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QEx Story
uccess

HCL’s end-to-end
testing support helped
leading insurer accomplish
seamless IT transformation

Business
Assurance
& Testing

Client Description
The client is a leading property and casualty (P&C) speciality insurance company in
California, USA with specialized business in workers’ compensation

Background
Client was in process of transitioning its policy administration system from a legacy
platform to Guide wire Policy Center and was looking for Quality Assurance (QA) support
with focus on strategic IT transformation.

Business Objectives
The client wanted to achieve the following:
• Fixed price model for testing
• Complete ownership of QA team
• Business analysis, manual/automation platform
• Driving automation independently leveraging HCL’s QEx Automation testing framework
• Embracing an agile methodology for GW PC 8.0 implementation testing

HCL Solution
Streamlining testing requisites HCL offered the following solutions to the client:
• Implementing HCL’s QEx Automation framework for testing
• Integration testing of inbound/outbound data to and from Policy Center to the other
systems, viz, Claim Center, HP—Extreme, Data warehouse
• End-to-End testing of policy scenarios for all states
• HP ALM shall be single automation repository to store test scripts and test execution
results

CASE STUDY
 Technology used
• HP ALM
• QTP
• Rally
• SharePoint
• QEx Automation

Key Engagement Highlights

We engaged with the client business on Insurance—Workers Compensation front.
Deploying a successful application, the details of same could be depicted as :

Total Test Automation Effort Reusable

Cases/steps Coverage Reduction Functions

App1 212 50% 50% 173

Business Benefits
HCL solutions helped the client reap the following business benefits:
• Reduced application testing effort and cost by 50%
• Development of agile implementation methodology that helped the project progress on
track as per milestones
• Executed automation smoke test pack ‘daily’ in INT1 and ‘weekly’ in INT2
• Executed test cases from HP ALM
• Enabled manual testers and business analysts to develop automation scripts
• Automated 112 business functions covering 65 screen

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