Author - Cigniti
08 Feb

Leverage Quality Engineering to Achieve Secure Digital Payments

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It is estimated that, the total payments conducted via digital payment instruments will be USD 4 trillion globally and USD 500 billion in India by 2020.
- BCG-Google Digital Payments 2020 Report

The global payments landscape indeed is evolving at a rapid pace. Advent of smart phones, multiple other modes of simple, easy to use one touch digital payment modes, and entry of several non-banking institutions offering payment services and solutions has made digital payments a breeze. In fact, today, we have payment services, solution apps from Banking firms, Telco firms, Prepaid/Wallet companies, Ecomm vendors and specialized payment banks all competing in the same market.

Given the widespread choice of payment apps, customers will now be demanding for superior user experience, seamless interface, and secure access. The success of Digital Payments applications will be governed by Security, Data Integrity & Validation, User Experience, Intuitive Interface & Functionality, and Performance of the applications. As a result, software testing has emerged as the core strategy to ensure that digital payments take place without a glitch and ensure that financial transactions are secure.

SPEAKER PROFILE

SAI CHINTALA, President – Enterprise Solutions at Cigniti Technologies

Sai Chintala is Cigniti's President- Global Pre-Sales. He brings more than 25 years of rich technical and business experience. 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. At Cigniti he is responsible for overall business growth from existing and new customers. In addition, he also runs Cigniti’s solution development team. As an accomplished, recognized thought leader in the testing space, he works very closely with Cigniti’s delivery & sales teams. Under Sai’s leadership Cigniti’s Solution Engineering Teams constantly work to offer best in class solutions that enables quality engineering for digital enterprises.
Sai has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Lamar University in Texas and Bachelors in Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad.

RAGHURAM KROVVIDY, VP – Global Delivery at Cigniti Technologies

Raghuram Krovvidy is Vice President, Global Delivery at Cigniti Technologies. In this role, he manages Global Delivery on a day to day basis across all GEOs and verticals for Cigniti. He is a seasoned leader with 19+ years of experience where he has worked and led large testing practices at Accenture, AppLabs, IRIS Digital & NIIT. He has held different leadership positions in areas of Test Program/Project Management, Test Innovation & Transformations, Test Strategy & Assessments. He has rich experience in setting up testing teams, building test leadership and managing global testing practices. Raghu has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics from Osmania University and is an active & influential speaker in different Testing Conferences, including STC, TestWest.

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19 Jan

Phaneesh Murthy joins the board of Cigniti Technologies Inc. as a Non-Executive Director.

Phaneesh Murthy, global IT industry veteran, who spearheaded the growth story of companies like Infosys and iGate, has joined the board of Cigniti Technologies Inc. as a Non-Executive Director.

Phaneesh is a business leader with 25 years of experience in structuring and managing large outsourcing deals for Fortune 500 companies. Phaneesh’s previous roles include CEO & President of iGate Corporation and Worldwide Head of Sales and Marketing, Head of Communications, and Product Solutions Group at Infosys Ltd. He also consults for various businesses. Phaneesh is widely recognized as an Industry pioneer in propelling organizations to an all-round, multifold growth, and helping them reach leadership positions.

On this momentous occasion, Mr. C V Subramanyam, Chairman and Managing Director, Cigniti said “Phaneesh will advise the board and work closely with the Management at Cigniti to drive the business growth. We firmly believe that his association, inputs, and strategic direction will help us further accelerate our journey towards becoming the world’s largest and most respected independent software testing services company.”

Speaking on this occasion, Phaneesh said “In today’s rapidly changing digital world, organizations are powered by Intelligent software. Companies are now leveraging DevOps to release applications on an hourly mode, instead of annual basis as was the norm just a few years ago. I am excited to be a part of the company, which is attempting to ensure this agility through its leading IP-Led software testing services.”

Media Contacts:
Lucy.dass@2020msl.com | +91-9618782706
Midhun.pingili@cigniti.com | +91- 8886093093

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18 Dec

How QA & Digital Transformation are Changing Organizations

About Webinar

Digital innovators are effectively leveraging digital technologies to disrupt the way businesses function across industries. Customer centric products enable faster, more convenient and more fun usage, thereby increasing customer engagement. All of this translates to riding the digital wave for any given business to reach a good amount of market penetration.

