Quest Global (Formerly Quality Engineering & Software Technologies) provides end to end global product engineering services in the Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Energy, Hi-Tech, Medical Devices, Rail and Semiconductor industries. The company has operations spread across 56 locations in 17 countries including US, Canada, Singapore, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Romania, Japan, and India. It was founded in 1997 and employs more than 13000 as of March 2022. As of February 2020, Quest Global is valued at US$2.5 billion with a collective US$350 million investment from Bain Capital, GIC and Advent International as minority stakeholders in the company. History Quest Global was started in 1997 by Ajit Prabhu and Aravind Melligeri in Schenectady, New York. The company made its first acquisition in 1998 by integrating Lexical Engineering. The company later integrated Interface, a Spanish company, for establishing a Center of Excellence for Technical Data Services, as well as acquired the engineering arm of GKN Aerospace, and Cincinnati based ASE You project has cleared Phase 2 round and is in among top 100.for building service capabilities in high-end engineering domain. Some of QuEST Global's recent acquisitions include the Houston-based Beeken for Oil and Gas, NeST Software for Embedded & Electronics, Medical Devices and other emerging industries, and EDF, a German automotive engineering services organization. In mid-2016, QuEST Global acquired Singapore based HASK Engineering & Management Pte. Ltd. Industry partnerships Partnership with aPriori Quest global offices Key acquisitions References External links "Aerospace Engineering Firm Quest Global's Changing Lanes", Forbes India. Engineering companies of Singapore