Accelerating Product Launches with Breez in an AS400 based System – A Case Study

Consider a scenario where a Life Insurance company is bringing innovative new products or re-launching a basket of products for its clients. With Policy Admin system on the legacy platform, it needs rigorous testing to ensure its critical features, such as New Business, Servicing and Claims process work as expected and the critical values are verified to be correct over the policy term. It needs the policy to be taken forward as much as 30-40 years with transaction execution on precise dates. #as400

In the rapidly evolving insurance industry, staying compliant with regulatory changes while maintaining agility in product delivery is paramount. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) recently introduced regulatory changes that necessitated the re-launch of life insurance products. This poses a significant challenge for insurers who needed to quickly adapt their offerings to remain compliant without compromising on quality or incurring high costs. #irdai

Let us see how we were able to solve the Speed to Market problem for one of our Life Insurance Clients, about a year ago.

The Challenge:

The client's primary challenge was to re-launch their life insurance products swiftly to comply with the IRDAI's regulatory changes. This required extensive testing of their policy administration system, where the business logic was on Cobol on AS/400 platform. Traditionally, testing in such an environment is resource-intensive and time-consuming due to its complexity and legacy nature. The major hurdle was the need to overcome those challenges within the given budget, time and resource constraints. #lifeasia #life400

The Solution:

Leveraging our management team's extensive experience and expertise in the Life Insurance domain, we embarked on a project to assist the leading insurance company to meet these challenges. Given the constraints mentioned above, our solution was to automate the Policy Admin System processes using our innovative, no-script solution “Breez”, specifically designed to address the complexities of testing within legacy systems like AS400. Breez enabled the client to achieve high-quality testing outcomes without the traditional overhead of scripting, significantly reducing both time and cost.

Project Execution: Step-by-Step Approach

Our project was executed with a structured approach, focusing on collaboration, speed, and precision:

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engaged with key stakeholders to understand the requirements, identify critical features and obtain relevant test data from them according to the requirements
• Configuration:? Configured all the required processes using Templates with the help of innovative architecture and design provided by Breez.
• Automation Execution: Automated repetitive and complex test scenarios and quickened the testing process, leveraging Breez's robust automation capabilities
• Dynamic Condition and flow handling: Breez's data-driven, conditional flow capability allowed us to simulate various customer profiles and transactions on respective dates, ensuring the product's adaptability to real-world scenarios
• Iterative Testing Cycles: Conducted continuous testing cycles, enabling rapid identification of defects, and aligning with the stakeholders for On-time verification.
• Continuous and frequent Reporting: Provided frequent test execution reports and screenshots as evidence to stakeholders immediately on completion of execution, ensuring transparency and facilitating informed decision-making

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Results and Impact

Through no-code solution Breez and our service model, our client achieved remarkable outcomes, transforming their testing processes and enabling a successful product re-launch.? Some of the achievements are:

1. 60% Reduction in Testing Time: Breez accelerated the testing cycles, reducing the overall time-to-market by 60%, which was crucial given the tight deadlines.
2. 40% Cost Savings: Our solution cut down testing costs significantly by eliminating the need for specialized scripting and reducing manual effort.
3. Speed: Rapidly set up and execute test cases across different modules without writing complex scripts. We could achieve up to 70% reduction in execution time for some of the processes.
4. Enhanced Compliance: Comprehensive testing ensured full compliance with IRDAI regulations, safeguarding the client's reputation and market position.
5. Improved Efficiency: Automation of repetitive tasks freed up the QA team to focus on critical areas, increasing overall productivity and accuracy.
6. Positive Stakeholder Feedback: Real-time reporting and transparency built trust and satisfaction among stakeholders, strengthening client relationships.

Conclusion

This case study exemplifies how Breez, our no-script automation solution, effectively addressed the challenges of testing life insurance products in a legacy AS400 environment for speedy new product launch. By combining the cognitive abilities of manual testers with the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of no-script automation, Breez enabled our client to achieve quicker product delivery and significant cost savings.

For Life Insurance Companies struggling to keep up timelines for New Product launches in policy admin systems, and/or adherence to regulatory requirements and compliance, adopting no-script automation solutions like Breez can mean the difference between staying competitive and falling behind.

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