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Texas, 2^nd December 2020: Cigniti Technologies, world’s leading Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing services company, today announced the appointment of Ganesh Ramamoorthy as their Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), responsible for Global Sales, Marketing, and Customer success.

Ganesh comes with over 28 years of experience as a technology leader with a proven track record of building global digital transformation business across industry verticals. Prior to joining Cigniti, Ganesh spent 20 years at HCL, led strategic relationships with Fortune 100 enterprise clients in Financial Services and Technology verticals and developed significant revenue streams across international markets. He also led the transformation of horizontal technology services offerings to consumer industry focused on digital and platform offerings in high growth markets.

IT firm Cigniti Technologies on Thursday posted a 29 per cent decline in its consolidated net profit at Rs 25 crore for the second quarter ended September 2020, mainly on account of a one-time provisioning against an income tax order.

The company had logged a net profit of Rs 35.72 crore in the same quarter a year ago.

Commenting on results, Cigniti Technologies Chief Financial Officer Krishnan Venkatchary told PTI that the company's year-on-year profit has come down on account of one-time write-off of around Rs 8.95 crore which was necessitated for an income tax order received around transfer pricing for 4 years between 2015-2018 in the US.

October 27, 2020 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

PHILADELPHIA - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT), an Affiliate of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia (The Chamber), inducted Kalyana Rao Konda, President at Cigniti Technologies into its board of directors, earlier this month.

Kalyana Rao Konda (Kalyan) is the President at Cigniti. He drives business growth and ensures client success for Cigniti and wears multiple hats including operational planning, sales management, marketing, partnership alliances, customer success, designing custom solutions and ensuring great service delivery. Kalyan is a thought leader in the Quality Engineering space, has been a speaker at multiple industry forums and has a patent pending at USPTO for intelligent test scenario generation.

Charlotte, 22^nd Oct 2020: Cigniti Technologies, a global leader in independent quality engineering and software testing services, is now a strategic Underwriter of CharlotteCIO, a local arm of the International CIO Leadership Association (ICLA). Together, they intend to foster technology innovation, help Charlotte IT community become aware of the best practices and trends being implemented, and bring together the CIOs of Charlotte to a single platform.

As an Underwriter of CharlotteCIO, Cigniti would be a part of the InspireCIO programs such as CharlotteCIO Advisory Board Meetings, Nominee Events, Finalist Events, CIO Only Programs, the Wine Experience, and the Charlotte CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards and support its expansion by promoting and leveraging key resources.

Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that utilizes these latest technologies to bring cohesiveness to the interactions between the multiple digital assets and devices. Edge computing enables IoT to augment analytics and data ingestion that helps analyze, measure, predict, visualize, and react to the new digital environment, making lives easier. Reducing data latency, boosting data transport speeds, and providing a conducive environment where connected devices can communicate with each other seamlessly is the future of IoT.

Check out the TechGig conversation with Srikanth Chakkilam here.

With software testing becoming more advanced and demand increasing, there is a need for reskilling the workforce as well.

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Software testing is not what it was decade ago. In the last few years, it has transformed and has become part of boardroom conversations thanks to shift in new age technologies.

Srikanth Chakkilam, Chief Executive Officer, Cigniti Technologies, a specialised testing firm, told Moneycontrol that with the shift to new age testing areas there is a need for reskilling in this space as people will have to code and have knowledge of scripting language such as Python.

Specialised testing includes automation, cybersecurity, cloud migration and blockchain. According to a NelsonHall, overall software testing market and specialised testing services would touch $48 billion and $30 billion by 2023, a growth of 5.6 percent per annum.

30^th March, 2020, Hyderabad: Hyderabad based Cigniti Technologies, Leaders in Software Testing Services, contributed Rs. 50 Lakh to Chief Minister relief fund today, to support Government of Telangana to tackle the unprecedented situation caused by COVID-19. Cigniti’s Chairman & Managing Director, Mr. C V Subramanyam, handed over the cheque to Mr. K T Rama Rao, Minister of IT , Municipal Administration &Urban Development and Industry & Commerce, Govt. of Telangana.

September 2019: Mr. Nitin Gadkari, Hon’ble Minister for Road Transport & Highways of India and Ministry of MSME, presented the ‘Corporate Leader of the Year’ award to Mr. C V Subramanyam Chairman & MD, Cigniti Technologies at the 15th Indo-American Corporate Excellence (I-ACE) Awards on Friday, September 20, 2019, in Mumbai. The award recognizes businesses which have served as an industry benchmark, showcased high performance, and discharged their fiduciary duties to all stakeholders effectively.

Hyderabad headquartered Cigniti Technologies Limited, a global leader in independent quality engineering services on Tuesday announced the consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2018.
The company's Net Profit ffor Q1FY19 stood at Rs 39.15 crore (Net Profit inclides one-time reversal of tax provision amounting Rs 13.62 crore in Cigniti Technologies Inc., USA) as against Net Loss of Rs 5.68 crore in Q1FY18, a company statement here said.

Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Engineering (QE) have become an ongoing and essential effort for every business to achieve their digital transformation objectives. Let’s look at a few of the biggest trends in this area.

This achievement reinforces our ability to provide world class IP Led testing and Quality Engineering services to clients of most sizes, 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 Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO - Cigniti Technologies Inc.

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