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QATestLab vs QAwerk

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QATestLab meets the conditions for Fast onboarding and Device lab coverage and Performance engineering; QAwerk meets the conditions for Embedded team model and Automation first. The catalog has Onboarding, Device lab only for QATestLab, and Client stages only for QAwerk. Neither publishes Certificates, Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA, Crowd tester pool, so the table cannot answer those.

Field by field

QATestLab and QAwerk compared on the fields published for every company in this catalog
FieldQATestLabQAwerk
HeadquartersStrovolos, CyprusKyiv, Ukraine
Delivery locationsCyprus, France, Poland, Ukraine, the UKUkraine
Team size501-1000 people51-200 people
Founded20052015
OwnershipIndependentIndependent
ServicesManual testing, Test automation, QA consulting, Performance testing, Usability testing, Compatibility testing, Localization testing, API testing, Penetration testing, Security testing, Acceptance testing, Accessibility testing, Blockchain testing, IoT and device testingMobile app testing, Penetration testing, AR/VR testing, Accessibility testing, Manual testing, Blockchain testing, Localization testing, Compliance testing, AI system testing, Compatibility testing, Test automation, API testing, Usability testing, Security testing, Acceptance testing, Performance testing
IndustriesMedia, Games, Ecommerce, Education, Travel, Healthcare, FintechGames, Automotive, SaaS, Fintech, Ecommerce, Education, Healthcare
FrameworksSalesforce, Selenium, Appium, Robot Framework, TestComplete, Apache JMeter, SoapUI, PostmanSelenium, Robot Framework, Appium, TestNG, JUnit
Engagement modelsManaged testing service, Staff augmentationProject work, Dedicated team
Client stagespublished by one of the twoNot publishedStartups
CertificatesNo certificate confirmed by a register entryNo certificate confirmed by a register entry
Signs a BAA / GDPR DPANot confirmed / Not confirmedNot confirmed / Not confirmed
Published rates
Minimum project$5,000clutch.co$10,000clutch.co
Onboardingpublished by one of the two3 daysqatestlab.comNot published
Crowd tester poolNot publishedNot published
Device labpublished by one of the two500 real devicesqatestlab.comNot published

Who each one fits

QATestLab's delivery footprint spans several countries, and its published services lean into that spread: localization testing and usability testing sit alongside industries such as travel and media, where a release can differ by market. QAwerk's footprint stays inside its home country, and its published services lean toward newer ground, AR/VR testing paired with industries such as automotive. A buyer arrives at this pair when a product is about to reach users somewhere a team's base already sits, or somewhere it does not.

The reach a buyer can actually count on stops where each in-house team already sits, and the page gives nothing to extend it with. A team sitting in a fixed set of countries verifies what that set of countries can reach: a language, a payment method, a carrier network, a device shape common there and rare elsewhere. Whether either company can put a person in front of the product where the end users actually live, on the operator and handset those users carry, is not answered here. Ask the vendor how it tests a market where its team has nobody sitting, then check the answer against the delivery locations already on the 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.

Both meet the conditions for Security focus, Nearshore for the EU, so those conditions do not separate them.

Where the data runs out

Completeness against the 14 fields of the comparison checklist is 79% for QATestLab and 86% for QAwerk. 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, Crowd tester pool. 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 QATestLab profile and the QAwerk profile.

Questions

Do the two companies' published profiles name the same engagement models?
QATestLab's published profile lists managed testing and staff augmentation as engagement models, checked 2 September 2026. QAwerk's published profile lists project-based work and a dedicated team model as engagement models, checked 2 September 2026. Neither list names a model that appears on the other. Which of the four shapes a buyer needs decides who carries day-to-day direction of the testers, and that question is settled before scope is ever discussed.
What device lab does each company's published profile report, if any?
QATestLab's published profile reports a device lab of 500 real devices, sourced from its homepage, checked 2 September 2026. QAwerk's published profile reports no device lab figure. A published count records how many handsets a vendor holds and not which models sit in the rack, so a buyer whose users carry a specific handset generation still has to name it and ask.

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.