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09 Apr

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.

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08 Apr

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

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16 Oct

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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17 Mar

Game Testing

Your Games + Our Game Testers = Flawless Gaming Experience

Video Game Testers for seamless game performance testing across platforms

Competition in the Game Testing & Betting Testing world

Increased diversity in games, gaming platforms, and gamers worldwide have made game development a very lucrative, and a very competitive field. Some of the most common challenges faced by Console manufacturers & game developers are:

  • Structured approach for Game Testing
  • User role-based testing
  • Test on multiple handsets and platforms
  • Network connectivity, latency, frame rate
  • RAM usage and consumption
  • Graphical user interface
  • Betting:
    • Event Selection & Odds Compiling
    • Odds Changes & Blocking of Events
    • Monitoring & Managing Risks
    • Live Betting & Transaction Integrity
    • Betting Transactions & Responsible Gaming

Professional QA game testers & betting testers thus play a key role in the success of the gaming enterprises in this fiercely-competitive gaming ecosystem. With thousands of AI-based smart games being released continuously across platforms, enjoying a flawless customer experience is the ultimate criterion for retaining gamers.

We at Cigniti ensure that ISVs & Gaming Developers successfully achieve this goal.

Cigniti’s Game Testers Help Gain Edge Over Competition

Cigniti’s game testers have an in-depth experience in the end-to-end gaming eco-system across platforms including desktop, console, mobile devices, tablets, phablets, & cloud gaming. Our game testers create detailed testing strategies,meticulously incorporating industry gaming standards, for example, Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW), into our test strategy and processes.

Following are a few benefits that Cigniti provides as a game testing company:

  • Well-defined & structured Test Methodologies, Best Practices, & Accelerators for Game Testing
  • Team of 50+ experienced Game Testers
  • Dedicated Game Testing Lab to recreate all possible real-time scenarios with requisite tools
  • Availability of game testing checklists for various OS types (iOS, Android)
  • Structured checklists for Pre-platform certification for iOS & Android
  • Statistical models & analytical tools to arrive at optimum combination of OS compatibility
  • A Mobile Test Lab with 600+ devices supporting various OS versions
Game Testing Services For A Billion-Dollar Animation Company In United States

Game Testing Services For A Billion-Dollar Animation Company In United States

In any gaming app, a seamless interface is directly proportional to its popularity in the gaming industry. A billion-dollar animation company venturing into gaming wanted to leverage test automation to meet the need of high-speed product rollout and manage the dynamic UI changes.

Know how Cigniti’s game testers implemented a robust test execution mechanism to lower maintenance costs and promote scalability.

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Our Key Clients

Cigniti’s Gaming Test Experts have successfully helped organizations enhance the gaming experience for their users. With Cigniti, clients have been able to significantly reduce the time-to-market and prepare their game for success in all languages and markets.

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Cigniti’s Game & Betting Testing Center of Excellence

Customer loyalty purely depends on game reliability, and Cigniti offers comprehensive in-house game and betting testing in a secure, dedicated onshore & near-shore facilities.

Cigniti’s Game & Betting Testing CoE consists of a team of game testers who are SMEs with relevant experience in areas covering multiple gaming platforms, key areas for sports betting testing, & in performing game-specific tests. Working with Cigniti’s computer games testers, you gain access to our Mobile Device Testing lab having 600+ devices, our in-house next generation testing platform BlueSwan, and also a plethora of open source and 3rd-party game testing tools.

Cigniti’s video game testers have a strong experience in testing the following gaming-specific tests:

  • Game Play/Functional Testing
  • In-app purchase Testing
  • Role-based Testing
  • Install/Upgrade/Uninstall Testing
  • User Interface Testing
  • Usability Testing
  • Interrupt Testing
  • Game Center Testing (iOS platform only)
  • Multiplayer Testing
  • Globalisation Testing
  • Social-integration Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Memory Testing
  • Compatibility Testing
  • Platform pre-Certification
  • Load Testing
  • Mobile Testing
  • Multi-Platform Testing
  • Online and Network Testing

Expertise in Video Game Quality Assurance Testing Tools

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Our Partnership

Cigniti has partnered with various tool vendors to ensure that your gamers get a truly superior Gaming experience. Using the right tool can lead to significant reduction in effort and time taken to test a game. With our tool-agnostic approach, we make sure that you get the right test tool as per your needs.

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Consult our experienced team of QA game testers, video game testers, etc. for all your mobile game testing and game performance testing needs.

