CTO at BRKFST
Jon Lopinot
Security Testing Services
Take control of your cyber risks with QA Madness as your testing partner. Build robust defenses for your software and empower your team through comprehensive testing, strategic security guidance, and proactive risk oversight.
Clients
Our specialists become full-fledged members of the clients’ teams soon after they join the projects. Each QA expert is as dedicated to your goals as you are. Our average retention on the QA software testing project is 3.5 years. Many clients have been working with our dedicated QA experts far more than that, and many choose to return with their new projects.
Security Testing Services Company
Partner with a technology security testing company that understands today’s threat landscape. Modern cyber risks demand smart, targeted defenses that actually work in the real world. At QA Madness, we’ve developed our own testing approach that focuses on genuine business risks—methods we’ve refined through years of hands-on experience. Our security professionals handle penetration testing, dive deep into source code reviews, hunt for vulnerabilities in mobile and web applications, guide you through cyber risk management, and much more.
Our Security Testing Services
Our cybersecurity offerings cover everything you need to protect your digital assets. We work with businesses to spot vulnerabilities, build stronger defenses, and create solid incident response plans. The cybersecurity team takes time to understand your product and internal processes, then develops a customized approach for finding, preventing, and handling cyber threats. Your security strategy might include one or more of these specialized services.
Penetration Testing
Think of penetration testing as hiring ethical hackers to attack your systems to see if real criminals can do it successfully. Our experts attempt to break into your network and exploit any weak spots they find, whether those gaps come from outdated technology, flawed processes, or human error. Our security assessment methodology builds on industry standards like the OWASP Testing Guide, OWASP Top 10, and other established frameworks. The security penetration testing services blend manual expertise with automated tools, making it much harder for critical vulnerabilities to slip through the cracks.
Secure Source Code Review
Sometimes called static code analysis, this service means having our experts examine your software’s source code directly. It’s like having a security-focused editor review every line of your code to catch problems before they become real threats. Cybersecurity professionals look for authentication flaws, authorization issues, hardcoded passwords, buffer overflows, and other common security mistakes. By trying to break your code and manipulate data, the experts find the weak points and provide clear solutions for fixing them
Web Application Security Testing
Web application security testing goes beyond just looking for technical bugs. We also check for business logic flaws that could be exploited. By understanding the vulnerabilities specific to your app, we help ensure it is built and configured with security in mind. Web application security testing services help you catch and fix these issues early—during development or when nothing threatens your business yet. This significantly reduces the risk of breaches and other cyber threats down the road.
Mobile Applications Security Testing
With people spending so much time on their phones, mobile app security can’t be an afterthought. Our experts protect your products through a variety of mobile application security testing services, from common mobile-specific threats through static analysis, penetration testing, and thorough authentication checks. Addressing mobile security early builds confidence in your product and business performance. It saves you both money and headaches later, while keeping your users’ data safe.
API Security Testing
APIs are invisible connectors that let different software systems talk to each other. They link your internal systems with third-party services, making them essential—and potentially vulnerable—parts of your digital infrastructure. Since so much depends on APIs working securely, mobile and web service API security testing becomes crucial. Our team has the tools and expertise to do this effectively, giving you confidence in your digital products and services.
IoT Security Testing
Our IoT security testing services examine connected devices, communication protocols, and backend systems to identify vulnerabilities in your IoT infrastructure. We evaluate device authentication, data encryption, firmware security, and network communications while understanding the constraints of IoT devices like limited processing power and memory. The security team also examines how IoT devices interact with other systems in your network, ensuring that a compromised device can't become a gateway for broader network attacks.
Cloud Security Services
Cloud security and testing services evaluate your cloud architecture, configurations, and access controls to identify potential vulnerabilities and compliance gaps. We examine cloud-specific risks such as misconfigured storage buckets, inadequate identity and access management, insecure APIs, shared responsibility model gaps, and more. Our team assesses auto-scaling configurations, container security, serverless function vulnerabilities, and cloud-native application architectures. This includes testing backup and disaster recovery procedures, data encryption practices, and compliance with industry standards relevant to your cloud deployment.
