Our client is a trusted leader offering health and benefits, human resource management, staffing, insurance and retirement planning services to major market sectors. Their online product suite is recognized among the most advanced, secure, and user friendly online applications by the IT security profession for many years. They have also received many prestigious awards for being best in class when it comes to Customer Service.
Our client was battling a combination of website updates with healthcare changes which added complexity and an environment of continuous change. In addition, the database environment required constant monitoring to address any instability, data quality or replication issues.
The issues the client was facing impacted all areas of their business, even down to their ability to pay their suppliers. As a supplier, Qualitest experienced these issues firsthand. As a result of this we conducted a Proof-of-Concept exercise by developing a custom defect tracking solution. We presented this to the client, who was impressed, and this helped us to showcase and deliver our expert services as we established and grew our relationship.
We replaced their slow in-house manual testing with automated testing, using Selenium backed by a Robot framework and HTML DOM to functionally test the various user input screens. Automating testing cut the new build sprints in half to 2 weeks. Also, Qualitest implemented sanity testing in the first 1-2 days of that 2-week process, providing early critical bug alerts to the development team for timely debugging.
We developed scenarios and tests for SQA Test Automation which started out as simply sanity and smoke tests, but evolved to powerful and time-saving regression tests. Time-consuming, lengthy, fragile and mildly accurate manual tests evolved into fast-running, detailed, stable, and highly accurate automated tests. The best part? A button click has replaced lengthy, monotonous people work.
