Dec 2022

Cigniti’s Chairman & MD, Mr. C V Subramanya, on behalf of Cigniti Technologies, received the prestigious “Company of the Year” award in the ‘IT Services’ category for ‘Digital Assurance & Digital Engineering Services’ at the Outlook Business Spotlight’s Business Icons Awards 2022.

Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary of the Industries & Commerce and Information Technology Departments of the Telangana Government, and Srinivas Rao Mahankali (MSR), CEO, T-Hub, presented this esteemed award. Suchetana Ray (Editor of Outlook) graced the occasion, along with several other dignitaries.

Cigniti is a part of Dallas Business Journal’s Top 50 Fastest-growing Middle Market Companies in North Texas for 2022.

Our Chief Revenue Officer, Vinay Rawat received the award on behalf of Cigniti and he was joined at the ceremony by other Cigniti leaders Arunanshu Pal (Vice President – ESG), Sachin Srivastava (Vice President – Delivery), Sunny Murala (Associate Vice President – Delivery), and Sharavan Ramakrishna (Senior Director – ESG).

This award reflects the great passion Cignitians bring to work every day to help our global clients achieve success with AI-led digital assurance and digital engineering services.

To position Cigniti as a Strategic partner for our clients rather than just a QE/DA vendor in the Airlines and Insurance space, we conducted 2 successful events: the Southwest-Cigniti QA Day and the Homesite QA and Engineering Day.

The Southwest-Cigniti QA Day
The Southwest-Cigniti QA Day was a half-day event based on the ‘Redefining Quality Assurance in the Digital World’ theme. Cigniti Chairman & MD, Mr. C V Subramanya attended the event along with our CEO, Srikanth Chakkilam Srikanth and our Chief Revenue Officer, Vinay Rawat. Our MD Sir delivered the welcome note and we had video leadership messages from Tom Merritt, CTO & VP of Infrastructure and Services, SWA, Jim Dayton, VP & CISO, SWA, John Herlihy, VP of Technology, SWA, and Senior Director of Cybersecurity Engineering, Senior Technology Consultant, Senior analyst, IDC, and more.

More than 140 members from Southwest participated and the event helped us promote our new DES offerings across IT organizations in Southwest.

Watch here the video highlighting the Southwest-Cigniti journey.

The Homesite QA and Engineering Day
The Homesite QA and Engineering Day was a two (half)-days event based on the theme of ‘Digital Assurance & Digital Engineering Enable Seamless Customer Experience’. We had over 150+ attendees from AMFAM, Homesite, The General, and Connect participate both in-person and online.

Our Chief Revenue Officer Vinay Rawat and Michael Saied, Homesite/AMFAM CIO, gave the inaugural note. Ellen Carney, Principal Analyst, Forrester for a keynote session, while Dawn Fitzgerald, VP of Engineering and Technical Operations Homesite/AMFAM gave a winner perspective spotlight, and David Johnston, Director of QA, Homesite presented the discovery hour.

It’s an ecstatic feeling when the world’s leading publications such as Bloomberg News, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and others have lauded Cigniti’s brand and team’s expertise for winning the “Testing Team of the Year” award at the European Testing Awards 2022 in partnership with Atom bank.

This global media acclaim and accomplishment is a testament to the competence, commitment, and character that team Cigniti Technologies brings in helping businesses reach the pinnacle of digital transformation. Read the full coverage here.

We are proud to share that the International magazine Newsweek has featured Cigniti Technologies as one of the prominent leaders leapfrogging into the digital orbit from India. The article featured Cigniti as one of the few companies under the India Investor Desk series in the Newsweek global special edition of November–December 2022.

Quotes from our Chairman & MD, Mr C V Subramanya and our CEO, Srikanth Chakkilam, talk about our humble beginnings and becoming World’s leading digital assurance and digital engineering services company

Read the article here to get a glimpse into our growth story and how we help global enterprises achieve market leadership

Cigniti is recognized as a Leader in Continuous Testing specialists by the Information Services Group (ISG), in its ISG Provider Lens™ Next-Gen Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) Services U.S 2022 report. We have been persistent in offering a gamut of services in the Continuous Testing realm and have been equally good in executing large strategic Quality Engineering projects. Our services have successfully provided advisory competency to global enterprises across industries. This is the second consecutive year we have been positioned as Leaders.

We issued a press release that was published by Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and other leading publications. To read the press release, click here.

Analyst Recognition: Cigniti is Positioned as Leader in Continuous Testing for the US Market – 2022

Michael Dortch, Lead Analyst of the study said, “Enterprises across the U.S. vary considerably in size, primary lines of business, and digital maturity. However, almost all such enterprises need strong, agile partners to pursue, accelerate, and succeed with their digital transformation efforts. Effective testing is a critical element of those efforts. Cigniti combines modern technologies, deep experience, solid IP, and strong partnerships to deliver the solutions and support its enterprise clients need to succeed.”

