| Sector | Fintech — payments technology |
| Engaged since | 2022, ongoing |
| Engagement | Test automation, performance, security |
The Challenge
Our client provides payments infrastructure to operators across multiple international markets. Every market brings its own regulatory requirements, scheme rules and currency handling — and every release had to be validated against all of them.
That validation was manual, consuming thirty-two hours of engineer time per cycle before anyone could sign off a release. As the platform expanded into new markets, that number was only moving in one direction.
Security testing sat outside the delivery process entirely — an occasional standalone exercise rather than something that happened on every build. For a business handling payment data, the gap between releases and security validation carried real risk.
The Solution
We began by mapping which scenarios protected against consequential failures rather than automating indiscriminately. In payments, a defect in currency handling or scheme compliance carries a different cost profile to a cosmetic issue, and the automation strategy needed to reflect that.
We built 550+ automated tests spanning both the interface and API layers, covering core transaction, settlement and configuration flows across the platform market variants.
The more significant change was structural. Rather than running functional, performance and security as three separate engagements, we delivered them as one — with OWASP validation embedded directly into the CI/CD pipeline. Security stopped being a periodic audit and became part of every build.
Business Outcomes
- Manual test execution reduced from 32 hours to 3 per cycle
- 550+ automated UI and API tests in continuous operation
- Functional, performance and security consolidated into a single engagement
- OWASP validation running automatically on every build
- Release validation no longer scales linearly with market expansion
- Engagement ongoing since 2022
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