead. You focus on shipping.
Test Documentation
All testing documentation (plans, test cases, reports), so nothing falls through the cracks.
Quality Assurance
Catch the gap between what was spec’d and what actually shipped.
Independent Testing
A fresh pair of eyes with no stake in the outcome, just honest results.
Nine ways we stress what you shipped. Pick the depth, we’ll bring the rigor.
Functional Testing
Verify software complies with functional specifications by checking all required system capabilities.
Regression Testing
Confirm recent code changes haven’t adversely affected existing functionality or features.
GUI Testing
Examine graphical interfaces to prevent user issues and ensure positive user experiences.
Localization Testing
Evaluate products from linguistic and cultural perspectives to meet user language and location needs.
Performance Testing
Assess system speed, scalability, and stability under specific workloads for optimal performance.
UX / Usability Testing
Check if solutions are user-friendly and meet user expectations for smooth interactions.
Compatibility Testing
Verify solutions work properly across different browsers, operating systems, networks, and devices.
Integration Testing
Identify faults in interactions between integrated units to ensure modules work together seamlessly.
User Acceptance Testing
Validate that delivered software fully meets the defined project scope and user requirements.
Need the full fix, not just the findings? See Vibe Coding Rescue →
BEFORE YOU APPLY
We test real products with real complexity. If you’re not there yet, we’ll tell you, and point you to the right room.
QA is post-build. If you’re pre-product, you want strategic product work first. That’s our Fractional Co-Founder lane.
Our minimum is one week at €750/week from the start. For a smaller bug bash, a freelance tester is the honest call.
Manual-only gets expensive fast. If automation is permanently off the table, we’re the wrong partnership.
We find the gaps and we’ll fix the bugs we find, but full feature builds are a different engagement, not a QA retainer.
We test what’s there. We’re not your auditor. You need a compliance specialist alongside us, not instead of us.
Saying no is a service. We’d rather lose the deal than lose the user data.
Still unsure? Email [email protected] and we’ll point you somewhere honestHOW WE WORK
From idea to paying customers, and the long haul beyond that.
You buy an outcome, not hours. Fixed price where the scope is clear, weekly retainer where it isn’t. If a retainer week moves nothing, you get it back.
Select your journey path
A validated direction, backed by market signal instead of opinions.
Cancel anytime • Last week refunded if no impact
Ideation & Market Validation
Helping you validate your idea and build the right product
A build plan and a fixed price, before development starts.
Comprehensive technical foundation
Technical Planning & Architecture
Everything you and we need to build a great and reliable product
Your product live with real customers, shipped milestone by milestone.
Milestone-based, or weekly retainer for ongoing work
Build & Launch
A product that stays live, stays fast, and keeps shipping.
Cancel anytime • Last week refunded if no impact
Maintain & Speed Up
Note: We also test products built by other teams, including vibe-coded software. New features and adjacent products are scoped separately as software development.
We win when you win. That’s the alignment.
Free skills · No API key · No signup
QA Advisor and Website ICP-Fit, the same prompts we run when we audit a codebase or a conversion funnel. Plug them into your own AI.
Grades test quality, OWASP security, reliability, scalability, and won’t soften critical findings.
Audits your marketing site against your ICP. Tells you the one change that would move conversion most.
No notice period, no exit fee, no questions.
Latest paid week or agreed fixed-price milestone. No explanation of dissatisfaction required.
We work to exceed expectations, not to fill timesheets.
Fixed-price guarantee
Money back for the agreed milestone. No questions asked. The signed scope and deadline still apply.
WHY THIS WORKS
Not our model: Pay by time
Two ways to work. One reason to deliver.
Fixed prices and weekly retainers. A money-back guarantee built into both.
No hours tracked in either model.
Not an add-on. Part of the deal.
Money back, no questions asked. Retainers cover the latest paid week. Fixed-price work covers the milestone agreed in your signed offer or statement of work. This is not an automatic refund of an entire project. Prepaid developer hours are a separate offer with their own published terms.
Latest paid week or agreed fixed-price milestone. No explanation of dissatisfaction required.
And if your expectations are detached from reality, we walk too. We work with operators, not lottery winners.
Walking out is not walking away. Anything we built ships documented, version-controlled, and ready for handover. No client is left holding a broken product.
Money back, no questions asked. Retainers cover the latest paid week. Fixed-price work covers the milestone agreed in your signed offer or statement of work. This is not an automatic refund of an entire project. Prepaid developer hours are a separate offer with their own published terms.
Bugs cost you money. Either through refunds, customer churn, law suits, data breaches or brand damage.