Cyber Risk Management
Effective cyber risk management starts with understanding where you stand today. Our cybersecurity experts conduct thorough assessments of your software, processes, and overall security posture. We analyze your cyber risks, identify threats, and map out vulnerabilities, then define your current position in the digital landscape. From there, we create a personalized strategy for responding to cyber threats and minimizing their impact. Through comprehensive audits and security evaluations, we develop a practical roadmap that helps your team build better protection, reduce risks, and limit potential losses.
Cybersecurity Consulting
Our cybersecurity consulting focuses on creating actionable plans, procedures, and tools for rapid incident response. We develop security recommendations that work for everyone in your organization, from technical staff to executives. To create these recommendations, our team assesses the risks of business disruption, outlines practical cyber risk management procedures, and prepares detailed response plans. We provide clear instructions that help your organization react quickly and effectively when security incidents occur.
When to Use Cybersecurity Services
Cybersecurity is never about cleaning up after an attack. That’s the approach you want to avoid. Dealing with the aftermath of a security incident is costly, time-consuming, and damaging to your reputation. Smart businesses prevent these problems before they happen—through application security testing services, consulting, and so on. It’s best to make cybersecurity a proactive part of your operations, or at least include it in your business operations in the following cases.
Software Launch
Security testing is essential before any digital product or service goes live. New systems almost always have flaws—it’s just the nature of software development. Testing your software for vulnerabilities before launch helps you fix problems while it’s still easy to do.Significant Changes
The more code you modify, the higher the chance of introducing new bugs. Even if your system was rock-solid before an update, major changes can create unexpected vulnerabilities. Running security tests after each significant update helps you catch these issues early.New Integrations
Adding new systems or software to your existing setup increases security risks. The same applies when you start working with new third-party vendors. You need to verify that these new components don’t create any security gaps in your systems and related risks.System Updates
Security testing becomes critical after patches, infrastructure expansions, software and hardware upgrades, and company mergers. All these changes have the potential to introduce new vulnerabilities or weaken existing security measures.Regulatory Changes
When regulations or compliance requirements change, additional testing is essential. Businesses must stay compliant and adjust their security measures accordingly. This means updating your systems, revising your risk management approach, or both.Preventive Checks
Regular security audits should be part of your business continuity planning. You don’t need a specific trigger to run security checks. The best strategy for staying protected is scheduling comprehensive security reviews on a regular basis, typically once a year.Software Security Testing Services Benefits
Security testing as a service delivers wide-ranging advantages for your business. Beyond protecting against threats, it helps you meet regulatory requirements, protect sensitive information, keep customers safe, and maintain smooth operations. When you work with a reliable security testing service provider, you gain peace of mind, earn greater customer trust, and see improved business results across the board.
Safety
At its core, cybersecurity testing finds and fixes weak spots in your systems, strengthening the safety of your software and your organization. You end up with much better protection against all types of security incidents.
Stability
Finding, reducing, and managing cyber risks helps keep your business running smoothly. It prevents operational disruptions, maintains productivity levels, and enables quick responses when threats do appear.
Credibility
Strong cyber defenses protect sensitive information from unauthorized access, data breaches, and leaks. Genuine commitment to digital safety will position your company and products as trustworthy among users and partners.
Competitiveness
Quality sets tech companies apart from their competition. Organizations that make cybersecurity a priority, respect customer privacy, and implement solid security measures create clear advantages over competitors who don’t.
Compliance
Working with cybersecurity compliance experts ensures you stay current with evolving industry regulations. This approach helps you avoid potential incidents, costly fines, legal troubles, and damage to your reputation.
Cost Savings
Prevention always costs less than dealing with problems after they happen. Ongoing monitoring and systematic testing catch errors early, helping you avoid issues that could turn into expensive security threats later.
