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Overview
Birlasoft specializes in offering verification and validation services for banks, insurance companies and other financial service institutions worldwide.

We have considerable domain knowledge in the BFSI area - our clients include some of the world’s leading players in banking and financial services.
 
Birlasoft’s Dedicated Testing Centers of Excellence (CoE) help clients achieve professional, cost-effective testing.

BIRLASOFT'S ADVANTAGE
Specialization in verification and validation services – mature processes.

Expertise in setting up and running dedicated testing CoE’s.

Daily dashboards for effective test execution monitoring.

Ready-to-use test scenarios for specific banking domains.

Zero-delay testing cycle runs parallel to SDLC and helps save time.

Our expertise in testing methodologies and tools, combined with our domain knowledge in the financial services area, allows us to offer our clients the full gamut of testing services. Our focus areas include the following:

Functional Testing
Services Offered:
      Testing the application as per the Base-Lined Functional Specification/Use Case Document/ Requirement Document.
      Includes Integration and Interface Testing.
Features/Benefits:
      Unique process of business scenario identification & test case preparation - reusable business scenarios available for Trade, Treasury, Core Lending, Mortgage.
      Traceability ensures functional coverage.
      Testing lead by experienced banking domain experts. Min experience of SMEs is 9+ years.
      Resources experienced in testing multiple interfaces and in testing integration of complete suite of banking products.
      Well defined, template based transparent process.

Automated Regression Testing

Services Offered:
      Regression Testing to verify Enhancements/Bug Fixes and to ensure that existing functionality is not affected.
Features/Benefits:
      Automating the manual scripts, inserting check points, editing the scripts to make it data driven to build a complete regression suite.
      Reduce significantly the time taken for regression.
      Framework based approach to automation, data-driven approach.
      Reduced testing cycle time.
      Comprehensive testing of every build.
      Testing by experienced tool specific SMEs, 250+ QA resources with in-depth knowledge of automated tools and multiple tool experience.

Performance Load Testing

Services Offered:
      Testing an application’s Performance, Scalability and Reliability.
      Verifying Transactions Per Second, Response Time, and Number of Users Supported by the application at a time.
Features/Benefits:
      Well defined performance test strategy.
      Banking domain experts involved in simulating real-world conditions.
      User scripting for critical flows, allocating users to different scenarios, data replication to create volumes, execution with varying loads and analysis of results.
      Performance benchmarking.
      Identification of bottlenecks and root causes, performance tuning suggestions.
      Suggestions to improve performance based on prior experience with JAVA, J2EE, .NET, etc.
      Optimizing the performance of the application before deployment.

User Acceptance Testing

Services Offered:
      Understanding Business Requirements and Testing an application from the business user’s point of view to ensure that all requirements are met.
      Creation of End-to-End Real Time Business Scenarios.
Features/Benefits:
      Easy knowledge transfer to our banking domain experts.
      Quick understanding of application functionality.
      Independent verification and validation through an unbiased third party testing.
      Usage of automated testing to reduce cycle time.
      Savings in time and effort spent by bank business users in business scenario & test case preparation, test execution and defect tracking. Also, business users need not be trained in testing process.

Product Testing

Services Offered:
      Product Certification.
      To verify that the functionality of the base version and subsequent releases conform to the Functional Specifications.
      Includes Performance Benchmarking, Volume/Stress Testing and Performance Tuning Suggestions.
Features/Benefits:
      Availability of product verification business scenarios and test cases developed by banking domain experts.
      Product evaluation and gap identification by SMEs who have worked on multiple banking products.
      Identification of additional functionality required to build a marketable product.
      Automated test suite to ensure comprehensive testing of every release.
      Compressed time-to-market for new product releases.
      Testing by tech-functional resources with experience of working on multiple banking products.
 
Testing Tools Familiarity
 
Activity Tool
Project Management MS - Project
TeamPlay
Kintana
Configuration Management PVCS
Visual Source Safe
Unit Testing Rational Purify
Pure Coverage
Sitraka Jprobe
Numega Devpartner
Defect Tracking Tools PVCS Tracker
Test Director
BugTracker
Functional Testing Mercury WinRunner
IBM Rational Robot
Mercury Quick Test Pro
Segue Silk Test
Compuware QA Run
Astra Site Manager
Load/Stress Testing Mercury Load Runner
IBM Rational Perf. Tester
Performance Studio
Compuware QA Load
Microsoft WebStress
Segue Silk Performer
 
Case Studies
US Based credit information services Company: Dedicated Center of Excellence for product testing
"I wanted to take a moment to recognize the outstanding work performed by your team. After reviewing the recent use case documents for our system, I can say I am truly impressed with professional, thorough and high quality work performed by Birlasoft."
-Director, R&D, Client Organization
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Highlights
    Testing Centers of Excellence in Australia and India, for leading global clients.
 
  Functional Testing for over 400 applications, on multiple platforms, and of varying business complexity.
   
  Performance Testing on over 250 applications.
Contact us
To find out how we can help you to reduce testing cost, cut testing cycle time, and improve project efficiencies, contact us at any of our global offices.
 
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