Quality Assurance (QA) enters the fray by assuring business leaders around the world that their business is secured and the quality maintained is to near-perfection. QA engineers, with the help of DevOps, are striving to make a difference early on the application development lifecycle, thereby bringing in the need to test and certify a product right from the early stages itself. Businesses are beginning to test every aspect of their digital presence in order to ensure that their brand image and service offerings remain consistently qualitative.

In this webinar, the presenters, Pradeep G, CTO & President at Cigniti Technologies, and Robert Warakomski, Quality Engineering Senior Manager at Subway,  addressed all of the above topics and more, such as:

  1. The importance of effectively merging Shift-Left and Shift-Right testing approaches in order to enable continuous integration
  2. How predictive analysis, wearable devices and artificial intelligence are radically transforming businesses?
  3. The impact of major retailers across the globe, as well as insights to travel and hospitality industry
  4. How Digital assurance is different from traditional QA?

Speakers:

Speaker Profile 1: PRADEEP G, CTO & President at Cigniti Technologies

Pradeep G is the Chief Technology Officer at Cigniti Technologies. Pradeep is an industry thought leader in software testing, with over 15 years of experience. He has strong expertise in setting up Testing Centers of Excellence around Test management, Automation, Mobility, SOA and Functional testing. He has been the key champion in setting up several niche skill practices for testing services. He has been a keynote speaker in several conferences and has published several whitepapers

 

Speaker Profile 2: ROBERT WARAKOMSKI, Quality Engineering Leader at Subway

Robert Warakomski is a Quality Engineering Senior Manager at Subway, with almost 30 years of professional IT experience. He spent most of his career in software development, most recently as lead developer for Subway.com, before moving to the Quality Engineering department as senior manager. Robert is responsible for all aspects of quality across several software projects, managing both internal and external teams, and improving the efficiency of all quality processes.

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15 Dec

Gartner Positions Cigniti Technologies as a ‘Niche Player’ in 2016 Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide.

Cigniti Technologies has been positioned as a “Niche Player” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services, Worldwide. Cigniti has been positioned in the Magic Quadrant for 2 years in a row.

“This achievement reinforces our ability to provide world class testing and Quality Engineering services to clients across small to midsize to large enterprises, helping them succeed in their Digital, Agile and DevOps transformation initiatives. We have invested in our domain capabilities and over the years we have developed strong success stories in airlines, BFSI, high tech, retail, and energy & utilities verticals,” says Pradeep Govindasamy – CTO & President - NA, Cigniti Technologies.

“By 2020, Agile and DevOps initiatives will cause at least 75% of enterprises to implement test automation. By 2020, 60% of testing resources will need to have a combination of testing skills, application development skills, and business process skills or industry skills,” Gartner mentioned in the Magic Quadrant.

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“We have great focus on developing IP and methodologies that help client automate testing. Our next generation software testing platform, ‘BlueSwan’ is an outcome of our innovations,” Pradeep added.

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“With this positioning, Gartner Magic Quadrant has featured Cigniti 2 years in a row, solidifying our growth in the software testing services marketplace. We have been growing steadily, with a 57% CAGR during the past four years and more than 40% YoY revenue growth, as well as 38% growth of testing resources from the second half of 2015 through the first half of 2016,” says Srikanth Chakkilam – Executive Director, Cigniti Technologies.

The application testing service market, with a copious number of providers, is fast-growing. Both full IT services providers and dedicated, pure-play application testing service providers coexist. Gartner is aware of about 300 companies in this market. This Magic Quadrant assesses 18 of the leading application service providers based on specified inclusion criteria.

Access Magic Quadrant here.

About Magic Quadrant

Gartner does not endorse any vendor; product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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+ career testers 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 Quality Engineering, Advisory & Transformation, Next Generation Testing, and Core Testing.

