Smart Software acquires mobile testing platform pCloudy

Smart Software Testing Solutions Inc (SSTS), a US-based automated product testing solutions startup, has acquired Bengaluru-based cloud-based smart mobile testing platform, pCloudy.com, for an undisclosed amount.

Founded in September 2015 by Pankaj Goel and Lalit Jain along with Avinash Tiwari who worked as software testing experts at Oracle, Adobe, HCL Technologies and Wipro, SSTS Inc has raised $1 million in a pre-Series-A round of funding from Your Nest Angel Fund for the pCloudy acquisition and to support its expansion plans.

pCloudy is a plug-and-play app testing platform catering to mobile businesses, e-commerce companies and large enterprises. Its another solution, OpKey, focuses on streamlining and improving the software development lifecycle by employing manual and automated testing.

While OpKey provides the automation capability of web and mobile apps, pCloudy targets the full testing lifecycle of mobile application software space. So far, pCloudy and OpKey have helped test over 1,000 mobile apps, saving 150,000 hours for its customers.

"We see enormous growth potential in the app testing space of the mobile ecosystem that is driven by the spurt of smart phone usage across the world. pCloudy is an intelligent platform that aims to empower the mobile app development and test teams with automated testing on cloud, saving time and cost significantly. We are confident the team of experts at Smart Software will address the need of the industry in a speedy manner, thereby taking the venture to the next level within a short period of time," Girish Shivani, co-founder, Your Nest Angel Fund, said in a statement on Wednesday.