QA effort vs. relative cost
More QA effort means fewer costly failures but more spent on prevention and verification. The total stays low across a broad middle zone, not at one exact point.
Relative cost
Little checking
QA effort and quality
Exhaustive checking
Schematic illustration. Not measured data and not a cost forecast.
Your software first breaks slowly then all at once. Why wait?
Effort across releases
Postponing checks often looks cheaper in early releases. Over time, defects found late can pile up as rework and risk, and the effort gets harder to predict. Ongoing QA costs something every release and makes that effort more predictable.
Cumulative effort
Releases
Schematic illustration. Not measured data and not a cost forecast.
Example outputs for a QA engagement. We agree the release risks, environments and test scope first.
Choose critical user journeys, permissions, edge cases and integrations, with explicit acceptance criteria.
Reproduction steps, severity and user impact for each finding, with evidence and a clear fix owner.
Verify fixes and rerun the relevant regression checks. Report what passed, what failed and what remains untested.
Download the sample QA findings and retest report (Markdown)
// proofPolity: service-specific test gates across seven microservices. Zybra: defect reproduction, fix verification and weekly release gates through a FinTech rebuild. Soundromeda: risk-based QA that took a vibe-coded game to production quality. Each case shows how our work supported the release.
1.5 years owning QA across seven services and multiple vendors. Quality stayed shippable through every refactor.
QA governance through a high-change rebuild, release safety held weekly, hundreds of defects closed.
QA-led hardening took a vibe-coded game prototype to a state grant committees backed.
These are selected projects, not our full portfolio. We have shipped 100+ products since 2018.
WAVECT GmbH’s intelligence, professionalism, and willingness to dig into the project are impressive.
WAVECT GmbH has successfully completed a milestone grant for Polygon, which included technical functionality and external public user adoption. The team manifests their professionalism through timely deliverables, and their knowledge and thorough approach have been truly commendable.
Shipped what would normally take a bigger team a lot longer. Report overhaul, security hardening, infrastructure tightening, they owned it end to end. They kept production stable through pilot prep and investor demos. They communicated clearly and never made us chase a status update. Awesome team!
TOP! Excellent teamwork and communication. Smooth and efficient collaboration. Highly recommended partnership!
Independently rated 5.0/5 on Clutch Read the reviews
Agree the business-journey register, coverage denominator, supported environments, run cadence and change limits. Findings identify version, environment, reproduction, verified business impact, fix owner and remaining risk; duplicates and false alarms are investigated before escalation. The report recommends release, correction or further investigation. The €750/week QA offer keeps its current terms for a supported estate; material setup, application fixes and new features are separately scoped from test maintenance. Local language, payment or device verification can use an agreed specialist, with a bounded matrix and separate quote. A passing suite is evidence for its stated scope.
See the illustrative decision, release and handover evidence.
One-off package: the acceptance and fee-protection milestones below apply. Weekly-retainer and Fast Lane terms belong to their own engagements.
Protect one critical journey
Stable automated checks that demonstrate a real failure is detected.
Within 5 business days of the booked ready start.
Before booking: An existing JavaScript/TypeScript web application we maintain, repeatable staging, working test identity/data, service mocks and CI.
Payment milestones: €1,000 for accepted test artifacts/preparation; €250 on evidenced acceptance. One correction/retest is included.
What earns the fee: The agreed checks pass and a safe negative control proves the relevant failure is caught. You receive the code, evidence and maintenance owner.
Scope limits: No new CI foundation, live payment movement, unstable third-party flows, broad security/accessibility audit, mobile matrix, material app fixes or ongoing maintenance.
Your agreed milestone is corrected once within 5 business days. If it still fails, its unearned fee is waived or prepaid unearned amounts refunded within 10 business days. If Wavect’s failure makes the whole package unusable, we refund the whole package within the same 10 business days after that correction opportunity. Scope, acceptance and any client/vendor waiting are recorded before booking; we show the reason and revised date when a dependency pauses the affected clock. These package terms are written into your scope and preserve your existing rights. For these packages, business days are Monday to Friday excluding Austrian public holidays; dates use Europe/Vienna. Separately, our satisfaction guarantee covers the agreed fixed-price milestone: its fee is refunded if you are not satisfied, without requiring an explanation.
For a working app, including a vibe-coded one: choose a bounded functional test pass, optional accepted findings and separately approved repairs. Set the spending limit before work starts.
Coverage + up to 5 accepted findings: at most €1,500. Repairs need a separately approved quote within your total cap. Unused authorization is not invoiced.
€750
One coverage pass across up to 12 agreed scenarios and 3 journeys. You receive the results even when no bug is found.
