Global tech firm sets up Canadian headquarters in Calgary

Newcastle, UK-based global software technology company Test Driven Solutions (TDS) has chosen Calgary for its Canadian headquarters, the company announced in a July 26 press release.

The company will recruit technical talent in various domains.

“We are looking to hire software developers from different technologies, automated test engineers and DevOps engineers (AWS and Azure). We are an in-house IT for immediate business,” said Sam Clark, Managing Director of Tech Driven Solutions, IT World Told Canada. Would like to hire a recruiter too."

Founded in 2020 as a remote and on-site support provider, TDS provides individual software consultants or full team support for short- and long-term projects, with a variety of services including full-stack software developers, technical architects, automated and manual quality assurance does. Engineer Provides. Agile and Waterfall Business Analyst, Scrum Masters and DevOps Engineer.

According to the non-profit organization Calgary Economic Development (CED), home to more than 60 percent of Alberta's tech companies, Calgary is leading the charge in digitally transforming industries and aims to spend $7.5 billion on digital transformation by 2022. aims at. is a guess. Which works with regional, national and international business to facilitate access to the Calgary market.

"We chose Calgary because it has a growing technology hub and a real soft spot for the province I already live in," Clark said. "I think Calgary is very similar to Newcastle except for the mountains and the weather! We want to replicate what we've built here in Newcastle, and we want to create a lot of jobs. It would have been easier to have headquarters in Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal, But my aim is to create more tech jobs in Calgary and to help Alberta organizations improve and deliver with our expertise.

The high-tech landscape in Calgary is evolving at a rate that signals the willingness of companies to embrace digital transformation. Several tech giants and global companies, including Infosys and RBC, have set up or expanded shops in Calgary over the years.