BANGALORE, May 24 (Reuters) - Scandent Solutions Corp. , a mid-sized Indian software services firm, said on Tuesday its earnings after tax in the fourth quarter ended March were $2.21 million on revenue of $16.52 million.

The company, which listed in March after buying the software unit of SSI Ltd. , did not give figures for the year-ago quarter. It said revenue grew 5.7 percent over the previous quarter while post-tax earnings surged 22.5 percent.

The Bangalore-based firm is a unit of Singapore-headquartered information technology and back-office group Scandent, founded by Chairman Chris Sinclair, a former head of PepsiCo International .