Client Overview 

The Client is a leading US-based digital-only bank, offering a wide range of retail and commercial banking products, including loans and personal finance solutions. Known for its customer-centric approach and technology-driven services, the bank serves millions of customers nationwide. The Client is committed to investing in digital innovation to enhance user experience and operational efficiency.

    Business needs and objectives

    The client’s existing Test Data Management (TDM) process was creating significant bottlenecks in the loan product testing lifecycle. The current complex and mainly manual process could generate test data for only a few loan products, restricting the scope and agility of testing.

    The manual process took nearly 10 minutes to generate just 100 records, leading to delays and extended testing timelines. In addition, 60% of the fields in generated datasets repeated the same values, limiting the effectiveness of test scenarios and reducing defect detection rates, so there was a huge amount of rework, which was frustrating and slow.

    The client was basing the generated data on extracts from the production environment and obfuscating it to comply with Data Protection. Unfortunately, the immature data masking process often caused mismatches between interconnected systems. This led to integration testing issues and compliance risks. The Client wanted to:

    • Build a scalable TDM solution to efficiently support all loan product variations.
    • Reduce test data generation time to speed up testing cycles.
    • Introduce dynamic data generation with high field variation to improve test coverage.
    • Implement a robust and consistent data masking process to maintain referential integrity across systems and ensure compliance.

    Solution

    Qualitest engineered a self-service TDM portal from scratch. It enabled the Client to generate on-demand test data within a few seconds and covering over 15+ loan product types. Key solutions implemented with TDM:

    • Integrated the portal with the GenRocket tool: Ensured seamless and dynamic data generation with high variability, improving test coverage and effectiveness.
    • Implemented GMUS APIs: This connected the solution with the client’s existing automation framework, enabling fully automated and rapid test data generation as part of the testing pipelines.
    • Designed 7+ domains and 10+ GenRocket Cases (G-Cases): Incorporated over 600 attributes to deliver data volume and variety. It solved the previous issue of repetitive field values.

    Key benefits

    Qualitest helped the Client achieve significant efficiency with faster, smarter, and more scalable test data management with these key benefits:

    • 92% faster test data creation: Reduced from 10 minutes to just 50 seconds for 100 end-to-end records.
    • 70% improvement in test data coverage: Enabled testing with a larger and more diverse pool of realistic reliable usable data.
    • Empowered teams with a self-service TDM portal: Eliminated dependencies and accelerated testing timelines.
    • Seamless integration with automation frameworks: Enabled on-demand, automated test data generation for faster, more efficient test cycles.