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India needs 2.5 lakh career testers –Kalyan Rao Konda, SVP Global Delivery, Cigniti speaks to Telecom Live

Over the last 5-6 years, India has become one of the leading destinations for outsourcing of Software Testing services accounting for 32 per cent of the total global outsourcing share. Export revenues and the number of employees have doubled over the last four years growing at a CAGR of 20 percent software testing outsourcing market is expected to grow from USD 30 billion in 2010 to USD 50 billion in 2020. India is expected to be the biggest beneficiary of this growth.

HSTC 2013:  ‘THINK TESTING’ sponsored(Gold) by Cigniti

At HSTC 2013, we will not give you ‘gyan’, nor bombard you with jargon. What we promise to do though, is help you understand the evolution of Testing , the present-day scenario and challenges, and the role YOU play in it. We will bust a few myths, we may make some of you a bit uncomfortable, but we will definitely make all of you think.

The implicit asks for a tester today? ‘Agile tester’, ‘scrum master’, ‘functional expert’, ‘business analyst’, ‘architect’, ‘project manager’, hands-on ‘technical engineer’ – the list is daunting!

So how do you equip yourself to meet this challenge?

Discover Cigniti’s formula for securing mobile applications

Join Cigniti’s webinar on Securing Mobile Applications by Chakri Devarakonda on Wednesday, September, 2013 3:00 PM IST.

The webinar will help you understand how to increase the security of your mobile app and provide insights on the common attack possibilities on a mobile. The session also includes a live demonstration of mobile application security testing.

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Smart Device Testing Begins with Smarter Testing – Sai Chintala, SVP Global Presales, Cigniti, shares his thoughts with The Machinist magazine

The current mobile handset ecosystem is under an invasion and models of the smart phone usage is scattered, the adoption of smart phones is definitely on the rise. The sheer variety and complexity of the accompanying test requirements have added a new dimension to the smart devices that are being rolled out. In fact, smart device testing services seems to define the future of the smart phones, which are estimated to grow to 1.5 billion devices in sales by 2016.

Discover Cigniti’s formula for Mobile Test Automation that ensures impeccable levels of QA

The webinar will help you identify factors for selecting the right mobile test automation tool, performing ROI analysis for mobile test automation efforts, developing test automation scripts on mobile native apps including the pitfalls and best practices in mobile test automation.

Learn..
• How to build a flexible and scalable mobile test automation framework?
• What not to do while designing mobile test automation frameworks?
• How to build a device agnostic mobile test automation framework?
• How to achieve the right balance between Mobile Test Automation and manual testing?
• How to translate client requirements into objectives for designing the framework?
• How to bridge the framework and the business environment?
• How to gear up for Hybrid, Native and Web apps?
• Possible different tools for Mobile automation
• Dos and Don’ts - Design, run and optimization

Target Audience for the session: QA engineers, QA Leads, QA Managers and QA Architects specializing in the test automation of Mobile, Web Apps for ISVs and Enterprises.

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Cigniti technologies appoints Mahendra Alladi as CTO – Expands management team

Cigniti Technologies, world’s 3rd Largest Independent Software Testing Services Company has expanded its management team by appointing Mahendra Alladi as its Chief Technology (CTO) Officer.

Mahendra is a visionary technologist in the Software QA and ALM space. He has more than 15 years of rich experience spanning testing, software product development and test solution engineering. Prior to Gallop, Mahendra worked with world class companies like Travelocity and i2 Technologies. Mahendra is a gold medalist in Engineering and an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from where he graduated with an MS in Computer Science.

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The Irving Chamber of Commerce, Dallas felicitates Cigniti and its leaders at the Newsmaker Reception

The Irving Chamber of Commerce, Texas felicitated Cigniti and its leaders at the Newsmaker Reception held in Irving, Texas, on July 9, 2013. This is recognition of accomplishments of business and individuals who are Irving Newsmakers. The felicitation was a part of the Irving Newsmakers reception with Honorable Mayor Beth Van Duyne, Irving City Council members, local civic and business leaders.

ET: Turbulent Skies

Sriram Rajaram, President, Cigniti was quoted in ET High Flier for their story on 'Leaders Managing Turbulence'.The story is titled Turbulent Skies Ahead.

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Catch Cigniti COO Raj Neravati and Senior Manager Rahul Goel at SteP-IN SUMMIT 2013

Cigniti COO Raj Neravati will speak on ‘Perspectives and forecast on Testing Phase II of IV and V (Independent verification and validation)at SteP IN SUMMIT 2013 in Bangalore. The session will be held on June 21, 2013 from 3.15 pm to 4.15 pm.

Building Cloud Based Performance Test Lab: An experimental workshop at SteP-IN SUMMIT 2013 by Rahul Goel, Senior Manager at Cigniti Inc. The session will be held on June 19, 2013 from 11:15 am to 1.15 pm.

Curating the best strategies: Sai Chintala,SVP – Global Pre-Sales, Cigniti

The external app store ecosystem and the proliferation of internal facing enterprise apps have further enhanced the need for comprehensive testing mobile applications. Needless to say, device fragmentation, wide choice of firmware, varying resolutions, and resulting permutation and combinations can make mobile apps testing scope as complex as you can envision.