Let’s Start a New Project Together
QA Madness helps tech companies strengthen their in-house teams by staffing dedicated manual and automated testing experts.
Expertise
When you outsource your cybersecurity needs to QA Madness, you gain access to seasoned professionals who know the security landscape inside and out. Our certified ethical hackers and security analysts bring deep knowledge and hands-on expertise to tackle cyber threats and vulnerabilities, no matter how complex. The combination of proven industry practices with real-world experience turns into web services security testing, mobile app security testing services, and more—all to examine your situation and create a security solution that fits your business perfectly.
Platforms
- WEB APPLICATION TESTING
- MOBILE APPLICATION TESTING
- DESKTOP APPLICATION TESTING
- API/SDK TESTING
- WEARABLES TESTING
- ERP/CRM TESTING
Why Choose QA Madness as Your Security Testing Company
Our application security testing as a service relies on a methodology we’ve developed through years of hands-on experience. With relevant strategies, modern tools, and meticulous analysis of your case, we take a sharp focus on real business risks. Choosing QA Madness as your security testing company comes with a number of other benefits.
Responsibility
You get straightforward, honest guidance from our first conversation through the completion of your cybersecurity assessment. We pay close attention to your requirements and stay fully committed to meeting deadlines.
Adaptability
We suggest flexible service offers with multiple cooperation options tailored to your needs. You choose the combination of cybersecurity procedures, communication methods, and specialists with the exact expertise you’re looking for.
Personalization
Every engagement features customized expert selection and a security strategy built for you. While we can recommend the best mix of services and skills, you maintain control over specialist selection and strategy approval.
Commitment
The cybersecurity professionals, regardless of their roles, are fully engaged in your project from day one. Our experts integrate with your internal team, adapt quickly to your processes, and align with your business objectives.
Expertise
We offer a full range of cybersecurity services, from penetration testing to consulting and team training. Within one company, you can find professionals with the skill sets you need, specializing across various industries and technologies.
Support
Our cybersecurity experts don’t disappear after delivering your reports. They provide practical advice, can oversee implementation when needed, help with education and ongoing knowledge support, and stay proactive along the way.
Our Featured QA & Testing Projects
Quality Assurance Setup and Testing for Mobile Gaming & NFT Platform
The client was looking for a QA engineer with experience in mobile testing and knowledge of the gaming industry. They had a new and custom platform and needed to set up the QA process from scratch: define the coverage, prepare documentation, and integrate testing into the workflow.
QA Process Setup and Testing for the Meeting Platform
The product was live, but the QA process was chaotic – without a clear flow or software testing specialists involved. The client sought an external audit and process setup so that other team members wouldn’t have to test the platform and severe defects wouldn’t slip to production.
Quick QA Team Scaling for Supply Chain Software Company
The company needed to expand its QA department rapidly during hypergrowth. They had high standards regarding the candidate requirements and an extensive list of responsibilities for the new team members. The main challenge was getting the right expertise while scaling quickly and smoothly.
Full-time QA Support for the Marketing Platform Provider
The QA team joined a few months into the development. The platform was new and developed from scratch. Thus, it required thorough analysis at all test levels and vast coverage. The team worked under frequently changing requirements and needed to adjust the testing strategy accordingly.
Testing Process Setup for the Cancer Research Software
The client develops innovative desktop software products in the healthcare domain. The QA engineers tested two of their projects – software that operates the laboratory devices. The company needed vast test coverage and consistent documentation standardized by their rules.
Testing of the Cloud-Based E-Commerce Solution
The company created a shipping storefront solution – a custom product that hasn’t been tested yet. The scope of tasks for QA engineers, in addition to running tests, included close analysis and the creation of a detailed functional checklist that would suit the first and subsequent test iteration.
Let’s Start a New Project Together
QA Madness helps tech companies strengthen their in-house teams by staffing dedicated manual and automated testing experts.
