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aqua TMS offers comprehensive solutions for software testing for banking and financial institutions,. With aqua, the most established banks transform their services into omnichannel approaches by launching new applications and making the process paperless for clients

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A 140-year-old bank increased its testing productivity by over 50% with aqua

A 140-year-old bank couldn’t shorten their release cycles because production environments had too many bugs. Their independent audit showed that the problem is a lack of proper software testing ā€“ no traceable processes, no variety of testing approaches, and not enough automation.Ā 

aqua ALM became the solution for the bank’s main challenges

aqua helped more than 20 banks and financial companies from around the world overcome some of the industries top challenges

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Difficulties with regulatory compliance

The bank's standards couldn't meet regulatory compliance requirements which caused a more extended period for obtaining needed certificates

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The lack of traceability

It was almost impossible to track where and when an error or undertesting occurred and who should have been in charge of this. Managers spent more time trying to find any connections between testing and occurred errors, and making accurate reports

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Long payment gateway validation

The period of a payment gateway validation took too much time to capture and transfer payment data from the customer to the acquirer. This caused losing clients and endangered the entire business

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Regular mistakes in Excel test cases

The bank relied on Excel for testing banking applications. Replacing it with a specialised solution to test banking software ā€” aqua ā€” sped up the entire development process by more than 137%

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Server downtime/outages

After every rollout of a new update, the bank experienced recurring problems with production servers, affecting internal and external customers. Sometimes even leading to significant downtimes

Key aqua features that save time and money for banks & financial companies

A 2020 Gartner research states:

The earlier an anomaly is detected in a live operational environment, the more limited the damage that anomaly can cause, and the earlier in the damage cycle containment and remediation can start

Record and track defects quickly and easily

aqua TMS allowed the bank to discover defects before they were pushed into production and helped to figure out what certain parts of changes were causing downtimes. Now the bank has more time on improving their server work and its resistance to overloads

Defects and errors recording with aqua test management tool
Save months on documentation & audit trails

With aqua's expertise in BFSI domain testing, the bank managed to accelerate the speed of obtaining certificates by implementing TMMi (Test Maturity Model Integration). That helped to improve the software testing practices for the organizations and also alleviated the IT standards for it. Thereby, regulatory compliance was obtained faster than ever before

Implementing TMMi with aqua
Orchestration of even the most complex testing scenarios

aqua made it easier for the bank to initiate the transition from manual to automation testing and helped organize processes to track what is essential to automate.

Thereby, the bank won't need to automate all at once, and it can save more money starting with only partial automatization. Automated tests allowed the bank to identify payment system malfunctions much earlier and at the same time accelerate payment gateway responses 80% faster

Complex testing with aqua test management tool
Greatest variety of integrations out-of-the-box

aqua TMS provides such integrations as JIRA, Ranorex, UFT, JMeter, SoapUI, Database, UnixShell, PowerShell, Jenkins, RestAPI.

ā€‹ā€‹Which allowed the bank to continue using previous tools for software development and implement new traceable and transparent types of testing without extra costs on migration. That amplified the ability of the QA team to test their security system with a few different approaches and find the vulnerabilities

Variety of tools integrations with aqua
aqua team developed a thorough migration from Excel procedure based on the teamā€™s experience

aqua TMS team developed a very thorough migration procedure based on the teamā€™s experience. aqua has extensive experience in migration from Excel, Quality Center (Micro Focus ALM), and many other solutions.

Numbers speak for themselves:
one of our success cases includes 66 migrated Quality Center projects, over 7 million migrated elements, with 100% preservation of the revision safety. As the client testifies, it was far faster than a version upgrade of the Quality Center with project migration.

This allowed the bank to organize the project and test data by structuring them based on the module. Now, they save time by reusing part of test cases instead of recreating them from scratch

Easy migration to aqua test management tool
Track all changes & their impacts

aqua empowered the bank to track all changes & their impacts, including when and by whom they were made, and visualize assigned tickets & dependencies in its dashboard.

Now, managers can set necessary KPIs, track them in real-time and benefit from accurate feature-rich reporting. All these improvements enhanced the traceability of software development to 100%

Tracking for testing with aqua
Record and track defects quickly and easily

aqua TMS allowed the bank to discover defects before they were pushed into production and helped to figure out what certain parts of changes were causing downtimes. Now the bank has more time on improving their server work and its resistance to overloads

Defects and errors recording with aqua test management tool
Save months on documentation & audit trails

With aqua's expertise in BFSI domain testing, the bank managed to accelerate the speed of obtaining certificates by implementing TMMi (Test Maturity Model Integration). That helped to improve the software testing practices for the organizations and also alleviated the IT standards for it. Thereby, regulatory compliance was obtained faster than ever before

Implementing TMMi with aqua
Orchestration of even the most complex testing scenarios

aqua made it easier for the bank to initiate the transition from manual to automation testing and helped organize processes to track what is essential to automate.

