Securities market self-regulatory organization

Current QA not meeting business needs

The client’s QA organization met the basic requirements of testing. But, it lacked the structure and best practice experience to offer full business value to the company and the ability to scale as it expanded.

Areas that needed modernizing included accountability/review for testing, expanded browser coverage, implementation of behavior-driven development and improved email reporting mechanisms.
With Catalyte’s help, once these areas were improved, the QA team could conduct non-brittle tests and share outcome data across the organization, not just with the internal QA team.

Catalyte implements new testing framework

To ensure the QA team was providing full business value to the self-regulatory organization, Catalyte helped implement and train team members on a new, modernized testing framework.

This framework consisted of business readable tests that improved QA’s speed and stability. Tests were no longer brittle and the application didn’t need to be treated with kid gloves when tested. The framework also improved reporting and organizational access. Results could be automatically emailed in an easy-to-understand format to business stakeholders for more comprehensive project oversight.

Catalyte’s QA experts upskilled the client’s QA team with training on emerging QA best practices for the new framework. Catalyst also trained the team on Docker containers to meet cross browser testing requirements without having to use physical hardware. This decreased the time each iteration of regression took to run.

Improved collaboration and modernized QA practice

With the combination of Catalyte’s new testing framework and training, the self-regulatory organization now has a modernized QA practice. It now experiences improved collaboration not only within the QA team, but also between QA and the rest of the business. QA can be more responsive to business needs and drive projects forward, rather than hinder progress and reporting. The client now has improved speed, scale, stability and coverage for its testing environments. As the business continues to grow and become more reliant on technology, QA will be able to quickly respond to new and emerging challenges.