About Us – Sahi Pro

20 years building
test automation that works

We built Sahi Pro because fragile test scripts were costing teams more than the bugs they were meant to catch.

Any team- technical or not, achieving serious automation coverage, without the maintenance overhead.

Test Automation should give QA teams their time back – not create a new maintenance problem.

Started from a real problem

In 2005, Narayan Raman was working on an agile development project when the team needed test automation. The testers asked for 10 days just to estimate how long automation would take. That delay highlighted the fundamental problem with existing tools: they were built for automation engineers, not for the people who actually understood the applications being tested.

Narayan wrote Sahi as an open source tool to solve this. It gained thousands of users worldwide because it addressed a pain point every software team experienced. By 2008, companies started asking for commercial support and enterprise features. In 2009, Sahi Pro launched as the business-ready product, and Tyto Software was founded to develop it.

We have never taken venture funding. Customer revenue has sustained the company from the beginning, which means we optimize for long-term customer success rather than growth metrics or exit strategies.

Principles that guide our work

Accessibility over
complexity

Developers think deep but narrow, testers think broad and holistic. When automation demands coding, it adopts the developer’s mindset and loses the wider coverage testers provide. We built Sahi Pro so QA professionals, business analysts, and testers can design and maintain automation directly, without needing deep programming skills.

Honesty in
engineering

We are honest about what works and what does not. Features get built when they solve real customer problems, not because they sound impressive. When something breaks, we fix the root cause instead of applying patches. We do not promise what we cannot deliver, and we do not oversell capabilities that only work in controlled demos.

Customer fit
matters

Being truthful means sometimes telling potential customers that Sahi Pro is not the right fit for their needs. We would rather lose a sale than set up a customer for failure. This approach has kept customers with us for over a decade and built a reputation based on reliability rather than marketing hype.

Narayan Raman, Founder and CEO

The Engineer Before the Founder

Narayan studied Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay before moving into software. He worked at eGain Communications, Talentica Software, and ThoughtWorks - building a firsthand understanding of how real development teams work, ship, and struggle with quality.

Founding of Tyto Software

Narayan founded Tyto Software and served as the primary architect for Sahi Pro. His vision was centred on a pragmatic approach to test automation: ensuring tools reduce complexity rather than increase it.

Building What Teams Actually Need

Narayan led Sahi Pro's evolution from launch to a product trusted across web, mobile, desktop, and API automation. Every feature built was driven by real customer problems.

1,000+ Companies. 40 Countries.

Today, Sahi Pro is used by enterprises across six continents. Narayan remains actively involved in product direction - still solving the same problem he identified in 2005, at a scale he didn't plan for but built toward.