Fintech Analytics Platform: Automation That Changed the Game
The Challenge
A fintech analytics platform built on Power BI operated hundreds of dynamic HTML pages. Traditional QA approaches such as manual testing and static page validation were fundamentally incompatible with the platform's dynamic nature. QA assessments that should take minutes were consuming hours, creating bottlenecks in the development cycle and limiting the team's ability to ship improvements.
Our Approach
Convergent took a fundamentally different approach to the QA challenge:
Custom Automation Utilities. Rather than adapting off-the-shelf testing frameworks, we built 7 custom automation utilities purpose-built for the client's specific platform architecture. Each utility was designed to handle the dynamic nature of the Power BI-based system.
QA Transformation. The utilities turned manual, hours-long assessments into automated validation that completes in seconds, which changed how the team performed QA at a basic level.
As the engagement progressed, we expanded the scope of automation to cover additional testing scenarios, data validation checks, and regression testing workflows.
The Results
Client leadership described the automation utilities as "game changers," a fair measure of how much their development workflow improved.
The success of the initial engagement led to an expanded relationship with enhanced security requirements, demonstrating the client's growing trust in Convergent's capabilities and the increasing importance of our work to their operations.
The engagement showcases Convergent's ability to apply retirement industry discipline and engineering rigor to adjacent financial technology challenges.
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