ChallengeManual testing bottleneck delaying releases by 2+ weeks for a fast-moving FinTech product.A growing regression suite of 2,000+ test cases made it impossible to maintain manually with a small QA team.Increasing defect escape rate to production impacting customer trust.
SolutionBuilt an end-to-end automation framework with Selenium WebDriver covering UI, API, and integration layers.Integrated the test suite directly into GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automatic test execution on every commit.Established parallel test execution across multiple browser and environment configurations to cut run time.Introduced contract testing for microservices to catch integration regressions early.
Impact85% test automation coverage across UI, API, and integration layers4x faster release cycles — from 2+ weeks to under 3 daysZero critical bugs escaped to production post-automation rolloutQA team capacity freed to focus on exploratory and domain-specific testing
TechnologyAutomation: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, RestAssuredCI/CD: GitLab CI/CDReporting: Allure, ExtentReportsAPI Testing: Postman, SOAPUI