Cigniti made great strides in its journey towards becoming a leader in Digital Assurance through the past financial year. We held our position as a leading Quality Engineering organization by adding 67 new client logos to our portfolio of accounts across regions and industries. In key industries such as Healthcare-Life Sciences, Banking-Financial Services-Insurance and Retail, Cigniti won 10, 7 and 3 new clients respectively. We also added multiple Fortune 500 companies which helped reinforce Cigniti’s position as a strategic partner for enterprise transformation.
Moreover, the global analyst firm, Nelson Hall recognized Cigniti as a Leader in Quality Engineering, AI Testing and Continuous Testing in its NEAT 2020 charts. These accolades, key organizational milestones in the past financial year and an overview of our new opportunities in digital experience were recently published in the annual report as well. Here are the highlights of the new clients we won in FY2020-21.
An Inspiring Global Townhall
Women’s Day Celebration
At Cigniti we take pride in the ‘Women Power’ and what better way to reaffirm our commitment to this than make International Women’s Day 2021 a gala celebration on the virtual platform. An hour packed with Fun, Music, Dance, and a Dash of inspiration from a guest speaker – Anjana Sowmya, a renowned Singer from Tollywood. Her story of success was inspiring and her showcase of talent a perfect entertainer for the day.
The fun element extended with a Trivia around famous women personalities across the world which kept the audience’s fingers glued to the keyboards in pursuit of the ‘fastest fingers first’. A note from the Senior Leadership represented by Krishnan, our Global CFO was inspiring and apt for the occasion, acknowledging the strength Women bring into every role of their life. Singing and Dance performances by our in-house talent Alok and Upasana were breathtaking and a perfect culmination to the event.
Mother’s Day Celebration
Women’s health and well-being as part of Cigniti’ s diversity and inclusion charter is an extension to the employee value proposition apart from nurturing a gender-sensitive and safe workplace. The international Mother’s Day 2021 was celebrated on the 7th of May, with a focus on reiterating the significance of women’s health and bringing awareness on timely precautions.
This health talk was led by renowned gynecologist Dr. Jayanthi Reddy, who has 30+ years of experience in treating and helping cure major women’s health conditions. She also indulged the audience in a pep talk on matters that motivated women as multi-taskers, and primary caregivers and how it is important to focus on their health to be able to build healthier families.
Celebrating the harvest festival!
On the occasion of Makar Sankranti – commonly known as the Harvest Festival in many states of India, HR asked the Cignitians to share the different ways of celebrating the festival.
The colorful moments captured with various aspects of the festivities like Rangoli, the rural and cultural traditions along with family and loved ones were refreshing and portrayed the undampened spirit of celebration despite the Covid menace.
Cigniti in the news!
Building The Smart Fabric Of 5G Connectivity With Experience Assurance
Our CEO, Srikanth Chakkilam’s article has been featured in the BusinessWorld (BW) Magazine in the March 2021 edition. In this article, Srikanth talked about building the smart fabric of 5G connectivity with experience assurance and the use cases for 5G adoption.
Cigniti signs up as a Medecision Liberation Strategic Partner
Medecision, an integrated health management company that supports virtual care and digital health for more than 50 million healthcare consumers has signed us as their strategic partner. Cigniti will support them with comprehensive QA and software testing services.
We issued a Press Release announcing the partnership that can be accessed here.
Cigniti Partners with Sonatype to extend DevSecOps offerings
Sonatype, a company that scales DevOps through open-source governance and software supply chain automation will leverage their Nexus platform for Cigniti that will help customers shift left and automate open-source security at every stage of the software development lifecycle. This partnership will help enterprise customers innovate faster by scaling DevOps through open-source governance.
We issued a Press Release that can be accessed here.
HR Updates
In line with the advisory issued by the government, regarding precautionary measures to be followed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), we have encouraged employees to work from home, as your safety is our utmost priority.
