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Cigniti expands its global footprint with opening of an office in Singapore

Jul 1, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #CEO, #Cigniti, #Cigniti’s head of RoW business, #Nanda Padmaraju, #Srikanth Chakkilam

Cigniti expands its global footprint with opening of an office in SingaporeMumbai: Cigniti Technologies, world’s leading Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing Services company, today announced the opening of their first office in Singapore. With this new expansion, Cigniti further extends its global footprint in the Asia Pacific region to meet the growing digital transformation needs of leading enterprises based in the region.

“Cigniti is recognised globally for its innovative approach to assisting enterprises in their Quality Engineering and Digital transformation initiatives leveraging proprietary IP, AI & ML driven frameworks and highly agile & DevOps development methodologies. As more and more enterprises in the Asia Pacific region look towards aligning their transformation roadmaps to leverage the benefits of next-generation technologies such as RPA, Automation, AI, Cloud and IoT, Cigniti is committed to providing customers with the insights, advisory and services they need to accelerate their digital and business transformation, and drive higher ROI from their QA initiatives”, said Nanda Padmaraju, Cigniti’s head of RoW business. “This is a key milestone for us and we are keen on investing in the region, leverage the diverse hi-tech talent available locally and help towards further strengthening the QA community in the region”, he added.

“As we looked at expanding our presence in Asia Pacific, Singapore was a natural choice as it is a global business hub, with great connectivity, technologically sophisticated infrastructure, and overall a very supportive business ecosystem and government,” said Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO, Cigniti.

We already are working with several leading enterprises in Singapore as their strategic quality engineering partner, and our new office in the heart of Singapore will enable us to be more agile and responsive to the needs of our clients in the region and serve them better.

About Cigniti: Cigniti Technologies is a Global Leader in Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing services. Cigniti’s 2,900+ experienced professionals are spread across US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, UAE, and South Africa. We are a strategic quality engineering partner for leading global organizations and assist them in accelerating time-to-market by predicting and preventing unanticipated failures, leveraging AI-driven, proprietary Continuous Testing & Test Automation solutions, with customer-centricity at the core of the transformation. Our test offerings are Quality Engineering, Advisory & Transformation, Digital Assurance, and Quality Assurance solutions.

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Cigniti positioned as a ‘Niche player’ in Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide

Dec 15, 2020 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #CEO, #Cigniti, #Cigniti Technologies, #Gartner, #Inc., #Srikanth Chakkilam

Mumbai: Cigniti Technologies, a global leader in independent quality engineering and software testing services, today announced that it has been as positioned as a ‘Niche Player’ in the December 2020 Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide. This is the 6th consecutive year Cigniti has been positioned in this Magic Quadrant.

Gartner is aware of about 300 providers offering application testing services globally, but these providers are not the complete marketplace. The Magic Quadrant assesses 20 of the service providers offering testing services including consulting services, implementation, integration and managed services, based on specified inclusion criteria.

According to Gartner, “The demand for intelligent and highly automated testing services is driven by the need for continuous quality excellence at a lower cost. This report guides sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders in making better sourcing decisions when selecting application testing service providers.”

Many of the world’s largest and most innovative companies turn to Cigniti to get assistance on accelerating their digital transformation efforts and obtaining higher returns on their investments into Quality Engineering initiatives. Cigniti has a strong application testing expertise and uses its portfolio of testing IP, including its core testing platform, BlueSwan. Cigniti leverages its test automation accelerators, industry accelerators and testing labs within mobile, IoT, medical devices and robotics, as well as its COEs in enterprise application platforms (such as Oracle, SAP and Salesforce), RPA, cybersecurity, and specialized testing areas like performance, mobile and test data management for delivering customer-centric quality assurance services.

This year, Cigniti also received 5-star  reviews and has been rated by its enterprise customers a 4.8 out of 5 on Gartner Peer Insights for Application Testing Services, Worldwide based on 43 ratings in the last 12 months. Cigniti received the highest number of ratings across all providers in the application testing services category.

