EPAM Testing and QA Center of Excellence honored in the 2010 International Business Awards

Newtown, PA — October 4, 2010 — EPAM Systems, Inc., the leading software engineering and IT Outsourcing (ITO) provider in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), announced today that its Testing and QA Center of Excellence has earned a Distinguished Honoree medal in the category "IT Department of the Year" in The 2010 International Business Awards, a global business awards program honoring great performances in business.

EPAM's Testing and QA Center of Excellence (CoE) is the largest stand-alone testing organization in Central and Eastern Europe. Established in 1999, the software testing CoE has grown to over 1,000 seasoned test professionals offering a comprehensive set of services covering functional and performance testing, automated testing, localization testing, mobile and security testing, and cloud/SOA testing. In addition EPAM test engineers have the deep understanding of specific business domains needed to provide quality services in such complex vertical segments as Investment and Retail Banking, Business Information Services and Media, and Travel and Hospitality among others.

Today there are dozens of leading software product companies as well as Fortune 1000 corporations that utilize various testing services provided by EPAM independently or in combination with other EPAM software engineering offerings.

"This award validates EPAM's leading position as a provider of independent testing services among global ITO vendors. It recognizes not just over ten years of EPAM's experience in this field, but also our top level expertise with market leading advanced testing tools and multiple technology platforms, EPAM's rich set of proprietary testing frameworks and methodologies developed internally to address many complex and unique client requirements, and also the availability of EPAM's SDLC management platform used in most of our engagements to bring complete transparency and traceability to the testing process," noted Andrei Savastsiuk, Director, Testing and QA at EPAM.

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About EPAM Systems

Established in 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. is the leading global software engineering and IT consulting provider with delivery centers throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Headquartered in the United States, EPAM employs over 5,000 professionals and provides services to clients worldwide utilizing a global delivery model through its client facing and delivery operations in North America, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Belarus, Hungary, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

EPAM's core competencies include complex software product engineering for leading global software and technology vendors, as well as development, testing, maintenance, and support of mission critical business applications and vertically oriented IT consulting services for global Fortune 2000 corporations.

EPAM is recognized among the top companies in IAOP's "2010 Global Outsourcing 100" and in "The 2009 Global Services 100" by Global Services Magazine and neoIT. The company is the only CEE's IT services vendor included in the global "Top 10 Best Performers: IT Services" and also ranked among the world's "Top 10 Best Performers: Outsourced Product Development" according to the magazine's 2009 rating.

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