To hire software testing (QA) engineers in Lisbon, Portugal, Pitch N Hire supplies vetted manual and automation testers — primarily from India — through staff augmentation, or recruits QA talent for your local Lisbon roles. You get testers skilled in Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, API and performance testing, integrated into your team on overlapping hours, without a local entity.
Software testing (QA) engineers verify that software works correctly, safely and at scale — spanning manual exploratory testing, test automation, API and integration testing, performance and security testing, and release quality gates. Pitch N Hire helps you add QA capacity two honest ways: staff augmentation, where vetted India-based testers join your team under your direction (skills across Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, REST-assured, JMeter/k6 and CI test pipelines), employed via PNH's Employer of Record; or recruitment services to source and screen QA candidates for roles based in your city. Adding dedicated testers is one of the highest-leverage ways to raise release quality and free developers to build, and offshore augmentation makes it cost-effective to staff QA at the ratio a fast-shipping team really needs.
We scope the testing you need — manual, automation, API, performance or security — plus the stack, tools and CI pipeline your team uses, and the seniority and ratio of testers to developers.
PNH returns vetted manual and automation testers from its India pool, screened for the exact frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, JMeter) and domain experience you need.
You interview and select the testers, using practical assessments so you can see real automation and test-design skill, not just résumés — you keep control of every hire.
Selected testers are employed through PNH's Employer of Record and onboarded into your repositories, test suites, CI and release process, so they add quality coverage quickly.
As the product grows you add or adjust QA capacity, building automation, raising coverage and protecting releases — while PNH handles employment and compliance.
Pitch N Hire can supply testers across the full quality-engineering spectrum:
Lisbon is Portugal's economic and startup capital and one of Europe's hottest nearshore destinations, home to a wave of international engineering offices, unicorns and scale-ups drawn by talent, lifestyle and lower costs than London or Berlin. Hosting the Web Summit each year has cemented its profile, and rapid inbound relocation has tightened the market for experienced software, product and data engineers across fintech, SaaS and travel-tech.
Lisbon talent is highly international and English-fluent, strong in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, cloud and product engineering, fed by universities and a large influx of relocating professionals. The pool is deep for a city its size, but heavy competition from foreign employers has pushed up senior salaries and made experienced hires slower to secure — a common reason Lisbon teams add offshore capacity.
Lisbon commands Portugal's highest developer pay, though still well below London or Dublin — senior software engineers often in the region of €45k–€70k gross, with premiums for cloud, data and AI skills. Offshore augmentation from India typically delivers comparable seniority at a lower blended rate, which is why cost-conscious Lisbon scale-ups run hybrid local plus offshore teams.
For Lisbon founders and engineering leaders competing with well-funded international offices, PNH offers an offshore pod: vetted India-based engineers employed through an Employer of Record, overlapping several working hours with Lisbon's WET/WEST time, to add delivery capacity quickly without bidding against relocated talent or setting up a new entity.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Lisbon team's stage and workload — and mix them as you scale:
A pre-screened India talent pool means matched shortlists in days, not the months a local permanent hire can take.
You interview and choose every person; Pitch N Hire surfaces qualified candidates and handles the operational load.
Offshore hires are employed through PNH's India Employer of Record — payroll, tax and statutory compliance are taken care of.
Building part of your team offshore keeps comparable seniority on the roster at a lower total cost than local-only hiring.
Engineers work on overlapping working hours and inside your tools and sprints — collaboration, not black-box outsourcing.
Staffing, recruitment, EOR and the ATS/interview software come from one provider, so hiring stays joined-up as you scale.
Staffing and recruitment services, the applicant tracking software, and hiring resources — all in one place.
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