Cigniti’s CSR initiative on health, which focuses on building the health infrastructure in government hospitals, was appreciated and felicitated by HYSEA and Nirmaan during the launch of “Project UDAAN – A Skill Development & Employability Initiative’ on November 17. We are honored to have been recognized in the field of healthcare for bringing a positive impact towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

WQW’22 (World Quality week- 2022)

World Quality week was celebrated from 7 – 11 November 2022 across the organization. The theme of this year’s celebration (#WQW22) was “Quality conscience: doing the right thing”. This year’s theme provided an opportunity to reflect on how corporate culture and conscience can help or hinder an organization to make decisions and ‘do the right thing’ for all stakeholders. Engaging activities like quizzes, awareness events, and games were organized and message from Leadership was published.

Quality and Business Excellence Award Ceremony

This initiative was taken by Process Team as part of celebrating World Quality Week. Key accounts were felicitated with ‘Quality and Business Excellence Award’.Total of 9 accounts were selected for felicitation each from NA East, NA West and ROW (ACC, Insulet, RegEd, Pulte Group, Rent-A-Centre, Synovus, Atom Bank, British Airways and Lego) . As a token of appreciation, Raghu Krovvidy, our Chief Delivery Officer, handed over the memento. Also, Sudha Alluri thanked the process team for presenting the Business Excellence Award to the ACC team appreciating the great initiative, as well as the efforts made by the Process Team.

Celebrated Prasad Gundu, VP, Process &PMO, Cigniti Technologies, 10th Work Anniversary in office

Celebrated Ranganath Dindukurthi, VP, Global Delivery, Cigniti Technologies, 10th Work Anniversary.

Our Chairman & MD, Mr. C V Subramanyam and our President (RoW), Nanda Padmaraju were invited to a dinner reception to bid farewell to Mr. Andrew Fleming and to welcome Mr. Gareth Wynn Owen as the UK’s incoming Dy. High Commissioner. The event took place on Monday, Sep 26.

The Cigniti leaders met with the deputy high commissioners and other respected dignitaries including Mr. Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary of the Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT) to the Govt. of Telangana.

As part of our CSR initiatives under “Project Cignificance”, to provide quality education to underprivileged students, we have adopted the Government Primary School, Erramanzil under our education program “School Intervention Project.”

We inaugurated a Kids Smart classroom, an RO water plant, and a library for the students in the presence of Hariharasudhan Shanmugam, IT Director, Mrs. Rajeshwari, w/o our Chairman, C V Subramanyam, along with our CEO, Srikanth Chakkilam, our CMO, Sairam Vedam, our SVP, Corporate Services, Ms. Urmila Markili, and our Sr. Director, Marketing, Mr. Midhun Pingili and respected alumni members from the school. The leaders also distributed notebooks, workbooks, and desk kits to 200 students.

To enable teachers to use interactive multimedia content and also empower the students to adopt internet technology in their day-to-day activities Cigniti is proud to have inaugurated a Digital Classroom at Zilla Parishad High School, ZPHS (Girls), Shamshabad, Hyderabad. The inauguration ceremony was held in the presence of Subhadeep Bhattacharjee and Cigniti leaders, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO, and Sairam Vedam, CMO, Urmila Markili, SVP, Corporate Services and Midhun Pingili, Senior Director, Marketing. The leaders also distributed, workbooks and notebooks to 50+ students to provide access to better education.

The Digital Classroom, which is being implemented by our partner organization GMR VARALAKSHMI FOUNDATION (GMRVF), will enable teachers to use interactive multimedia content and also empower the students to adopt internet technology in their day-to-day activities.

A team of green enthusiasts from Cigniti, dedicated to protecting the Earth’s biodiversity and natural riches for the present and future generations, participated in the tree plantation activity organized by HYSEA in collaboration with Lead India Foundation at the Botanical Garden, Hyderabad.

As sustainability is at the core of Cigniti’s CSR initiatives, our volunteers were excited to get together, de-weed the area and water the saplings planted as part of the green initiative.

As part of Project Cignificance initiatives to support public healthcare infrastructure, Cigniti extended support to the Mother and Child Healthcare Centre in Nalgonda, India with critical medical equipment.

This equipment will be used in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of the healthcare facility that supports several low-income families in the region. With this upgrade, the facility will be able to treat about 1,000 critically ill or prematurely born infants per year.

The facility was inaugurated by our Chairman and MD, Mr. C V Subramanyam, along with our CMO, Mr Sairam Vedam, our SPV, Corporate Services, Ms Urmila Markili, and our Senior Director, Marketing, Mr Midhun Pingili on behalf of Cigniti. Mr. Kancharla Bhupal Reddy, MLA, Nalgonda, Govt. of Telangana graced the occasion.

As part of Project Cignificance, the HR team held a career awareness program for 180 students from three schools under the flagship New Little Scholars High School, Ranga Reddy District, Telangana.

Our HR leaders Veera Reddy, Swapna Vittal, Sirisha Kommireddi, Deepak Davey, and Mohana Balla, distributed certificates of achievement to students who had shown great enthusiasm and participated actively during the session. All attendees of the session – students and teachers alike – were also given souvenirs by the Cigniti team as a gesture of appreciation.

The students’ response to the event was enthusiastic, and it eventually turned into an enriching learning experience for them.

