A Fortune 500 manufacturing and consumer products company implements automated testing suites for its consumer applications.
SITUATION
Our client’s Quality Automation team was facing pressure to implement cost savings measures during a period when their scope of responsibility increased while maintaining their current quality and output levels. They needed a team of automation experts to create and deliver automation suites for their consumer applications. The client's testing team could not take on additional work and could only support a limited scope. They were looking for a partner who could provide qualified consultants to help them meet financial constraints while increasing feature velocity. Apex was chosen to support the effort because of our prior history of successful engagements and our near-shore capabilities for supporting cutting-edge technologies. Combining these abilities with our innovation-driven mindset for continuous improvement made us the right partner to support this initiative.
Established continuous testing while reducing estimated ramp up time for QA teams by up to 50%
We provided a team of skilled automation engineers from our nearshore delivery center in Guadalajara, Mexico to facilitate our client's development and support new and existing automation suites. Our team of nine engineers led by a technical manager was designed to support multiple workstreams in the Web and Mobile automation space, covering multiple applications such as Test Café, Cypress.io, Nightwatch, Swift, Kotlin, Appium, Jenkins, Docker, BrowserStack.
The team's responsibilities included:
- Analyzing / upgrading existing automation suites
- Developing new automation suites
- Enabling CI/CD deployments
- Consulting on best practices and tool adoption
- Providing continuity coverage across multiple aptitudes/technologies
RESULTS
We provided our client with a team of talented automation engineers who increased the client's ability to support their current work as well as expand. Because of our ability to ramp up a team quickly, we reduced the estimated ramp-up time by 50% and exceeded the velocity targets set by the client. As a result, the client has met and exceeded its automation efforts and goals. The team continues to expand its knowledge of techniques and frameworks to provide additional value to the client. Our relationship with this client continues to grow because of our success with this work.
