Client: Tier-1 German Bank

Project: Summit Release Testing Assessment & Strategy Roadmap

Project Summary

A leading Tier-1 German bank engaged RightClick to assess and modernize its Summit release testing approach. Facing increasing release complexity, the bank aimed to enhance its existing testing approach by accelerating automation adoption and improving efficiency across release cycles.

Over a structured 5-week engagement, RightClick delivered a comprehensive assessment of the bank’s testing landscape, identified key inefficiencies, and defined a prioritized transformation roadmap. The outcome enabled senior management to confidently approve the next phrase of testing transformation and automation initiatives.

Client Drivers

The bank operates a highly customized trading and risk platform built on Summit, supporting critical business functions and subject to strict regulatory requirements.

Despite mature release governance, testing capabilities were lagging behind:

·       Heavy reliance on manual testing processes

·       Fragmented tooling and workflows across teams

·       Limited automation, particularly in UI and integration testing 

·       Manual reporting consolidation, reducing visibility and slowing decision-making

·       Increasing release complexity without scalable testing practices

The organization needed a clear, objective view of its current state and a practical path to evolve toward a more efficient, automation-driven testing model.

Project Highlights

Based on the assessment, RightClick experts defined a target testing strategy and transformation roadmap aligned with the client’s delivery model and priorities.

Key focus areas included:

• Establishing an automation-first approach for key testing workflows

• Improving test design and coverage across critical areas

• Identifying quick wins to reduce repetitive manual effort

• Enhancing reporting and visibility of testing outcomes

• Laying the foundation for stronger CI/CD integration and continuous testing practices

This approach balanced immediate, actionable improvements with a longer-term vision for scalable and sustainable test automation.

Conclusion

The engagement provided the client with a comprehensive and structured understanding of its current testing landscape, along with a clear strategy to improve efficiency and scalability.

Key outcomes included:

• Clear visibility of testing gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities

• A prioritized set of actions to guide automation and optimization efforts

• Better alignment between testing processes and release objectives

• Increased confidence in scaling automation initiatives

• A structured foundation for continuous improvement and future transformation

By starting with a structured assessment, the client moved from uncertainty around where to begin toward a focused, strategic approach to test automation and quality improvement.