The Requirement:

ETC undertook analysis and testing on what was at the time the largest IT initiative ever undertaken in Europe - the successful integration of two major UK retail banks.

The Challenge:

• Non availability of documentation
• Non availability of customer business users time during critical phase of the project
• Changing requirements
• Multi location and time differences
• Integration of numerous payment and online banking systems and the migration of the legacy accounting system data, to the chosen accounting system.
• Diverse technology set including IBM Mainframe based terminal emulator front ends, oracle databases to SWIFT message files and browser web based payment and banking systems.

The Solution:

• Development of an overall test strategy and test plan
• Validation of core functionalities
• Test environment setup and management
• Standard and re-useable Incident Management process developed
• Automated testing solution for the data migration
• Application migration and end-to-end testing

The Benefits:

• Improved release cycles & implementation of best practices thus better control and visibility
• Improved data management solution
• On demand test resource management
• Improved visibility to client management through effective reporting
• Higher quality solution delivered through early identification and resolution of issues