1 Gartner Magic Quadrant by Susanne Matson, Patrick J. Sullivan, Gilbert van der Heiden, 28-Nov-16

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for Cigniti Technologies
Lucy Dass, +91-9618782706
Lucy.dass@2020msl.com

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29 Nov

SUBWAY Wins Cigniti’s “Most Innovative” Award for Quality Assurance Practices

SUBWAY® restaurants was recently presented with the “Most Innovative” award for its Quality Engineering & Assurance practices at LiQE 2016, one of the most prestigious and global Quality Engineering (QE) event held at Texas. Leadership in Quality Engineering (LiQE) has become one of the leading Quality Assurance (QA) platforms, giving QE & QA professionals a forum to learn and share their views on software testing trends.

“We are delighted to have won this award,” said Carman Wenkoff, CIO and Chief Digital Officer of SUBWAY®. “Today, Quality Assurance is so much about the value that end users derive from a product. Organizations are quickly grasping that the job is far from done upon the initial launch or eventual delivery of the product or service.”

Robert Warakomski, a Senior Quality Engineering Manager at SUBWAY® world headquarters and LiQE panelist, emphasized the urgency of Shift-Left Testing at the panel discussion of LiQE 2016. A former software development engineer, Warakomski had long observed a noticeable gap between software development and QA, and that QA received little to no attention and discussion at software conferences.

“We are proud to be working with Subway,” said Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO & President (Americas) Cigniti. “It gives us immense pleasure to present them with this award. Cigniti is privileged to be working with the successful restaurant-chain,” he continued, “and proud to have contributed to Subway’s IT processes. Cigniti’s test automation services during regression testing helped cover 90% of the functionality.”

Some of the best practices included in the DevOps implementation at SUBWAY® are:

  • Continuous Integration process for all of the automation projects
  • In-sprint automation for better ROI
  • Process Streamlining by maintaining test artifacts, activities, and efforts in TFS
  • Automating status reports to promote transparency among projects
  • An Automation Master Framework
  • Payment manager automation

SUBWAY® Restaurants

Guests in 112 countries have easy access to a fresh line-up of vegetables for their made-to-order sandwiches and salads at more than 44,600 franchised locations. Sandwich Artists® serve 7.5 million sandwiches a day around the world. The company, founded 50 years ago by then 17-year-old Fred DeLuca and family-friend Dr. Peter Buck, is still a family-owned business with thousands of dedicated franchisees/entrepreneurs in neighborhoods around the world, providing easy access to vegetables, detailed nutrition, dietary, and healthy lifestyle information. This has been a priority for the SUBWAY® restaurants chain for many years. To learn more, visit www.subway.com. SUBWAY® is a registered trademark of Subway IP.

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+ career testers 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 Quality Engineering, Advisory & Transformation, Next Generation Testing, and Core Testing.

Contacts

Cigniti Technologies
Lucy Dass, +91-9618782706
Lucy.dass@2020msl.com

Source : http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161129005713/en/SUBWAY-Wins-Cigniti%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9CMost-Innovative%E2%80%9D-Award-Quality
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28 Nov

Goodbye Apps, Hello Bots!

Sairam Vedam, VP & Global Head of Marketing, Cigniti Technologies, says that Business in digital world has a new fulcrum of operations called conversational commerce. Read this full article to know why Bots are going to replace the Apps.

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10 Nov

CIO Review Magazine:10 Software Testing trends that are powering the future

The Software testing industry is undergoing a transformation in order to support the swiftly altering technologies. Technology concepts such as such as Social, Cloud, IoT, Mobile and Analytics (SCIMA), are driving innovation in business. In this article of, Pradeep G, CTO & President – North America, Cigniti Technologies, talks about the 10 Software Testing trends that are powering the future.

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30 Oct

10 Emerging Trends in Software Testing

ABOUT WEBINAR

Software testing industry is experiencing transformation to align with the rapidly changing technologies (SMAC & IOT), development methodologies (Agile, DevOps) & tools (Significantly open source coupled with low cost commercial tools). This session will showcase insights and trends observed in the software testing space based on individual experiences, leading analyst reports, empirical findings and observations from independent testing services provider perspective. Emphasis will be on top 10 testing trends that every testing organization and testing practitioner should watch out and align to stay ahead.

