2015 witnessed tremendous increase in adoption of digital transformation, and digital assurance will now play a key role in 2016. According to Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO & President – Americas at Cigniti Technologies, following are the key software testing trends for this year.
Confianza Integrated Communications (P) Ltd. is hosting the 2nd edition of the annual BFSI India Conclave on the 14th & 15th of May at the Holiday Inn Resorts, Goa this year. Partner to the event are some of the most prestigious organizations, Xerox being the Platinum Partner, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. as the Gold Partner, CtrlS as the Keynote Partner, Cigniti as the Bronze Partner and f5 Networks as the supporting partner.
The conclave brings together the top names of the BFSI sector, participating in tech talks, panel discussions, presentations and workshops.
Cigniti, North America’s largest independent software testing services company, is pleased to announce its partnership with ZAPTEST, a leader in cross-client / cross-platform test automation. With this partnership, Cigniti is further equipped to offer the most innovative and cost-effective mobile and cross-environment test automation services to its valued customers.
As a channel partner of ZAPTEST, Cigniti will resell the licenses of ZAP products and leverage its software suite of test automation solutions for MOBILE, Windows, Mac, Linux and Agile/CI environments to deliver faster, cheaper and better mobile test automation services. ZAPTEST offers market-leading products for enterprise testing that allow testing of any software application and execution of test framework across multiple environments. This partnership allows Cigniti to offer flexible test coverage to its customers with maximum ROI by reducing number of test artifacts and the need for test script maintenance. Main products of ZAPTEST for test automation include: zapFARM Private Cloud – a test device hosting management system for mobile and conventional devices, ZAP-fiX add-in for HP UFT, and ZAPTEST MultiRun for expedited test execution on mobile and conventional devices with single test script.
Speaking about the partnership, Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO, Cigniti Technologies said, “With the proliferation of mobile and wireless devices, enterprises are rapidly building rich and personalized mobile apps across multiple platforms and devices in addition to conventional web or desktop applications. There has been great traction towards web and mobile test automation services including mobile device provisioning and mobile performance testing that ensure effective functionality and performance of web and mobile applications. We have evaluated the marketplace for effective test automation tools and partners that can support us in addressing such demand, and selected ZAPTEST for its innovative portfolio of testing products and solutions integrated with HP’s market leading solutions in the functional testing and the ALM space. By leveraging ZAPTEST’s products, we will help our customers transform their business-critical applications into next-generation mobile infrastructure that increase business flexibility.”
"We are extremely excited to build this relationship with Cigniti for many important reasons, but are particularly attracted to our common cultures and histories as software testing innovators and the incredible QA and testing expertise that Cigniti brings to our collaboration on a worldwide basis. We both strongly believe that as enterprises increasingly develop and deploy key business and commercial applications to diverse and dynamic mobile and conventional platforms in order to increase revenues and competitive position, it is critical that they collaborate with vendor partners that bring more than technology alone, but can demonstrate expertise and experience throughout the entire delivery and testing environment. Both ZAP and Cigniti can immediately take a seat across the table from enterprise customers that need efficient way to do modern software testing and speak a common language," said Alex Chernyak, Founder and CTO of ZAPTEST.
Cigniti Technologies, a leading provider of independent software testing services globally, today announced that it has been positioned as a "Challenger" in the Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide. Please visit https://cigniti.com/analyst-commentary-by-Gartner to view the full report.
The Magic Quadrant Report assesses 17 of the leading application service providers based on specified inclusion criteria. It reviews each provider's strengths and cautions in the application testing service categories, as well as emphasizes the areas the providers are strong in and the areas that need improvement.
Alfa Mutual Insurance Co. has partnered with Cigniti Technologies to establish a dedicated Test Center of Excellence (TCoE). This multi-year, multi-million-dollar contract is just the latest step Alfa® is taking to enhance its technology.
Verbat Technologies, a Global Digital Technology Services company and Cigniti, a Global Leader in Independent Software Testing Services, today announced a strategic partnership to bring together a potent combination of Digital Technology Services and Quality Assurance for the UK and the European markets.
As part of this partnership, Verbat and Cigniti will jointly offer One Digital that brings together Distributed Agile Development and DevOps based Quality Assurance.
Jijo Olassa, CEO at Verbat Technologies, comments, "We have a strong presence in the UK and Continental Europe market and have already built a reputation of being a one stop shop for the Digital Technology needs of Enterprises, particularly around Microsoft, Open Source, and Mobile technologies. Through this strategic partnership with Cigniti, we will be able to provide end-to-end services in the Digital Technology space.”
