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Kumar

11/12/2025

qAPI is mentioned in the 2025 Gartner Essential Skills for Quality Engineers Report

We have exciting news to share: qAPI has been recognised by leading industry analysts – Gartner for our innovative approach to API testing. We’re proud of this milestone, we wanted to take a moment to talk about what Gartner recognition really means—not just for us, but for the teams evaluating API testing solutions in an increasingly crowded market. 

Why does this matter? 

Developers, QA teams and even Product Managers face challenges with APIs across their enterprise. These challenges include ensuring trust and safety in API usage and having an optimised stack to manage updates and scale accordingly. qAPI was developed to equip such people with the tools they need to build, deploy, and launch applications faster across the enterprise. 

Integrating AI-led API testing has become a way for teams to reduce their workload and make API testing more efficient and effective. qAPI is one of it’s kind in the market that readily offers capabilities to mitigate the challenges teams face. It supports test case creation, real-time analysis, end-to-end API testing, load/performance testing, and an automap feature to help teams identify API bugs faster. 

Flexibility and Simplification 

APIs need a range of tools and frameworks to connect the impactful products for their businesses. qAPI’s vision gives its users the flexibility and simplification they need when building a product or service. 

Alongside seamless integration with your existing tools and frameworks, teams can leverage qAPI solutions wherever their API ecosystem lives, without any lock-ins. This cloud application is built for teams to simply import their API collections and test the APIs end-to-end without compromising on safety.  AI-Powered Test Automation: Automatically generating robust test suites from API specifications and collections. 

Codeless Testing Experience: Empowering non-developers like QA engineers and product owners to create, run, and maintain tests without writing a single line of code. 

Performance & Load Testing at Scale: Enabling teams to simulate hundreds or thousands of virtual users to validate reliability under stress. 

Collaboration: Shared workspaces and role-based access control ensure test environments and test logic stay in sync across cross-functional teams. 

Seamless Import Support: Easily ingest Postman collections, OpenAPI/Swagger specs, cURL commands, and more — streamlining the transition from design to testing. 

Let’s look at it closely to see how qAPI changes things for regular users: 

1️⃣ Automap Workflow Automation: Your Test Logic, Rebuilt by AI 

Traditional API testing expects QA teams to manually stitch together endpoints, write assertions, and update workflows when APIs change. Teams waste hours just keeping tests “alive.” 

Automap changes everything. 

•  You import your Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, cURL, link or files. 

•  qAPI analyses all endpoints, parameters, schema definitions, and dependencies using our Nova AI engine

•  It automatically generates: 

      ⚬ End-to-end workflows 

      ⚬ Multi-step test scenarios 

      ⚬ Suggested assertions 

      ⚬ Data mappings and dependency logic 

•  When your APIs change, Automap intelligently revalidates and updates tests—no manual rewiring required. 

Teams upgrading from tools often report: 

•  Breaking workflows after every minor API update. 

•  Constant version mismatch issues. 

•  Hours lost debugging chained API calls. 

•  Error-prone manual assertions. 

qAPI eliminates all of these by treating your API like a living system—not a pile of disconnected requests. 

2️⃣ Virtual User Balance: Built-in Load & Performance Testing

Postman, Insomnia, and many traditional API tools lack built-in load testing or require separate and complex tools. 

This creates a major problem: You test functionality in one tool and performance in another → your results never match. 

qAPI solves this with virtual user balance, included right inside the platform. 

What qAPI enables you to do 

•  Simulate real-world traffic from 1 to thousands of virtual users. 

•  Run load, stress, spike, and endurance tests 

•  Mix functional + performance tests in a single workflow. 

•  See latency, throughput, and error breakdowns in one dashboard. 

•  Reuse the same API collections you already imported. 

•  Build performance SLAs and automate alerts. 

And yes — we give 1000 virtual users free during Black Friday so teams actually stress-test production-scale scenarios. 

Other platforms force teams into: 

•  Multiple licenses 

•  Separate setups 

•  Script-heavy load simulations 

•  Integration headaches between functional tests and load tests 

3️⃣ 100% Cloud-Native. Zero Setup. Zero Maintenance.

