Alfa-Bank

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Founded in 1990, Alfa-Bank is Russia’s largest

private bank in terms of total assets. It has

approximately 40,000 corporate customers and

5.3 million retail clients. The Bank has 364 branch

oces, plus a subsidiary bank in the Netherlands

and nancial subsidiaries in the US, UK and Cyprus.

For any bank, the core of all IT mechanisms is the

Automated Banking System (ABS). Alfa-Bank found

that its ABS was preventing the business from

progressing. Any new initiative required tremendous

application updating eorts. Alfa-Bank decided to

modernise its existing ABS by migrating to a more

powerful platform.

To ensure the new system would be robust enough, a

separate team was assigned within the modernisation

project. This team would be responsible for the

quality of the updated program code and integration

of the ABS with other applications.

Objective

Migrate to a more robust Automated Banking

System (ABS)

Approach

Created a project team responsible for the quality of

the program code and seamless integration of the

ABS with other applications

IT improvements

• Detected and corrected 800 defects, with zero

critical aws detected at the point of delivery,

ensuring a smooth migration to the new platform

• Implemented automated reporting for real-time

information on quality issues, enabling responsive

decision making

Business benets

• Created an end-to-end testing process, ensuring

it delivered centralised planning and control,

improving business eciency

• Achieved this large-scale ABS modernisation

project within deadline, meeting time and

resource budgets

• Delivered a new ABS with the quality to support

the Bank’s future operations

HP customer

case study

HP Quality Center

investigates 25,000

test cases

Industry

Financial Services

Extensive testing ensures the smooth

migration of Alfa-Bank’s vital

Automated Banking System

“The main advantages of HP Quality Center are manageability,

transparency and centralisation. We used all the software’s

functionality in a rather exhaustive way, gathered a huge amount

of comprehensive information about the testing process, quickly

analysed that data and used it for decision making. HP Quality Center

became the real core of the quality control process.”

—Sergey Karikov, head of software production, Alfa-Bank

Summary of content (3 pages)

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Extensive testing ensures the smooth migration of Alfa-Bank’s vital Automated Banking System “The main advantages of HP Quality Center are manageability, transparency and centralisation. We used all the software’s functionality in a rather exhaustive way, gathered a huge amount of comprehensive information about the testing process, quickly analysed that data and used it for decision making. HP Quality Center became the real core of the quality control process.
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Customer solution at a glance Software IT Performance Suite: Application Lifecycle Management • HP Quality Center Test management Alfa-Bank knew it was impossible to control the quality of such a complicated project without using specialised software. The business had been using HP Quality Center products for over five years, for testing both its in-house software and custom systems developed by third-party providers.
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“The centralised management made it possible to synchronise testing operations. It often happens that because of changes made by one employee several other people have to do their work anew and repeat tests they have already made,” says Ivan Shtepa. “HP Quality Center minimises such unproductive actions and helps to establish the right sequence of tasks. Employees could evaluate the job they had done, not with their own criteria but according to uniform rules.