In this session, Kalyan will focus on:

  • Emergence of SDET role & why it will become “a new normal” by 2020
  • Market share and ever growing interest in Open source test tools and why they will rule the future?
  • Is TCoE approach still relevant in the context of raise in Agile/DevOps?
  • Why new test approaches are required to deliver “Quality at high speed”?
  • Digital is disrupting every industry. What it means for Testing?
  • Important considerations in Big Data testing
  • In the Era of connected devices (IOT), what it means to testing?
  • Why do we need to move to “Quality Engineering” from “Quality Assurance” in DevOps ?
  • Business case for “Autonomous Test automation architectures”
  • Qualities of a modern day tester

SPEAKERS' PROFILE

 

Kalyana Rao Konda

Kalyana Rao Konda is the President & Global Head of Gallop Solutions Inc., a Philadelphia based software testing services company which helps businesses maximize returns on investments in their software quality initiatives. With nearly two decades of experience in IT Services, particularly testing, Kalyan led large QA teams of 2000+ people at AppLabs as VP- Global Delivery and had been in QA leadership roles with Virtusa & BaaN earlier. He has a rare mix of high technical understanding with a pragmatic approach to testing services delivery.

He has a patent pending with USPTO for ‘iGenerate test Scenario’ and ‘Web Services Validator’ filed last year. He was a speaker at many international testing conferences and the recent ones include DevOps East, Star East etc.. Kalyan also received the prestigious 40 Under 40 Award 2016 from Philadelphia Business Journal this month and has been awarded with Philadelphia Cornerstone CEO awards as well.

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13 Oct

Cigniti releases test platform with predictive analytics

BlueSwan is the ideal testing tool for banks seeking to accelerate their digital transformation, firm says.
BlueSwan- Cigniti’s recently launched next generation proprietary testing platform gets featured in QA Financial, a London based Quality Assurance and Financial services portal. In this interview, Sairam Vedam, VP & Head – Global Marketing at Cigniti, highlighted how Cigniti’s BlueSwan can help accelerate the quality engineering initiatives for digital transformation of Banks, Financial Institutions and other industries.

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13 Oct

APAC CIO Outlook Positions Cigniti Technologies as a “25 Most Promising QA Testing Solutions Provider.”

APAC CIO Outlook, in its current edition, recognised “25 Most Promising QA Testing Solutions Providers in 2015.” This list highlighted Cigniti Technologies as the 25 Most Promising QA Testing Solutions Provider in the industry and leads the QA space with unparalleled year on year growth of 50 percent on an average.

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Webinar on Migrate2Selenium
30 Sep

Webinar on Migrate2Selenium

WEBINAR SUMMARY

Adopting Agile and DevOps practices have become imperative in order to support organizational goals both in terms of reducing time to market and for improving product Quality. One of the key levers for reducing time for test cycles is by developing a robust test automation suite that can help you continuously validate the quality of the application being delivered to production.

Selenium has been a popular automation tool of choice by leading Enterprises specially those who have embarked on the Agile / Devops journey. Enterprises that are currently undergoing the transformation journey are often compelled to write off their current automation investments due to the change in the choice of automation tools.

In this unique webinar, Gallop is pleased to evangelize one-of-a-kind test automation solution that can help you seamlessly migrate your current test automation scripts of commercial tools - for example, HP UFT, Test Complete, Silk Test, and all the other popular ones - to the Selenium test suite. This will help you retain, and enhance the value of your current investments.

This webinar will provide detailed insight into drivers for migrating to Selenium, challenges that you are likely to encounter when embarking on the transformation journey, and shall also provide you a systematic approach to drive transformation.

 

Speaker Profiles

Rajesh Sarangapani,
Asst. Vice President

Rajesh Sarangapani is Asst. Vice President, Global delivery and heads the Technology CoEs at Gallop Solutions. Over the last 17 years, Rajesh has been instrumental in helping clients implement processes that helped them build application performance by design rather than as an afterthought. He holds couple of patents to his name in the testing space and is a prominent speaker in various conferences, events and webinars on Software testing. Prior to joining Gallop, Rajesh has worked with reputed organizations like Accenture, AppLabs, Virtusa, Baan & others. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Electronics from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

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14 Sep

Cigniti Technologies is a Proud Sponsor at SASTQB TEST-IT AFRICA 2016

Meet Raviram Karra, Senior Delivery Manager at Table #8 to know more about Cigniti

SASTQB TEST-IT AFRICA 2016 will take place on 14, 15 and 16 September 2016 at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton South Africa.

