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That automation is changing the way IT firms are executing projects is no news. As technology is disrupting traditional models of businesses, technology itself is facing disruption as start-ups are coming up with tailor-made niche enterprise applications. This is what a Hyderabad-based firm is trying to prove in the field of testing tools and services.
TenXLabs, an offshoot of HR finishing school TalentSprint, is doing an Uber in the testing services space. It wants to touch base with the idle talent in the market to build a big, virtually connected workforce. As and when required, the firm will pull in staff within no time to execute projects. It doesn’t have infrastructure costs or other overheads to manage staff as it offers Testing as a Service (TaaS). Those enrolled will work virtually, sitting at home.
Madhu Murty Ronanki, who is among the top experts in the testing services space, is leading TenXLabs. “We are not a me-too testing firm. We don’t want to build yet another testing firm with hundreds or thousands of employees,” he told BusinessLine .
Ronanki, along with Santanu Paul and JA Chowdary, incubated TalentSprint to address the shortfall in skill set of people seeking jobs in the BFSI sector.
From the vast pool of testing engineers it created, the firm will hand pick those required for a specific project. It pays ₹10,000 a month for beginners. It presently has about 170 testing experts hooked to the network.
Business model “We train hundreds of engineering students in testing practice. We have produced, say, about 15,000 experts in the last three years. We are going to train 25,000 more. A good number of them are available for us on demand. We can quickly ramp up numbers,” Ronanki said.
The division, being nurtured as a start-up, has already registered a turnover of ₹12 crore. “Our investors do not want us to be just another testing firm. They want us to leverage the human resources we produce at TalentSprint,” he said.
As the model evolves, the firm wants to expand the virtual network of testing engineers to 500 from the present 170. “We have developed tools to monitor the performance,” he said.
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