New Partnership Features Launch of Virtusa's Harness Center of Excellence and Developer Experience Offering to Accelerate Digital Transformation

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. – Aug 27, 2025 – Virtusa Corporation, a global leader in digital business strategy, product, and platform engineering, today announced a strategic partnership with Harness, the AI DevOps platform company. Through this collaboration, Virtusa will expand its ability to help joint enterprise clients modernize their software delivery lifecycle for the AI era, enabling them to reduce costs, accelerate time to market, and improve overall software quality.

Harness plays a key role in Virtusa’s overall strategy to assist our clients in automating the entire product and software development lifecycle processes. The partnership centers around Virtusa's newly launched Harness Center of Excellence (COE) and comprehensive Harness Developer Experience offering, designed to help organizations maximize the value of the Harness platform across CI/CD, feature management, cloud cost management, security, and developer experience. By combining Virtusa's deep domain expertise at the intersection of industry, business, and technology with Harness's industry-leading automation platform, clients will gain unprecedented value across multiple industries.

“Virtusa’s Harness Center of Excellence represents a significant investment in expertise, training, and proven implementation methodologies,” said Patty Cheung, Vice President, Partners and Alliances at Harness. “Their commitment underscores the growing demand we’re seeing from global enterprises to adopt the Harness Platform and transform how software is built and delivered. Together, we’re helping organizations achieve faster innovation, stronger governance, and measurable business impact.”

Strategic Investment in Excellence

Virtusa's Harness Center of Excellence represents a significant investment in specialized expertise, featuring certified Harness professionals, proven best practices, and accelerated deployment methodologies. The center will serve as a hub for innovation, training, and knowledge sharing, ensuring clients receive world-class implementation and ongoing support.

"This partnership with Harness aligns perfectly with our commitment to driving sustainable growth for our clients," said Josh Soldati, Head of Global Alliances at Virtusa. "By combining our deep industry expertise with Harness's innovative AI DevOps platform, we're empowering organizations to transform their software delivery capabilities fundamentally. Our Harness Center of Excellence and Developer Experience offering represents a significant step forward in helping clients achieve their digital transformation goals while optimizing costs and improving quality."

Comprehensive Solution Portfolio

The collaboration tackles key enterprise challenges: long development cycles, rising cloud costs, security vulnerabilities, and complex deployment. By integrating Harness platform—including CI/CD, feature flags, cost management, and security —with Virtusa's expertise, the partnership enables joint delivery of:

AI-powered software delivery: accelerating development from ideation to post-deployment
Optimized team structures: Setting up the right people and roles for product-centric delivery
Modern ways of working: Establishing value stream mapping and execution methods
Virtusa FLOW framework: Streamlining backlog-to-production with ROI visibility
DevOps modernization: Measuring progress, detecting bottlenecks, and optimizing workflows
Real-time insights: Using dashboards for ongoing performance and improvement

The developer experience offering provides end-to-end transformation services, seamlessly integrating the Harness Platform. Virtusa’s offering covers the entire spectrum from initial assessment and strategy development through full-scale implementation and optimization. This comprehensive approach ensures clients maximize their return on investment while minimizing disruption to existing operations.