Sharing his excitement at the partnership, Srikanth Chakkilam, Executive Director at Cigniti, said, "The UK and Continental Europe are growth markets for us, and we see Verbat’s market presence helping us serve even more clients. As digital technology disrupts every facet of the industry, clients are looking for a comprehensive offering that can ensure quality software delivered at the speed of agile delivery. We are confident this partnership will meet these needs.” Nanda Padmaraju, VP, Sales – UK and Europe added, “DevOps, aided by emerging technologies like Cloud, Big Data, Mobility and IoT are helping enterprises bring differentiated offerings quickly to their customers. Quality@Speed is increasingly becoming the central theme in this new Digital era. Cigniti and Verbat complement each other perfectly in our ability to deliver a pragmatic end-to-end service offering to our clients which assures superior software quality.”
About Verbat Technologies
Verbat is a Digital Technology Services company delivering Internet and Mobile Solutions to Enterprises, through Agile Development and Application Management methodologies. Our primary expertise is in Microsoft, Open Source, Mobile and Cloud Technologies. We leverage our Innovation Ecosystem to bring disruptive thinking to next-generation Digital Technology Services and Products. We service our customers across the globe via our offices in the USA, UK, UAE and India.
About Cigniti
Cigniti Technologies Limited (BSE: 534758, www.cigniti.com), Global Leaders in Independent Software Testing (IST) Services, is headquartered at Hyderabad, India. Cigniti’s 1800+ experts are spread across US, UK, India, Australia, and Canada. Cigniti is the world’s first IST Services Company to be appraised at CMMI-SVC v1.3, Maturity Level 5, and is also ISO 9001:2008 & ISO 27001:2013 certified. Cigniti’s test offerings include services in Quality Engineering, Advisory & Transformation, Next Generation Testing, and Core Testing. With over a decade of experience in serving several 500 fortune enterprises, Cigniti has translated its learning and solutions into SMART Tools™ to accelerate test efforts. Cigniti has India's first of its kind Robotics Test Lab, a Mobile Cloud Test Lab with HP & Experitest, a Cloud enabled Performance Test Lab, and an IoT & Smart Meter Lab. Leading Analysts like Gartner, Forrester, NelsonHall, Everest, Frost & Sullivan, and Forbes recognize Cigniti as a leader in the IST Services space. Cigniti has been awarded a place on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) G-Cloud 6 framework for providing Lot 4: Specialist Cloud Services that provide PSEs better access to Cigniti's expertise. Cigniti’s CSR initiative, Project Cignificance, aims to impact 1 million+ lives through education as an enabler.
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Cigniti Technologies, the world's third largest independent software testing provider, and Enov8, the specialist provider of DevTest Environment Management and Data management solutions, announced a partnership that allows Cigniti to strengthen Agile & DevOps testing services based on Enov8's DevTest products & solutions.
Acknowledging the achievement, Srikanth Chakkilam, Executive Director, Cigniti, said "Cigniti has become the world’s first Independent Software Testing services company to be appraised at CMMI-SVC v1.3, Maturity Level 5. The CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) model, relevant for IT services companies like Cigniti, provides an integrated set of guidelines for providing superior services. This milestone will further strengthen Cigniti’s ability to offer best in class testing services for Global 2000 companies. This appraisal is in line with our strategy to provide cutting-edge and superior software testing services with maximum efficiency."
Cigniti Technologies, North America’s largest independent software testing services provider, and TurnKey Solutions, HP’s exclusive partner for scriptless test automation, entered into a partnership that helps Cigniti to offer highly dynamic, easy-to-use and cost-effective enterprise test automation services to its customers through an MSP or on-premise delivery models.
TurnKey’s test accelerators provide a comprehensive pre-built content and pre-automated test cases that can be easily integrated, customized and maintained for any application. TurnKey's cFactory™ technology creates the components and the frameworks based on predefined rules that converts the HP ALM platform to a scriptless automated functional testing framework.
Cigniti Technologies, world’s third largest independent software testing services company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Tricentis, global leader in continuous testing software solutions that accelerate business innovation.This partnership helps Cigniti to offer accelerated software testing services enabling enterprises to effectively address their complex business challenges in a rapidly changing technology landscape, while reducing total cost of testing and driving efficiencies.