Security Testing Process
Our cybersecurity testing approach adapts to every particular request. Whether you seek penetration testing, source code review, cyber risk management, mobile application security testing, or other services, each has its own workflow. Yet, all our cybersecurity and QA services follow a core five-stage roadmap.
Planning
Understanding your situation and building a workable strategy.
The planning phase begins with our cybersecurity specialists learning about your software, team, and business operations. This knowledge helps them establish clear objectives and decide on the recommended app security testing services. With this foundation, our experts identify which systems and processes to examine, along with the methods (manual, automated security testing service, or a combination), the tools they’ll use, etc.
Our team takes time to understand your specific environment. It can include existing security measures, compliance requirements, business priorities, and more. A thorough assessment allows us to create a testing strategy that addresses your most critical vulnerabilities while working within your operational constraints. We also establish communication protocols and set realistic timelines that align with your project goals and business schedules.
Design
Building documentation and establishing the framework for testing.
This stage focuses on preparing everything we need for execution. Our cybersecurity team creates a detailed roadmap that outlines steps, resources, responsibilities, and timelines in a single strategy document. We develop specific test plans and activities that include, among other things, scenarios that simulate real-world attacks to uncover potential vulnerabilities.
The design phase also involves creating detailed test cases that cover various relevant attack vectors and threat scenarios. We prepare the testing environment and configure the necessary tools. A thorough preparation ensures that our testing activities will be comprehensive, efficient, and aligned with your security objectives.
Implementation
Carrying out cybersecurity activities according to the established plan.
This is where planning becomes action. Our cybersecurity experts execute the activities mapped out in the previous stages. The specialists use their chosen security testing tools and techniques to discover vulnerabilities, weaknesses, misconfigurations, and risks that could affect your system and organization.
Our team systematically works through each test scenario and documents findings as they emerge. Sometimes, the tactics can be adjusted based on what they discover (after your approval if the alterations are significant). We maintain clear communication with your team throughout this phase, providing regular updates on progress and any critical issues that require immediate attention.
Stabilization
Creating and executing the improvement strategy.
The stabilization stage focuses on addressing the discovered vulnerabilities. Our specialists share detailed reports and recommendations. Depending on your needs, our team can either oversee the implementation of security controls and measures, retest certain parts of the software, or provide you with a detailed plan for your internal team to execute.
This phase extends beyond simply providing recommendations. We work with your team to develop realistic implementation timelines and help prioritize fixes based on your resources and business requirements. We also help establish processes for maintaining security improvements over time.
Delivery
Finalizing the project and ensuring a successful handover.
The delivery phase marks the completion of our cybersecurity testing engagement. You have everything needed to move forward with confidence. Our team provides final documentation. It can include updated reports on findings and changes, detailed technical guides, executive summaries in simple language for stakeholders, etc.
We also conduct knowledge transfer sessions to ensure your team fully understands the findings, recommendations, and ongoing security practices. Our experts remain available for final questions and clarifications, helping you transition smoothly from our testing engagement to independent security management.
Clients About Us
"QA Madness has established a smooth workflow through effective communication. The team is trustworthy, efficient, and hardworking."
"Thanks to QA Madness’s efforts, we are able to resolve technical issues and keep our platforms optimized and bug-free."
CEO at Dexter Agency
Marc Uitterhoeve
"QA Madness was seriously professional. They listened to our needs and gave us the kind of work we expected. As a result of their efforts, we can locate a bug in the test environment, which prevents issues from entering production. I would recommend them, 100%."
COO at Bitbull Srl
Alessandro Ronchi
"They’ve always been very professional, prompt, and available when we needed them. We’ve never had any issues or needed to go back and teach them how to meet our standards."
VP at Isadora Agency
Alex Mathias
"QA Madness has significantly reduced the number of bugs and issues in our final products. They’ve also improved our internal processes."