We have extended work from home until June 30, 2021.
HR Communication
Our involvement with the employees amidst the pandemic has been constant through the below mentioned weekly newsletters on:
- #TGIM Emails
- #WednesdayWellness
- FRIYAY emails
- Policy&Process Nuggets
- COVID Precautions
- Know your Cigniti (KYC) Quiz
- Ethics & Compliance | Did You Know | Emailer series on Code Of Business Conduct
2020 Trivia
The 2020 Trivia was a rewind of memories and major happenings of the year, around the globe. The intent of this quiz was to help us look beyond the adversities of the year 2020 and reflect on the good things that happened. What could be a better way to bid farewell to the year that brought us to a point of reflection on our past, present and future!
The response to the trivia was overwhelming. This initiative was one of the ideas generated from the ‘Funtastic Idea’ survey rolled out for the global employees.
MyCigniti Logo Unveiled
The Logo creation contest was a run up activity for the launch of ‘MyCigniti’ -The new digital HR platform. The thought behind the contest was to bring in a sense of inclusion and belongingness for our global employees in the digital transformation journey of Cigniti. Exceeding the expectations, we received about 85 unique Logo designs from onsite and offshore offices.
One unique design was picked and unveiled during the Pre-Launch activities. Kudos to the creative minds at Cigniti!
‘MyCigniti’ and Performance Appraisal 2020
Performance Appraisal 2020 was launched in February and is administered through the new HRMS tool ‘MyCigniti’. The pre-launch teasers and post launch tool awareness mailers were adopted as a thoughtful approach to create a buzz and an introduction of the tool for the organization. The belief that the HR team has that the right amount of branding and awareness can go a long way in increasing the adoption and easy usage of the tool has undoubtedly paid off. There’s more in store for the subsequent months as the ‘MyCigniti’ Go-live.
Global HR Helpdesk
Taking us one step closer to better employee experience at Cigniti, the HR team has launched the ‘HRHelpdesk’. The purpose was to enable seamless and timely HR services and address employee queries within the SLA. HRHelpdesk is a one stop solution for all query resolution.
SCSC Award in ‘Best Organization for Covid 19 measures & CSR Support to Society’
In 2021, Cigniti continues its commitment to COVID-19 measures with a donation of Rs. 25 lakhs through the SCSC. These funds will support public health activities such as free ambulances, oxygen concentrators and other medical equipment for govt. hospitals, plasma donation, PPE kits for front line workers, Telemedicine, SCSC Covid Resources Support platform and more.
Rs. 25 Lakhs Donation for Covid Relief
When MEMEs are Life
This engagement activity was to bring out the creativity of expression regarding people’s experience through the year 2020 and also draw out their expectations from the new year 2021.
The responses were a mixed feeling of humor while few others were thought provoking. Another initiative that proved that creativity and talent is in the DNA of Cignitians.
NA East Townhall
More than 100 Cignitians attended the NA East Townhall where Sanjay Aloor, Associate Vice President NA East, shared updates on cross skilling, learning, and sharing best practices.
Raghu Krovvidy, Global Delivery Head shared business updates on the key accomplishment and challenges faced by the Organization and the way ahead.
Open Door With Raghu
Global Delivery Head, Cigniti, Jaya Raghuram interacted with 15 employees from Corporate, NA East, NA West, ROW, and Practices, who were nominated by the leadership team.
Raghu shared his thoughtful experiences and the best industry insights to help all gain the resourceful skills.
Leadership Meet
The leaders at Cigniti were invited for an offsite strategy meet with the IGB Members on 30th and 31st January, 2021. This meeting was primarily aimed at socializing the approved blueprint and strategy roadmap for our journey over the next few years to become a $500 Mn company and to discuss the execution plan for FY 2021-22.