Nine volunteers from the Cigniti UK team joined and volunteered their time to aid a charity in SW London. The team went to Oasis Adventure Playground, a children’s organization that has a significant positive impact on the Stockwell neighborhood. It’s fun-filled outdoor play center offers recreation, support, and education to local youth. The team took on practical duties to help prepare the facility for a busy summer. They also learned about how important the charity is to locals who do not have access to outdoor living or play areas.

“A win for us to be all together helping to make a difference and a win for the charity getting help on tasks around the site that they struggle to get the time to do. Hard work but good fun too” Says, Jack Mortassagne, Client Partner, Sales and Marketing, Cigniti Technologies.

“It was a fun day and interesting finding out about the work of the charity. It felt good to do something completely different altogether for the benefit of others.” Says Rob La Velle, VP, Sales and Marketing, Cigniti Technologies.

At Cigniti, celebrating Navratri simply wouldn’t be the same without the traditional Dandiya Raas. It was a joyous moment where our employees came together in ethnic wear and unleashed their playful side by grooving to the rhythm of Garba and the beats of dandiya. These lively and enthusiastic performances filled our office with vibrant air of festivity.

BU Level Townhalls have been set up as a forum for Leadership contacts as part of the internal communications structure. Through MS Teams, the sessions were carried out digitally from both on-site and offshore locations. The dynamic and educational seminars provided a forum for teams to exchange accolades, thanks, and important business updates.

One of our esteemed client projects, recently marked a year of partnership with Cigniti. Leaders and team members, as well as HR, gathered at the office, while the onsite team communicated virtually via a Teams call. The occasion evolved into a big celebration complete with congratulatory cards, certificates of gratitude for hard effort, and plenty of fun.

In an endeavor to facilitate a better understanding and wider utilization of the Flexi benefits and to enable employees to plan their Tax savings better, the Total Rewards team has partnered with our third-party vendor – HDFC Bank, to organize a webinar on the benefits of National Pension Scheme.

This session was well participated and appreciated thus creating more scope for such educative sessions.

Physical fitness and lifespan are critical components of leading a happy and active life. Most diseases nowadays are caused by lifestyle choices rather than genetic factors. The Wellness Webinar themed “Invest in Your Health,” was a concentrated attempt to raise awareness of lifestyle-related health issues and prevention methods. Dr. Kiran, Managing Director and Senior Consultant at Dr. Kiran’s Diabetes Clinic & Research Institute spoke in depth on “Addressing METABISITY with Lifestyle Positive Changes” as our guest speaker. His insights on the harmful impacts of insufficient sleep, obesity, junk food, and other lifestyle factors and their direct impact on Diabetes, Metabolic illnesses, and Respiratory and Heart diseases were a personal reference to the audience as we struggle with them every day.

International Father’s Day 2022 was a day of dedication to the Superhero we fondly call “Dad”. “Down the memory lane with Dad” and Picture Perfect with Dad were apt initiatives to revive our memories of growing up under the watchful guidance of an affectionate Father.

We recognize that Employee Voice is critical in influencing the organization’s future. To reinforce this belief and to promote financial wellness as a pillar of the employee experience, we have implemented an expanded Flexible Benefit Pay (FBP) policy that will allow employees to structure and modify their CTC components based on the offered benefits to meet their unique personal needs while also providing them with a tax saving benefit. While the current structure allows for tax-saving perks such as Sodexo Meal coupons, NPS, and VPF, we have recently added the Leave Travel Allowance (LTA) and Professional Development Allowance (PDA) as well as telephone bill reimbursements.

Cigniti’s inclination toward its employees’ health and well-being has been a main emphasis area both during and after Covid. It’s an effort to engage the best health insurance service providers to elevate not only the benefits of improved insurance coverage but also the employee experience to deliver a holistic health benefit plan. We are delighted to work with Aon India as our Employee Benefits consultant to provide the best Annual Medical Insurance. The updated medical insurance benefit for 2022-23 provides better coverage than the prior year. Aside from improved maternity benefit coverage, the waiver of the 20% copay was a pleasant development.

The Mark and Jane Series.

Mumble Jumble.

Surprise Her – Mother’s Day Celebration.

Team Cigniti celebrated Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.

Introducing a new segment in weekly HR engagement mailers – Grandpa’s Audio TGIM.

Our Digital Dialogue - Webinar titled ‘ModelOps, ML Validation & ML Assurance: The Next Frontiers of AI-led Digital Assurance’ was hosted on Sep 15. Srinivas Atreya, Chief Data Scientist at Cigniti, Kiran Kuchimanchi, Chief Executive Officer at Cigniti and Sairam Vedam, Chief Marketing Officer at Cigniti hosted this series of Digital Dialogues that showcases Cigniti’s thought leadership in Digital Engineering and more. To watch a recording of the session, click here.

Hear Paul Trotter (Dy. CTO, Atom bank) at the ISG Executive Provider Summit 2022 in Orlando, Florida, as he shares his organization’s journey of Digital Transformation and how Cigniti Technologies helped them as their strategic Digital Assurance partner.

The New Face of Cigniti – The Nexus Between Our Today & Tomorrow