Headquartered in Singapore, the Bank of Singapore is the private banking arm of OCBC Bank and one of the fastest growing banks in Asia, having received industry recognition for its strong financial performance, innovative products and focus on customer service.
The Bank is a user of Temenos Core Banking and WealthSuite solutions and issued an RFP as they were in the need for developing an integrated automation test solution to reduce the current
manual effort and cost spent in testing. Bank of Singapore’s DevOps journey from Waterfall to Continuous Delivery included many challenges and the lack of a fully automated testing tool prevented them from completing it. For testing purposes, the Bank was using HP’s QTP and Microsoft TFS.
The RFP process included an exhaustive pilot exercise where Validata designed and successfully executed end‐to‐end automated test scenarios covering all the scope and success criteria set by the Bank, outplaying the competition who were proposing the use of generic open‐source tool Selenium and HP’s QTP.
The Bank selected Validata Quality and Release Automation Suites for their ability to add value throughout the Automated Lifecycle Process, from requirements management to testing, defect management, release automation and reporting. In addition, the products tight integration with the Temenos T24™ and WealthSuite applications meant that additional benefits would be available through automation of testing both during and after the Bank’s aggressive transformation plans.
Validata technologies were used for the upgrade from Temenos R13 Desktop to latest release in Browser, as well as TripleA’, Apollo Mobile Banking, Apollo Internet Banking, SWIFT and PDF Testing and a set of other interfaces including: MarginMan, FinIQ, PitneyBowes, ODP, DWS / DWSPB, Reporting DB, Microsoft CRM, Pega, CPOMS.
Validata’s One‐Architecture platform is automating end‐to‐end across Desktop, browser, mobile and the complete Temenos software stack.
The Bank was able to reduce dramatically the number of test cases and cut testing effort and execution times while reaching automation levels of 90% and 80% effort reduction in each execution cycle. Through zero‐touch test case creation and zero manual actions for releasing, they achieved quality at speed and increase test coverage and scalability in a way that manual testing or traditional scripting could never have done.
A regression test pack of 1400 test cases across different applications, executing End‐to‐End business processes is now available for continuous monitoring and regression. These tests can be run 24/7 to ensure that all core functionality is being monitored at all times
