The FinTech platform that stopped fearing Fridays.
A three-day manual regression cycle had become the bottleneck on every release. We compressed it to four hours with a Playwright suite wired into CI — and the platform shipped nine months with zero escaped P1 defects.
the challenge
Every release was a three-day held breath.
This payments platform shipped real money movement, so nothing went out without a full regression pass. That pass was manual, three days long, and run by engineers who were needed elsewhere. Under deadline pressure it got compressed or skipped — and that's exactly when defects slipped through.
- Regression took three full days, so it became the release bottleneck
- Under pressure, coverage got quietly cut — right when risk was highest
- A few escaped defects in payment flows had already cost real trust
- No one could answer "what's actually covered?" with confidence
what we did
A suite in their repo, a gate in their pipeline.
Mapped risk before writing a line
We ranked every user flow by revenue-and-risk and audited the thin existing tests, then chose Playwright against their stack — documented, so it survived engineering scrutiny.
→ artifact: risk-ranked flow map + framework decision docAutomated the 42 flows that mattered
Senior engineers built the suite inside their repository, following their conventions, reviewed through their own PR process — page objects, fixtures, the lot.
→ artifact: 42 critical flows automated & mergedWired it into CI as a gate
PR smoke checks on every pull request, full nightly regression, results in Slack before standup — failures triaged by us, not their developers.
→ artifact: GitHub Actions gates + Slack reportingHeld the line with a flake budget
Flaky tests quarantined within 24 hours, root-caused, fixed or deleted — so the suite stayed trusted instead of becoming noise everyone ignored.
→ artifact: enforced flake budget + weekly stability reportthe result
Defects stopped escaping. Watch the gap close.
Before automation, defects were found after release — by users, in production. After the CI gate went live, they were caught before merge. This is escaped defects per release, month by month, as coverage grew:
SAMPLE TREND — illustrative shape; replace with the client's real defect-escape data.
Since partnering with QACraft, our software quality has improved dramatically — defect rates dropped and our release cycles are faster than ever.
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