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Cigniti Technologies appoints Jayabrata Nag as VP & Global Head of Partnership and Alliances

Cigniti Technologies appoints Jayabrata Nag as VP & Global Head of Partnership and Alliances

Dallas, April 8, 2021: Cigniti Technologies, world’s leading Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing services company, today announced the appointment of Jayabrata Nag as their Vice President and Global Head of Partnership and Alliances, responsible for building strategic partnerships that contribute to the overall growth and expansion of the company.

Jayabrata comes with 22 years of experience as an accomplished partnership, strategy, marketing and business development leader with a proven track record in leading high-impact strategic initiatives across global markets. When engaging Fortune 500 enterprises as well as born-digital start-ups, he focuses on enterprise IT products and services addressing Digital transformations, Data and Analytics led competitive advantages, Hyperautomation benefits, experience enrichment through Conversational Computing with AI driven NLP, Cybersecurity, and Hybrid Cloud technologies. He has delivered strong consistent results for global IT leaders such as HCL Technologies and Infosys across multiple verticals including BFSI, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, Education, and other industries.

Cigniti Technologies appoints Jayabrata Nag as VP & Global Head of Partnership and Alliances

Cigniti Technologies appoints Jayabrata Nag as VP & Global Head of Partnership and Alliances

Dallas, April 8, 2021: Cigniti Technologies, world’s leading Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing services company, today announced the appointment of Jayabrata Nag as their Vice President and Global Head of Partnership and Alliances, responsible for building strategic partnerships that contribute to the overall growth and expansion of the company.

Jayabrata comes with 22 years of experience as an accomplished partnership, strategy, marketing and business development leader with a proven track record in leading high-impact strategic initiatives across global markets. When engaging Fortune 500 enterprises as well as born-digital start-ups, he focuses on enterprise IT products and services addressing Digital transformations, Data and Analytics led competitive advantages, Hyperautomation benefits, experience enrichment through Conversational Computing with AI driven NLP, Cybersecurity, and Hybrid Cloud technologies. He has delivered strong consistent results for global IT leaders such as HCL Technologies and Infosys across multiple verticals including BFSI, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, Education, and other industries.

Announcing on Jayabrata’s appointment, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO at Cigniti said, “at Cigniti, we have been working with several leading tool vendors to offer better solutions to our clients. The hiring of Jayabrata is a strategic one as we aim to institutionalize the partnerships with these vendors that would help exponential business growth. We have also identified few business partners based on growth and long-term strategy of the company to generate revenue through these channels by building capability and GTM plans.”

Jayabrata holds an MBA in Marketing from IMI, New Delhi, India.

About Cigniti: Cigniti Technologies is a Global Leader in Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing services. Cigniti’s 2,700+ 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.

Contact: Midhun.pingili@cigniti.com

Cigniti partners with Passbrains to offer Crowd Testing & Digital Assurance Services

Hyderabad, 11/10/18 India: Cigniti Technologies, a global leader in Independent Quality Engineering & Software testing services company, has partnered with Passbrains to offer Crowd Testing Services.

Cigniti, Global Leader in Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing, and Passbrains, provider of enterprise crowdsourcing solutions & services for digital assurance and crowd testing, announced a partnership that will enable Cigniti's team of verified domain testers for crowd testing to help enterprises use the services of real testers on real devices anywhere.

After nearly two years of close collaboration, Cigniti and Passbrains agreed on getting into a strategic partnership to leverage each other’s offerings to help customers in designing, testing and validating leading apps, websites and digital products. Through this strategic partnership, Cigniti further leverages the Passbrains’ global vetted community of over 50,000 user testers and testing professionals.

The new alliance aims to accelerate software innovation for enterprises and ensure an impeccable user experience for their customers. Passbrains’ rapid automated crowd staffing ability and crowd project management tools provided through their proven platform technology allow Cigniti to achieve record device coverage and turnaround times by ramping up carefully selected test participants and reporting results in a matter of hours, which are made accessible through Passbrains’ powerful online analytic tools.

Gartner predicts that by 2020, crowd testing will be a critical element in 60% of mobile application testing service engagements. Many IT service providers and global organizations already include real user research and crowdtesting in their quality assurance processes and projects. This helps accelerate their market launches and gain economies of scale for their web & mobile apps and digital devices.

“We are excited about our strategic partnership with Passbrains”, said Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO, Cigniti Technologies. “This partnership will enable both Cigniti and Passbrains to offer a complete portfolio of Quality Engineering services to our clients, delivered through a global crowdsourcing platform. It empowers us more to help improve the quality and user experience of enterprise applications, resulting in better value for our clients, globally." 

