I went from decide to hire >> to hire >> to onboard in 24hrs

First the context

I’m building a fintech app for a venturebuilder using Bubble and Webflow. We are now going on week four and i’d say we are 60% done with the initial version of the app.

Oh and I hired the guys (3 Bubble devs, 1 Webflow dev, 2 designers) all in week 0 and had them onboarded at the start of week 1.

And it will actually be a fairly professional-looking bookkeeping app. A bit like a simpler version of Pilot.com.

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So my engineering lead said.. “Hey Ken.. I think we should hire a QA”

At the start of week 3 my engineering lead, Max, tells me "hey ken.. i think we need a bit of QA time so that we can reduce the time that he spends checking on tickets."

And im like... “yeah great idea.?Let me handle it.”

That was 12:09pm right after our daily standup.

I posted the job on Upwork and within hours was chatting with a few

It was 1:20pm when I put the job description on Upwork. Luckily they allow me to use their AI to write the job description so the whole posting took me 3-4 minutes.

And by 3:32pm I had a list of 7 - 8 candidates.?

I read through their profiles and wrote to 2 of them. Then proceeded to ask them some questions on the chat about their experience and portfolio.

I chose one and made an offer

At 4:05pm id chosen one, Talha, and we'd aligned that we'd cap it to just 10hrs to start for $10/hr and evaluate after the first 10hrs.

I always like to do things this way.. ie. try them out first.

I accepted his Upwork proposal and we were in business.

I onboarded him in a total of 10 minutes

At 5:40pm id set him up in our onboarding list in clickup and had given him access to our clickup & slack and invited him to our daily standup.

Also i had told him to go thru all the ‘in progress’ tickets in our tech space in Clickup.

And since they are all written in a way that is self-explanatory plus typically have a figma design… it’s pretty easy to just go through and get up to speed on where we are at.

He joined our standup the next day and was assigned his first tasks

The next day in the standup (at noon) after introing him to the team I assigned him a few ticket to QA.

And I explained how I wanted him to document the QA work he did. Basically step by step instructions on what he QA’d with screenshots.

And if he finds bugs he just creates his own subtasks and assigns to the dev.

He is rocking it

Our new QA is now working about a week and he’s rocking it. The process works like a charm and he’s a pleasure to work with.

Each time I give him feedback he adopts it immediately. And note that the way we work via Clickup is probably different than the JIRA- based methods he’s used in the past.

Meaning.. my shit is just a shit ton better. LOL

I’d even venture to guess he’s gonna end up being better than 90% of all of the QA’s i’ve worked with in the past decade (a number that is probably 50+).

I’m pretty sure the future will look like this

If you look at the story of those other QA’s that he is whooping… they probably all took months to hire and onboard… and ended up costing far more.

Because I only pay our QA for his productive hours… ie. about 15 hrs this past week at $10/hr. So perhaps he will cost us $500 - 600 per month.

The way I hired this QA is just better than the old way in every way. It’s not even close.

And if we end up not needing a QA in a month or so.. then no sweat. He just goes on his merry way till next time we meet.

It just makes so much sense and is so much better.. that I have no doubt more and more companies are going to make the same conclusions I am.

Not just for things like QA… but TONS of positions across every department in the company.