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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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20 Jun

Industries

Quality engineering & software testing services for enterprises across industries.

Ensure successful outcomes for your projects.

How can a Domain Competency Group help enterprises?

Cigniti, powered by its Domain Competency Groups (DCGs), is a trusted Quality Engineering & strategic testing partner for leading global enterprises.

Cigniti’s DCG comprises specialists in automation, performance, security, and mobile testing. They have expertise and experience in testing the implementation, upgrades, migration and/or enhancements of different apps/products. Our domain knowledge, along with product & tool expertise, strengthens our testing service offerings and complements your engineering teams, while helping you reduce QA efforts & control cost.

Leveraging our Digital Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) and DCG, we have created ready-to-use Enterprise Test accelerators & solutions across different platforms to reduce testing efforts by over 70% and improve speed to market.

Majority of our testing professionals are domain experts with domain specific certifications along with being Certified Software Testing professionals with CSTE, ISTQB, & ISEB. We keep abreast with the latest trends and train our people to continuously improve on domain & industry-specific expertise for ensuring highest standards of quality.

Industries We Serve

We specialize in providing quality engineering and software testing solutions for the following industries:

Medical Devices
Healthcare
Lifesciences
Manufacturing
Communications
Energy & Utilities
Banking
Insurance
Retail
Financial Services
Logistics
Ecommerce
Media & Entertainment
Travel & Hospitality
Airlines
Consumer Goods & Distribution
Automotive
Technology
Government
Education

Our Business Insights

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    FirstMatch ML Model Improves NGO Outcomes

    Winner ISG Standout Case Study: Education, North America 2023
    Abstract A non-profit organization aiding at-risk youth faced challenges in accurately selecting programs for at-risk youth. Statistics reveal that a mere 34% of the time, children are appropriately matched with suitable treatment programs. Discover how Cigniti’s FirstMatch, an ML model platform utilizing predictive analytics, yielded a noteworthy 30% improvement, revolutionizing the precision of treatment program selection and enhancing support for vulnerable youth and their families.

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  • Securing the Future: A Comprehensive Guide to Zero Trust Architecture Implementation
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    Zero Trust Architecture: A Guide to Secure Future

    Abstract In the face of escalating cyber threats and evolving risks, traditional security models struggle to keep pace. This white paper delves into the transformative potential of Zero Trust Architecture, offering practical insights and strategies to overcome implementation challenges and fortify organizational security. Discover a step-by-step guide, real-world examples, and a comprehensive view of how Zero Trust can revolutionize your digital ecosystem.

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  • Improve Vulnerability Detection, Enhance Risk Mitigation With Application Security Testing
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    Enhance Application Performance with Vulnerability Assessment and App Security Testing

    Abstract A social enterprise committed to reforming the criminal justice sector encountered hurdles while evaluating its public-facing application. This demanded constant vigilance in safeguarding data, addressing vulnerabilities, and adhering to customer security policies. Discover how Cigniti's innovative vulnerability assessment and application security testing solutions led to a significant 30-40% enhancement in vulnerability assessment and a remarkable 40-45% improvement in risk mitigation, fortifying the application's security stance.

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    Speakers: Amar Deep Singh – Director of Software Engineering at a Top 5 bank in the US Ram Mamidanna - SVP – Digital Engineering Services at Cigniti Sairam Vedam - Chief Marketing Officer at Cigniti
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Clients Across Industries

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Rockwell Automation
Aviva
AtomBank
ADDC

Thought Leadership

Blogs
White Papers
eBooks
Webinars
Case Studes
Podcasts

Client Speak

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FREEMAN,
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Leverage Cigniti’s pure-play quality engineering and software testing capabilities for your industry and achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.

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20 Jun

Communications

Digital Transformation Enables Seamless Communication

Commercial & Opensource End-to-End Software Testing for Telecom & Broadband Industry

End-to-End Testing for Operations Support System (OSS) & Business Support System (BSS) for the Communications world

Whether providing a seamless broadband connectivity across multiple digital devices, or access to wireless networks, enterprises catering to industries spanning the Communications diaspora need to scale up to meet the continuous demands of their customers. To achieve this goal, continuous software testing, automated scripts, & automated validation of end-to-end business flow are critical.

