iGATE sets up Testing Centre of Excellence

Bangalore, Dec 13 (UNI) iGATE Global Solutions, the integrated technology and operations (iTOPS) company, today announced setting up of an Independent Verification and Validation (IV and V) Centre of Excellence (COE) at its corporate headquarters at Whitefield on the outskirts of the city.

Briefing newspersons about the centre, Board Member and Chief Delivery Officer Mohan Sekhar said the setting up of the centre was in line with the company's strategy of creating a chain of COEs in chosen areas across its software development centres worldwide.

The CoE would create solutions and frameworks which could be leveraged by iGATE's diverse range of Fortune 1000 clients. The centre would focus on test process consulting, test automation, performance testing and functional testing services for Enterprises and Product companies.

''IV and V services are the need of the hour to ensure predictability in cost, quality and time attributes of IT projects.

Our centre has built innovative end-to-end methodologies and 'ready to use' frameworks which provide high quality and cost-effective solutions, covering entire lifecycle of test engineering activities,'' he said.

Commenting on the outsourced IV and V services, Mr Sekhar said the outlook appeared positive, driven by factors such as increased awareness towards the importance of testing, need for centralisation and standardisation within organisations, growth in number of releases and pressure on time to market.

''Currently, we are witnessing a trend in this space wherein clients are asking for end-to-end test solutions, starting from test architecture definition to execution, including carrying out testing activities,'' he said.

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