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Functional and Non-Functional Testing of Back Office Systems for an Investment Bank

A leading investment bank saw a dramatic expansion of its trading business from large numbers of new clients trading via the bank’s DMA system. The client’s IT systems provider suggested that migrating the core back office database to a newer version of the RDBMS could achieve a 30% capacity increases. The bank’s management called on Allied Testing to organize the migration and provide a comprehensive QA solution.

Capacity and Performance Testing of a Global Equity Trading System

Comprehensive performance and capacity testing of a highly complex and critical trading platform can be a daunting task. In order to investigate and improve the capacity and performance of the product at the heart of its equity trading infrastructure, a leading investment bank’s Global Equity Trading Group called on an experienced partner with proven expertise in both quality assurance and the trading industry.

QA Strategy Consulting and Testing Services for a Global CRM Development Program

The client, the world’s leading market intelligence and technology provider to the financial industry, was implementing a global unified platform for the customer administration process. Creating a new platform that would meet the expectations of multiple groups of business users in a large global enterprise is a uniquely difficult task. Allied was asked to come on board soon after the launch of the program to help analyze and improve the quality management process.

Front-End Testing for Major Brokerage

Front-end applications are a major part of any trading platform. However, nothing exists in isolation, and our preferred approach is to test the system as a whole, which calls for tight integration between testing of front-end and back-end components of a trading platform. This case study summarizes the approach Allied has taken when tasked with testing front-end applications for a major US brokerage, while also examining test coverage / test suite structure and the optimal test team composition.

Network Capacity and Latency Testing

As market data volumes continue to grow, trading systems face significant technological challenges. To be successful in today’s highly competitive market, a system has to satisfy a number of aggressive nonfunctional requirements, namely: low latency, high capacity and high availability.

Order Audit Trail System Testing Solution

With the invaluable experience that we gained over the years, we stand ready to provide a complete range of compliance testing solutions for OATS and OTS reporting regardless of the system complexity.