Industry
Banking
Banking Services Transformation: Unlocking Exponential Value
Highlights
- Agile model help reduce waste, increase flexibility, faster delivery
- Testing Automation enables reusability of scripts, maximum coverage, reduce human intervention
- Process re-engineering improves productivity and efficiency
Introduction
The volatile business environment, evolving regulatory demands, and the increasing complexity of modern systems highlight the need for more efficient, scalable and intelligent testing solutions.
Being Agile, automation led testing and re-imagined processes help address the limitations of traditional testing approaches in software development lifecycle.
Staying Competitive in delivering the best and most efficient software solutions requires next-generation testing transformation, enabling faster releases, greater accuracy and adaptability to trends like agile methodologies and AI-driven predictive analytics.
Testing Transformation ensures faster solutions and better accuracy as it moves from source to destination, enabling efficiency and enhancing client experience.
Problem
Frequent obstacles in testing
- Long schedule for a change in application – In a waterfall model, deploying a change in production typically takes 2 to 3 months, spanning from requirements gathering to commercialization
- Human dependency – Test design requires domain and techno-functional experts to thoroughly understand changes before developing testing strategies, scenarios and test cases
- Duplication of efforts– Overlapping of scenarios and test cases between multiple teams such as development teams, SIT teams, UAT teams etc. causes unnecessary duplication
- Late identification of defects during SDLC – Due to limited usage of predictive analytics/AI, and with end-users only involved in testing during the final phase, defects in UI and business validations are often discovered late, driving up program costs
- Manual testing leads to high testing timelines and is prone to errors – Each phase of testing requires at least 30 – 45 days due to the extensive manual effort involved in functional, end-to-end, and regression testing
Solution
NextGen testing transformation strategy
- Introduction of Agile - Agile emphasizes early and continuous testing, with all team members- including developers, testers, and the Scrum Master- sharing equal responsibility for product quality. Key aspects of Agile include continuous integration and continuous delivery, ensuring that every change that passes all tests is automatically deployed to production. Agile relies on sprints, scrum teams and daily stand-up meetings to drive progress and maintain alignment.
- Test Design automation –Test design can be partially automated using tools that capture business flows, enabling the automatic generation of scenarios and test cases based on the captured flows, validations and rules.
- Unified Testing team – Instead of multiple teams performing testing, a unified test team is the way forward to optimize the testing process. Dev/SIT test team can focus on stand-alone and functional testing while end-to-end testing can be performed by business users.
- Defect prediction using AI: To identify defects early in the lifecycle and minimize recurring issues, AI can be used to predict the defects in specific modules or functions. These predictions may serve as valuable insights and inputs for development and testing teams, helping to refine their scope and achieve zero critical or high post-production defects.
- Test execution Automation – Automation in testing started with a focus on regression execution, however, with new tools and framework, automation is now extended to functional testing as well. Today regression testing can be automated to an extent of 90 – 95% while functional testing can be automated to an extent 70 – 80%, depending on the upstream and downstream connectivity.
Benefits
Key Benefits of Next-Gen Testing Transformation
- Faster Time to market: Next-Gen testing reduces bottlenecks, accelerates feedback and shortens release cycles
- Cost effectiveness: Optimized process along with automation reduces the cost of the project by 15 – 20% and helps to improve scope creep during testing
- Enhanced user experience: Defect free rollouts with better features and improved quality, have increased the acceptance of changes during the commercialization process.
- Resource Flexibility: By reducing human dependency, testing phases can be managed more efficiently, making resources fungible and allowing them to be deployed into scrum teams as needed.
These challenges and solutions are common across clients and can be leveraged as best practices across testing offerings.
Conclusion
Change is inevitable in this ever-evolving business environment and levers such as being agile, automation, predictive analytics and de-duplication drive efficiency and faster time to market. Are you ready to explore and transform your process through NextGen Testing transformation?