Co-founder of Wezz E-Commerce
Jordi Dekker
"QA Madness generated extensive feedback that developers normally can’t see. We could never have gained this insight without their thorough functionality testing services. I appreciated how quickly they conducted testing despite the high volume of work it entails."
CEO at SupportDesk
Wouter Den Otter
"They are an extremely valuable part of our extended team, and I couldn’t ask for more from a project management standpoint. QA Madness team is extremely professional when it comes to sticking to estimates, scopes, and quotes."
Co-founder of Above The Fray Design, Inc.
Noah Oken-Berg
FAQ
Security testing raises practical questions: which services you need, how they integrate into your development workflow, and whether your industry or stack is covered. QA Madness security engineers answer the most common questions about penetration testing, mobile app security testing, enterprise application security assessments, CI/CD pipeline integration, and fintech and banking security testing. Each answer reflects real methodology - not generic definitions.
What is the difference between security testing and penetration testing?
Security testing is the broad practice of evaluating a software system for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, authentication flaws, and compliance gaps across web apps, mobile apps, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and source code. Penetration testing (also called pen testing or ethical hacking) is one specific technique within security testing – it simulates a real-world cyberattack to determine whether an attacker could successfully exploit identified weaknesses. QA Madness provides both as part of a comprehensive application security testing service, using OWASP Testing Guide and OWASP Top 10 as core methodology frameworks.
Do you provide enterprise application security testing services?
Yes. QA Madness delivers enterprise application security testing for complex, multi-tier systems including web applications, mobile apps, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and IoT environments. Enterprise engagements typically combine penetration testing, secure source code review, API security testing, and cyber risk management into a single coordinated assessment. Testing scope, methodology, and reporting are customized to the organization’s compliance requirements – including SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA-adjacent controls.
Can security testing be integrated into a CI/CD pipeline without slowing down releases?
Yes. Security testing can be embedded into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines) through a practice called DevSecOps – shifting security checks left into the development workflow rather than running them only before release. Automated security scans run on every code commit, flagging vulnerabilities before they reach staging. QA Madness designs CI/CD security testing strategies that balance coverage depth with pipeline speed, so security gates don’t become release bottlenecks.
Do you offer security testing services for fintech and banking applications?
Yes. QA Madness provides security testing for fintech and banking applications where payment flow integrity, data protection, and regulatory compliance are critical. This includes payment gateway security testing (Stripe, Braintree, and custom implementations), mobile banking app security testing, API security assessments for financial data exchanges, and validation of PCI-DSS adjacent controls. Testing methodology follows OWASP standards and is adapted to the specific threat model of financial software.
What does a QA security testing company actually do?
A QA security testing company identifies vulnerabilities in software before attackers can exploit them. This includes penetration testing (simulated attacks on networks, apps, and APIs), static code analysis (source code review for security flaws), dynamic application testing (evaluating running apps under attack conditions), mobile and web app security assessments, cloud configuration reviews, and cyber risk management. QA Madness operates as a dedicated security testing partner – not a tool vendor – meaning certified engineers design, execute, and report on every assessment, then remain available to support remediation.
Do your security testing services cover DDoS attack simulation and resilience testing?
Yes. QA Madness works with clients who need to validate their defenses against volumetric and application-layer DDoS attacks as part of a broader security assessment. DDoS resilience testing evaluates how systems behave under simulated high-traffic attack conditions, identifies single points of failure, and tests the effectiveness of rate limiting, load balancing, and failover configurations. This is typically scoped as part of a penetration testing or cyber risk management engagement.
How does mobile app security testing work?
Mobile application security testing evaluates iOS and Android apps for vulnerabilities specific to mobile environments – including insecure data storage, weak authentication, improper session handling, unencrypted network communications, and binary-level code vulnerabilities. Testing methodology follows the OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide (MSTG) and combines static analysis (examining the app’s code and binary), dynamic analysis (testing the running app under attack conditions), and network traffic interception. QA Madness covers both native and hybrid mobile apps, integrating mobile security assessments into the broader software development lifecycle.