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Raiffeisen Bank
Raiffeisen migrates Avaloq performance testing to NeoLoad
reduction in the number of performance issues in production
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reduction in test maintenance time
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faster test execution
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Company overview
The Raiffeisen Group is the leading Swiss retail bank. The Group is the third-largest player in the Swiss banking market; it has around 1.9 million cooperative members and more than 3 million clients. The 229 legally autonomous Raiffeisen cooperative banks are brought together in Raiffeisen Switzerland Cooperative, the strategic leader of the entire Raiffeisen Group. With an engaged staff focused on providing the best service to over 3.8 million customers and a constant goal of building business confidence, the bank invests heavily in IT systems. Implementing the Avaloq market-leading core banking system is laying the foundation for the bank’s agile implementation of future digital projects.
Raiffeisen is undergoing a continuous digital transformation, deploying modern SaaS on dynamic infrastructure such as OpenShift to be more agile and provide customers with a more compelling online interaction. It is also driven by its efforts to respond faster to customer requirements, propose new online services, and manage backend processes with greater efficiency. The bank needed to adopt a modern performance testing platform that would support such dynamic innovation. It selected NeoLoad’s cutting-edge technology because it enables the testing agility needed to provide a better user experience to customers and staff.
- Industry: Banking
- Organization size: 10,001+ employees
- Location: Switzerland
- Products:
“Going to NeoLoad enables us to identify 20% more issues and fix them in production. The applications are faster and significantly more stable because we fixed the main issues in the backend.”
Louis Stark — Software Engineer in the Test & QA department
- NeoLoad helps Raiffeisen, the third-largest player in the Swiss banking market, speed up load testing, reduce crashes, and ultimately embrace innovation.
Testing 2x faster: The impact of modern, agile performance testing with NeoLoad
To align with digital transformation initiatives, Raiffeisen wanted to evolve its performance testing practices. NeoLoad has helped Raiffeisen jump into the new age with faster, more agile, and more efficient load/performance testing. This enables greater testing coverage while using fewer staff—resulting in more reliable apps. Louis Stark, Software Engineer in the Test & QA department at Raiffeisen, shared, “NeoLoad’s technology is superior because it enables faster tests and more accurate validation. This provides increased flexibility, allowing us to adapt the platform to all our load requirements (e.g., augmenting our license to 7,000 VUs for a limited period to execute tests at a high load).”
Test tuning is also much more efficient. With NeoLoad, Raiffeisen can automatically check all the user paths, requiring far less time to fine-tune a script. What took two days to update with their previous solution takes one day with NeoLoad. Stark noted, “Saving 50% of our time is a huge gain.” When it comes to testing maintenance, the gain is even higher. Test maintenance is 80% faster with NeoLoad. Beyond efficiency gains for greater agility, NeoLoad provides better test accuracy. It covers test cases that were not possible before (e.g., WebSockets technology). Raiffeisen has reduced some test design-related issues up to 20%.
- “We test 2x faster than we were able to before. The same test that would take us five days to write is now completed in half the time with NeoLoad.” Louis Stark, Software Engineer in the Test & QA department at Raiffeisen
Reducing performance issues in production from 2-3 crashes per week to 1 per month
Overall, shifting to NeoLoad allows the bank to execute more performance tests for more applications—running a higher number of test cases with less staff. “We used to have six dedicated associates testing 35 applications. Using NeoLoad, we only have four people testing 50 applications. We now provide better test coverage and deliver an improved user experience and reliability to both our customers and employees.”
“The impact on user experience is significant,” Stark explained. “We used to have 2-3 crashes per week during morning peak times. Shifting to NeoLoad enabled us to identify and reconcile bottlenecks well before we reached production. We reduced production issues to an average of one per month.”
- NeoLoad helps Raiffeisen, the third-largest player in the Swiss banking market, speed up load testing, reduce crashes, and ultimately embrace innovation.
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