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Sonae.

Automation squad for legacy systems

Industry
Retail Conglomerate
Category
AUTOMATION
Stack
Azure DevOps · Jira
About the client

Sonae is a Portuguese multinational group headquartered in Maia. It operates in 90 countries across sectors including retail, financial services, shopping center management, software and information systems, media and telecommunications. It is the largest private employer in Portugal, with more than 50,000 employees.

Challenge

Reduce regression testing time from 3 months to 1 month. Sonae MC, in two of its vital legacy systems, required regression tests with hundreds of scenarios mapped and executed manually. The main challenge was ensuring the quality of new versions with agility.

Solution

DBServices Automation Squad delivered a best-in-class solution to automate legacy applications, using open source solutions to build automation scripts and integrate smoothly with the Sonae DevOps pipeline.

Result

Test Automation platform ready for use, built from scratch. Platform integrated with the DevOps pipeline (Azure DevOps solution). 280+ end-to-end scenarios developed and delivered. Reporting execution (Jira integration and Grafana dashboards).

Stack & practices

Technologies used.

Azure DevOpsJiraGrafanaOpen SourceTest Automation
"The collaboration we had with DBServices was extremely valuable for us at Sonae MC, as they brought their decades of know-how and experience in the field of Quality, allowing us to reach a whole new level."
Ricardo Ferreira
Sonae
Ricardo Ferreira
Head of Engineering · Sonae

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