About Allianz
Allianz is one of the strongest insurance and financial groups in the world, operating in nearly 70 countries with more than 157,000 employees and serving over 125 million customers. The group provides a wide range of banking, insurance, and asset management services across global markets. Allianz manages 737 billion euros on behalf of its insurance customers, and with the additional 1.7 trillion euros managed by PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors, it is positioned among the world’s largest asset management organizations. In Türkiye, Allianz operates through Allianz Trade, Allianz Partners, and Allianz Türkiye, delivering comprehensive insurance and financial solutions supported by a strong digital and operational infrastructure.
Overview
With customer expectations for seamless digital insurance experiences increasing rapidly, Allianz identified the need to modernize its testing ecosystem and shorten its software delivery timelines. The organization needed to unify testing practices across claims management, policy systems, customer portals, mobile applications, and legacy insurance platforms. Distributed development and QA teams across multiple business units created additional challenges, especially regarding coordination, consistency, and maintaining high quality in fast delivery cycles.
Through its collaboration with Testinium, Allianz adopted Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and strengthened its continuous testing culture. The goal was to remove bottlenecks in release cycles, improve collaboration between technical and non-technical teams, and ensure that every software release met the company’s strict compliance and audit standards.
Challenges
- Coordinating testing efforts across policy, claims, customer portal, mobile application, and legacy insurance systems
- Limited automation maturity and fragmented testing processes
- High manual testing workload slowing down release cycles
- Difficulty maintaining consistent quality across distributed development and QA teams
- Lack of centralized visibility into test progress, defects, and coverage
Solutions
Testinium designed and implemented an end-to-end automation strategy that addressed both technical and organizational challenges within Allianz.
- Adopted BDD to enable business analysts, QA engineers, and developers to collaborate through clear and human-readable test scenarios.
- Established a robust Selenium Grid and mobile automation environment equipped with video recording, command logging, and self-healing capabilities.
- Developed a lightweight automation framework that reduced coding requirements and allowed QA teams to create and maintain scenarios more efficiently.
- Delivered training to more than 30 analysts on insurance-related automation topics, accelerating the adoption of BDD practices and increasing overall automation competency.
- Built and maintained more than 500 automated scenarios covering core insurance processes and integrated them into Allianz’s CI and CD pipelines, creating a reliable and continuously running regression suite.
- Integrated the Testinium platform with Allianz’s DevOps toolchain including Jenkins, Jira, and GitLab to ensure seamless execution of automated tests in every deployment cycle.
Results
- Noticeable improvements in release speed and software stability
- Increased regression coverage resulting in a significant reduction in production defect risk
- Faster feedback cycles enabled by parallel automation executions
- A strong continuous delivery culture supported by reliable automation practices
- Reduced manual testing effort while preserving auditability and compliance for all releases
Through its partnership with Testinium, Allianz successfully transformed its test operations into a scalable, automated, and continuously improving ecosystem. This transformation enabled Allianz to deliver high-quality digital insurance solutions faster, improve transparency across teams, and establish a more predictable and efficient software release process.