Testers are mostly a labor commodity. Seems like the body shop contracting agencies and big offshore firms (Wipro, TCS, etc.) have this market cornered. Any p

Testers are mostly a labor commodity. Seems like the body shop contracting agencies and big offshore firms (Wipro, TCS, etc.) have this market cornered. Any potential client who really values having a dedicated testing team will build up the domain knowledge in house rather than re-educate freelancers over and over, or require the body shop to build that knowledge base and do that training for them when bringing on a new tester. And how often do you really need just one tester? What are you going to do, bring in 10 different freelancers? Freelancers need to wear more hats than just "tester".