QATestLab vs Qualysec
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Field by field
| Field | QATestLab | Qualysec |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Strovolos, Cyprus | Bhubaneswar, India |
| Delivery locations | Cyprus, France, Poland, Ukraine, the UK | India |
| Team size | 501-1000 people | 51-200 people |
| Founded | 2005 | 2020 |
| Ownership | Independent | Independent |
| Services | Manual 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 testing | Penetration testing, API testing, Red teaming, Secure code review, Security testing |
| Industries | Media, Games, Ecommerce, Education, Travel, Healthcare, Fintech | Medical devices, Education, Energy and utilities, Fintech, Healthcare, SaaS, Ecommerce, Public sector, Telecom |
| Frameworkspublished by one of the two | Salesforce, Selenium, Appium, Robot Framework, TestComplete, Apache JMeter, SoapUI, Postman | Not published |
| Engagement models | Managed testing service, Staff augmentation | Managed testing service, On-demand testing |
| Client stagespublished by one of the two | Not published | Startups, Enterprises |
| 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 project | $5,000clutch.co | $1,000clutch.co |
| Onboardingpublished by one of the two | 3 daysqatestlab.com | Not published |
| Crowd tester pool | Not published | Not published |
| Device labpublished by one of the two | 500 real devicesqatestlab.com | Not published |
Who each one fits
QATestLab's published practice runs across the width of a QA program, pairing performance testing with security work inside the same catalog of services. Qualysec's published practice stays inside offensive security, penetration testing and red teaming making up its listed scope. A buyer choosing between them is choosing between a partner who folds a security check into a broader release process and a specialist retained for that check alone, and each engagement lands at a different point in a product's life.
A mobile application penetration test depends on the device underneath the app as much as on the code running inside it. On-device storage, certificate pinning, behavior under a rooted or jailbroken build, and bypasses aimed at checks that run on the client show up on real hardware in ways an emulator only partly reproduces, and some of those checks do not trigger on an emulator at all. Qualysec's published profile does not say what a mobile engagement actually runs against. A buyer commissioning that kind of assessment learns the answer from the delivered report rather than from the page, unless the question gets asked and answered before the engagement starts.
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.
Qualysec
Qualysec 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 Security focus, 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 79% for Qualysec. 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 Qualysec profile.
Questions
- When was each company founded, and does the gap between those years describe anything beyond an incorporation date?
- QATestLab was founded in 2005, checked 2 September 2026. Qualysec was founded in 2020, checked 2 September 2026. The distance between those two years marks only when each entity was incorporated. A service can enter a catalog long after the company itself was formed, so founding year says nothing about when either practice began offering what it lists today. A buyer treating founding year as a shortcut for how established a security practice is still needs to ask when penetration testing entered each company's service list, a date neither profile publishes.
- How does the published team size of each company compare, and what does that figure actually count?
- QATestLab's published profile places its team size in the 501-1000 employee band, checked 2 September 2026. Qualysec's published profile places its team size in the 51-200 employee band, checked 2 September 2026. Each band counts every person the company employs, regardless of role. Neither band breaks out how many of those people are testers assigned to a given engagement, so a buyer sizing the staff actually available for a project from headcount alone is reading a company total, not a specialist count, on either page.
Published by QA RatingUpdated on September 6, 2026
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