Cyberpunk’s QA partner responds to allegations and claims ‘a lack of understanding of how a game is tested’

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The outsourced QA team behind Cyberpunk 2077 has responded to claims that it misled CD Projekt Red over the experience of its team working on the game, and accused the person behind the original report of having “a lack of understanding… of how a game is tested”.

Earlier this week, YouTube channel Upper Echelon Gamers released a video in which it claimed to have received confidential documents from an employee at Romania-based Quantic Lab, the external QA company behind Cyberpunk 2077.

The documents allegedly painted a picture of several things that went wrong during the QA process, and how Quantic Lab work may have contributed to the overall poor quality of the game when it was released.

According to the report, CD Project was under the impression that a team of veteran QA testers was working on the game at Quantic Lab, which had previously carried out similar work on other projects for the company, including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Gwent: The Witcher Card Game.

However, UEG’s report claims, among other allegations, that the external QA team working on Cyberpunk 2077 was almost completely comprised of junior members of staff with less than one year of experience.

In a response to the report issued to VGC on Tuesday, Quantic Lab CEO Stefan Seicarescu said the company “always strives to work with transparency and integrity with our industry partners”.

While Seicarescu did not explicitly deny the specific allegations made in the video,  he claimed it included inaccuracies about Quantic Lab, and claimed that its creator appeared to show a misunderstanding about how the QA process works.

“The video published on social media as mentioned in your article starts with incorrect statements about Quantic Lab’s history,” Seicarescu