QAlified vs Software Secured
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Field by field
| Field | QAlified | Software Secured |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Montevideo, Uruguay | Ottawa, Canada |
| Delivery locations | Uruguay, the USA | Canada |
| Team size | 11-50 people | 11-50 people |
| Founded | 1992 | 2010 |
| Ownership | Subsidiary | Independent |
| Services | Manual testing, Test automation, Performance testing, Security testing, Usability testing, Accessibility testing, Mobile app testing | Penetration testing, Secure code review, Red teaming |
| Industries | Banking, Ecommerce, Public sector, Healthcare | Healthcare, Banking, SaaS |
| Frameworkspublished by one of the two | Postman, SoapUI | Not published |
| Engagement models | Managed testing service, Project work | Managed testing service |
| Client stagespublished by one of the two | Not published | Scaleups |
| 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 ratespublished by one of the two |
| Not published |
| Minimum projectpublished by one of the two | Not published | $5,000clutch.co |
| Onboarding | Not published | Not published |
| Crowd tester pool | Not published | Not published |
| Device lab | Not published | Not published |
Who each one fits
QAlified's published practice spans most of a release, with security testing sitting alongside several other services a client calls in for. Software Secured's published practice narrows to offensive work such as penetration testing and red teaming, checks a security team returns to as the target system changes, with no natural point where the work is finished for good. A buyer reaches this pair when the same testing budget has to stretch across a broad release cycle and a security line that keeps recurring on its own schedule.
Because the offensive practice repeats, a buyer needs the unit the total is measured in before the total itself means much: an hour of tester time, or a testing cycle run each year against a moving target. Software Secured's profile carries no published rate, so a buyer reaches the first call without even that unit, and cannot line a quote up against an hourly figure quoted anywhere else. Ask on the call which of those units the quote uses, and check the answer later against whatever the profile eventually carries as a published rate.
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
Software Secured
Software Secured 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 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 79% for QAlified and 71% for Software Secured. 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 QAlified profile and the Software Secured profile.
Questions
- Where is each company's delivery footprint located, according to its published profile?
- QAlified's published profile lists Uruguay and the United States as delivery locations, checked 2 September 2026. Software Secured's published profile lists Canada as its only delivery location, checked 3 September 2026. The lists share no country, so a buyer needing work carried out inside a specific jurisdiction is choosing between the footprints rather than combining them.
- Does either company's published profile name a client stage it serves?
- Only Software Secured's published profile names a client stage, the scaleup band, checked 3 September 2026. QAlified's published profile names no client stage, checked 2 September 2026. A founder outside the scaleup band can ask Software Secured directly whether it takes on earlier-stage engagements.
Published by QA RatingUpdated on September 6, 2026
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