Company Overview
A Tier‐1 global Bank headquartered in Switzerland, using Temenos T24 for their private banking operations in Asia Pacific, UK and Channel Islands.
Credit Suisse
Automating Regression Testing for Tier-1 global bank’s multi country rollout
Industry: BANKING
Organization Size: 45,000
Location: Europe
90%
automation achieved within 6 months across 5 countries
60%
reduction in test scenarios
Business Need
Having invested in HP QTP as their testing tool, the bank faced challenges as the levels of automation were very low and the test scripts defined were lacking of reusability and consistency, hence the test teams had to spend enormous effort on manual testing and test data management and were not able to get the appropriate coverage and quality assurance out of the testing process.
Solution
Validata Quality Suite was chosen after an exhaustive process as the preferred partner for automated regression testing. Further Validata had to ensure the quality of deliverables, reduce the timelines for regression testing and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of automation. The approach that was employed was the creation of a regression test pack based on specific transaction load as per business need. Risk assessment and risks registration was also ensured in order to create risk based regression test pack that would be executed against the desired copies of the Production environments for both (current and target) releases. They achieved 90% automation within 6 months with higher quality, compared to the previous process, which was mainly manual with a 20% of automation, using generic tools. In the end, Validata’s test optimization process, delivered better test coverage with less effort, as from the initial 20,000 test cases, the final optimized regression test pack included just 5,000 end‐to‐end scenarios across different platforms and applications (different browsers, mobile, etc).
Benefits
The bank was able to de‐risk code fixes and impact analysis, build confidence, and transformed the business leading to a quality release:
- 90% of automation achieved within 6 months for 5 countries
- The number of scenarios was reduced by more than 60% with better test coverage
- Fully automated regression test pack and Upgrade testing test pack
- Integration with the bank’s test management tool HP QC
- Test Cycles executed in shorter period – faster production deployment
- Significant cost savings for all future releases and enhanced ROI
