Bluecycle is the UK salvage community's first stop to buy and sell car salvage online. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Aviva. One of the roles Alpheus has been engaged in has been as the Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) authority to automate existing means of application and system testing and to improve and implement the methodology to test script planning, analysis and reporting.
Bluecycle is the UK salvage community's first stop to buy and sell car salvage online
Bluecycle.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Aviva PLC. An Internet based auctioning firm that specialises in automotive, motorcycle, plant, marine, equipment and commercial salvage. Bluecycle.com has thousands of auctions running every week and is the leading UK online salvage marketplace.
As business complexity and the number of clients expanded rapidly the need for the IT systems to support this expansion was paramount. The increased development and additional business logic being implemented meant the Quality Assurance team was under severe pressure to respond quickly to the demand.
Project Goal / Vision
Services Delivered
• Analysed, restructured and improved the test scripts
and means of planning and implementing them.
and means of planning and implementing them.
• Managed the QA team during the transitional implementation period.
• Technical QA training
• Technical documentation and handovers.
• Identified and recommended further improvements to existing business processes.
• Automated test and analysis.
Client Benefits Realised
• A more structured and holistic approach to testing, using automated tools and new methodologies
• Automated test framework allowed for a more robust and shorter development lifecycle.
• Significantly improved client technical skill sets
• Significant cost reduction with tests previously lasting several days now completed within a few hours.
• Ability to run testing scripts outside of office hours
