Abstracta
Passionate testing creates engaging softwareAbstracta Overview
Abstracta is a leading, pure-play and independent software testing services company founded in 2008 with offices in California and Latin America. We offer testing consultancy services centered on building custom, dedicated testing teams. Our teams have the added value of being able to leverage all of Abstracta’s collective expertise from years of partnering with clients ranging from startups to enterprise-level companies in a wide array of industries including healthcare, technology, and e-commerce. The Abstracta advantage is based on our intense focus on human connection, research, and development, as well as the quality of the +100 testers who work closely with our clients, caring deeply about their success.
We have a proven track record for finding and applying the industry gold standard tools, practices, and strategies for each engagement while controlling risks and costs effectively.
Why Abstracta?
- Enjoy remote, same-time zone collaboration
- We’ve successfully completed over 400 projects
- We champion open source technologies to increase testing ROI
- Achieve more with less - We’ve teamed up with industry leaders to help enterprises make the switch to open source tools, helping to scale them for their needs
- Low employee turnover: 40% of our employees have been with the company for at least 4 years
- Leverage AI & Automation: We implement next-generation testing tools, leveraging AI and automation to reduce manual test efforts and increase coverage.
- Increase efficiency and obtain earlier feedback from testing
Resources:
- Explore our blog, filled with software testing insights
- Listen to Quality Sense, a software testing podcast by COO, Federico Toledo PhD
- View our company case studies
- Try our free mobile performance testing tool, Apptim
Abstracta's clients consist of some of the biggest brands in e-commerce, technology, healthcare, fintech, and more.
Some of our key clients:
AQUA DI PARMA
CA TECHNOLOGIES
BBVA
BENEFIT COSMETICS
GENEXUS USA
HEARTFLOW
PERNOD RICARD
PEDIDOSYA!
SHUTTERFLY
SANTANDER
THREADS


- Testing Services
- Medium Business($10M - $1B)
- Small Business(< $10M)
- Large Business(> $1B)
- Information Technology
- Financial & Payments
- Healthcare & Medical
- E-commerce
- Government
- Telecommunication
Abstracta Reviews
All you could ask from a services company
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
They have top-quality personnel. Extremely reliable. Very communicative and transparent.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
I can't think of anything.
Abstracta Professional Services - Highly Recommend
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
High level of professionalism and expertise.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
NA
Great results and a knowledgeable team
The Abstracta team has significantly improved our test coverage and eventual quality of product released.
Great value
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
The Experience they have
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
The service the gave us, was nothing but perfect
Great QA Testing Firm!
Dedication and Commitment
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Coverage
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
Automation capability.
Great Team!
Good service
Abstracta Executive Interview

We have a proven track record for finding and applying the industry gold standard tools, practices, and strategies for the context of each client while controlling risks and costs effectively. We’ve been thrilled to work with clients such as Shutterfly, Broadcom, Lodgify, and Singularity University.
My role as the CEO is to help steer the company towards its vision, which is to co-create world-class software and generate development in local communities in order to improve people’s quality of life. I work hands-on with all departments to ensure organizational success. My fellow co-founders and I are highly involved with the day-to-day and we remain close to the client projects, giving our input wherever needed.
In those early days, we saw a big need for more software testing services in our city, so we began to hire testers and work with clients in government and financial institutions. We’re passionate about software quality, knowledge sharing, and the power of technology to help improve lives. That is what I believe led us to where we are today, with six offices worldwide and over 100 testers.
Our testers are largely based in Uruguay and Chile, so the time zone alignment is quite favorable with our North American and European clients. Even before COVID-19 obliged us to, we learned how to be efficient in remote work and collaboration.
Unlike the larger outsourcing and consulting companies with a wide breadth of IT service offerings, we are purely focused on software testing. We believe that by specializing in testing, we are able to provide greater value, instead of trying to do everything for everyone. We are also tool agnostic, meaning that we will choose the best tool on the market for the context of our customers, without preference.
In order to stay specialized in testing, we realized that the world needs more and better software testers. So, to help widen the talent pool, we’ve created Abstracta Academy, global Meetup groups, and volunteer organizations that promote training in testing. The benefit of this for our clients is that we attract and develop some of the best talent, which in turn, means more passionate and engaged testers working with them. We’ve managed to create a ready-to-go talent pool for quick onboarding and flexible ramp-up for our clients.
Lastly, we place a heavy focus on developing our own software testing technology when needed which allows for greater flexibility and personalized solutions than our competitors. We have a team currently working on extending the capabilities of open source load testing tools, such as plugins for JMeter that have already been used by a major broadcasting company and other Fortune 500s.
The majority of our clients have extended the initial scope of work with us or signed on for a repeat engagement. We typically start with a 1-3 month-long engagement that helps the client get to know how we work and then enter an ongoing relationship from there.
I think why we have seen a high retention rate is due to the fact that we can adapt really well to our clients’ work culture, have state-of-the-art quality management systems (we’re ISO 9001 certified), and place great attention to customer success. Another reason is that we have earned a reputation for being reliable; 40% of our employees have worked with us for four years or more.
- Business goals and impact of user experience’s quality
- The budget allocated for testing
- Time constraints
- What types of testing are needed: functional, accessibility, usability, performance, security, etc. according to business goals and associated risks
- Number and complexity of functionalities the system has
- What is the impact of the system on the business and its end users (banking apps vs. healthcare apps vs videogames)
- Development team and practices (CI/CD, automation, coverage or unit testing or other layers, code quality, environments and data available for testing, etc.)
- Access to the source of truth (documentation, meetings with business analysts, users, product owners, etc.)
I'd say that most of our efforts today are concentrated on the end-to-end, while pushing our customers to shift testing left (testing earlier in the dev cycle) at a lower level in the architecture, starting with the APIs as soon as possible. This combination should produce the best strategy, but the proportions will depend on many factors.
We typically prefer to work in an Agile environment because we have seen tremendous benefits for teams that work in this fashion, where quality engineering practices can start from day one, catching issues sooner in development and learning quickly, continuously improving the way the team works together as well as the product. Agile methodologies help detect and eliminate errors when they are cheaper to fix. Not to mention, Agile fosters greater communication and collaboration, with our testers working side by side with the client.
We can offer an approach that is customized, when needed, as well as help with the transition to Agile if that is what the client seeks to accomplish.
To do so, you first have to understand the business context of the project: who are the end-users, what are their biggest risks, how often do they expect the product to be updated? What are the most critical functionalities? What factors of quality are most important? They could be functional suitability, performance, usability, etc.
- Documentation available
- Environments for testing
- Test data available
- Development processes and practices
- Methodologies, communication, and bonding of the team