98% Test Coverage, Zero Manual Bottleneck: AI Test Automation for a Financial Services Platform

Industry

Financial Services | Project Type: Standalone AI Test Automation
Sanciti AI Agent: TestAI
98% test coverage | 40% QA cost reduction | 20% fewer production defects | 30-50% faster QA cycles

Client

A financial services company operating a core platform with growing release frequency, carrying compliance obligations that demanded high test coverage and documented traceability for every release.

Challenge

• Manual test creation consuming disproportionate QA resources with every sprint cycle. Test scripts required constant maintenance as the application evolved, and the QA team was spending more time maintaining old tests than building new coverage.
• Coverage gaps in critical transaction flows allowing defects to escape the test environment and reach production. Each escaped defect in a financial services environment carried regulatory exposure and customer trust risk.
• Zero performance testing in place. Every release shipped to production without validated load behavior, creating unquantified risk as transaction volumes grew.
• Release cycles bottlenecked by QA. Development would complete features mid-sprint, then wait days for manual test execution and validation before the release could proceed.
  
  

Solution: Sanciti AI TestAI

Sanciti TestAI operated as a standalone testing capability, integrated directly into the existing CI/CD pipeline without requiring any application modernization.

TestAI: Automated Test Case Generation
TestAI analyzed the codebase, requirements, and user stories to auto-generate functional, regression, and edge-case test scenarios. It identified code paths and boundary conditions that manual testing had missed, building coverage from the application’s actual behavior rather than from manually written scripts.

TestAI: Performance Test Scripts
TestAI generated performance test scripts with smart load profiles calibrated to production traffic patterns. For the first time, the team had validated load testing running before every release, not just during quarterly performance reviews.

TestAI: CI/CD Pipeline Integration
Tests plugged into the existing Jenkins and GitHub pipeline, running automatically on every commit with risk-based prioritization. High-risk areas were tested first. Self-healing test scripts adapted when the application changed, reducing the maintenance burden that had consumed the QA team. Full traceability linked every test case to its source requirement, producing compliance documentation as a byproduct of normal test execution rather than as a separate audit preparation exercise.

Results

• 98% test coverage achieved at first-time delivery across functional, regression, and performance dimensions. Coverage gaps in critical transaction flows closed entirely.
• 40% reduction in QA costs as TestAI automated the high-volume test generation and execution work that had consumed the majority of QA resources.
• 20% fewer production defects with issues caught upstream in the pipeline where fixing them was straightforward and low-cost.
• 30-50% faster QA cycles with continuous testing replacing the end-of-sprint bottleneck. Development no longer waited days for manual test execution.
  
  

Impact

Release velocity increased without sacrificing quality. The QA team shifted from manual script creation to strategic test planning and risk analysis.

Compliance documentation for every release is generated automatically. Audit preparation that previously consumed weeks is now a byproduct of the testing pipeline.

Sanciti AI agents: RGEN, CodeGen, TestAI. Orchestrated by LEGMOD.