Emerging business needs mandate superior performance of your IT systems. Your applications need to be secure and user-friendly, while also responding faster and complying with prevailing regulations. We leverage our vast testing experience, deep domain knowledge and technical expertise to address your specific testing requirements. Our portfolio of Specialized Testing Services includes:

• Test Automation - Our Test Automation Services provide significant cost savings and productivity gains. Our test automation process adheres to scripting standards and embraces industry best practices to ensure test effectiveness.
  

  Our dedicated Test Automation Center of Excellence (Test Automation CoE) develops and customizes an automation framework to be implemented across projects. In addition to its experience in using industry-standard tools, the CoE also develops in-house tools for automation by integrating and customizing open source tools.

• Non-functional Testing
  • Performance Testing - Our Performance Testing services address performance issues by comprehensively testing for the scalability of applications using industry-standard and open source performance testing tools. Our dedicated Performance Testing Center of Excellence (Performance Testing CoE) conducts research and development on process and tool enhancements to provide a wide range of performance testing value creators. Leveraging its extensive experience, the CoE has developed a range of high-value services evolving out of basic performance testing services.
  • Security Testing - Our methodology for security testing is designed to identify potential loopholes and weaknesses in your system to assess its vulnerability.
  • Usability Testing - Our multidisciplinary Usability Group consists of technical and usability professionals who assess the usability of your applications and interfaces with respect to their appearance and ease of use.
• Compliance Testing - Cognizant will test your applications for their compliance with existing regulatory standards such as SoX, DDA and HIPAA. We also perform Pharma validation testing.
• Package Implementation Testing - We test inter-related applications developed by third-party software vendors. We offer implementation testing for a variety of packages including SCM, ERP and CRM from SAP, Oracle (PeopleSoft), etc.
• Product Testing - We test the functionality of your domain-specific software products. Our product testing competence spans multiple industry domains-Exceed, VantageOne and Ingenium in Insurance; VisionPlus in the Credit Card space; FACETS in Healthcare, etc.
• Agile Testing - Our agile testing methodology is designed to complement your agile development efforts by virtue of our onsite/offshore model, which delivers significant cost and quality benefits.
• Data Warehouse Testing - We use a unique, structured approach to data warehouse testing that runs in parallel with the development flow to eliminate anomalies before they reach production. Our data warehouse testing methodology is incremental and is designed to accommodate changing data warehouse schema arising from evolving business needs. Testing happens at different stages, each of which is performed to validate data completeness, transformation logic, data quality and performance scalability.
• SOA Testing - Our comprehensive tool-based, message-driven test approach for SOA testing facilitates application-to-application communication across multiple layers of the technology stack. Our time-tested agile and iterative test execution methodology play a crucial role in ensuring shorter time to market of SOA-based applications. Our proprietary tools enable GUI-based record/playback automation as well as framework-based automation for testing of web services, thereby reducing effort, time and cost involved in the testing of SOA-based applications.