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iLAB and Testlio announce strategic partnership to deliver more comprehensive Software Quality Engineering services. July 14, 2026 At iLAB, Ilabquality believe that delivering exceptional software quality requires the right combination of people, process, and technology. As software ecosystems become increasingly complex - with AI applications, global users, accessibility requirements, and continuous delivery pipelines - organizations need partners that can address every dimension of quality. That's why Ilabquality is excited to announce a strategic partnership between iLAB and Testlio, bringing together two organizations with complementary strengths to deliver more comprehensive quality engineering solutions for enterprise and public sector organizations. Expanding what's possible in Software Quality. For more than 25 years, iLAB has helped Fortune 500 companies and government agencies reduce risk and improve software quality through independent Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Quality Engineering, automation, and enterprise testing services. Testlio complements those capabilities with an AI-powered global testing platform that provides specialized expertise in: * AI application testing * Real device testing * Accessibility testing * Localization testing * Payment testing * Global crowdtesting * Usability and customer experience validation Together, its organizations can now provide clients with a broader range of testing capabilities across the entire software development lifecycle - from enterprise applications and APIs to real-world user experiences across devices, languages, regions, and payment methods. A partnership built on complementary expertise. No single organization can be best at everything. Rather than duplicating capabilities, iLAB and Testlio have intentionally aligned services that strengthen one another. iLAB continues to lead complex enterprise quality initiatives, including: * Enterprise Quality Engineering * Test Automation * API Testing * Performance and Load Testing * Enterprise Application Testing * Independent Software Quality Assurance (SQA) * Quality Engineering Consulting Testlio extends those capabilities with specialized managed testing services that provide organizations access to global testing resources and real-world validation across hundreds of thousands of device configurations, payment methods, and international markets. The result is a more complete quality engineering ecosystem capable of supporting organizations as software delivery becomes faster, more distributed, and increasingly customer-centric. Helping clients deliver better software with confidence. This partnership creates immediate value for clients of both organizations. iLAB clients gain access to specialized testing capabilities that help validate software in real-world conditions - including localization, accessibility, AI behavior, payments, and mobile experiences at global scale. Likewise, Testlio clients can now leverage iLAB's extensive experience delivering enterprise quality engineering programs, automation strategies, performance testing, API validation, and quality governance for some of the world's largest and most complex technology initiatives. Together, Ilabquality is helping organizations solve testing challenges that extend far beyond traditional QA. Leadership perspectives. "At iLAB, our mission has always been to help clients deliver better software with confidence. Partnering with Testlio enables us to expand the services available to our clients while bringing iLAB's enterprise quality engineering expertise to organizations around the world. This partnership reflects our shared commitment to quality, innovation, and delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients." - Jethro Lloyd, CEO iLAB "We're excited to partner with iLAB, a recognized leader in enterprise software quality assurance and quality engineering. Together, we're combining complementary capabilities that allow both organizations to better serve our clients. By leveraging each other's strengths, we can deliver more comprehensive testing solutions that help organizations innovate faster while maintaining the highest standards of software quality." - Brad Goldstein, VP of Partnerships, Testlio Looking ahead. As organizations continue adopting AI, accelerating release cycles, and delivering software to increasingly global audiences, quality engineering must evolve alongside them. The partnership between iLAB and Testlio reflects a shared commitment to helping organizations build, test, and release software with greater speed, broader coverage, and higher confidence. By combining enterprise quality engineering expertise with global managed testing capabilities, Ilabquality is empowering clients to reduce risk, improve user experiences, and deliver software that performs reliably - wherever their users are. Ilabquality look forward to the opportunities this partnership creates and to delivering even greater value for its clients through its combined expertise. Interested in learning more about crowdsourced testing for your enterprise? Talk to its experts today! Frequently asked questions. What does the iLAB and Testlio partnership mean for customers? The partnership gives organizations access to a broader portfolio of software quality engineering services through two complementary providers. Clients benefit from expanded testing capabilities, deeper technical expertise, and flexible delivery models that support everything from enterprise applications to customer-facing digital experiences. What testing services does the partnership provide? Together, iLAB and Testlio offer a comprehensive range of quality engineering services, including: - Enterprise Software Quality Assurance (SQA) - Test Automation - API Testing - Performance and Load Testing - Enterprise Application Testing - AI Application Testing - Accessibility Testing - Localization Testing - Payment Testing - Real Device Testing - Crowdtesting and On-Demand Testing - Quality Engineering Consulting How is this partnership different from traditional software testing providers? Rather than relying on a single testing approach, the partnership combines iLAB's enterprise quality engineering expertise with Testlio's AI-powered managed testing platform and global network of professional testers. This enables organizations to validate software across enterprise systems, mobile devices, languages, payment methods, accessibility standards, and real-world user environments. What industries benefit most from this partnership? The combined capabilities are especially valuable for organizations with complex digital ecosystems, including government agencies, financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, and enterprise software providers. Any organization delivering mission-critical applications can benefit from expanded testing coverage and quality engineering expertise. Will existing iLAB customers work directly with Testlio? No. Existing iLAB clients will continue working with their trusted iLAB team. When specialized capabilities such as localization testing, accessibility testing, payment testing, AI testing, or large-scale real device testing are needed, iLAB can seamlessly incorporate Testlio's capabilities into the overall engagement. Why is global testing important? Today's applications are used across different countries, devices, browsers, languages, operating systems, and payment methods. Testing software in real-world conditions helps identify issues that traditional testing may miss, reducing production defects, and improving customer experience for users around the world. Organizations interested in learning how iLAB and Testlio can improve software quality, reduce delivery risk, and expand testing coverage can contact iLAB to discuss their quality engineering needs and identify the right testing strategy for their environment.

