Practice – Digital & Technology

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Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE), by Iya Datikashvili, director No two things are ever the same. Whether it’s a piece of software, members of a testing team, or varying managerial styles, everyone and everything is always slightly different, and it is these differences that can cause problems. In the testing world, one of the biggest […]

Increasing numbers of business and IT teams are choosing to adopt DevOps and actively implement the process into their day-to-day operations. Brickendon’s DevOps experts talk to DevOps Online about the numerous opportunities that can be reaped from implementing the methodology and seek to put an end to some of the myths surrounding it. Read the […]

DevOps, the combination of development and operations, has been proven to improve the performance of the software development lifecycle. Despite this, and the fact that is has been an emerging practice across organisations for a while now, there are many reservations surrounding its implementation. A process which can easily be plugged into the overall structure […]

Brickendon’s Director and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) expert Iya Datikashvili features in the latest edition of The European discussing automation and how we at Brickendon believe that 2018 will be the year that automation becomes the norm across the financial services sector and in particular RPA. For banks RPA has a number of benefits including […]

While DevOps is basically the amalgamation of software development and operations, the merging of these two parts of the business alone is not enough. If you want to reap the full benefits of switching to a DevOps way of working, including reducing testing and development times (by as much as 80 per cent), significantly cutting […]

Due to the benefits of Shift Left and DevOps, Quality Assurance (QA) has become an integral part of the software developers toolkit. Many financial institutions are now faced with the challenge of maintaining quality standards across software development teams whilst simultaneously automating manual testing backlogs. This is key to realising the benefits of continuous integration […]

Testing and quality assurance are an essential part of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and without them software programmes would not be what they are today – useful, time-saving applications that help businesses carry out day-to-day processes in an efficient, secure and methodical manner. However, testing and quality assurance should not only be carried […]

This year is expected to be all about the acceleration of the process to replace people with robotics and automation – but are we really that close to seeing robots as fellow employees in the financial services sector, and, if so, how will it actually work? Brickendon’s resident robotics expert, Quality & Testing Practice Director […]

It will take a combination of hot topics to change the financial services game in 2018, say Brickendon’s experts. 2017 may now be behind us, but the year of the Rooster’s hot topics of data, Brexit and regulation are not. According to Brickendon’s senior leadership team, the very same topics, with a sprinkling of digitalisation, Blockchain, cloud enablement and […]