"The partnership between Skytap and MindTree provides customers with a significant competitive advantage by enabling them to quickly scale lab infrastructure to meet tight testing and development deadlines," said Skytap Chief Product and Marketing Officer Steve Brodie. "Companies using Virtual Lab solutions across a wide range of testing scenarios have improved control and flexibility, achieved significant gains in productivity and dramatically reduced costs."

MindTree's Independent Testing business unit has about 2000 members and offers complete breadth and depth of software testing services to customers in the Enterprise IT and Product Engineering segments. The key value propositions of the business are the industry domain knowledge, usage of frameworks, predictability of testing, and dedicated career paths for the testers. The offerings include end-to-end testing services like setting up a Test COE , functional testing and specialized testing such as test automation, performance engineering and security testing.