Teams using Postman locally or REST Assured/Katalon on-premise often hit: 

•  Slower execution 

•  System crashes with large collections 

•  Limits on environment sync 

•  Local CPU/memory bottlenecks 

•  Lost test state across devices 

•  Difficult handover between QA and Dev 

qAPI removes all that complexity. It also gives you an option to run the application locally on your device. 

What Cloud-Native Means For you: 

•  Tests run on distributed cloud runners 

•  No local performance overhead 

•  Auto-saved environments, data, and collections 

•  Real-time collaboration 

•  Access from any browser 

•  Parallel execution at scale 

•  No installation, patching, or infrastructure planning 

Your entire testing ecosystem is just there ready in minutes. 

4️⃣Collaboration Built In: Workspaces That Simplifies

Postman’s free tier allows 3 collaborators. Other tools require expensive “Enterprise add-ons.” 

qAPI offers team-wide access, even in the free plan. 

With shared workspaces, you get: 

•  Real-time visibility into tests 

•  Role-based access (Owner, Editor, Viewer) 

•  Branch-like environments for different projects 

•  Centralized API specs and test logic 

•  Shared execution reports 

•  Immediate handoff between Dev → QA → Product 

This eliminates the problems you regularly face like: 

•  Sending JSON files on Slack 

•  “Which version are we using?” 

•  Manual syncing of environments 

•  Local configuration mismatches 

•  “Do I again have to write the test cases?” 

5️⃣ End-to-End Testing, Without Writing a Line of Code

Most tools still require JavaScript, Java , Groovy , or YAML scripting. 

qAPI helps you to go fully codeless

You Can Build: 

• Auth flows 

• Chained workflows 

• Condition-based tests 

• Trigger-based tests 

• Multi-environment execution 

• Data-driven test suites 

All without scripting, dependencies, or IDE setup. 

Why our users love this, because you don’t need: 

• A senior developer to fix API tests 

• A framework architect 

• Debugging skills 

• Script maintenance 

Anyone can create scalable, stable tests — QA, BA, PM, SDET, or Developer. 

qAPI Eliminates the Real Problems Teams Face 

Here’s the truth developers won’t say publicly — but face every day: 

In the current market and environment—application instabilities and changes in development strategies has posed challenges for organisations so far in 2025. This has lowered average consumer confidence, reflecting widespread uncertainty. 

Despite these potential obstacles, we have seen that business leaders and companies with experience in building new ventures remain committed to rethinking and updating their API testing approaches. 

In fact, experienced business builders are doubling down. Leaders from companies that have built new ventures in the past five years are more likely than others to have increased their prioritisation of adopting new tools to streamline their testing process. 

Sticking to the same testing setup often feels like the safer choice. Teams get comfortable with how things work, even when the process feels heavy, repetitive, or unreliable. 

But familiarity doesn’t always mean efficiency. Many API testing tools today still rely on outdated workflows that slow teams down — manual setup, script-heavy test creation, scattered version control, and test suites that break the moment an API changes. 

This is exactly where qAPI takes a different path. Instead of forcing teams to keep wrestling with rigid tools, qAPI rethinks the experience entirely. It gives teams a testing environment that is flexible, adaptive, and built for the way modern engineering actually works. qAPI isn’t just another tool — it’s a new approach to testing. 

Adapt and Trust 

In an engineering world where teams are expected to deliver faster without sacrificing stability, qAPI removes the very problem that legacy testing workflows introduce. It gives developers and testers a cleaner, clearer, and more scalable way to handle APIs — with the confidence that nothing gets lost, broken, or forgotten along the way. 

It’s not about abandoning what you use today; it’s about upgrading to a platform that finally matches your pace and demands of software development. 

Whether you’re testing a handful of APIs or managing complex microservices architectures, whether you’re a seasoned QA professional or a developer who needs testing tools that don’t slow you down, we built qAPI for you. 

Ready to experience the difference? 

Start testing with qAPI today—no credit card required. 

Read more about the skills QAs need in the Gartner report Essential Skills for Quality Engineers, Sushant Singhal 10 November 2025

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