a1qa vs QAlified
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Field by field
| Field | a1qa | QAlified |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Decatur, the USA | Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Delivery locations | the USA, the UK, Poland, Georgia, Bangladesh, Mexico | Uruguay, the USA |
| Team size | 1000 or more people | 11-50 people |
| Founded | 2003 | 1992 |
| Ownership | Independent | Subsidiary |
| Services | Manual testing, Test automation, Performance testing, Security testing, Accessibility testing, Compatibility testing, API testing, Localization testing, Usability testing, Acceptance testing, QA consulting | Manual testing, Test automation, Performance testing, Security testing, Usability testing, Accessibility testing, Mobile app testing |
| Industries | Banking, Telecom, Media, Travel, Ecommerce, Insurance, Healthcare, Games, Education | Banking, Ecommerce, Public sector, Healthcare |
| Frameworks | Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Appium, Apache JMeter, Postman, Cucumber, k6, REST Assured, TestComplete, Katalon, SoapUI | Postman, SoapUI |
| Engagement models | Staff augmentation, Dedicated team, Managed testing service, Project work | Managed testing service, Project work |
| Client stagespublished by one of the two | Enterprises | Not published |
| Certificates | No certificate confirmed by a register entry | No certificate confirmed by a register entry |
| Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA | Not confirmed / Not confirmed | Not confirmed / Not confirmed |
| Published rates |
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| Minimum projectpublished by one of the two | $10,000clutch.co | Not published |
| Onboarding | Not published | Not published |
| Crowd tester pool | Not published | Not published |
| Device lab | Not published | Not published |
Who each one fits
a1qa fits a buyer whose test scope moves across several layers within the same engagement, since its published framework list covers browser, API, performance, and mobile tooling together. A team already committed to a particular open-source stack has a reasonable chance of finding it already supported there. a1qa's industry list also spans regulated and consumer-facing sectors alike, which suits a buyer who expects the same vendor to carry work across more than a narrow part of its business.
QAlified suits a narrower brief. Its published frameworks concentrate on API-level tooling, so a buyer whose engagement centers on UI or mobile work should ask directly what QAlified would staff onto that layer before assuming it matches a1qa's range. Its industry list is shorter and more concentrated, so a buyer outside its published sectors gets a thinner signal from the list and should confirm relevant experience directly before relying on it. On the first call, ask each vendor which frameworks and industries a prospective project would actually draw on, then check the answer against the frameworks and industries fields on each profile.
A tag is attached when the company's published fields meet its condition, never by judgement. Both lists come from the same closed vocabulary, so a tag missing from one side means the condition was not met, not that nobody looked.
QAlified
QAlified meets no applicability condition in this catalog. That is a statement about what its published fields show, not about the company.
Both meet the conditions for Automation first, Nearshore for the USA, so those conditions do not separate them.
Where the data runs out
Completeness against the 14 fields of the comparison checklist is 86% for a1qa and 79% for QAlified. A field is counted as filled when a source confirms it, so a gap means nobody published it.
Neither company has a value recorded for these fields: Certificates, Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA, Onboarding, Crowd tester pool, Device lab. The table shows those rows empty rather than estimating them.
Field definitions and the completeness checklist are on the methodology page. The sources behind each field are listed on the a1qa profile and the QAlified profile.
Questions
- How many testing frameworks does each of a1qa and QAlified list in its profile?
- a1qa's profile lists 13 testing frameworks, spanning browser, API, load, and mobile automation tools. QAlified's profile lists 2, Postman and SoapUI, both used for API testing. That gap in count reflects how many tools each company's public profile names, not how deep either team's expertise runs on any one of them.
- Which industries do a1qa and QAlified name in their published client experience?
- a1qa's profile names 9 industries, including Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Media, Travel, and Games. QAlified's profile names 4, Banking, Ecommerce, Public sector, and Healthcare. A buyer outside every one of those names still gets no signal from the field either way, because the catalog records only industries a source has confirmed, not sectors either company has simply not been asked about.
Published by QA RatingUpdated on September 6, 2026
Every fact about a company comes from a listed source. A field without a source stays empty. A certificate counts as confirmed only when a registry, certificate or auditor report backs it; a certificate the company only claims about itself is published separately, under that label. Vendors can request a correction at hello@qa-rating.com. A correction is applied when it comes with a public source.