€150
One material, reproducible defect. Same root cause or same corrective change: one fee. Severity changes priority, never this price.
Eligible small repair: €600. Standard repair: €1,200. An already paid €150 finding fee is credited toward that repair.
Already know the bug? For a bug you can reproduce, request a repair-only quote. No finding fee; a coverage pass is needed only if separately agreed.
Net prices; applicable tax is additional. One-off scope with its own correction/refund terms; an alternative to weekly QA for the same work.
Agree the exact scenarios, expected behavior, known-issue list, material-impact threshold, approver, finding allowance, total spending cap and dates. One working staging build, one role and one browser/device configuration; repeatable test data and authorized access are required. Deliver the coverage pass within 5 business days of the booked ready start. Record client/vendor waits and a revised date. Unknown or broken systems need a separately agreed assessment first.
The coverage fee earns an accepted scenario list, pass/fail/blocked results, tested build and configuration, limitations and observed issues. Complete the promised coverage and disclose further observed issues after the finding allowance is reached, without extra finding fees. A blocked or incomplete pass is not silently accepted. Testing selected behavior is not a security audit, production-readiness certification or a promise of no other bugs.
The finding fee adds validated reproduction, expected versus actual behavior, material impact, build/environment evidence and duplicate checking to the coverage record. Charge only for previously unreported, in-scope defects accepted in writing by the named client reviewer; silence is not acceptance. Include one clarification/reproduction round. Disputes stay unbilled until resolved. Valid findings remain payable if you choose not to repair them.
Group manifestations sharing an underlying defect or the same corrective change, including repeats across pages, fields or test runs. Where uncertain, group conservatively before invoicing. No finding fee for already supplied reproducible issues, known issues, duplicates, out-of-scope observations or work Wavect already owes. Notify observed security risks safely; specialist investigation needs its own agreed scope.
Before implementation, agree the repair class, exact change, affected components, regression checks, delivery date and remaining budget. Small means a localized, understood change; standard means a bounded change with understood interactions. Uncertain repairs, rebuilds, data migrations and specialist security work need a separate fixed quote or discovery. Delivery is the agreed source change and passing agreed checks in the named environment; deployment is included only if stated. A severe issue can have a small fix.
After a paid finding, a small repair adds €450; a standard repair adds €1,050. For a client-supplied reproducible bug, quote the repair directly without a finding fee; a coverage pass is needed only if separately agreed. Larger quotes state any finding credit explicitly. The same test or repair cannot be billed again under a retainer or fixed package. No fees for Wavect regressions, warranty work or corrections already owed.
Reserve the coverage fee, the entire approved finding allowance and every approved incremental repair before work starts. A standard repair of one of those paid findings alongside the full assessment allowance needs a €2,550 cap. Reserve the full quoted repair price when no finding credit applies. A smaller cap needs a smaller allowance or scope agreed first. Pause new chargeable scope until you approve a revised cap; never expand it automatically or withhold already promised coverage. Unused approval is not an invoice.
For failed agreed work, allow correction/retest within 5 business days, then waive unearned fees or refund prepaid unearned fees within 10 business days. Invalid or duplicate paid findings are corrected or refunded. An independently valid accepted finding can remain earned if its repair fails. If Wavect failure makes the whole engagement unusable, the whole engagement fee is refunded on the same clock. These are one-off terms; the weekly-retainer guarantee stays separate.
Reserve €1,950 for coverage, up to 5 accepted findings and a small repair of one of those paid findings. With only one accepted finding and that repair, the invoice is €1,350. With no accepted findings or repairs, it is €750. This is an illustration, not a customer result.
Answers to your most pressing QA concerns
Software Discovery and Requirements
Clarify software requirements, architecture and milestones through Wavect’s existing discovery offer. See the inputs, example acceptance criteria and next steps.
Explore the scopeUX/UI Design
Flows, clickable prototypes and UI for software you are building, checked with real users and handed over dev-ready.
Explore the scopeAccessibility Audit
WCAG 2.2 audits of web and mobile apps with reproducible findings, prioritized fixes and a retest. No certification, no legal opinion.
Explore the scopeFirst week not worth it? Refunded, no questions.
Get the full service at €750 per week from the start. If you’re not satisfied, your last week is refunded, no questions asked. Cancel anytime.
First week not worth it? Refunded, no questions.
No lock-in. No fine print. Just results.
Optional Fast Lane
More agreed work in the same week, or the same scope sooner, with extra reserved capacity and unchanged quality checks. Miss the booked earlier date and 100% of the Fast Lane surcharge comes back.
Optional per milestone, quoted after a readiness check.