Validata Group extends its leading Digital Automation platform to support DevOps for Temenos Core Banking, with risk-based impact analysis and Continuous Testing, focusing on exposing user interface software and user experience issues early in the lifecycle.

The ALM tools from the major software providers like HP QC, are designed to work with traditional structured or waterfall approaches, lacking clear focus on Test Analytics and not being able to support Agile practices and Continuous Delivery.

Validata is a niche player that specialises in banking software testing. At the core of its platform solution is automation based on processes common to most banking platforms. QA-Financial met with Vaios Vaitsis, Validata’s founder and CEO, to find out more.

Financial Services organisations are under an ever-increasing pressure to restructure their teams and processes to match accelerating market dynamics and release faster applications and services; - faster release cycles require developers, testers and performance engineers to work in parallel. In addition they struggle to have visibility and insight across different projects and into the work of distributed teams.

Until now organisations have been forced to bolt together a number of specialised tools from different suppliers in order to achieve anything close to ALM. But with no integration framework, control has been uncertain at best, creating both delay and risk in the development process and in operations.