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Transamerica
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The Challenges
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Cycle Time Bottlenecks: A full regression test cycle took 9 weeks with a team of four, which was too slow to support a modern ERP environment.
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Legacy Tool Failure: Over 3,500 scripted UFT test cases provided little value; they were brittle, expensive to maintain, and required costly technical resources to fix.
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Low Coverage: Automation rates were stuck below 15%, leaving the majority of business-critical requirements unvalidated.
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Technical Complexity: The migration involved complex data structures and strict security requirements inherent to the financial services industry.
Summary
Transamerica, a leading financial services provider, faced a massive "heavy lift" migration from legacy Mainframe COBOL systems to Oracle ERP Fusion. Their existing testing infrastructure, consisting of thousands of legacy scripts, was unable to validate updates effectively, creating significant risk during their cloud transformation.
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The Solution:
The Tricentis Ecosystem
The organization moved away from script-based legacy tools to a continuous testing model:
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Tricentis Tosca: Implemented to replace the 3,500+ UFT scripts with model-based automation. This allowed for high-coverage testing of the new Oracle ERP Fusion environment without the need for extensive coding.
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Tricentis qTest: Deployed to manage the testing lifecycle and provide a centralized view of quality and compliance.
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CI/CD Integration: Automated tests were integrated into the CI/CD pipeline via Jenkins, utilizing Distributed Execution (DEX) to run tests in parallel and provide immediate feedback to the development team.
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The Outcomes
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Accelerated Execution: 9-week manual test cycles were replaced by a continuous, automated testing process that provides real-time validation.
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High-Velocity Automation: Achieved an 85% automation rate with minimal maintenance requirements and significantly fewer false positives than previous tools.
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Superior Coverage: 95% of business requirements are now covered by automated tests, ensuring the Oracle Fusion environment is fully validated.
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Reduced Technical Debt: The shift to a codeless approach eliminated the need for specialized, costly technical resources to maintain the testing suite.