This partnership marks Cigniti’s deep commitment to delivering greater value to its clients by strengthening its portfolio of testing services with advanced test accelerators, automation frameworks. Leveraging this partnership, Cigniti will benefit from Tricentis Tosca Testsuite, an end-to-end continuous testing suite that helps enterprises reduce business-related risks while optimizing their cost and efficiency.
Cigniti Technologies, a leading independent testing services company, has been awarded a place upon the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) latest G-Cloud 6 framework for providing Lot 4: Specialist Cloud Services. The G-Cloud initiative makes it easier for the suppliers to sell their services off-the-shelf to public sector organizations. It offers cost-effective, innovative solutions to the buyers while safeguarding them from getting into expensive contracts with unknown suppliers.
Joining G-Cloud 6 as a supplier on the UK government's Digital Marketplace, an online store, helps Cigniti expand its business across UK by providing the Lot 4: Specialist Cloud Services covering mobile testing, big data testing, cloud testing, test automation, functional and non-functional testing and test advisory services.
Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO, Cigniti Technologies, the world's third largest independent software testing services company, summarized his experiences from 2014 and has predicted the trends that would considerably impact the software testing services industry in 2015 and later.
A veteran in the industry, Pradeep held several QA leadership roles in the past. With 15+ years of software testing experience to his credit, he possesses exceptional expertise around quality engineering and has set up a number of Testing Centers of Excellence around test management, automation, digital commerce, mobility, SOA and functional testing.
Cigniti Technologies is recognized as a Leader by NelsonHall, in the Pure-Play market segment in the recently published NEAT report for Software Testing, 2016. Cigniti has also been identified as a Leader in the Overall, Digital, and Consulting market segments.
Raj Neravati, COO, Cigniti Technologies, world's third largest Independent Software Testing Services Company shared his experiences from 2013 and discussed about trends that may significantly impact Testing Services Industry in 2014 and beyond.
Cigniti Technologies Limited, the world's third largest independent testing services company, has set up operations in London, UK. The move is part of Cigniti's global expansion plan to provide world class software testing services to existing and new clients in UK and Europe.
Cigniti COO Raj Neravati talks to Technuter on Security Testing and the overlapping areas of security that require constant innovation to handle the sensitive, confidential and yet publicly accessible data.
Today, Cigniti, the world’s third-largest independent software-testing services company, and Experitest, the leading provider of tools for mobile test automation, manual testing and monitoring, announced a partnership that allows Cigniti to offer enterprises end-to-end mobile application testing solutions based on Experitest’s SeeTest product line.
Cigniti partners with Experitest
Cigniti chose Experitest’s SeeTest after considering a number of other solutions. As a partner of Experitest, Cigniti will offer mobile testing services, implement and resell licenses that will ensure optimal integration and the quick ramp up of mobile testing operations within each organization’s existing ALM environment.
"We looked for a tool that would fit the needs of any enterprise, ensuring security, maintainability and portability of tests" said Srikanth Chakkilam Executive Vice-President Marketing at Cigniti."SeeTest of Experitest that is already deployed in 7 out of the 10 largest banks worldwide met our expectations more than any other solutions out there. Its integration into the HP eco-system, as well as into many other ALM environments, along with its powerful cloud-based solution, coupled with their support for any device and every aspect of testing, will enable our customers to cost-effectively extend their ALM environments to mobile testing."
"We see a huge opportunity in this new partnership with Cigniti, as it creates an unprecedented value for enterprises going mobile, said Amir Servi, VP of Marketing at Experitest, Combining Cigniti’s abilities and experience as a testing services provider with our mobile testing solutions, enterprises are now, more than ever, able to receive a complete, comprehensive solution that is time-effective and allows for clear ROI."
About Cigniti
Cigniti Technologies is the World’s 3rd largest Independent Software Testing Services Company, headquartered in Dallas, TX. Cigniti’s test offerings include TCoE, Enterprise Mobility Testing, Testing on Cloud, Big Data Testing, Functional, Automation, Security and Performance Testing services. Over the last 15 years, Cigniti has helped Enterprises and ISVs across verticals build quality software while improving time to market and reducing cost of quality. Cigniti has translated its R&D into Cigniti SMART Tools that accelerate testing and help improve the quality of services delivered to clients. Recognized as a pure play testing services provider with multi domain skills by Gartner and as a leader in IP led testing services by industry analysts like Nelson Hall, Cigniti is also the world’s first Independent Software Testing Services Company rated at CMMI SVC1.3 maturity level 3 and is an ISO 27001:2005 certified organization. With a team of over 800 people, Cigniti has strategic alliances with the leading product, tool and technology vendors.
