Project Summary
The client introduced new life insurance software to their South African market. Manual regression testing cycles took 8 -12 hours to complete. Through a holistic approach to test automation, test cycle times were reduced by 81%.
Company
Large insurance company
Industry
Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets
Location
South Africa
Solution
Automated Software Regression Testing
Technology Stack
Client Overview
The client is a division of an international financial services provider that offers life insurance products to South African customers.
Problem statement
The client needed full test coverage in regression testing of its life insurance products software.
Solution
Using a Scrum-based Agile approach, our team used Selenium and the in-house UTA-H automation framework to do test automation.
Before improvement
Manual Test Execution took 8-12 hours to complete.
After improvement
Automated Test Execution of 1 hour.
Benefit to the client after implementation
An 81% reduction in test execution time was achieved. The Automated Test Data generation facility was made available to the Functional Test team, improving their efficiency. In addition, there was a standardisation of the test automation practice across the entire new platform. The drastically reduced test execution times had a positive impact on the client’s release deadlines.
