Qualitest, the leading AI-powered quality engineering company, was identified as a Market Leader in NelsonHall’s NEAT 2023 vendor evaluation for the Quality Engineering Report. Qualitest was named a Leader across all six categories marking it as an overall market leader:
- RPA-Based Test Automation
- AI-Based Analytics and Automation
- Application Security Testing
- Cloud Migration Testing
- ERP and COTS Testing
- UX Testing.
NelsonHall’s NEAT 2023 Quality Engineering Report defines a Leader as vendors that exhibit both a high ability relative to their peers to deliver immediate benefit and a high capability relative to their peers to meet client future requirements.”
As NelsonHall reports: under the ownership of Bridgepoint, Qualitest has quickly transformed its portfolio. The transformation is visible primarily in automation and AI, where Qualitest has clear strengths. The company has strengthened its service portfolio in many aspects; this investment has taken the form of specific IPs and specialized services in areas such as COTS testing, application security testing, application migration testing, and UX testing.
NelsonHall evaluates six quality engineering categories:
- AI-based analytics for more focused testing and AI-based automation (usually for automating the creation and maintenance of test cases/scripts)
NelsonHall reported that AI-based analytics are definitively one of the strongest areas of Qualitest, with systematic investments. The company has gone beyond common use cases such as test case optimization, defect triaging, and test impact analysis to more selective ones such as requirement analysis, PII detection, security false positive triaging, and video frame content detection.
- Usage of RPA tools for functional testing
NelsonHall reported that Qualitest has a differentiated offering by being able to load its Qualiframe libraries to its UiPath-based framework.
- Application security testing
NelsonHall reported that Qualitest goes beyond a pure expert-based offering and has introduced AI for false-positive analysis.
- UX testing across usability, compatibility, end-user performance, accessibility, and content testing
NelsonHall reported Qualitest has revamped its service portfolio around crowdtesting (and its InterACTIVE meta platform, which integrates with those of crowdtesting pure-plays), accessibility, and localization testing. We welcome Qualitest’s efforts in creating a platform approach to the highly tool-fragmented UX testing space.
- Application migration to the cloud testing
NelsonHall reported that Qualitest has progressed well in this area, with benchmarks (around functional, performance, SEO, and accessibility testing) and API testing (reading through the API definitions to generate test scripts). It has also expanded to the cloud infrastructure area, with IAC validating configuration files and provisioned environments.
- Enterprise applications/SAP testing
NelsonHall reported that Qualitest has specialized its COTS testing portfolio toward application integration, focusing on the data layer, with automation at its core.
- Overall, NelsonHall reported a very positive outlook for Qualitest, commenting, “We expect Qualitest to continue to deepen its portfolio: We think AI-based automation, with the intention of automating the creation of test scripts, is the priority. AI-based automation bears the prospect of a true paradigm shift in the QA industry, something that has not happened since the creation of Mercury Software.”
With over 8,500 employees and over 500 blue-chip customers worldwide, Qualitest brings quality engineering solutions, such as test automation and digital assurance, to the global market. The company is constantly expanding and has completed six strategic acquisitions in the last two years.
“Qualitest is in investment mode with plans to reach $1bn in revenues in the next three years. The company is investing in its service portfolio, for example, around continuous testing and automation overall. Qualitest has also made significant progress in AI”, said Dominique Raviart, IT Services Practice Manager at NelsonHall. “Qualitest is also expanding its delivery network globally onshore, and further strengthening in India, which remains the place-to-be in QE for accelerating innovation and delivering services at the right costs”, he added.
“Qualitest will continue to grow and expand on a global level while maintaining high standards,” said Anbu Muppidathi, CEO of Qualitest. “Our priority has always been excellent service and delivery for our current and future clients. We are constantly evolving our offerings to ensure we are at the forefront of the technologies needed to succeed in business today.”
About NelsonHall
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About Qualitest
Founded in 1997, Qualitest offers a wide range of AI-powered quality engineering solutions designed to mitigate the business risk associated with digital adoption. Qualitest achieves this by deploying engagement models tailored to the precise quality engineering needs of technology platforms in the healthcare and life sciences, BFSI (banking, financial services, and insurance), retail and consumer goods, media and entertainment, energy and utilities, technology, manufacturing, and public sector verticals. It has operations in the US, UK, Israel, India, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Argentina, Mexico, Switzerland, and Madagascar and serves over 500 blue-chip customers worldwide. Qualitest is majority-owned by international private equity group Bridgepoint.