Cigniti’s domain competency group (DCG) comprises 100+ SMEs experienced in Open Stack, SDN, NFV, Telecom Protocol Testing, Functional & Non-Functional Testing, Test Automation, & End-to-End Testing for Operations Support System (OSS) & Business Support System (BSS). The DCG also lets you access proven testing processes, standardized templates, & best practices aligned to telecom regulations, along with a comprehensive set of Integrated Test Cases across the major COTS apps used in the telecom industry.

Mobile Functional Testing & Data traffic consumption testing across browsers and networks for a Communications Provider

Mobile Functional Testing & Data traffic consumption testing across browsers and networks for a Communications Provider

A top telecom provider with a 300 million+ user base wanted to analyze data and conduct tests on regional websites for multiple devices and browsers and measure data traffic consumption while browsing multiple websites.

Know how Cigniti utilized its mobile test lab comprising of 600+ devices, OS, and network carriers to perform comprehensive testing services that improved test coverage across different platforms, variants, and network conditions over 2G, 3G, and Wi-Fi connection.

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Key Clients

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Proprietary test automation framework improved test coverage across modules

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80% Test Automation coverage for a Telecommunications services provider

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Communications Domain Expertise & Benefits

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Communications DCG Testers

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Reduction in test cycle time (15% cost savings)

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Coverage of business requirements

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Functional test coverage for Reports, new UI, & Lines testing

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Reduction in test suite maintenance cost

Cigniti’s Service Offerings for the Communications industry

Cigniti’s specific Service offerings for the communications domain can be divided in four categories:

  • Specialized: This category covers Test Management Office, DevOps, Revenue Assurance, Mobility, Bill to Bill, DW and BI Testing, User Experience, QA Advisory, and IoT
  • Automation: This includes Automation as DevOps accelerator, Front End Applications, Batch & Back End as Usage Processing, Billing, End of Day, End of Cycle, SOAP & REST, and Web/e-Commerce
  • Non-Functional: This includes:
    • Performance Engineering including application level load, Integrated End-to-End, Stability, Client/smart Client stability, Stress/capacity, Volume, Negative testing
    • Security Testing
    • Production Readiness including Performance & Load testing on production HW, Disaster recovery for High Availability/Failover, Production start-up, and DB Backup-/Restore)
    • Post Production Monitoring & Support / Special Events
  • Functional: This covers areas such as Assembly/Product Integration, End-to-End User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and On-Going Support

Cigniti’s Communication Domain Competency Group

Cigniti’s Communication DCG comprises of 150+ SMEs providing the best mix of business, functional, & technical testing skills in Voice, SMS, Data GPRS, MMS Testing, etc. Our DCG experts have rich experience in:

  • Commercial tools such as Voice Quality Tester, Wireshark, & Protocols and Systems such as SIP etc.
  • Open Stack, SDN, NFV, Telecom Protocol Testing
  • Test Automation, Functional & Non-Functional, Performance, & Security Testing
  • Dynamic & regulatory-driven Test Data engineering & management
  • Independent Testing, Managed Test Center, & Testing CoE
  • QE enablement & DevTestOps tools
  • Both commercial & opensource End-to-End testing for operations & business support systems (OSS & BSS)

Our DCG provides ready to deploy test frameworks along with access to customizable Test Accelerators that reduce efforts in Test Designing & Test Authoring:

  • Pre-built Test Case Suite for out-of-the box functionality
  • Comprehensive set of Integrated Test Cases across the major COTS apps used in Telecom industry

Cigniti’s Communication DCG Expertise & Benefits

Cigniti’s in-house DCG SMEs have an in-depth experience in the communications industry. Our domain expertise spans across the diverse communication channels, such as, Wireless (Internet, mobility) & Wireline (Land Phone, TV), IoT (Apple watch, connected home, connected cars, etc.), SMB/Enterprises as portals for non-communications products, Media & Entertainment, Retail (POS), Cloud & Social, and more. Additionally, our DCG SMEs are experts in the arena of mature Agile & DevOps processes, and can ably support you in your journey of transformation to DevOps along with CI.

We provide end-to-end support for a phased consolidation of systems, and a seamless integrated customer experience to enterprises migrating old legacy systems, transforming to Cloud, involved in purchases & acquisitions, quadruple play (combining TV, Telephone, & Broadband Internet access with wireless service provisions), or Super Play (IoT, entertainment), and want to win back revenue leakage to Over the Top (OTT) service providers.

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Leverage Cigniti’s software testing capabilities for Telecom & Broadband Industry & ensure uninterrupted transmission.

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