By Bala Ethirajalu. Traditionally testing and operations are two different things carried out in isolation with an imaginary wall between them. Testing is done on one side, and once complete, the testers effectively throw the delivery over the fence to the operations team who deploy it into production. As a result, no one is accountable […]
A Tier 1 investment bank was seeking to improve its testing processes and was keen to implement Brickendon’s specialised approaches. The bank engaged Brickendon to implement the bespoke approaches and to train its own staff to use the Brickendon processes efficiently and effectively. The result was the reduction of a three-week testing cycle to six […]
Under the Dodd Frank Act, UK swap dealing entities are required to report annually to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the US. The process to support this reporting involves a vast and detailed attestation process, whereby control owners are held accountable for their part in regulatory compliance, providing information on the processes they are […]
First it was Dehli, then came Bangalore and Pune. Now, Eastern European cities such as Gdansk and Wroclaw are joining the offshoring party, with multinational banks, including Credit Suisse and UBS, reportedly opening or augmenting offices in Poland. Banks that have traditionally moved back-office work to low-cost destinations, such as India, where the average monthly […]
In an Agile project there is no such thing as a ‘testing department’, where a group of testers sit together, usually away from the developers, and are managed by a test lead or test manager. There is also much less emphasis on test documentation, which in traditional working environments is usually the main responsibility of […]
The client was rolling out an ecommerce front-office application across 20 countries in APAC, Europe, US and Latin America. Brickendon was called upon to ensure the system was appropriately tested, making certain that the wide geographical spread of the employees did not affect the quality of the software. The Challenges There was only a small […]
Offshore test management is not just a job or a role. It’s a critically strategic skillset for any sizeable organisation to foster, and for those who practice it, it’s more art than science. Test services have been largely moved offshore in last few decades and the skillset now required to manage dispersed teams is far more […]
One of the world’s most prestigious engineering companies embarked on a major programme of work to migrate the majority of its IT to new state‐of‐the‐art data centres. Brickendon was approached to provide strategic test consultancy on the basis of the expertise and reputation of our consultants. The objective of this project was twofold: in-house testing […]
Brickendon was engaged to assist in the building of a post-trade portal to be used by external clients of a top tier investment bank. The portal needed to allow various cross-asset trades, submitted to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) by the bank on their clients’ behalf, to be updated and resubmitted as necessary. […]
A prominent European bank with global interests and a large presence in emerging markets was replacing its legacy FX platform with a new system from a different vendor. The project had been significantly overrunning and the business required an urgent review of progress and approach. The client engaged Brickendon to conduct a review into the project […]