Does either company's published hourly rate come with a stated floor?

Qualysec's published profile states a blended hourly rate of $25 to $49, sourced from its Clutch profile, checked 2 September 2026. SHIFT ASIA's published profile states a blended hourly rate topping out at $25 with no published minimum, sourced from its Clutch profile, checked 3 September 2026. A buyer comparing the two on price alone is comparing a bounded range against a ceiling with no bottom. Ask each vendor what the published figure excludes before treating it as comparable.

Is either company in this pair independently owned or part of a larger group?

Qualysec's published profile lists it as an independent company, checked 2 September 2026. SHIFT ASIA's published profile lists it as a subsidiary of a larger firm, checked 3 September 2026. A subsidiary can draw on a parent's resources and reporting lines in ways a published profile does not itemize. The catalog does not name the parent or describe what it controls.

Qualysec vs SHIFT ASIA

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Qualysec meets none that SHIFT ASIA does not; SHIFT ASIA meets the conditions for Automation first and Performance engineering. The catalog has Client stages only for Qualysec, and Certificates only for SHIFT ASIA. Neither publishes Frameworks, Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA, Onboarding, Crowd tester pool, Device lab, so the table cannot answer those.

Field by field

Qualysec and SHIFT ASIA compared on the fields published for every company in this catalog
Field	Qualysec	SHIFT ASIA
Headquarters	Bhubaneswar, India	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Delivery locations	India	Vietnam
Team size	51-200 people	501-1000 people
Founded	2020	2016
Ownership	Independent	Subsidiary
Services	Penetration testing, API testing, Red teaming, Secure code review, Security testing	Manual testing, Test automation, Performance testing, Security testing, Usability testing, QA consulting
Industries	Medical devices, Education, Energy and utilities, Fintech, Healthcare, SaaS, Ecommerce, Public sector, Telecom	Education
Frameworks	Not published	Not published
Engagement models	Managed testing service, On-demand testing	Staff augmentation
Client stagespublished by one of the two	Startups, Enterprises	Not published
Certificates	No certificate confirmed by a register entry	ISO/IEC 27001register entry
Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA	Not confirmed / Not confirmed	Not confirmed / Not confirmed
Published rates	Blended $25-49/hclutch.co	Blended up to $25/hclutch.co
Minimum project	$1,000clutch.co	$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

Buying a test plan and buying test execution are different purchases, and the difference shows up in the first week rather than in the contract. Qualysec's published work is security assessment: an application, a boundary, a report. That is an engagement a buyer commissions after already deciding what needs examining. SHIFT ASIA's published work covers the broader run of software quality, where deciding what to check is part of the job as often as carrying it out.

Which of those arrivals SHIFT ASIA's practice is shaped around is what a buyer cannot read here. A vendor accustomed to clients who staff their own quality function turns up expecting requirements, executes them, and charges for execution. A vendor accustomed to clients without such a function drafts the requirements first and answers for what they leave out. Those are unlike engagements wearing the same job title, and a buyer with nobody in-house to author a plan who hires on the wrong assumption learns it on the day work was meant to start. Ask on the first call who drafts the test plan and who signs off on scope, then check the answer against whatever the client stage field eventually records.

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.

SHIFT ASIA

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 Qualysec and 79% for SHIFT ASIA. 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: Frameworks, 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 Qualysec profile and the SHIFT ASIA profile.

Questions

Does either company's published hourly rate come with a stated floor?: Qualysec's published profile states a blended hourly rate of $25 to $49, sourced from its Clutch profile, checked 2 September 2026. SHIFT ASIA's published profile states a blended hourly rate topping out at $25 with no published minimum, sourced from its Clutch profile, checked 3 September 2026. A buyer comparing the two on price alone is comparing a bounded range against a ceiling with no bottom. Ask each vendor what the published figure excludes before treating it as comparable.
Is either company in this pair independently owned or part of a larger group?: Qualysec's published profile lists it as an independent company, checked 2 September 2026. SHIFT ASIA's published profile lists it as a subsidiary of a larger firm, checked 3 September 2026. A subsidiary can draw on a parent's resources and reporting lines in ways a published profile does not itemize. The catalog does not name the parent or describe what it controls.

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.