Testlio launches human-in-the-loop testing for AI agents. June 03, 2026 Testlio announced the launch of AI Agent Testing services. The offering integrates Testlio's human-in-the-loop (HITL) orchestration and proprietary AI-driven insights from 13+ years of QA expertise into agentic workflows. "Testlio is uniquely positioned for this moment, combining years of proven global payments testing with this new AI agent validation service," said Summer Weisberg, CEO at Testlio. "As enterprise AI agents evolve from handling simple customer queries to executing complex agentic payment workflows, where AI is granted digital wallets to independently authorize transactions, organizations need a partner that goes beyond automated simulation. They need access to humans with real, localized payment methods to act as a safety net, alongside experts specializing in AI agent evaluation. That's exactly what Testlio provides." Testlio's AI-certified global testing community validates agentic workflows in the unpredictable conditions where failures actually occur. Testlio solves the most critical financial, compliance, and brand safety challenges teams face today with their agentic workflows: - Agents fail across unpredictable real-world cases. Testlio's AI-certified testers run thousands of what-if scenarios to keep agents contextual and brands out of trouble. - Automation-only evaluations miss nuanced issues. Testlio's proprietary evaluation framework captures the subtle risks and behavioral issues that automation overlooks. - Agentic failures show up as quiet liabilities and policy violations. Testlio verifies data moves accurately between steps, catching critical leaks before customers do. - Companies that release fast are often at the highest risk of losing years of trust. Testlio matches rapid deployment cycles with high-velocity, real-time insights. All findings feed into LeoPulse(TM), Testlio's proprietary AI confidence score, which informs release decisions and serves as a benchmark and recommendation engine for measuring improvements over time. "Autonomous agents require an entirely new testing playbook," said Dean Hickman-Smith, CRO at Testlio. "The future of AI testing is not automation alone. It's AI combined with localized human judgment, real-world validation, and continuous feedback loops that enterprises can trust at scale." Industry news. June 03, 2026 Google DeepMind just launched Gemma 4 12B, its latest open model that shrinks highly advanced, multimodal AI down so developers can run it natively on a standard laptop. June 03, 2026 Testlio announced the launch of AI Agent Testing services. June 03, 2026 OpsGuru announced the launch of OpsGuru Agentic Delivery, an AI-native professional services model designed to deliver governed, production-grade AI outcomes for customers at fixed-fee pricing. June 03, 2026 Kosli announced a strategic partnership with Adaptavist to address the growing governance gap felt by enterprises as they increasingly pivot towards AI assisted software delivery. June 02, 2026 Postman announced the AI Engineer, a cloud-native AI agent that handles the full surface area of API work, from development, testing, and documentation to exploration and CI/CD integration. June 02, 2026 OutSystems announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver a powerful suite of enterprise AI capabilities. June 02, 2026 Harness and Sentry announced that Harness has acquired Codecov from Sentry. June 01, 2026 SmartBear announced a platform to unify property-based, OCR, and vision AI - expanding coverage, reducing risk, and perceiving applications the way humans do. June 01, 2026 Harness announced two new products: AI DLC Insights and Cloud & AI Cost Management. May 28, 2026 The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the release of the OpenMDW-1.1 license, an updated open license framework designed specifically for AI model distributions. May 28, 2026 IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers to help enterprises secure open source software. May 27, 2026 Detectify announced the launch of the Detectify MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, a new integration layer that brings Detectify's security testing engines directly into AI-driven development workflows, helping coding agents find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities and interpret attack surface data. May 26, 2026 Simplilearn announced the launch of its Cloud Computing and DevOps Certification Program in partnership with Virginia Tech. May 21, 2026 GitLab(link is external) released GitLab 19.0, expanding secrets management, agentic merge request workflows, CI pipeline visibility, self-hosted open source model support, and supply chain visibility.

