How Contract-to-Hire Helped a Real Money Gaming Company Build a High-Performance QA Team
A leading real-money gaming company used QAINfinity’s Contract-to-Hire model to build a high-performing QA team. We placed 11 vetted QA engineers, trained them continuously, and all 11 were later converted to the client’s payroll. This approach removed hiring risk, improved performance, and built long-term trust.
11/24/20252 min read
Hiring for a high-velocity domain like real-money gaming is challenging. Releases are fast, and quality issues can immediately impact revenue. Hiring the wrong talent creates delays, instability, and extra cost—a risk that rapidly scaling companies simply cannot afford. One such gaming platform needed to scale its technical team quickly without the financial and operational risk of making incorrect, permanent hires.
The Challenge: Speed vs. Certainty
The client required a strong, reliable Quality Assurance (QA) team but was hesitant to commit to full-time hires until they were absolutely confident in several key areas:
Technical Depth: The ability to handle complex, gaming-specific testing scenarios.
Ownership and Work Discipline: Reliability in a high-stakes environment.
Cultural Fit: Seamless integration with their existing fast-paced culture.
Traditional hiring felt slow and risky. They needed a model that prioritized demonstrable performance over interview impressions.
QAINfinity's Structured Contract-to-Hire Solution
QAINfinity stepped in with our structured Contract-to-Hire model to de-risk their staffing. We proposed a process where the client could assess fit and performance in a real-project environment before any long-term commitment.
From our vetted talent pool, the client shortlisted and onboarded 11 technical professionals. To guarantee success and alignment during the contract period, QAINfinity added two critical support layers:
1. Continuous Feedback and Alignment We maintained regular, detailed feedback loops with the client's leadership. This input helped us continuously assess performance gaps, technical expectations, and process alignment specific to real-money gaming QA flows.
2. Real-Time Upskilling and Training Based on the feedback, we provided ongoing, targeted training to every candidate. This included upskilling on product functionality, release process discipline, technical improvements, and efficient defect reporting—keeping all engineers improving and integrating in real-time.
The Outcome: Performance-Driven Commitment
The impact of focusing on performance over prediction was clear. All 11 QA professionals exceeded expectations during the contract period and were successfully converted to the client's full-time payroll.
Zero hiring risk for the client.
Faster team scaling with predictable performance.
No backfilling or re-hiring costs were incurred.
The Contract-to-Hire model proved that seeing real-world performance is the safest path to commitment.
A wrong hire can cost an organization up to 30% of the employee’s first-year salary. With QAINfinity’s approach, companies only commit after seeing a candidate’s capabilities in action, making hiring safer, faster, and more reliable.