Yethi Automates API Testing for a Renowned Private Indian Bank
The Client
A renowned Indian private sector bank offering banking services and other financial services to retail and corporate clients was ensuring the availability of multiple services through APIs. Yethi partnered with the bank to evaluate the call and response time of more than 1K APIs within a restricted timeline and assist them in automating the API testing services.
Industry
- Banking & Financial Services
Company & Asset Size
- Over 75 million customers
- More than 166k total employees
- Net income over $381 million
- Total assets over $250 billion
Headquarters
- India
The Challenge
The bank was faced with challenges to validate patches & upgrades of base API and check the instability of high risk APIs to serve its retail and commercial client needs.
The bank was looking for codeless automation testing tool which could help the business teams easily build, manage, execute and scale the API testing framework.
The client approached Yethi to harness Tenjin’s capability in solving the problem statement. The notable utility of the automated tool was to automate the end-to-end testing of 1000+ APIs within a strict project deadline. Yethi assisted the bank with well-strategic end-to-end API testing and automation services.
Scope of Work
- Validation of 1000+ APIs and 20MQs periodically
- Validating the mix of Encrypted & Unencrypted APIs
- Checking multiple encryption levels & data formats
- Checking the API Tunneling instability / availability
- Adhering to Multiple Security Protocols
- Managing the project by adhering to COVID Restrictions
Yethi’s Delivery
- Tenjin installation & configuration and automating 1000+ APIs and GUI
- Testing 3 types of API environments
- Testing for a major overhaul of its corporate banking offering
- Executing and achieving hands-off lights-off testing and reporting across multiple endpoints
Business Impact
- More than 95% of time reduction compared to manual testing
- More than 70% efficiency achieved in daily monitoring API performance & availability
- Enhancing test coverage
- Execution of 1000+ API tests daily in less than a minute
The Solution
Following are the list of activities that Yethi had undertaken validating patches & upgrading base API and checking the instability of high risk APIs:
- Deploying Tenjin Enterprise for GUI and API Testing
- Executing parallel tests across multiple endpoints
- Scheduling execution and reporting
- Remote triggering of execution
- Hands-off lights-off testing and reporting
Key Project Benefits
- Secure OAUTH2 access via Tenjin Enterprise
- Auto-discovery of API structure changes
95% reduction in time-to-test viz-a-viz manual
- Daily monitoring of API performance & availability
- Improved test coverage
- Over 1000 tests executed in <180 mins daily
Conclusion
Yethi evaluated 1000+ API calls and responses within restricted project timeline. It helped the bank to validate critical API functionalities and monitor API performance and availability.
The automation testing was supported with our test automation solution, Tenjin, to ensure auto-discovery of API changes and monitor the API performance & availability, while ensuring the quality and stability of the APIs.
About Yethi
Founded by Fintech professionals with decades of domain experience, Yethi is invested in building the next generation of solutions to improve the quality of digital technologies being adopted within the BFSI industry.
About Tenjin
Tenjin is Yethi’s codeless test automation platform, a plug-and-play banking aware solution, with distinctive features like robotic capabilities to learn the application and re-learn after any updates, so regardless the complexity and number of updates, the test execution remains high-speed, minimizing manual effort.
