QAT Global’s History

Our Story

Together, we are one.

Incorporated in 1995, QAT Global is a recognized leader in custom software development, product engineering, rich internet applications, and strategic consulting with exceptional strength in the areas of agile distributed development, user experience, and innovation.

QAT Global is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with wholly owned and operated offshore development centers in Uberaba, Brazil and San Antonio de Belén Heredia, Costa Rica. QAT’s leadership team includes co-founders, Ken Bass and Rollie Stephens. The QAT Global executive leadership team has an average of over 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture, software development, and application integration.

QAT Global got its start in developing enterprise level solutions using model-based development tools that enabled our products and services to span multiple platforms and databases. Our early success with large enterprise customers across multiple platforms and databases instilled a development culture with a focus on tools, repeatable development processes, application scalability, and component reuse; a culture that is still very much part of this company.

Although the technology has changed over the years, with our core practices around Java, .NET and model-based development, these core strengths in enterprise level architecture, development and business process automation continue to be fully leveraged across our solution stack.

Q.A. Technologies, Inc. (DBA QAT Global) is a privately held, debt-free S-Corporation.

The Five Keys to QAT Global’s Growth and Success

Strong Team

QAT Global enjoys both a high level of staff retention and significant annual growth. In addition to competitive wages and benefits, QAT Global retains top talent by encouraging personal skills development, investing in staff training, and providing diverse and challenging projects to work on.

  • 32% of team members in the US have been with us for 10+ years
  • 51% of team members in Brazil have been with us for 5+ years
  • 81% of team members in the US have 25+ years of experience
  • 44% of team members in Brazil have 10+ years of experience

Flexible Client Options

Providing flexible options is critical to meeting customer requirements. This is the primary motivation behind the development and expansion of QAT Global’s offshore development centers in Brazil and Costa Rica.

QAT Global started development in Brazil in 1998 focusing on specialized graphical application development. Today, this development center is home to multiple development teams that deliver solutions to our clients with exceptional quality and ROI.  QAT Global opened the Costa Rica development center in 2018 to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse client base.

Insight

Our management team and leadership are top talent and highly motivated. We understand that our success is ultimately based on the people we hire, the processes we develop, and the culture we build around us.

Content

We provide development toolkits as needed using our frameworks for Java (jDaptive), .NET (nDaptive) and front-end UI (WebDaptive). These frameworks establish high-quality standards & numerous powerful helper objects & techniques to raise quality of development.

Processes

We provide a reliable, repeatable development methodology named Agility RPM, which is founded on agile development and has a proven track record of success across both medium and large enterprises.

Company Timeline

1995

Company Founded
Development of QAT Publisher and QAT Wizard Products
Partnered with Texas Instruments in Support of their Industry Leading CASE tool
IT Staffing Services Practice Offering

1997

Partnered with Sterling Software after their acquisition of the CASE tool from Texas Instruments

2000

Partnered with CA after their acquisition of the CASE tool from Sterling Software

2001

Kickoff of Java Development Practice

2002

Development of QAT Function Manager Product

2003

Development of QAT ReFactor and QAT Exchange Products

2004

Opening for New Office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2005

Development of QAT Flow Product

2006

Development of QAT Webdaptive Product

2009

Became Accredited BBB Member with A+ rating

2010

Opening for New Office in Uberaba, MG, Brazil
Development of QAT GenDocCenter Product
Agility BPM Practice Offering
IoT Practice Offering

2011

Agility RPM Application Modernization and Development Practice Offering

2012

Office Move to Central Park Plaza North Tower to Meet Growth Needs
Cloud Technologies Practice Offering
Q.A. Technologies, Inc. Rebranding to QAT Global

2014

Startup Accelerator and Incubator Program Initiated
Internship Program Initiated
IT Staff Transformation Training Practice Initiated
Brazil Development Center Move into Larger Facility to Support Growth
Kickoff for .NET Development Practice

2015

Big Data & Analytics Practice Offering
Kickoff of Vitalistics Healthcare Startup

2018

Opened Office in San Antonio de Belén, Heredia, Costa Rica

2019

Expansion of Brazil and Costa Rica Development Teams
Development of the Kordica Application Rationalization Platform

2020

Progressive Web Application Practice Offering
WordPress for Enterprises Practice Offering
Development of Communications Portals

2021

Blazor Practice Offering
Client Portal Rollout
Creative Services Practice & Website Launch
Expansion of Recruiting Department