# How Autotrader uses QA Wolf

**$600K+/year**: “Offset the need to hire six QA engineers, saving $600K+/year.”

As published on [qawolf.com](https://www.qawolf.com/customers/autotrader). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [Autotrader](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/autotrader.md)
- Tool: [QA Wolf](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/qa-wolf.md)
- Industry: [Marketplace](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/marketplace.md)
- Teams: Engineering, Customer Support

## What the story says

AutoTrader uses QA Wolf to build, run and maintain an end-to-end automated test suite for its dealership CRM products. This replaced manual testing that had been done by customer support staff and let engineering release features faster without regressions.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of QA Wolf and Autotrader, not ours.

> QA Wolf built, runs, and maintains a test suite that AutoTrader would need six full-time QA engineers and QA managers to support internally, freeing up resources that can be used for product engineering and deliver even more value to customers.

- **1,000 hours per year**: “Returned more than 1,000 hours per year to the customer support team, saving $20,000/year.”
- **15–20%**: “Increased release velocity 15–20%.”
- **15 minutes**: “Reduced QA cycles from 3+ days to 15 minutes.”
- **$20,000**: “we’ve returned more than 1,000 hours per year to that team—the equivalent of $20,000 in misallocated salary.”

> Some projects were even called “eternal projects.” Developers would move on to other projects before the testers could go over everything. Sometimes features would lay around for four months before they were released. It was making developers really unhappy, and slowing down our business strategy.
>
> Jocelyn Deslauriers, VP of Engineering

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure $600K+/year is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Autotrader.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Autotrader.
- Checked: Autotrader uses QA Wolf. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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