Trivandrum/Bengaluru, India, December 15, 2020: QuEST Global, a global product engineering and lifecycle services company, today announced that its Trivandrum center had been successfully assessed and appraised at CMMI Dev V2.0 Maturity Level 5. This appraisal demonstrates QuEST’s strong commitment towards process maturity, delivery excellence, service quality, and business sustainability journey. It will enable the organization to win an extended trust with its customers, get more business, and deliver the best solutions with optimized performance. The recognition will also allow the company to benchmark its processes and practices against the global ‘Best in Class’ organizations.
By achieving CMMI Dev V2.0 Maturity Level 5, QuEST has reaffirmed that it has a mature and focused approach towards developing, testing, and improving the delivery and performance of engineering software for its customers. This also helps QuEST identify the key capabilities that directly impact business results, quality, and performance to reduce costs and improve the ability to deliver innovative software solutions to customers. As the next step, the company will aim to get their other centers appraised at CMMI Dev V2.0 Maturity Level 5 soon.
Elaborating further on the achievement and value it will provide, Mike Bradley, Head of Business Excellence, QuEST Global, said, “Achieving CMMI Dev V2.0 Level 5 is a significant achievement for QuEST and one that we are very proud of. It’s a clear indication of QuEST’s commitment to driving business efficiency and continuous improvement for our business and customers’ benefit. It also reflects the dedication and professionalism of the delivery and support functions not just in Trivandrum, but across our organization, and their aspiration to help QuEST become the most Trusted Thinking Partner of our customers.”
The CMMI benchmark appraisal on QuEST’s Medical Devices and Automotive Delivery Units was performed by KPMG in India, which is a transition partner with CMMI Institute. The CMMI model evaluates an organization based on the processes being used to drive business growth, how the organization is streamlined for efficiency, and drive continual improvement, among other parameters. CMMI Dev 2.0 Maturity Level 5 is the highest level of process maturity that independently verifies an organization’s capabilities to continuously enhance its processes through incremental and innovative process and technological improvements. Maturity Level 5 affirms the organization’s ability to manage the sub-processes to achieve process and business objectives statistically.
About QuEST Global
For more than 20 years, QuEST Global has aimed to be a trusted global product engineering and lifecycle services partner to many of the world’s most recognized companies in the Aero Engines, Hi-Tech, Aerospace & Defense, Transportation (Auto and Rail), Power and Industrial, Oil & Gas and Medical Devices industries. With a presence in 13 countries, 56 global delivery centers and 11,250+ personnel, QuEST Global believes that it is at the forefront of the convergence of the mechanical, electronics, software and digital engineering innovations to engineer solutions for a safer, cleaner world. QuEST Global’s deep domain knowledge and digital expertise aim to help its clients accelerate product development and innovation cycles, create alternate revenue streams, enhance consumer experience and make manufacturing processes and operations more efficient.
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