At the Connecting Ideas With Money session held on 25th March, 2022 Devdeep Bhattacharya and Vinod Jayanna pitched early-stage Bangalore-based startup SNAP (SaaS NexGen Assurance Platform) – a ‘application lifecycle testing’ platform designed for SaaS/web applications that optimizes all the testing activities within a project test lifecycle. Launched in 2015 Transitus NexGen Pvt. Ltd., is the legal entity.
website: www.transitusnexgen.com
The startup is targeting IT businesses that develop and implement applications and products. SNAP reduces their effort associated with the system testing, integration testing, regression testing and the overall IT spend.
SNAP aims to address the absence of a single solution that supports all kinds of testing done by developers, testers and business users. It empowers manual testers to handle automated testing without any programming expertise
“During the application development process, testers encounter several challenges. Our solution accelerates, optimizes, streamlines and automates the business functionality of an application being tested,” says Devdeep. “Transitus has more than 60,000 manhours of test consulting. This extensive exposure to recurring
challenges within the landscape of manual testing and various automation solutions prompted us to ideate, conceptualize, design and develop an all-round solution. This would mitigate the challenges encountered and ensure the time, effort and cost associated with testing.”
During several onsite and offshore test implementation schedules, SNAP test specialists picked up the most pressing challenges in executing a test approach. The team understood when the test objectives were defined clearly. All it took is an intelligent platform to deliver the fastest sprints. This started a most rigorous 6 months
of multi-directional research into the test landscape for SaaS and web-based applications. CIOs, test leads and groups of test managers shared their key takeaways from managing high-stakes test life cycles and product cycles. The startup reports that SNAP is a result of approximately 40,000 manhours of developers, design specialists and testing experts, working to create the next level of optimal digital assurance.
“The team was a result of networking on social media, several rounds of coffee and late-evening debates among a group of professionals, who had spent decades in large organizations across countries. It is a mix of professionals, who have worked in technology and technology-enabled corporate enterprises. The founder, a Mechanical Engineer by qualification, has more than three decades of experience in IT Project Management and test leadership and done business with some of the largest IT customers in Energy, Utilities, Banking and Telecom sectors. The Product team has developers and testers who are not only passionate about disrupting the legacy-driven test behaviors but also keep their eyes on customers and end-users. The key team members have spent more than 5 years on average at
Transitus and hence they are entrenched in the Transitus model of ‘Quality-First’,” says Devdeep.
Founder/Visionary:
Gnanavel Natarajan
B.E. Mechanical
32+ years of experience in heading key business accounts as Practice Head for end-to-end implementation of software testing solutions. As a strong believer in continuous testing across all phases of software development and deployment he has achieved strong business results that helped a diverse portfolio of customers, project teams and solution architects. With changes and innovation in testing methodologies, a NexGen SaaS Testing Platform was his vision. This was transformed into reality with a breakthrough product-SNAP (SaaS NexGen Assurance Platform). From investing time and researching the desired goals of software testing to putting a quality team of testers, developers and researchers, his focus and diligence has brought a new shift in how automation testing is practiced across businesses- small scale to large enterprises.