Testlio launches human-in-the-loop testing for AI agents. June 3, 2026 New offering enables enterprise customers to validate agentic workflows against a global network of skilled, real world testers before failures become customer, compliance, or brand crises AUSTIN, TX - JUNE 3, 2026 - Testlio, a leading AI-powered crowdsourced testing platform, today announced the launch of AI Agent Testing services at Money20/20 Europe. The comprehensive offering integrates Testlio's human-in-the-loop (HITL) orchestration and proprietary AI-driven insights from 13+ years of QA expertise into agentic workflows. As enterprise adoption of AI agents rapidly accelerates, the transition from passive software to decision-making agents introduces critical hidden vulnerabilities. Recent research shows that 79% of enterprises have implemented AI agents at some level, yet most AI agents complete tasks successfully on the first try only 24% of the time. Choosing Money20/20 Europe for the debut highlights the highest-stakes frontier for this technology: the intersection of AI autonomy and financial transaction. Here, the margin for error drops to zero. "Testlio is uniquely positioned for this moment, combining years of proven global payments testing with this new AI agent validation service," said Summer Weisberg, CEO at Testlio. "As enterprise AI agents evolve from handling simple customer queries to executing complex agentic payment workflows, where AI is granted digital wallets to independently authorize transactions, organizations need a partner that goes beyond automated simulation. They need access to humans with real, localized payment methods to act as a safety net, alongside experts specializing in AI agent evaluation. That's exactly what Testlio provides." Solving the Four Critical Pillars of AI Risk An agent that performs in a controlled run can still break the moment it meets a real device, a regional payment flow, or a user who doesn't follow the script. Testlio's AI-certified global testing community validates agentic workflows in the unpredictable conditions where failures actually occur. Testlio solves the most critical financial, compliance, and brand safety challenges teams face today with their agentic workflows: * Agents fail across unpredictable real-world cases. Testlio's AI-certified testers run thousands of what-if scenarios to keep agents contextual and brands out of trouble. * Automation-only evaluations miss nuanced issues. Testlio's proprietary evaluation framework captures the subtle risks and behavioral issues that automation overlooks. * Agentic failures show up as quiet liabilities and policy violations. Testlio verifies data moves accurately between steps, catching critical leaks before customers do. * Companies that release fast are often at the highest risk of losing years of trust. Testlio matches rapid deployment cycles with high-velocity, real-time insights. All findings feed into LeoPulse(TM), Testlio's proprietary AI confidence score, which informs release decisions and serves as a benchmark and recommendation engine for measuring improvements over time. A Trusted Partner in High-Stakes Validation For more than a decade, Testlio has been the trusted QA partner for enterprises across finance, ecommerce, media, and software, sectors where a single glitch can ripple into a damaged brand, severe regulatory penalties, and millions in lost revenue. This extensive history in high-stakes validation forms the foundation for Testlio's new AI testing services, as it proves Testlio already processes the global infrastructure and localization payment rails that AI agents will eventually interact with. "Autonomous agents require an entirely new testing playbook," said Dean Hickman-Smith, CRO at Testlio. "The future of AI testing is not automation alone. It's AI combined with localized human judgment, real-world validation, and continuous feedback loops that enterprises can trust at scale." Global brands including PayPal, NBCUniversal, Strava, Adyen, Dlocal, Uber, and Solidgate rely on Testlio to validate high-stakes digital experiences across payments, streaming, mobile, and AI-driven workflows. Solidgate, a payment orchestration platform operating in 150+ markets, recently partnered with Testlio to ensure its embedded payment solutions performed seamlessly across diverse regional standards, achieving a production issue resolution rate that exceeded 95 percent. It is this exact, proven network of real-world payment testers that Testlio is now leveraging to safeguard the next generation of AI agents. "Working with Testlio allowed us to catch critical issues we wouldn't have seen otherwise. The feedback from in-market testers gave us confidence that our payment flows work as expected, and we could address problems before they reached our customers," said Stefan Dzhenkov, Head of Alternative and Local Payments, Solidgate. To learn more, visit the Testlio team at Money20/20 Europe (booth #K21), or go to: https://www.testlio.com/solutions/ai-testing/agent-testing. About Testlio Testlio's fully managed and AI-driven crowdsourced testing platform connects global quality experts with product and engineering teams to ensure every release works for every user, everywhere. The company is 100% remote, with team members in 150+ countries. Female-founded, approximately 46% of full-time employees are women. Testlio's clients include some of the world's leading brands, such as Paramount, Paypal, Clari, Strava, Merck, and more. As an ISO 27001:2022 certified vendor and trusted Microsoft Supplier, we apply rigorous security measures aligned with global privacy and compliance expectations to every client engagement. Learn more at testlio.com. Featured Research