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.

As a founding board member at PACT, Kalyan would work closely with PACT team to build a strong community in the region that is focused on collaboration and growth. PACT intends to become the go-to resource for fast growing companies and a driver of entrepreneurship and innovation in the Philadelphia region. Cigniti Technologies, global leader in Software Quality Engineering and Quality Assurance, has joined hands with PACT in this mission by becoming a Founding Leader of the alliance.

Speaking on this occasion, Kalyana Rao Konda, President at Cigniti Technologies, said, “I am very excited to be on the board of the PACT. I look forward to working with peer industry leaders, fellow members, and the PACT team to bring in greater collaboration, thought leadership and assist businesses and tech enthusiasts from multiple industries in the next generation trending technologies, various business models, first-hand experiences, and many more aspects of the tech-business transformation in the Philadelphia region.”

“We are excited to welcome Kalyan to the PACT Board of Directors. His experience and expertise will add tremendous value to our mission and strategic goals,” said Dean Miller, President and CEO of PACT. “Our Board’s dedication helps PACT provide and expand top notch programs and services to strengthen and grow our entrepreneurial community inclusively by addressing access and equity,” he added.

About Cigniti:
Cigniti Technologies is a Global Leader in Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing services. Cigniti’s 2,500+ experienced professionals are spread across US, Canada, UK, India, Australia, 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.

About PACT: PACT – Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies provides our members with valuable content and connections to capital, coaching, customers, and talent that will accelerate their growth and success, and to collaborate with other organizations to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the region.

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Midhun Pingili
Midhun.pingili@cigniti.com

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

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

Speaking on this association, Pradeep Govindasamy, President & CTO at Cigniti Technologies, said, “We are excited to be a part of this association with HoustonCIO, which brings together the CIOs across industries of Houston. This association would not only help understand the CIOs’ perspective about innovation, technology trends and the best practices being implemented across the verticals, but will also help the IT community of Houston to learn about the new generation technology leaders and their contributions via a vast leadership network on a single platform."

InspireCIO programs are made possible through the corporate support of strategic partners known as Underwriters. These organizations represent the highest-level investors in local chapters and the senior executives of Underwriter organizations are regarded as peers by the CIOs serving on the HoustonCIO Advisory Board.

About Cigniti:
Cigniti Technologies is a Global Leader in Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing services. Cigniti’s 2,500+ experienced professionals are spread across Australia, UK, US, Canada, 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.

About the Houston CIO Leadership Association:
HoustonCIO is the preeminent professional association for Houston chief information officers. It is a peer-based approach to helping CIOs maximize their leadership effectiveness, create value, reduce risk and share success. Our membership is comprised exclusively of CIOs (or equivalent executive roles) from public and private companies, government, education, healthcare and non-profit organizations.

For further details, please contact: Midhun.pingili@cigniti.com

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.

Speaking on this association, Pradeep Govindasamy, President & CTO at Cigniti Technologies, said, “We are excited to be a part of this association with CharlotteCIO, which brings together the CIOs across industries of Charlotte. This association would not only help understand the CIOs’ perspective about innovation, technology trends and the best practices being implemented across the verticals, but will also help the IT community of Charlotte to learn about the new generation technology leaders and their contributions via a vast leadership network on a single platform."

InspireCIO programs are made possible through the corporate support of strategic partners known as Underwriters. These organizations represent the highest-level investors in local chapters and the senior executives of Underwriter organizations are regarded as peers by the CIOs serving on the CharlotteCIO Advisory Board.

About Cigniti:
Cigniti Technologies is a Global Leader in Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing services. Cigniti’s 2,500+ experienced professionals are spread across US, Canada, Australia, UK, 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 include QE, Advisory & Transformation, Digital Assurance, and QA solutions.

About CharlotteCIO:
CharlotteCIO is the preeminent professional association for Charlotte chief information officers. It is a peer-based approach to helping CIOs maximize their leadership effectiveness, create value, reduce risk and share success. Our membership is comprised exclusively of CIOs (or equivalent executive roles) from public and private companies, government, education, healthcare and non-profit organizations.

For further details, please contact: Midhun.pingili@cigniti.com

Dallas, TX, 8th Sep, 2020: Cigniti Technologies has been positioned as a Leader in NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation & Assessment Tool (NEAT) chart 2020 for AI Testing, Continuous Testing, and overall Quality Engineering capabilities.

Evaluating vendors on both their ‘ability to deliver immediate benefit’ and their ‘ability to meet client future requirements’, vendors are identified in one of four categories: Leaders, High Achievers, Innovators, and Major Players. Leaders are the vendors that exhibit both a high ability relative to their peers to deliver immediate benefit and a high capability relative to their peers to meet clients’ future requirements.

