SWISS 2021
BUSINESS
BRANKO MILIKIĆ, Managing Director of Sixsentix Serbia
iTest COMING SOON Sixsentix is a Swiss company that specialises in software testing and has branches across Europe. The company’s expertise is already recognised by clients, so it comes as no surprise that it is expanding its network of partners and clients, while increasing the number of employees, year-on-year.
but it is important for clients that a model like this enables them to save more, or at least receive a bigger team for the same investment. We currently have 145 employees in Serbia, while the entire group has more than 300.
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peaking for CorD Magazine, Sixsentix Serbia MD Branko Milikić explains that innovations, new ideas, products and start-ups come on the basis of the company’s experience, constant development, work with clients from various fields and cooperation with research centres and other companies
Sixsentix Serbia is a subsidiary of the eponymous Swiss parent company, which has branches throughout Europe. How are the Belgrade and Novi Sad offices that you head rated in that strong competition? The Serbian part of the company represents the “Nearshore Centre” for all of our locations (Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary and the UAE). 18
The company’s policy is to have a specific number of employees at each location, but for most of the employees to work from Serbia. The model that has proven
Our success stories demonstrate how the Sixsentix approach and services save between 30-50% of our clients’ annual budget itself to be the best in working with clients is to have mixed teams on projects, i.e., a number of employees working at the location where the client is located, with the larger part of the team from Serbia. When it comes to delivering quality, it remains on the highest level,
The IT sector is attractive to everyone, but mostly open to developers, while you offer opportunities to both mathematicians and physicists who’ve proven themselves to be excellent during testing. Is that possible without additional training and continuous improvement? Constant improvements and investments in additional education, certifications and training is required. Candidates who think analytically fit into our working method very well. We have possibilities to retrain candidates who possess some experience that isn’t strictly related to IT, because we have internal education that’s coordinated by the Education team that was founded six years ago and has numerous coaches, educators and mentors. We invest in methodological and analytical approach to work, consulting skills, agile ways of working, understanding different areas of operations, communication skills, training for the different tools and languages that we use etc. Each of our employees receives regular training throughout the year in various fields, not only from the technical aspect, but rather we also invest in improving various skills. From the very outset, Sixsentix aimed to develop its own unique approach to testing – software agile testing (SWAT). What makes it special and superior?
