Testlio Reviews

I'm an active tester at Testlio for last 5 months.
To be honest, it is the best freelance platform for me so far. I have been testing on several similar companies, but conditions at Testlio are better for sure!
- Hourly pay
- Amazing team
- Diverse and interesting projects
- Possibility to get a higher position

They value my time, opinion and skills!

After 1 year with them I made around 100$ totally. But very time consuming.
They will invite you every few months, on a rush, to some task, where just to start with, it needs a lot of account creating, joining workspaces and maybe after it you are not finally selected.
Mostly it's payment tasks (so you have to put your own money in advanced) getting refund may happen smooth or maybe you have to deal with your money stuck and ask around for refund and wait weeks without knowing if they will refund you.

Other common task is your ID or Passport (who knows where your data ends...)

I don't recommend Testlio.

I have attempted FRTC exam 3 times and everytime it displays as fail as i couldnt find all issues. Already many testers tested the same app and found almost all defects. I dont understand how can some one find defects when everything is already found. I attached the same defects to test cases but not sure how to find new defects and pass the FRTC exams..

I have one primary complaint: their statement of hourly rather than task based pay is extremely misleading. Here is how the payment system actually works: A task is assigned an estimated time If you work on it, you have a timer that ticks when you are active and stops when paused. You can exceed the estimated time. You almost certainly will exceed the estimated time. If you actually want to get paid for your work over the estimated time, you have to get it incrementally approved. This is not obvious, and in order to get this approval you have to keep checking back that the "test lead" who will kick it up the chain has read your message. If approved, they will add another time incriment. They will probably pressure you not to ask for much more time. This is not true hourly pay.

1. There are way too many testers in thier community compared to the work they have. Consider yourself lucky if you got even one project per month. Some are waiting more than a year without any invitation.
2. Most projects do not allow you to use VPN. If you do not belong to that country, they will ignore you.
3. They have a tier system for payments. First world countries get highest payment and the rest are low. This is blatantly discrimantory and never observed this anywhere in crowtesting.
4. Project managers prefer experienced testers or thier contacts. The willingness to give chance to new testers is just not there.
5. They gloat that they pay by the hour. Lets say they assign a task which can only be completed in 3.5 hours but they will alott it as 2 hour task. This is very exploitative and sinister.
6. There is no bonus and no overtime.

After being with Testlio for over three years, I can only recommend it to people who are interested in learning the field of QA.

There's good at Testlio, they are working on the platform to be more user friendly. It's simple to apply for work and the bug reporting framework is fluid. Most importantly they provide alot of material to learn from.

However, the way the company is operated is completely unreasonable. There are server issues, communication issues, irregular scheduling, and sometimes even payment issues. All of these things while the hourly as that of a Walmart worker.

All of these things can be annoying, but forgivable. The main issue is that as a tester, you're expected to be perfect in a imperfect system. Everyone above you can make mistakes and arbitrarily alter things. But Testers are replaceable cogs in a machine that pretends you matter.

Many TL's in the company are more focused on punishing testers than actually identifying bugs for clients. I've worked so much unpaid overtime reproducing bugs. I invested money into devices we were missing for runs. I helped other Testers who needed guidance. I went the extra mile for years on end. I took pride in the work. In the end, the smallest of details that could've been resolved within minutes had me terminated.

I can't even find the anger in myself over this because I no longer respect Testlio to even feel the loss. There are plenty of good individuals in the company, but there are people who are rotting it from the inside. The company is accountable for this because the isolating policies enables it.

All in all, if you want to learn and gain experience in QA, testlio is a accessible option. I cannot recommend it to anyone beyond that. If you can do this, you'll get much more value for your time elsewhere.

Test cases not prepared by the teams. Unclear instructions. Bad communication. Blocked for usage of VPN for a test ( not true, not even DNS). Task not paid.

Useless and buggy tests for new testers, impossible to get even a simple TC without wasting in their time consuming and full-of-bug fake academy. Don't waste your time, I've wasted almost 5 hours and couldn't even pass a simple testing course which is absolutely cringe in contrast to big test platforms such as Utest where I land on my first TC in a week.

Testlio is not worth the time or effort. The platform feels built on cheap labor, offering very low pay compared to the amount of work and precision expected from testers. The interface is clunky and unintuitive, making it difficult to navigate or complete simple actions. Tasks are often confusing and poorly explained, leaving you to figure things out on your own. Overall, the experience is frustrating and unrewarding, there are much better alternatives out there, like uTest, that respect testers’ time and pay them more fairly.

Do not waste your time!!!I had no idea how to take the test and no-one could help me. Then they said I was rude to the staff for asking them to help me! And they deleted my account!Please there are other options...