BANGALORE: San Jose, US headquartered ReadyTestGo (RTG), a pure-play software testing services provider with independent verification and validation capabilities, has announced plans to ramp up its Indian operations. RTG, wholly owned by Cybernet Software Systems (CSS), is the only Indian company to offer exhaustive performance engineering & software testing.

The company plans to hire 150 IT professionals this year, thus doubling its employee base to over 300 people. While the company will target new Independent Service Vendors (ISVs) in the US and UK this year, it plans to expand its presence in the BFSI space in the domestic as well as APAC region.

With an offshore testing facility in Chennai, RTG also has Satellite labs in San Jose and Singapore, that are capable of simulating loads of up to 20,000 concurrent users. It plans to invest significantly in expanding its testing infrastructure in Chennai. The company’s clientele includes Deutsche Bank, Citibank, SBI, American Express, VA Software, Dendrite, Marimba and iflex.

Sridhar Kulasekharan, COO, RTG said "Increasingly, we will see large software developers coming to specialist testing houses like RTG, to enhance the credibility of their offering to their end customers, and to demonstrate third party validation of their SLAs."

Shiv Kumar, Chairman RTG said "Having established a strong client base in the ISV and BFSI space, we are on track to become India’s No.1 outsourced software testing provider, offering customers the assurance that we will optimize their investments in hardware, software and resources."

Added Sridhar, "In today’s dynamic world, time-to-market is critical for corporations to stay globally competitive. RTG ensures proper checks and sign offs at every stage of its customer’s product life cycle. RTG testing for performance engineering and functionality accelerates its customers’ time-to- market, increase savings, and enhances their tech capabilities."

CIOL Bureau