Cognizant has been named a Leader in Continuous Automation and Testing (CAT) in The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Automation And Testing Services, Q3 2021 Report. The report assesses the top vendors in the market for their ability to:

• Make customer intimacy their North Star.
• Collaborate with clients to modernize their testing.
• Offer modernized and innovative continuous automation and testing services.

The Forrester report recognizes Cognizant’s strong automation engineering capabilities, stating, “…Cognizant has expanded its already large pool of automation engineers, along with rich automation software accelerators. Both the functional and performance test automation services Cognizant delivered to the reference clients over the last 12 months yielded above-average levels of automation among the Forrester Wave customer references peer group. Cognizant’s automation engineering capabilities are also strongly infused with AI and machine learning technologies to optimize various steps of the testing process, leverage machine learning and natural language processing to enable intelligent test design automation for business process testing, and automatically generate automation test scripts as well as test data.”

A client reference cited in the report states, “Cognizant demonstrated thought leadership and continuous innovation, which significantly transformed the outlook of quality engineering for our business through AI-/ML-driven bots, codeless platforms, and unique AI-infused accelerators use cases.” The client went on to say that Cognizant’s vision to make software testing at least as good as hardware testing where zero defects are close to the norm, which is a differentiated ambition. The report went on to say that “Clients wishing to transform testing into a modern CAT organization at scale, with agile-plus-DevOps adherence, will find a reliable partner in Cognizant.”

“We believe Cognizant’s position as a leader in this Forrester Wave report is underpinned by our differentiated vision and next-gen QA capabilities,” said Andreas Golze, Cognizant’s SVP and Markets Head, QE&A. “Through our zero-touch first time right approach, we embed AI and robotics for continuous and automated testing of constantly evolving digital applications, helping clients maintain high quality of products and deliver superior customer experience.”

Learn more about the Forrester Wave report here.