Speaking on the occasion, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO – Cigniti Technologies said, “there is an increased adoption of AI-based systems across the industries to provide better customer experience and delivering quality applications at speed. Cigniti leverages AI to test as well as tests AI-based systems. Our AI-driven quality engineering approach for continuous testing (CT), Agile, and DevOps helps enterprises accelerate their digital transformation.”

“We continue to significantly invest in our IP, BlueSwan™ and enhance its capabilities, to create new IP-based solutions, such as AI-led test data management, test environment management and security engineering. We have enriched Verita and Velocita with the AI-based analytics use cases which are helping our enterprise clients to achieve significant acceleration in their org-wide test automation initiatives.” Srikanth added.

The NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation & Assessment Tool (NEAT) allows strategic sourcing managers to assess the capability of vendors across a range of criteria and business situations. It helps them identify the best performing vendors overall with a specific focus on AI testing, continuous testing, UX testing and more.

Commenting on this, Dominique Raviart, IT Services Practice Director at NelsonHall said, “Cigniti has expanded its capabilities toward continuous testing and functional automation. The company has a systematic IP strategy to bring further automation to QA in the context of continuous testing and agile projects. Cigniti has also quickly expanded its range of AI use cases; it is one of the few vendors that has invested in non-functional AI use cases, targeting security testing.”

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About Cigniti:

Cigniti Technologies is a Global Leader in Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing Services,   serving Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises.    Cigniti’s test offerings include Quality Engineering, Advisory & Transformation, Digital Assurance, Next-Gen testing and Quality Assurance solutions.

About NelsonHall:

NelsonHall is the leading global analyst firm dedicated to helping organizations understand the ‘art of the possible’ in digital operations transformation. With analysts in the U.S., U.K., and Continental Europe, NelsonHall provides buy-side organizations with detailed, critical information on markets and vendors (including NEAT assessments) that helps them make fast and highly informed sourcing decisions. NelsonHall’s research is based on rigorous, primary research, and is widely respected for the quality, depth and insight of its analysis.

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Consolidated Q2FY20 Revenue up by 3% to Rs. 215 Cr

 Consolidated Financial Performance for Q2FY20 v/s Q2FY19 (Corresponding Year)

• Revenue of Rs. 214.60 crore v/s. Rs. 204.96 crore [á 5%]
• EBITDA of Rs. 36.87 crore v/s. Rs. 37.34 crore
•  PAT of Rs. 35.72 crore v/s. Rs. 49.52 crore

Consolidated Financial Performance for Q2FY20 v/s Q1FY20 (Corresponding Quarter)

• Revenue of Rs. 214.60 crore v/s. Rs. 207.57 crore [á 3%]
• EBITDA of Rs. 36.87 crore v/s. Rs. 31.64 crore
• PAT of Rs. 35.72 crore v/s. Rs. 28.50 crore

Consolidated Financial Performance for H1FY20 v/s H1FY19 (Corresponding Year)

• Revenue of Rs. 422.18 crore v/s. Rs. 399.67 crore [á 6%]
• EBITDA of Rs. 68.52 crore v/s. Rs. 65.26 crore
• PAT of Rs. 64.22 crore v/s. Rs. 88.68 crore

Hyderabad November 1, 2019: Cigniti Technologies Limited, a global leader in independent quality engineering and software testing services, announced the consolidated financial results for the second quarter ended September 30, 2019.

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Mumbai, 20^th 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.

Cigniti Technologies, a global leader in independent quality engineering services, has been recognized for its significant contributions to Indo-U.S. trade. Cigniti has displayed laudable capability in delivering global business projects while enabling seamless digital transformation for its clients. This proficiency of the company has helped its clients to radically rethink their key business processes and achieve performance breakthroughs meeting their digital goals.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. C V Subramanyam, Chairman & MD, Cigniti Technologies Ltd. said, “We are happy to have won the Corporate Leader of the Year award. This award strengthens the presence of brand Cigniti in US & India and aligns with our vision and global aspirations of working with Fortune 500 companies. I extend my gratitude towards our dedicated employees and loyal customers without whom this journey would be incomplete.”

The I-ACE Awards was established in 2004 by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) to celebrate corporate excellence and recognizes top Indian Companies in the US and US companies in India in various categories. The award ceremony was attended by over 300 distinguished guests including representatives from the Indo-U.S. business community, IACC members, members of the American and other diplomatic communities, leading expatriates and celebrities.

About Cigniti Technologies:

Cigniti Technologies Limited, Global Leader in Independent Quality Engineering & Software Testing Services, is headquartered at Hyderabad, India. Cigniti’s 2,300+ experienced professionals are spread across US, UK, India, Australia, and Canada. Cigniti is the world’s first Independent Software Testing 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 solutions.

Contact: Midhun.pingili@cigniti.com