Cigniti Tech opens new global test centre in Hyderabad

Cigniti Technologies Limited (formerly Chakkilam Infotech Limited), a city-based independent software testing company, opened a 34,000-sft global test engineering centre in Hyderabad on Monday. With the addition of the new facility, the company now has a total of 95,000 sft of space across Hyderabad, Dallas and Toronto.

"With the addition of this new centre, we are well equipped to meet our current and future growth needs while we continue to expand our operations further. Today, Cigniti is a 800-plus people organisation worldwide and we plan to hire another 400 by 2014 as we move forward," Cigniti chief executive officer, Sudhakar Pennam, said in a release.

The new facility houses cloud-enabled performance test lab in addition to the existing mobile, robotics labs, helping the company's clients further leverage its infrastructure, he added.

The company had in March this year inaugurated a mobile test lab (or competency unit) at its Hyderabad facility, from where it is offering its proprietary mobile and on-the-cloud testing platforms.

The lab enables Cigniti's clients to quickly set up test harnesses and complete testing their mobile applications on multiple platforms, devices and networks.