A Finance-Specific Testing Project for a Web Trader

About the project

The company provides online trading services in the international currency market working on both B2B and B2C models. It offers a wide range of financial instruments, including fiat currencies, metals, cryptocurrencies, stocks, and more.

Challenges

• A large number of defects
• Low performance of the dev team (more than 30% spent on QA/QC activities)
• Lack of product documentation
• Insufficient system performance (long response of API and load pages)
• The testing process conducted by developers

Solutions

• Andersen's team conducted a QA Audit
• We added a group of dedicated QA experts to their team
• We elaborated and presented the solution, i.e. a proposal aimed at optimizing the testing process
• Testing strategy developed and implemented
• Connected a team of QA leads
• Load testing Implemented and tuned with app performance properly reviewed

Project results

• Overall release quality improved by 48% due to the reduced amount of defects
• We introduced various types of testing, which improved the quality of the product and reduced the number of defects
• Performance issues identified and resolved
• We implemented load testing, which significantly increased the speed of request processing.
• Testing process implemented in accordance with STLC
• A new strategy to automate testing was submitted
• We provided the team with manual testers and automation engineers, distributing the workload.