Chennai:
The $154-million revenue Lionbridge Technologies Inc, a software development,
testing and content localisation and translation services company has decided
to shift its software testing from Europe to India. According
to COO, Satish Maripuri, "Some of our customers are moving to India and
they want us to be there. In addition, many of our testing labs in Europe
are a high cost centre." Lionbridge
has opened a 20,000sq.ft-software testing centre in Chennai. "We will
be initially hiring around 250 developers, test engineers and project managers.
We will later increase the numbers," said Maripuri. Declining
to reveal the investment that has gone into the Chennai facility, Jay Sitaram,
general manager and vice president, India Operations, said, "The company
has plans to invest in India over $2 million." Lionbridge
came to India by taking over the Mumbai-based Mentorix for $28 million in
2003. Mentorix was a provider of e-learning content development, programme
management and applicatin
development and maintenance solutions company. According to Sitaram, the company
was successfully integrated with the parent company.
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