ITC Infotech partners LayerLens on AI testing tools

ITC Infotech has partnered with LayerLens to add AI model evaluation tools to its quality engineering platform, extending its iQStudio offering into testing for AI applications.

The integration brings LayerLens' Stratix platform into ITC Infotech's Quality Engineering practice, adding tools to assess AI models and agents alongside established software testing processes.

Testing AI systems presents different challenges from traditional software because outputs can vary and behaviour can shift over time. The tie-up is intended to address that gap as more customers move AI projects from pilot stages into live use.

Within ITC Infotech's AI application development workflow, LayerLens' software will support model evaluation and selection as well as solution testing. According to the companies, users will be able to upload custom benchmarks, register models through OpenAI-compatible application programming interfaces, import large language model execution logs for judge-based evaluation, and review scoring results with reasoning traces.

ITC Infotech's existing iQStudio platform already covers conventional testing work, including test case generation, synthetic test data, defect prediction, self-healing automation, and compliance testing tied to rules such as GDPR, HIPAA, and the EU AI Act. The partnership adds a layer focused on continuous evaluation of AI model performance and agent behaviour.

Quality shift

The agreement comes as quality assurance teams adapt methods built for deterministic systems to software that can produce non-deterministic outputs. In practice, businesses deploying AI need ways to compare models, monitor drift, and review how automated agents behave in use.

ITC Infotech's Quality Engineering practice already supports large organisations with test automation, test design, and broader modernisation work. Its customer base includes Marriott, BlackRock, Fidelity, Volvo, and AB InBev.

Manas Chakraborty, MD & CEO of ITC Infotech, described the rationale for the partnership.

"Building AI applications well requires quality engineering that keeps pace with how AI actually works. Stratix gives our clients the evaluation rigor they need to move AI from proof of concept into production with confidence. This partnership strengthens the end-to-end AI quality story we are building through iQStudio," Chakraborty said.

LayerLens positions Stratix as a vendor-neutral system for evaluating AI models across different providers. The platform includes agent trace-level testing and reporting intended to support audit requirements, reflecting growing scrutiny from customers and regulators over how AI systems are assessed and documented.

Broader push

The partnership also fits into a wider expansion of ITC Infotech's AI-related operations. It has recently added Digital & AI Experience Centres in Bengaluru and Kolkata, as well as an AI Studio in Pune, as it increases investment in services tied to AI development and oversight.

ITC Infotech is a subsidiary of ITC, which has a market capitalisation of USD $65 billion, according to the company. ITC Infotech employs more than 13,000 people across 41 countries and serves more than 60 Fortune-listed clients in sectors including manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, retail, banking, healthcare, and hospitality.

For LayerLens, the deal provides access to ITC Infotech's client relationships and embeds its evaluation software within a broader service and testing framework used by major enterprises.

Archie Chaudhury, CEO of LayerLens, said the aim is to bring more consistent assessment standards to AI systems.

"Enterprise teams need to evaluate AI systems the same way they evaluate everything else: rigorously, continuously, and with results they can actually stand behind. ITC Infotech has the QE practice and the client relationships to bring that standard to AI. We are glad to be part of what they are building," Chaudhury said.