Overview of our Thought Leadership
Recently published White papers
Cigniti Technologies commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a custom study, to explore the priorities and challenges of organizations in their software testing strategies. Download this report to know the views from 100+ Senior IT Leaders on accelerating Agile & DevOps journey with Continuous Testing. Please feel free to share with your contacts.
Cigniti QA Talks
European Digital Leader of the Year 2020 (Finance) and former CIO at dwpbank, Dr. Anke Sax, touched upon bridging the digital gap between customer needs & what technology can deliver in our latest podcast along with Robb LaVelle, VP of UK and Europe at Cigniti.
Subscribe and listen to this podcast on various platforms and don’t forget to share it with your peers in the industry.
Webinars
Cigniti, Forrester and Omni Logistics teamed up for a webinar on March 10th, 2021, that focused on “Accelerate Your Agile And DevOps Journey With Continuous Testing.”
The speakers Diego Lo Giudice, Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Christi Liebe, Global CIO at Omni Logistics and Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO & President at Cigniti, discussed on how IT leaders are adapting their testing strategy and implementation to current Agile and DevOps needs, how they view software testing partnerships, and how they can navigate upcoming challenges in an age of speed and quality.
An industry leader and a pioneer of Rapid, Exploratory, and Agile Testing, James Bach, CEO and Principal Consultant – Satisfice joined us for an exclusive webinar on ‘Shift Left or Squish Right: Getting Time to Test’ in which Kalyana Rao Konda, President, Cigniti, was the co-speaker.
The speakers focused on how to position testing at the right stage of the digital transformation journey to see comprehensive results.
ATS Highlights
ATS Team Milestones
- ATS average CSS Rating is 3.9/4
- ATS Team supported more than 100 RFP’s and still counting
- On-boarded New Consultants –Sushil Titus Thambu, Deepika Bandri, Bhaskar Chandrasekaran, Satish Kumar
- Secured highest Score in “Data Science + Python” Assessment by Hima Bindu Chinta
Process Team Milestones
Achievements:
- Successfully completed ISO 13485 (Medical Devices Quality Management Systems) surveillance audit
- Achieved following new certifications: ISO 45001:2018 – Occupational health and safety management systems, Cyber Essentials (Basic), bizSAFE level 1 and level 2 certification. bizSAFE is a recognized capability building programme (in Singapore) designed to help companies build workplace safety and health capabilities
- Participated in HYDSPIN benchmarking exercise
- Successfully completed CMMI 2.0 spot check and ATM training
Customer Satisfaction Status (CSS) for Q4-2020:
- CSS Initiated – 177
- CSS Collected – 94
- CSI Average at org level – 3.76/4.00
Learnings and Certifications:
- Process team completed “Facilitation Skills – Train The Trainer – Basic” course
- Pranam: Underwent a course on “Statistics” and currently undergoing “Full Stack Data Science“ course
- Komal: Underwent Lead Implementer Professional ISO/IEC 27701:2019 & GDPR course and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information security Management Systems Lead Auditor
- Jai & Vaishali: Underwent training on Jenkins and C#
Members of the team who completed the ATM training and cleared the exam for “Certified CMMI Associate”
- Prasad Gundu
- Hari Haranath Lanka
- Diwakar Konda
- Sangeetha Devi
- Pranam Kumar Tuljapurkar
- Komal Sanghai
ATS and Process teams celebrated the best days of the team members such as Birthdays and Anniversary and created captivating collaterals to send best wishes to all
Your Contribution 2 Your Cignature
Our Cignature reaches every Cignitian across the globe. It is a platform to showcase things we did, things we did differently and things we are happy to share with our Cigniti family.
We are inviting contributions from you. It’s time to let your colleagues and friends at office know about your hobbies, talent and interests. If you love photography, share some of your amazing shots. If you are a Youtuber, send in some of your creative videos in and around the workplace. If you love to write, send in your stories/articles/travelogues. If there is an award you won outside Cigniti, please do share that as well for publishing in subsequent editions of Cignature. Mail to cignature@cigniti.com.