Uruguay: The Best Hub for Software QA Engineers in Latin America?
Looking for nearshore software services? Uruguay excels as a hub for software QA engineers in Latin America, with AI, cultural fit, and time zone alignment.
Mate culture, an infusion flavored with history
As an ancestral tradition, mate is part of the Cultural Heritage of South America and currently conquers palates from all over the globe. It’s an infusion filled with history and symbolism. It has penetrated the DNA of the people who were born in the southern…
Abstracta Opens New Mobile Testing Center of Excellence
A win-win for a local community and Uruguay’s growing technology services industry With the aim of providing high value-added software testing services for projects in the US, UK, Chile, Uruguay and the world, Abstracta continues on its path of growth! We’re pleased to announce the…
Coronavirus Exposure Notification Apps From a Tester’s Perspective
What are the risks involved with these apps and are they worth it? As we mentioned before in this article, the Uruguayan Presidential Office has teamed up with several local institutions and companies in the development of its official website and application to fight COVID-19,…
How a Band of Tech Companies is Helping to Face COVID-19 in Uruguay
Chatbots and a telemedicine app are some of the tools the local tech community is providing to help the Uruguayan government care for its citizens For almost every country in the world, the arrival of the COVID-19 has posed a tremendously large challenge to create…
TestingUY 2019 Recap: Bigger, Better, and All About Agile
What we took away from the Uruguayan testing conference we proudly sponsor each year This May, Montevideo hosted what felt like a party for testing in Latin America. In this sixth edition of TestingUy, the two day event gathered some 600 people from many parts of…
ReconverTIte: Bringing IT Employment Opportunities to Women of Rural Uruguay
A new program to develop more female testers in Uruguay, helping them launch a new career Now full steam ahead, we are very proud to announce that Abstracta has launched a spinoff program to help the testing profession grow in our home country, Uruguay, and…
New Software Testing Courses for People with Disabilities
We’re involved in an exciting new project that inspires us every day, and we hope it will make a lasting difference Currently, in my home country, Uruguay, 16% of the population has some form of disability and 80% of these people are unemployed. On the…
Influential Latin American Women in Testing You Need to Know
Celebrating women who test from around the globe Since the Agile Testing Days blog published a list of 125 referential women in testing, and there were no Latin Americans included, I set out to lend a hand by collecting information on influential Latin American women…
Don’t Try to Tell Me You Can Automate the Testing!
Michael Bolton’s rap teaches us it’s automated checking, not testing So, you say you can automate testing? Michael Bolton, a creator of Rapid Software Testing, would tell you that you’re wrong. We were lucky enough to host Bolton at this year’s TestingUy, the largest software…
TestingUY 2017 with Michael Bolton, a Week of Pure Testing
A recap of the week of the fourth edition of TestingUY If I could describe last week in one word, it would be intense. With TestingUY on Monday and Tuesday, the Rapid Software Testing course Wednesday through Friday by our keynote speaker, Michael Bolton (internationally…
Michael Bolton to Speak at TestingUY, Latin America’s Largest Testing Conference
Michael Bolton is coming this May to Montevideo to deliver the closing keynote at the fourth annual TestingUY. Since it all started in 2014, Abstracta has been an organizer of TestingUY, with our co-founder, Federico Toledo PhD, playing a major role in planning the event…
9 Reasons to Pick Uruguay as your Nearshore Service Provider
Looking for a nearshore service provider? Look no further than Uruguay! Urugwhey, Urugwhyy, Uruguay? However you think it’s pronounced, this little country is the best destination for your nearshore IT outsourcing needs. Located just south of Brazil and east of Argentina along the Atlantic coast of…
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