About Experitest
Experitest is the provider of SeeTest tools for mobile test automation, manual testing and monitoring, supporting all mobile OS: iOS, Android, WindowsPhone8 and Blackberry. Its test tools plug-in to all test environments including UFT/QTP/QC, Visual Studio/MSTest/TFS, Rational (RFT), TestComplete, Junit, Perl and Python. Experitest is a HP Gold Partner (and its tools are HP Certified applications) and Microsoft VSIP partner (and its tools are Microsoft certified). Experitest’s customer base includes 7 of the 10 largest banks worldwide as well as many other Fortune 500 companies such as Barclays, Verizon, BSkyB, Orange, China Mobile, DoCoMo, McAfee, TexasInstruments, Qualcomm, Cisco, Intel, Marvell, Motorola and many more. For further information www.experitest.com
Cigniti Technologies, world’s 3rd Largest Independent Software Testing Services Company has expanded its management team by appointing Mahendra Alladi as its Chief Technology (CTO) Officer.
Mahendra is a visionary technologist in the Software QA and ALM space. He has more than 15 years of rich experience spanning testing, software product development and test solution engineering. Prior to Gallop, Mahendra worked with world class companies like Travelocity and i2 Technologies. Mahendra is a gold medalist in Engineering and an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from where he graduated with an MS in Computer Science.
Cigniti Technologies Limited, India’s largest independent software testing services company announced today, the acquisition of Gallop Solutions Inc, a US based specialized software testing services company. The combined entity is poised to become the world’s second largest independent software testing services company (by headcount) with revenues of $40 Million and more than 2200 people worldwide. Cigniti Technologies is one of the fast growing IT services companies in this space and aims to become the world leader in software testing in the next few years through a combination of organic and inorganic growth.
Gallop specializes in building and implementing niche solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space with a special focus on Quality, Test Automation and Test Asset Modernization. Founded in 2009 by Manohar Reddy and Mahendra Alladi, Gallop Solutions is based in Irving, Texas in the US with an offshore technology center at Hyderabad, India. Gallop employs more than 200 people worldwide with 2012 revenues over $9.5 Million.
Speaking on this occasion Sriram Rajaram, President Strategy and Corporate Development said, “Gallop Solutions is a great cultural fit for us and they have a fantastic team. This merger will add value to everyone concerned including shareholders, clients and employees. The combined revenues will take Cigniti past the $40 Million run rate and make us the world’s second largest independent testing services company (by headcount).This will help our mission of becoming the world’s largest independent testing services company in the next few years. IP led testing is going to be key driver of growth in the future and Gallop’s experience in delivering testing solutions around proprietary IP led products such as WinQuick and RoboQuick will add a lot of value to our clients and complement Cigniti’s SMART Tools."
Manohar Reddy, CEO of Gallop Solutions commented, “We are excited to be part of Cigniti which is recognized as a premier independent testing services company. Joining forces with a like-minded company in this domain should help us achieve our vision of becoming the world leader in software testing. Customers can expect the same level of drive and focus from the combined entity with further optimization in service delivery.”
Mahendra Alladi, Vice President of Technology and Professional Services at Gallop commented, “Gallop’s IP led testing capabilities can reach a wider client base with the help of Cigniti’s investments in sales and marketing. Our testing tools expertise and solution driven approach perfectly complements Cigniti in maintaining the differentiation in testing services space.”
About Cigniti: Cigniti Technologies Limited (BSE: 534758) is one of the world’s premier Independent Software Testing Services company. Over the last 15 years, Cigniti has improved quality of software for global Enterprises and Technology companies using proprietary SMART Tools and Cloud enabled Test Labs. Cigniti offers Test Consulting, Test Advisory services, Functional, Regression, Automation, Security, Performance, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, Big Data and ERP testing services. Cigniti has strategic alliances with all the leading product, tool and technology vendors. Cigniti is the world’s first independent software testing services company rated at CMMI SVC1.3 maturity level and is an ISO27001:2005 certified organization.
About Gallop: Gallop specializes in building and implementing niche solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space. Working seamlessly with major ALM tool vendors, Gallop strives to provide differentiating solutions to help customers achieve desired ROI out of their investments in these tools. Our Result Driven approach has earned a reputation for finding innovative solutions to meet our clients' most challenging technological situations. We pride in customer success and that remains our number one motivation.
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