"Cigniti’s leading market position and excellent service portfolio combined with Passbrains’ proven platform solution and long-term expertise in user research and crowd testing will enable us to deliver best-in-class digital assurance solutions to customers of both companies. This strategic collaboration is a significant step forward for our companies and will actively contribute to our mutual success!” says Dieter Speidel, CEO of Passbrains.

About Cigniti:

Cigniti Technologies Limited (BSE: 534758, NSE: CIGNITITEC; www.cigniti.com), Global Leaders in Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing Services, is headquartered at Hyderabad, India. Cigniti Technologies Inc., a Delaware incorporated corporation, with its principal place of business within US at Irving, Texas and King of Prussia, Philadelphia, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cigniti Technologies Limited, India. Cigniti group’s 2100+ experienced professionals 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 9001:2015 & ISO 27001:2013 certified. Cigniti’s test offerings include Quality Engineering, Advisory & Transformation, Digital Assurance and Quality Assurance, powered by Mobile, IoT, Smart Meter, Medical and Robotics labs. Having served several Fortune 500 & Global 2000 companies, Cigniti has translated its R&D into BlueSwan, the next generation and proprietary test platform. Leading Analysts like Gartner, Forrester, NelsonHall, Everest, Frost & Sullivan, and Forbes have consistently mentioned, awarded, and commended Cigniti for its leadership and growth in the independent software testing services space.

Press Contact: Midhun.pingili@cigniti.com

About Passbrains:

Passbrains is a global provider of crowdsourced digital testing solutions through a leading technology platform. With a global community of more than fifty thousand user testers and testing professionals, the company helps customers to design winning apps and digital products through user research, open innovation, design assessments, and field validation.

Passbrains operates delivery centers in Switzerland, Germany, Serbia, and India, serving global clients including fortune 500 enterprises across telecom, media & entertainment, retail, financial services, energy, automotive and other high-tech industry sectors.

Press Contact: marketing(at)passbrains.com

 

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Accelerating Digital Transformation Journey with Digital Assurance QA

WEBINAR SUMMARY

Enterprises are undergoing a rapid Digital transformation journey as digitization has become a mandate today as opposed to just being an innovative trend. Based on Industry estimates, spending on “Digital transformation” initiatives will increase to 40% to 50% of the overall IT budget by 2020. CXOs need to deliver on these initiatives in a high speed, iterative, and continuous manner while delivering quality @ speed.

Delivering with high quality @ speed in digital transformation initiatives requires a completely new way of approaching testing because of the trending development approaches (Agile, DevOps), Technologies (Social, Mobile, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics & IoT) & Tools (Significant open source seamlessly coupled with commercial).

Digital Assurance QA calls for the need for a new testing role titled “Digital Test Engineer”. To assure high quality customer experience in digital era, along with traditional types of tests, Digital Test Engineer is required to perform tests like, Social Media Web Services integration tests, Omni Channel testing, A/B testing with multiple variants, High volume & high velocity data tests, Customer Sentiment analysis & experience testing, Devices/sensors/Wearables testing, Big Data testing (Capture, Ingestion, processing & visualization), Responsive Web Design testing (Browsers, wearables, tablets, mobiles etc..), Machine to Machine testing and testing in production.

In this webinar, the presenter, Sai Chintala, Senior Vice President, Global Pre-Sales has addressed all of the above topics and more, such as:

  • How Digital assurance is different from traditional QA
  • Test case automation to Life cycle automation
  • Descriptive metrics to Predictive and prescriptive metrics
  • Effectively combining Shift-Left and Shift-Right testing approaches to enable continuous testing

SPEAKER’S PROFILE

Sai Chintala
Senior Vice President

Sai Chintala is Senior Vice President, Global Pre-Sales and brings more than 21 years of rich technical and business experience on board. He has worked extensively in North America and India. He has dealt in detail with Global Enterprises, Fortune companies, and ISVs across technologies and domains. He is responsible for overall business growth from existing and new customers. In addition, he also runs the solution development team. As an accomplished, recognized thought leader in the testing space, Sai works very closely with delivery & sales teams.

Earlier, Sai was an integral part of AppLabs (now a CSC company) executive leadership teams. He has seen AppLabs grow to become a 2500 head count world leader in testing space with a modest beginning of 20 people at the time of his joining. Spending close to a decade at AppLabs, Sai was instrumental in providing leadership to the Global Solutions Engineering Group. He drove new business development efforts by strongly leveraging AppLabs IP and its innovative solution approach. He also lead the delivery teams providing business rich testing services for customers across verticals such as Transportation, Media, Entertainment, Retail, Technology, E-Learning, and Energy. An authority in multiple areas of Software Testing, he drove centers of excellence in Performance & Security Testing, Test Automation, Device / Hardware Certification, Mobile, and ERP Testing Services.