Thereby, the bank won't need to automate all at once, and it can save more money starting with only partial automatization. Automated tests allowed the bank to identify payment system malfunctions much earlier and at the same time accelerate payment gateway responses 80% faster

Complex testing with aqua test management tool
Greatest variety of integrations out-of-the-box

aqua TMS provides such integrations as JIRA, Ranorex, UFT, JMeter, SoapUI, Database, UnixShell, PowerShell, Jenkins, RestAPI.

ā€‹ā€‹Which allowed the bank to continue using previous tools for software development and implement new traceable and transparent types of testing without extra costs on migration. That amplified the ability of the QA team to test their security system with a few different approaches and find the vulnerabilities

Variety of tools integrations with aqua
aqua team developed a thorough migration from Excel procedure based on the teamā€™s experience

aqua TMS team developed a very thorough migration procedure based on the teamā€™s experience. aqua has extensive experience in migration from Excel, Quality Center (Micro Focus ALM), and many other solutions.

Numbers speak for themselves:
one of our success cases includes 66 migrated Quality Center projects, over 7 million migrated elements, with 100% preservation of the revision safety. As the client testifies, it was far faster than a version upgrade of the Quality Center with project migration.

This allowed the bank to organize the project and test data by structuring them based on the module. Now, they save time by reusing part of test cases instead of recreating them from scratch

Easy migration to aqua test management tool
Track all changes & their impacts

aqua empowered the bank to track all changes & their impacts, including when and by whom they were made, and visualize assigned tickets & dependencies in its dashboard.

Now, managers can set necessary KPIs, track them in real-time and benefit from accurate feature-rich reporting. All these improvements enhanced the traceability of software development to 100%

Tracking for testing with aqua

Traceability

Many companies can track bugs and test their software development fine without a pro-tracking system. But aqua brings full traceability to your organization and helps you to find answers to the most important questions in a matter of minutes

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Is this requirement tested at all/tested enough?

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Who did test that and how?

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What did they do exactly to verify it works?

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With what kind of data? User inputs?

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What version have they tested, in which browser & OS?

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Have the test cases been reviewed and possibly updated after the requirement changed?

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What defects have been found? Have they been retested? How exactly have they been retested?

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Who did change the requirement? What has been changed?

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ā€œAt aqua, we've helped world's most innovative teams optimise their testing process for 20+ years already.ā€

Paul Elsner CSO at aqua

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Use AI to test faster than ever

Open a requirement and auto-create an entire aqua test case covering it. Describe a test in plain words and get full test steps for it. Auto-prioritise your test cases to see which tests you absolutely must execute before deploying

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Traceable processes simplify Regulatory Compliances

aqua brings full traceability in your working environment, tracks activity within the platform and changes, improves effectiveness of communication, and reduces the cost of compliance programs.

With aqua, you can see System logging, track the changes with extensive History of items, track relationship between tickets with Dependencies. All of this goes with no limitation on tracked data and no decelerating of system operating.

Use ready-made solutions of aqua for faster obtaining of Regulator Compliances such as ISO 9001/27001/26262/13485 or FDA 21 CFR Part 11/820 etc

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Controlled workflow improves operational risk management

Banking firms have to mitigate the risk of compromising internal BRDs, avoid unnecessary testing data exposure or loss of it.

aqua empowers you to control roles and define access levels, classify certain processes, or block them from changes. Use Roles and permissions, Workflows, and Field rules to organize your team’s work

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Deploying strong authentication protects customers & banks data

Banks that care about their data and safe user authentication always seek to put an extra layer of security to their data and achieve it with authentication protocols.

You can utilize your own user management system (orchestrating it from such systems as: Active Directory, LDAP system, Keycloak, Onelogin, Auth0, AzureB2C) because aqua supports SAML or LDAP protocols and you can keep your company user’s data secure

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Optimize your test automation

Implementing automation testing of embedded banking, open banking, digital signatures, and banking-as-a-service helps banks and fintech to find the defects faster and address them in time. The usage of automated testing in banking increases the stability of the provided services and, as a result, robust companiesā€™ credibility for their end-users.

aqua provides a big range of integrations with the most popular automation testing tools to collect and visualize the results and help to fast-track the delivery process. All of these elevate QA testing for banking applications in terms of cost, efficiency, and success.

