Outsourcing VS Outstaffing

Currently, many, many companies are reaching the stage in their operations when it becomes unnecessary to hire remote employees to keep the work process uninterrupted and to increase efficiency.

In such a case, outsourcing or outstaffing would be an ideal option for the company to meet its expectations, depending on the main objectives and type of business.

But how to choose the right option? For that, you must first understand the difference between "Outsourcing" and "Outstaffing" services.

When we talk about outsourcing, we understand that the service provider usually works on a project-based business model. This means that the client company entrusts the entire project from A to Z to the outsourcing company. The client company rarely interferes with the team's work process, and the outsourcing company is independent in managing the work process.

Outstaffing is a remote working model based on the concept that a company has a dedicated team of professionals who are hired based on specific needs and requirements. In such a case, the team is focused only on the relevant project and operates from the office of the outstaff company, where all the necessary technical means are available to carry out the work.

Outstaffing company provides quality resources and creates necessary comfort and productive environment for hired professionals/team.

Main advantages of outsourcing/outstaffing services

1. Effective cost management
2. Highly specialized team
3. High quality offered 
4. Clear and strict deadlines

What is QA Outsourcing?

As we said, in the modern world we hear the term "outsourcing" very often, and we gave the definition of that term.

So when the work is outsourced to an outside company instead of being done by the core team in-house, this process is called QA Outsourcing.

Nowadays, QA/ Software Testing is one of the areas where outsourcing services are highly preferred.

What is QA outstaffing?

Software outsourcing is in some ways close to outsourcing, as companies hire specialists/testers from outside their company. So by opting for staffing services, teams hire individual testers or testing teams outside their company to do the work under the direction of the hiring company. This approach is mostly chosen by companies looking for faster and more efficient ways to test their products.

Why choose QA outsourcing/outstaffing services?

Every project requires a certain combination of skills to be accomplished, and the perfect combination of these skills is a major challenge for almost every organization.

For example, there is a company that requires a tester who can perform at his best in both manual and automated testing, as well as be proficient in many up-to-date tools...

So how do you find that expert/tester?

Since many organizations are not testing service companies per se, why should they have experienced testers, managers, and access to the latest tools and technologies needed to perform appropriate testing for an organization's various projects?

Or why should a company keep up with the latest testing trends, implement global best practices, and increase testing team productivity with effective methodologies?

Undoubtedly, it will be quite expensive to create such a team within the company and always work on improving and developing the team, especially when the organization does not have long-term plans, why afford such costs?

Indeed, many organizations can't afford to have a testing team, especially startups that can't divert their attention from the mundane process of product development and invest their time and effort in creating a supportive work environment for testers.

So there are 2 options.

Provide significant resources to have a large/experienced team of testers to provide high quality products to customers or by having a small and less experienced team of testers, with lower costs and focusing most of their efforts on product development and sales.

But it is obvious that none of the options are preferred as it will certainly affect the overall efficiency of the company and will have a negative impact as the organizations will not be able to deliver quality products to the customer. They have to compromise on quality as they cannot adopt the latest testing technologies, techniques and trends.

And therefore, to maintain the quality of the product, no other more preferable option can be found than opting for outsourcing/outstaffing services.

So we found the solution: outsourcing/outsourced QA services, which are currently considered to be really popular approaches among many organizations and companies.