Speaking on the occasion, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO, Cigniti, said “To us, getting consistently positioned in the Magic Quadrant and great feedback on Gartner Peer Insights stands testament to the faith large enterprise clients have placed on us in driving quality engineering initiatives for them. Our focus on delivering value through proprietary IP and client centricity has helped us gain this trust and recommendations from our clients.”

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Toyota Motor Corporation Australia selects Cigniti Technologies as a strategic Quality Engineering partner

Nov 9, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Cigniti Technologies, #Engineering partner, #Srikanth Chakkilam, #Toyota Australia, #Toyota Motor Corporation Australia

Cigniti Technologies, a global leader in independent quality engineering and software testing services, is now a strategic Quality Engineering panel vendor for Toyota Motor Corporation Australia (TMCA), a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, to help accelerate its Quality & Digital transformation journey over the next 3 years.

Speaking on the occasion, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO at Cigniti Technologies, said “It is exciting and a proud moment for all of us at Cigniti to serve a leading automobile company. In this IOT enabled future of connected and autonomous vehicles, Technology will disrupt the entire automotive value chain.

Software is going to greatly influence the future of the automobile industry. Digital transformation in the automobile industry will take place in the future across the value chain from the connected supply chain and manufacturing, to providing a virtual experience in the car buying process, Car Mobility as a Service, and autonomous driving. It is very important to ensure that high-quality software will enhance the customer experience”.

Cigniti has been working with Toyota Australia since 2017. This new agreement with Cigniti will assist Toyota in increasing its automation cadence by achieving test automation and non-functional testing goals across multiple digital platforms.

Cigniti Australia has enabled over 80 organisations from Airlines, Government agencies, Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Energy & Utilities and Manufacturing sectors in their software testing and quality assurance transformation journey in the past 6 years.

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NelsonHall recognizes Cigniti as a Leader in AI Testing & overall Quality Engineering capabilities

Sep 9, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #(NEAT), #AI Testing, #Cigniti, #Dominique Raviart, #NelsonHall, #Srikanth Chakkilam

Mumbai, 9th Sept, 2020: Cigniti Technologies has been positioned as a Leader in NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation & Assessment Tool (NEAT) chart 2020 for AI Testing, Continuous Testing, and overall Quality Engineering capabilities.

Evaluating vendors on both their ‘ability to deliver immediate benefit’ and their ‘ability to meet client future requirements’, vendors are identified in one of four categories: Leaders, High Achievers, Innovators, and Major Players. Leaders are the vendors that exhibit both a high ability relative to their peers to deliver immediate benefit and a high capability relative to their peers to meet clients’ future requirements.

Speaking on the occasion, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO – Cigniti Technologies said, “There is increased adoption of AI-based systems across the industries to provide better customer experience and delivering quality applications at speed. Cigniti leverages AI to test as well as tests AI-based systems. Our AI-driven quality engineering approach for continuous testing (CT), Agile, and DevOps helps enterprises accelerate their digital transformation.”

“We continue to significantly invest in our IP, BlueSwan™ and enhance its capabilities, to create new IP-based solutions, such as AI-led test data management, test environment management and security engineering. We have enriched Verita and Velocita with the AI-based analytics use cases which are helping our enterprise clients to achieve significant acceleration in their org-wide test automation initiatives.” Srikanth added.

The NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation & Assessment Tool (NEAT) allows strategic sourcing managers to assess the capability of vendors across a range of criteria and business situations. It helps them identify the best performing vendors overall with a specific focus on AI testing, continuous testing, UX testing and more.

Commenting on this, Dominique Raviart, IT Services Practice Director at NelsonHall said, “Cigniti has expanded its capabilities toward continuous testing and functional automation. The company has a systematic IP strategy to bring further automation to QA in the context of continuous testing and agile projects. Cigniti has also quickly expanded its range of AI use cases; it is one of the few vendors that has invested in non-functional AI use cases, targeting security testing.”

Access the report here to understand the criteria for selecting a software testing services vendor.