Bangalore: Rolls-Royce group plc, leading global provider of airplane engines, power systems and services, said it has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in India to outsource the growing volume of engineering work.

According to the company, it's Indian subsidiary Rolls Royce Operations, India (RROIPL) would help the group meet the need for greater engineering capacity over a range of its new programmes and leverage its capability in India to develop aero-engineering solutions.

Rolls Royce would outsource a large part of its work to Quality Engineering and Software Technologies (QuEST), a city-based leading global product development solutions provider, Rolls Royce chief executive Sir John Rose said here.

QuEST is doubling its headcount to 200 comprising locally employed engineers in the next 12 months and invest $2 million to support Rolls Royce, company president Aravind Melligeri said.

Rolls Royce set up a centre in QuEST's Bangalore facility earlier this year, which became fully operational as Rolls-Royce Operations India Limited in October.

QuEST, a Carlyle-funded global engineering provider employs nearly 800 engineers across the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, China, and India and will provide Rolls-Royce with a range of engineering design and development services.

QuEST engineers will do system and component design, modeling, stress analysis, performance engineering, service engineering, instrumentation engineering, manufacturing engineering, technical publishing, repair design, and ground support equipment design across different product categories of Rolls-Royce.

The value of the work is expected to be about $25 million over five years.