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Chrome extension aqua
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Next-level web testing

aqua Test Recorder is our Chrome extension that makes web testing a breeze. It removes the hassle and distraction of opening the test management solution every time your QA specialists need to file a bug report or run a test case.

Hereā€™s what you can do with the extension:

  • Record interactions on web pages
  • Edit the captured data
  • Leave comments or notes for additional context
  • Take screenshots and annotate them
  • Send findings to your aqua server

The extension is available to all aqua users at no extra cost.

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Manual and automated tests
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Automated vs manual testing in banking services

While manual testing has benefits in assessing subjective aspects and complex scenarios, automated testing offers significant advantages in banking services. You can use aqua cloud to execute predefined test cases, ensuring faster and more efficient testing of repetitive tasks, data-driven scenarios, and regression testing.Ā 

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Integration

aqua integrates with all the most popular tools among testers:

JIRA

Link individual aqua test cases to JIRA issues, create issues for JIRA in aqua, and even execute aqua test cases within Jira.
UnixShell

Perform shell tests and utilise shell scripts no matter the OS
Ranorex

Automate testing for your web, mobile, and desktop software
Jenkins

Harness continuous integration and continuous delivery with industryā€™s leading automation server
UFT

Utilise a 20-year-old solution for automating functional and regression testing
Selenium

Test web applications efficiently with Seleniumā€™s simple web browser automation solution

JMeter

Run load testing enhanced by dozens of third-party plugins
MSSQL

Automate database testing for databases powered by MSSQL
SoapUI

Nail manual and automated API testing
Oracle

Automate database testing for databases powered by Database Oracle and MySQL
and of course, REST API

You can connect aqua with any tool that your company uses for testing or any other purpose. It doesn't matter if the other tool is too new or niche: REST API is a universal answer

Migration

Switching to aqua is simple as that and cost-effective

Compared to other vendors, you don't need additional costly migration projects. aquaā€™s team has developed a migration solution that drastically reduces migration time. It reads all data from your current software, converts it into suitable formats, then writes it to aqua, allowing to:

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Migrate huge data volumes

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Fulfill explicit compliance regulations

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Ensure revision security throughout the migration

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Preserve expanded File history right after the migration is done

Migration to aqua on average takes 1 day

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Create a configuration matching the structure of your existing system

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Export data or use our migration tool to extract it

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Our migration tool converts all read-out data into a needed format and imports it right to aqua

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Thanks to the intuitive interface, your testers master most of aquaā€™s functions after just a few hours

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Our clients speak for us

Companies that want to keep up with digital change trust in aqua

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ā€œI was surprised to find such a comprehensive and mature tool for test management in the German market without having taken it seriously beforehand.ā€

Jƶrg GroƟmann, Head of Development, Bank 11
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ā€œThe aqua support and development team is a reliable partner for the implementation of the customer requirements of the KBA.ā€

Jƶrn-Hendrick Sƶrensen, Test Manager, KBA
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ā€œManual test cases are easily automated with aqua. Seamless integration with test automation tools helps hereā€

Dennis Seidel, QA Specialist, megapharm
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ā€œThe possibility to design modular and parameterizable test cases leads to a very slim structure, enables a high reusability and accelerates the creation of new tests.ā€

Slavcho Mavrodiev, Head of Software Development, CREM SOLUTIONS

Our clients speak for us

ā€œThe possibility to design modular and parameterizable test cases leads to a very slim structure, enables a high reusability and accelerates the creation of new tests.ā€

ā€œI was surprised to find such a comprehensive and mature tool for test management in the German market without having taken it seriously beforehand.ā€

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Jƶrg GroƟmann, Head of Development, Bank 11

ā€œThe aqua support and development team is a reliable partner for the implementation of the customer requirements of the KBA.ā€

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Jƶrn-Hendrick Sƶrensen, Test Manager, KBA

ā€œManual test cases are easily automated with aqua. Seamless integration with test automation tools helps hereā€

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Dennis Seidel, QA Specialist, megapharm

ā€œThe possibility to design modular and parameterizable test cases leads to a very slim structure, enables a high reusability and accelerates the creation of new…

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Slavcho Mavrodiev, Head of Software Development, CREM SOLUTIONS
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