Author - Cigniti

21 Jul

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.

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17 May

DataQuest: IoT, its impact and the importance of Testing

Sairam Vedam, VP & Head – Global Marketing at Cignti Technologies talks about the impact of IoT in future and the importance of Testing.

IoT is the networking of physical object through embedded sensors, actuators and devices that collect and transmit information about the object. Computers, vehicles, machinery, gadgets, smartphones, just about everything can be connected and made to talk to each other without human intervention. IoT is revolutionizing the way we operate our business, irrespective of the industry or geography.

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08 May

Importance of Quality Control and Software Testing in Telecom

In an interview with Tele.net.in magazine, Sai Chintala, SVP–Global Presales at Cigniti Technologies, talks about the quality control and the need for an extensive software testing in Telecom.

Quality can be achieved through rigorous and continuous testing of the respective systems in a given ecosystem, which, in turn, would help in increasing customer satisfaction. In this article, Sai Chintala, SVP, explains the various quality assurance/testing in Telecom industry to keep ahead in the race.

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Testing Banking & Financial Applications
13 Apr

Testing Banking & Financial Applications

ABOUT WEBINAR

In this webinar, Sachin Srivastava, Director Delivery, Gallop Solutions have shared some thought provoking insights including best practices, strategies and key testing areas while dealing with testing banking and financial applications

This webinar discusses about:

  • How can we benefit from the latest test strategies that are being laid out for the next world?
  • Testing ATM to the new age NFC, mobile wallets and many more
  • Ways and means to help the industry to achieve most of their BFSI testing
  • Right set of knowledge and tools to tackle the next generation hurdles
  • Best practices and strategies while dealing with the specifics of the Banking and Financial industry projects

SPEAKERS' PROFILE

Sachin Srivastava

Sachin is an avid learner and contributor to the testing society with 12+ years of experience in testing of BFSI applications. Sachin has been training various teams on banking, trading and insurance related projects, testing and conducting webinars on the latest trends in this sector. With the rich experience of domain and technology, he understands the typical challenges faced and possible solutions. He initiated the concept of having a domain COE within the organization and has managed to scale it to a 300+ member group from a handful of people.

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12 Apr

Sai Chintala featured in the Digital Terminal Magazine

Sai Chintala, SVP- Global Presales at Cigniti, talked about IoT in the Digital Terminal Magazine.

“IoT for India means enabling over 1 billion people to connect to the internet via various devices in context, for efficient and optimal usage of resources to create a sustainable India’’, said Sai Chintala, SVP- Global Presales at Cigniti, in an interview in Digital Terminal magazine.

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31 Mar

Cigniti Technologies featured in CIO Magazine

Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO & President – Americas, in an interview for CIO magazine talked about building quality software while improving time-to-market. Banks across the globe are embracing digital transformation. He highlighted the challenges in the process and how Cigniti Technologies can help the clients enhance the customer experience through its Digital Assurance services.

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30 Mar

Cigniti is a Proud Sponsor of the Retail Tech Conference (RTC) 2016

Software Testing in Retail Segment will help you enhance the customer experience thereby increasing revenues. To know more about this, meet our leadership team including Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO & President and Wendy Atlin, VP- Retail Enterprise Solutions at the Venue. Write to us if you are interested.

Retail Tech Conference 2016 is a highly networking session with a tightly focused agenda that will provide retailers with new ideas they can take back home to solve their most urgent problems and chart a new course for success.

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17 Mar

London & Partners and Leading Media publications cover Cigniti’s investment and aggressive expansion in London in 2015.

Leading financial media reported Cigniti Technologies as one of the major companies from India to have aggressively invested and grown in London in 2015. The report and the latest data released by London & Partners, the official promotional company for London says, Since 2005 there has been a 117 per cent increase in Indian companies across all business sectors investing in London, with a 133 per cent increase in tech companies investing in the city, which accounts for 46 per cent of all projects, according to the latest data. The data mentions "Major tech investments in London from India in recent years include software testing service Cigniti Technologies.”

