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About the Company

Cigniti Technologies is the World’s 3rd largest Independent Software Testing Services Company, headquartered in Dallas, TX. Cigniti’s test offerings include TCoE, Enterprise Mobility Testing, Testing on Cloud, Big Data Testing, Functional, Automation, Security and Performance Testing services. With a team of over 1400 people, Cigniti operates out of 1,40,000 sq ft of office space spread across US, UK, India, Australia and Canada. Over the last 15 years, Cigniti has helped Enterprises and ISVs across verticals build quality software while improving time to market and reducing cost of quality. Cigniti has translated its R&D into SMART Tools that accelerate testing and help improve the quality of services delivered to clients. Cigniti is the world’s first Independent Software Testing Services Company to be rated at CMMI SVC1.3 maturity level 3 and is an ISO 27001:2005 certified organization. Cigniti has India`s first of its kind Robotics Test Lab, HP co-branded mobile test lab and a world class performance test lab. Cigniti has strategic alliances with the leading product, tool and technology vendors. Recognized as a leader in IP led testing services by industry analysts, Cigniti Technologies has been ranked as a Leader in Software Testing by NelsonHall, the leading global IT outsourcing analyst firm. NelsonHall ranked Cigniti Technologies as a Leader in all three market segments it analyzed i.e. Overall, Efficiency Clients and Transformation-Focused Clients. Gartner has recognized and listed Cigniti as a Pure-Play Testing services provider with multi domain skills. Cigniti was also recently mentioned by Forbes in Asia’s 200 best under billion companies and is also the recipient of the prestigious Frost and Sullivan Customer Value Leadership Award for Global Automated Software Testing Services - 2014.

About the Person

Pradeep Govindasamy was with Cognizant for 15 years and was one of the earliest members of its testing services practice. He held several QA leadership roles in Cognizant and was head of QA for retail practice and in-charge of the R&D team in his last assignment. Pradeep will be based in Irving, Dallas and will closely work with Cigniti’s leadership team in North America. Pradeep possesses unique experience around Quality Engineering and has strong expertise in setting up Testing Center of Excellence around test management, automation, digital commerce, mobility, SOA and functional testing. He has done extensive business development and established more than twenty 500-member teams. He was a keynote speaker in several conferences including STAREAST, STARWEST, Swiss Testing Day, HP Discover and EuroSTAR covering topics such as mobile, automation, test data management and tools and published several whitepapers. He has won many awards and accolades for the tools and best practices that he developed.