Nearshore Staff Augmentation Services
From design to development: Augment your staff with senior IT experts
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Our Staff Augmentation Process
01
Discovery Workshop
The discovery phase is key to long-term success. The goal of the discovery workshop is to thoroughly understand your business objectives and your clients’ needs. We will determine the ideal team configuration to reach your goal.
02
Job Specifications
We work with you to create detailed job specifications for each role, outlining the necessary skills, experiences, and qualifications.
03
Candidates Preselection
You will receive a curated list of candidates from our extensive talent pool of over 300 professionals, each possessing the specific skills, experience, and knowledge that align with your project requirements and expectations. We can also select external candidates for specific roles, which are thoroughly tested and interviewed before being onboarded.
04
Onboarding
We facilitate the onboarding process, ensuring new team members are integrated smoothly into your organisation and understand your workflows. Onboarding can also be conducted at your office. We encourage our clients to have the augmented team meet your employees and learn about your company’s culture.
05
Daily Reporting
Our team provides daily reports and regular check-ins to ensure transparency, track progress, stand up calls, and address any issues if necessary.
Q has built a team of 20 developers, QA engineers, and Product Owners to help and support Smart Pension with their fast growth over the last six years. Our flexible and knowledgeable team covering various tech stacks was the cornerstone of Smart's continous efforts to revolutionise the pensions industry.
We partnered with a leading fintech company to build a team of 12 mobile developers and QA specialists dedicated to their mobile payments app, which became the number one solution in its market. Our continuous development ensures the app remains the market leader in digital wallet solutions.
We partnered with The Sun, one of the largest news brands in Britain, to enhance their digital platforms and support the shift from print to online engagement. Through web performance optimisation, new features, and design improvements, our team of 16 experts helped increase user engagement and online revenue.
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When Should You Consider Our Staff Augmentation Services?
Consider our staff augmentation services in the following situations:
- Organised structure: When you already have technical and management leadership in your existing structure.
- Increasing velocity: Aiming for faster time-to-market and increased project velocity.
- Long-term roadmap: You have a long-term roadmap in place and need additional resources.
- In-house-led projects: You prefer to lead the project and augment your team with external talent.
- Avoiding in-house recruitment: You prefer augmenting your team with external talent instead of recruiting in-house.
- Lengthy hiring process: Facing long hiring processes or struggling to hire within 3-6 months.
- Cost efficiency: Looking for a cost-efficient solution to expand your team.
Our staff augmentation services are ideal for any type of product since you take the lead in project management. This flexibility allows you to leverage external talent while maintaining control over your project, ensuring alignment with your vision and goals.
The Benefits of Staff Augmentation
Cost-Effectiveness
In-house hiring is more costly than augmenting your team with our experts. With staff augmentation, you can bypass the costs of hiring, health insurance, equipment, amenities and other expenses. Croatia has competitive prices when it comes to hiring software developers.
A Reliable Talent Pool
Our team members have years of experience developing and designing software across a variety of industries and technologies. We also offer quality assurance experts, business analysts, devops engineers and product owners if your project requires their talent.
Proximity, Time Zone & Communication
The Central European Time (CET) zone makes Croatia compatible for working with European partners and US-based companies too. We share the same time zone as Paris, Berlin, Oslo, Zurich, Amsterdam and more. All our team members speak fluent English.
Team Scalability & Flexibility
You can expand or reduce your team according to your needs. This is just one of the advantages compared to in-house employees. Staff augmentation enables you to respond more quickly to your project requirements.
Why Choose Q for Your Staff Augmentation Needs?
Choosing Q offers numerous benefits:
- Employee treatment: Your augmented team members are treated like your own employees.
- High retention rates: Enjoy loyalty and high retention rates within our teams.
- Cultural fit: We ensure seamless integration with your company culture and workflow.
- Proactive teams: Our teams are proactive and incentivised to drive results.
- Comprehensive support: Benefit from our robust organisational support structure, not just individual hires.
- Assurance of quality: We prioritise technical excellence (TX) and customer experience (CX).
- Continuous training: Our team members receive ongoing professional development.
- One-stop-shop: Access all the resources and services (from design to complex development) your project requires in one place.
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Financial Times
Top B2B Companies Global 2021
Tech Fast 500 EMEA
European Business Awards
Best Employer of 2020, 2021 & 2022
Best Employer Brand Adria 2021
EY Entrepreneur of the year
German Innovation Awards
Financial Times
Top B2B Companies Global 2021
Tech Fast 500 EMEA
European Business Awards
Best Employer of 2020, 2021 & 2022
Best Employer Brand Adria 2021
EY Entrepreneur of the year
German Innovation Awards
Financial Times
Top B2B Companies Global 2021
Tech Fast 500 EMEA
European Business Awards
Best Employer of 2020, 2021 & 2022
Best Employer Brand Adria 2021
EY Entrepreneur of the year
German Innovation Awards
Our IT expertise
Augment your in-house team according to your needs. We offer:
Back-End Development
- PHP
- nodeJS
- .NET
- Java
- Python
Front-End Development
- React/Next
- Angular
- Flutter
- Vue
Mobile Application Development
- Flutter
- Swift
- Kotlin
Data / AI Development
- Python
- Spark
- R
- AWS
- PyTorch
- LlamaIndex
- LangChain
- LabelStudio
CMS Development
- WordPress
- Shopware
- Strapi
- Drupal
- Contentful
- Sanity
Product Design
- UX/UI design
- Digital product innovation
- Digital product management
Cloud Engineering
- Infrastructure as a Code
- CI/CD and Configuration Automation
- Cloud agnostic Scalability & Optimization
- Security Hardening
- Observability & Logging
Number 1 Employer for Three Consecutive Years
Our employees have spoken and brought us the most prestigious regional award for employers for the third year in a row.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is staff augmentation?
Staff augmentation is a service that allows you to add skilled professionals to your existing teams on a temporary or long-term basis. This model helps you quickly scale your workforce, access specialized expertise, and maintain control over your project without the lengthy hiring process.
What types of projects are best suited for staff augmentation?
Our staff augmentation services are ideal for any type of product since the client takes the lead in project management. This flexibility allows you to leverage external talent while maintaining control over your project, ensuring alignment with your vision and goals.
What is the cost structure for your staff augmentation services?
Our staff augmentation services follow a Variable Pricing Model. This means that you pay for the actual time and materials used on the project, allowing for flexibility and adaptability in project scope and deliverables. Additionally, a cap can be defined to limit maximum costs, ensuring budget control and predictability. This model provides transparency and ensures you only pay for the resources you actually use.
How do you handle confidentiality and data security with augmented staff?
We take confidentiality and data security very seriously. All team members are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and adhere to industry-standard security protocols. Together with you, we work to align our security measures with your specific requirements, ensuring comprehensive protection of sensitive information. Additionally, we implement robust access controls and regular security training to ensure we stay current with best practices.
How do I manage staff augmentation?
All you need to do is maintain open and regular communication between your in-house and augmented staff and clearly define their roles, responsibilities, and expectations. We ensure seamless integration of our staff into your existing processes and company culture. Additionally, we provide the necessary resources, training, and support for our team, so you don’t have to worry about it.
Quality and Reliability
Clutch
Top 15 companies
Quality
ISO 9001:2015
Security
ISO 27001:2022
Privacy
ISO 27701:2019
AWS
AWS Certified
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