Case Study: Better Performance via Performance Testing?

Project : Performance, Security and System Testing

Customer: Midsize Independent Software Vendor (ISV)

Domain: Financial / Telecommunication

Challenges: with in-house team developing a very complex web based application, customer wanted an offshore testing team to quickly learn the app and perform performance, system and security testing. Major challenge was how to transfer the domain knowledge to the offshore testing team of 15 test engineers.

Mantra’s Solution: Mantra came up with a very effective sourcing model by combining all onsite/offsite and offshore resource teams. It then formed special processes for communication and Knowledge Transfer (KT) phase. Finally, Mantra came up with master project plan with very tight deadlines. Mantra’s 1 project manager, 2 team leads and 15 test engineers executed that plan relentlessly to ensure successful delivery.

Value Addition

• Mantra’s offshore testing team exceeded all the expectations that customer had.
• At the end of testing phase – this web based app was very well received by the end customers and provided a distinct competitive edge.
• Mantra later moved on to maintain this application for the customer, with in-house team focusing on newer version.

Team Size: 4 QA Engineers

Technology: Mercury TestDirector, Silk Test, Test Track Pro