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14 Mar

Cigniti provides insight into the key factors that contribute towards a guarantee of the quality of smart meters

Rajesh Sarangapani, Assistant Vice President – Technology at Cigniti Technologies, provides insight into the key factors that contribute towards a guarantee of the quality of smart meters.

Smart grid systems are being proposed as a means to improve the effectiveness of demand and supply management by improving predictability, reliability of power generated and transmitted, which in turn, can lead to optimisation of overall costs (per kWh) of the power generated. The consumption data from smart meters will help manage demand and supply more effectively by utilising near real time consumption data. Click here to know more about the various QA methodologies and how to improve the efficiency of Smart Meters.

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12 Feb

Cigniti ranked #47 in IT sector companies in ‘Business Standard 1000’

It is a proud moment for all of us! Cigniti Technologies makes its way in to the prestigious ‘Business Standard 1000’ which ranks the top 1000 companies in India. Most importantly, Cigniti is ranked #47 in IT Sector companies and #970 amongst all the Indian Companies. This is a further recognition of Cigniti’s consistent growth and re-enforces our ability to achieve the goal of becoming a largest independent software testing company in the world.

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Mobile Automation: Learn How to Shift Left, Don’t be Left Out
04 Feb

Mobile Automation: Learn How to Shift Left, Don’t be Left Out

ABOUT WEBINAR

In this webinar, Tom ben Shimon, Head of Sales, Experitest and Rajesh Sarangapani, AVP ¬ Global Delivery¸ Gallop Solutions have shared some thought provoking insights for developing mobile apps that are easy to automate and also the best practices for shifting left in the arena of Mobile Automation.

This webinar discusses about:

  • How the technology you choose to develop your app makes it easier to automate your mobile testing.
  • What are the best practices to shift left?
  • What are the other considerations you should take and which you should avoid?
  • Case study: Mobile automation project with a world wide leader in hospitality industry

SPEAKERS' PROFILE

Rajesh Sarangapani
AVP - Global Delivery, Gallop

Rajesh leads the Technology CoE at Gallop and has been instrumental over the last 17 years in helping clients implement processes that helped them build application performance by design rather than as afterthought. He holds couple of patents to his name in the testing space.

Tom ben Shimon
Head of sales at Experitest

Tom ben Shimon is the head of sales at Experitest, a world’s leading provider of quality assurance tools for mobile DevOps, including manual testing, performance testing, load testing and monitoring for mobile applications.

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02 Feb

SmartBear Plans for Joint Software Testing Lab with Cigniti Technologies

SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, announced a strategic partnership with Cigniti Technologies Limited, global leaders in independent software testing services. Headquartered in Hyderabad, India with a worldwide team of over 1,800 people, Cigniti is spread across the U.S., U.K., India, Australia and Canada. Cigniti is focusing on the delivery of SmartBear's testing and quality assurance solutions including API Readiness platform, Ready! API as well automated testing tool, TestComplete.

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18 Jan

Cigniti Predicts Software Testing Trends for 2016

2015 witnessed tremendous increase in adoption of digital transformation, and digital assurance will now play a key role in 2016. According to Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO & President – Americas at Cigniti Technologies, following are the key software testing trends for this year.

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04 Dec

Xerox, Check Point, CtrlS, Cigniti & f5 Networks Partner with the BFSI India Conclave 2015

Confianza Integrated Communications (P) Ltd. is hosting the 2nd edition of the annual BFSI India Conclave on the 14th & 15th of May at the Holiday Inn Resorts, Goa this year. Partner to the event are some of the most prestigious organizations, Xerox being the Platinum Partner, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. as the Gold Partner, CtrlS as the Keynote Partner, Cigniti as the Bronze Partner and f5 Networks as the supporting partner.

The conclave brings together the top names of the BFSI sector, participating in tech talks, panel discussions, presentations and workshops.

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29 Oct

Cigniti to Organize LiQE Event in California, US

Cigniti will be organizing LiQE (Leadership in Quality Engineering) event in California, North America on Oct 29th, 2015. LiQE is a seminal quality engineering thought leadership event that brings together software testing thought leaders, leading industry analysts, business driving quality management executives, senior professionals from global enterprises and independent software vendor organizations. This event will focus on discussing the changing software quality / testing needs and challenges of the digital business world.

