South helps growing companies find, hire, and pay top Latin American talent. Build high-performing teams in 21 days or less.
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A QA Tester executes manual and exploratory tests against software releases: writing test cases, running them across browsers and devices, filing bugs with reproducible steps, regression testing, and validating fixes. They are the safety net for shipped quality and often the first to feel a sloppy release.
Hiring a QA Tester in the U.S. is significantly more expensive than in Latin America, with an average U.S. salary of $7,400 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $2,500 per month, creating potential savings of up to 66%. Working with South gives you access to a vetted pool of LatAm QA Testers on contracts that handle compliance and payroll, with same-time-zone collaboration.
Yes. Manual QA is remote-friendly when the team has solid bug tracking and screen recording habits. Latin American QA testers from SaaS and product companies handle U.S. release cycles in the same time zone. South contracts locally, runs compliance, and keeps them in your time zone.
Strong attention to detail, structured exploratory testing instincts, fluency writing reproducible bug reports, comfort with Jira and TestRail, plus working knowledge of mobile and cross-browser testing. Senior signal is the ability to write a bug ticket so clear that the dev fixes it in one round.
Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, Postman for API checks, Charles Proxy for network inspection, plus Slack or Teams for triage. Loom and Cleanshot for bug recordings.
A QA Tester runs manual and exploratory testing. A QA Engineer focuses on automation. Both roles co-exist in mature teams. The Tester title typically implies less coding and more product-feel work.
South vets LatAm QA testers with structured testing exercises, bug-writing tests, and reviews of past test case libraries. You see a shortlist in seven to ten days, run your own interviews, and onboard in one to two weeks. Schedule a free call here to get started!
The region has the perfect mix of everything you want in remote employees: English skills, shared time zones, hard-working, and depth of talent. They are already accustomed to working remotely for top US startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Absolutely! The US and Latin America have basically the same time zones. No Latin American city is more than two hours ahead of EST.
Every hire is sourced based on your exact needs. They will arrive ready to support your business right away. They can do basically any tasks done remotely, but we recommend starting them as support so your team has more bandwidth for high-value strategic tasks.
All types of roles - customer service, executive assistant, sales, accounting, email marketing, lead generation, content writers, operations, social media marketing, and more!
You can pay directly through us (most popular) or we can connect you with one of our payroll partners.
You don't have to deal with any American labor laws / taxes when hiring full-time remote contractors. They aren't US-based, so no visas or sponsorships to deal with either.
We recommend market pay which varies for each role. See our salary guide and success stories for some ideas.
Then, we have two different models:
Staffing (most popular) - We charge a small monthly fee for each employee's monthly salary to make the process hassle-free. The fee covers sourcing, recruiting, admin, payroll, compliance, ongoing support, and a free replacement if necessary at any point. There are no cancellation fees or minimum commitments. You only pay if you make a hire.
Headhunting - A one-time simple fee once we've found the perfect candidate. This comes with a 120-day replacement guarantee.
For both options, you only pay something if we find you someone great that you want to hire.
Yes, we only recruit for full-time and we strongly recommend full-time hiring if you can. Stability (full-time & long-term) is highly sought after abroad. The top caliber candidates are only looking for full-time work.
You're also going to spend time training and getting them up to speed on your processes. It would be a waste to do that over and over again with new people all the time.
We recommend training new hires on one thing at a time.
For example, once they get up to speed on lead generation, you can add the next role writing blog posts or whatever you'd like. You can definitely overlap roles until you have enough work for multiple people.
The cost of living is much less in Latin American countries. Many of our employees are able to own homes, raise families, provide for their parents, and have in-home help of their own with their salaries.
If you aren't happy with your hire in the first 120 days, we will work with you to conduct a second round of search for the same role for free.
Just email us at Hello@HireInSouth.com and we will get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.
