About this site

Who publishes it

qa-outsourcing-companies.com is published by Erik Smith, Lead Market Analyst & Founder. The publisher writes the ranking and the guides, collects the data, and answers for corrections.

How it is funded

The site has no funding. There are no ads, no affiliate links, no sponsored placements and no paid listings. Costs are the domain and hosting, paid by the publisher.

No vendor paid for inclusion, position or coverage, and no vendor saw the methodology before publication. The domain, hosting, repository, analytics and mail accounts belong to the publisher and do not overlap with any company in the ranking.

How vendors are selected

1. A candidate list is compiled before any scoring: companies named by the publisher plus companies that appear in search results for the category query.
2. Public data is collected for every candidate with the same instruction and the same source list: the company site, Clutch, G2, GoodFirms, certification registries and published case studies. Material provided privately by a vendor is not used.
3. The 12 companies with the most complete public record across all eight dimensions enter the ranking. A company with gaps in more than two dimensions is excluded regardless of its size or reputation.
4. Each company is scored 0-100 on each dimension against a published scale. The total is computed from the fixed weights. Nobody sets the total by hand. Weights and scales are on the methodology page.

How it is updated

Every fact carries the date it was checked. Review counts, ratings and certifications are re-checked when the page is updated; the date at the top of the ranking and in the footer is the last full pass. Corrections sent through the contact page are applied between full passes and noted on the page.