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23 Oct

Webinar on Compelling Benefits of Specialist QA Staffing VS IT Staffing

ABOUT WEBINAR

In this webinar, Andrew Braswell, Senior Research Analyst at a leading Staffing Analyst firm, Staffing Industry Analysts, shared insights on the evolving IT and QA staffing landscape in North America.

Co-speaker, Greg Longaker, National Sales Manager at Gallop Solutions, shared experiences of clients working with specialized QA Staffing organizations and subsequently, the impact of working with specialized QA Staffing partners on the resource quality and project delivery timelines.

This webinar covered:

  • Facts, Figures and Trends in North American IT & QA Staffing industry
  • Changing dynamics and increasing complexities of the Quality Assurance domain
  • Difference between Generalist IT Staffing & Specialized QA Staffing
  • Latest models, concepts related to QA Staffing

SPEAKERS' PROFILE

Andrew Braswell
Senior Research Analyst, SIA

Andrew Braswell is a Senior Research Analyst at Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA), covering the IT segment of temporary staffing, along with merger and acquisition activity related to the Affordable Care Act. Prior to SIA, spent more than 8 years in equity investment research and was the Director of Research for a boutique investment banking & advisory firm. He has been a featured speaker for many conferences, presentations and media interviews, including CNBC’s Squawk Box.

Greg Longaker
National Sales Manager, Gallop Solutions

Greg Longaker is the National Sales Manager and is responsible for Gallop’s core staffing business. Greg has over 17 years of staffing industry experience as he has worked in a variety of staffing disciplines ranging from healthcare through engineering and for the better part of his career in IT. Greg spent 12 years with Yoh Company with increasing responsibility up to the Area Director.

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06 Oct

Cigniti to Organize LiQE Events in New York and California, US

Cigniti, a global leader in independent software testing services, will be organizing a series of LiQE (Leadership in Quality Engineering) events in New York and California, North America on October 8, 2015 and October 29, 2015 respectively. LiQE is a seminal quality engineering thought leadership event that brings together software testing thought leaders, leading industry analysts, business driving quality management executives, senior professionals from global enterprises and Independent software vendor organizations. These two LiQE events will focus on discussing the changing software quality / testing needs and challenges of the digital business world.

The first edition of LiQE event was held early this year on February 19, 2015 in Arlington, Texas, at AT&T stadium. Encouraged by the great response to the event, Cigniti is geared up to organize LiQE events periodically across the globe and share the latest trends, best practices, advancements around software quality engineering.

Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO, Cigniti Technologies said, “Software testing has moved beyond the traditional quality assurance practice to a more comprehensive quality engineering framework. Organizations, nowadays, are much inclined towards DevOps and continuous testing to enable effective software development and operations while offering superior quality and user experience.”

In the event, Pradeep will welcome the audience and speak about “the role of QA in DevOps World”. Pete Marston - Research Manager, IDC, and Diego Lo Giudice - Principal Analyst, Forrester will give key note sessions covering emerging trends in the QE space. LiQE is proved to be the right forum to share & learn quality engineering ideas and an excellent platform to network with industry peers. Please visit https://cigniti.com/liqe/ for more details.

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+ experts 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 services in Quality Engineering, Advisory & Transformation, Next Generation Testing, and Core Testing. With over a decade of experience in serving several 500 fortune enterprises, Cigniti has translated its learning and solutions into SMART Tools™ to accelerate test efforts. Cigniti has India's first of its kind Robotics Test Lab, a Mobile Cloud Test Lab with HP & Experitest, a Cloud enabled Performance Test Lab, and an IoT & Smart Meter Lab. Leading Analysts like Gartner, Forrester, NelsonHall, Everest, Frost & Sullivan, and Forbes recognize Cigniti as a leader in the IST Services space. Cigniti has been awarded a place on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) G-Cloud 6 framework for providing Lot 4: Specialist Cloud Services that provide PSEs better access to Cigniti's expertise. Cigniti’s CSR initiative, Project Cignificance, aims to impact 1 million+ lives through education as an enabler. For more information, write to us at info@cigniti.com

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