Themed "Software Quality for Africa" the SASTQB and its partners hope to make this a truly African event, exploring software testing opportunities and finding solutions to testing challenges on the African continent.

Click here to read more and register.

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01 Sep

Cigniti Technologies is a Proud Sponsor at SASTQB TEST-IT AFRICA 2016

Meet Raviram Karra, Senior Delivery Manager at Table #8 to know more about Cigniti

SASTQB TEST-IT AFRICA 2016 will take place on 14, 15 and 16 September 2016 at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton South Africa.

Themed "Software Quality for Africa" the SASTQB and its partners hope to make this a truly African event, exploring software testing opportunities and finding solutions to testing challenges on the African continent.

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Sneak Peek into Selenium 3.0
01 Sep

Sneak Peek into Selenium 3.0

WEBINAR SUMMARY

At a 2013 conference session, Simon Stewart, the Selenium project lead and inventor of WebDriver, announced that Selenium 3.0, a widely used tool for user-focused automation of mobile and web apps, would be released by Christmas. Three years after that announcement, Selenium 3.0 still hasn't been released, but this month we got more information about Selenium 3.0 and a more likely release time frame. On 25th May 2016, in a webinar, Stewart did reveal further details about Selenium 3.0. The webinar only had room for 1,000 participants, but the registration list was well over 10,000.

We at Gallop Solutions, Silver Sponsors of Selenium project, bring you the highlights of the announcement and provide insights into roadmap of Selenium project in our webinar.

In this webinar we covered:

  • Big changes regarding old Selenium core libraries and focus on Webdriver API
  • Impact or changes to WebDriver API of Selenium 2.0
  • Changes in the Selenium Java APIs
  • Advantages of having W3C WebDriver specifications
  • Increasing importance of browser vendors
  • Roadmap of Selenium

This webinar is based on things we have known from our direct references and information obtained in SeleniumHQ webinars. Folks attending the webinar would gain insights on Selenium 3.0 & what changes are needed to be done to the existing Selenium suites to make them 3.0 ready. We will also cover a peek view into the Selenium roadmap beyond 3.0, that is, 4.0 and 5.0. View the webinar recording below.

SPEAKER’S PROFILE

Soujanya Jaggu
Senior Architect at Gallop

Soujanya has over 14 years of experience in Quality Assurance Engineering and is an expert with diverse automation solutions such as SilkTest, WinRunner, QTP, Selenium using Java, FlexMonkium, FlexMonkey, Selenium-flex-ui, Native Driver, Eclipse TPTP, Twist, Calabash cucumber (for iOS), Calabash android, NodeJS tools protractor and nightwatchJS.

She leads the automation practice at Gallop. Her command over build tools such as ANT and Maven to build the automation suites and execution flow, Test Frameworks like TestNG to build the configuration files for automation & Selenium Grid to implement parallel execution of automation suites is exemplary.

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01 Aug

Cigniti is Recognized as a ‘Leader’ in NelsonHall NEAT Report for Software Testing 2016

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.

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According to NelsonHall’s 2016 Cigniti Software Testing profile by Dominique Raviart, IT Services Practice Director, “Cigniti’s visibility among testing pure-plays is a strength: with its 2,200+ career testers, Cigniti is the second largest software testing pure-play by headcount.” Dominique further added, “Cigniti continues to develop IP and accelerators, like SMART Tools, Migration Tools (QuickLean, Migrate2Selenium) and new age DevOps Dashboard, Agile & Digital IPs. This is in line with NelsonHall’s view that the future of software testing industry is about complementing testing tools with proprietary IP and platforms.”

Know more at http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160801005635/en/Cigniti-Recognized-Leader-NelsonHall-NEAT-Report-Software

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