EXTENT-2017: Post-Trade Testing: Per Aspera ad Astra

EXTENT-2017: Software Testing & Trading Technology Trends Conference
29 June, 2017, 10 Paternoster Square, London

Post-Trade Testing: Per Aspera ad Astra
Alyona Bulda, VP, Senior QA Project Manager, Exactpro, LSEG

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1. 1 Post-Trade Testing: Per Aspera ad Astra Open Access Quality Assurance & Related Software Development for Financial Markets Tel: +7 495 640 2460, +1 415 830 38 49 www.exactpro.com 29 June 2017 Alyona Bulda
2. 2 exactpro: exitus acta probat
3. 3 Per Aspera ad Astra
4. 4 Agile Work vs Cargo-cult
5. 5 Implementing Agile QA: • Keeps focus on testing the overall functionality • Focuses on the entire e2e scenarios, as well as the deliverables • Invests into the automation of a comprehensive E2E library • Establishes the internal processes • Highlights the missing processes • Aims to ensure that change works, rather than making sure that the story is tested and closed within the active sprint
6. 6 Collaborating with Agile: Сhallenges • QA team equipped with a test orchestration framework • Comprehensive E2E Regression library • Daily regression/ “The Big Button” framework • Drop procedure • Reference Data management/automation • Requirements Knowledge Base • Healthy communication between QA, BA and DEV
7. 7 Post-trade Testing: Challenges • High number of components of complex post-trade infrastructures • Upstream and downstream system dependency • Participant structure • Trade/Xfer/Position/Account life cycle • Asset Classes • Risk calculation • Access via a variety of API endpoints (FIX, SWIFT, Custom API)
8. 8 Post-trade Testing: Challenges Test library parametrization
9. 9 Innovation in QA: Holistic Integrated Automation Test Framework
10. 10 Thank you! Those who know the sea and ships Not just from candy wrappers, Those who have been drilled the way we have, Don’t romanticize the sea any more. (A Russian Navy Song)