Case Study: OWN

“At Own, we’re all about moving fast without compromising the quality. We began working with Galil Software who quickly assembled a team with skilled automation engineers that were able to work on solutions from the ground up.”

Alon Pisnoy, Sr. Director of QA

Own is the leading data platform for protecting and activating SaaS data to transform businesses. It empowers customers to ensure the availability, security, and compliance of mission-critical data while unlocking new ways to gain deeper insights faster. By partnering with some of the world’s largest SaaS ecosystems, such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Dynamics 365, Own enables customers worldwide to truly own the data that powers their business.

Business Challenge

Due to its fast-paced and dynamic environment, Own’s “Backup & Recovery” and “Data Archiving” teams have been looking to implement a full QA automation process to maintain its product quality. They needed a high-quality solution with fast delivery. This led them to contact Galil Software to assemble a team of experts and engineers to help build a complete, fully automated test process.

Own’s main goal was to build a state-of-the-art automation QA process and automation framework, enabling them to create faster releases with minimum defects.

The Project

Galil Software assembled a qualified automation team and senior engineers who worked closely with Own’s R&D teams to design and build a complete QA automation process. The development process was divided into three main phases:

Phase 1: Design and build a tailored QA automation process with the customer to best meet their requirements, which supports Own’s product integration with 3rd-party vendors such as Salesforce, MS Dynamics, and ServiceNow.
Phase 2: Set up customized QA automation infrastructure to integrate and support the products. This also included developing an automation framework, integrating a reporting solution and test case management tool, and helping integrate Gitlab CI/CD pipelines triggered when a new build is ready.
Phase 3: Close the gap between development and QA, manage regression testing, and optimize test performance.

Galil Software’s Solution

Galil Software’s solution significantly reduces the time and cost associated with software testing and improves the accuracy of test results. This solution includes:

Team composition: The project started with one senior team leader, an experienced engineer, and a junior engineer. It quickly expanded to include more automation engineers to cater to the demand, which grew to ten engineers working on both platforms, the “Backup & Recovery” and “Data Archiving.”
Tools used: We help built Own’s Automation solution, taking features of Galil’s unique test framework, and integrating them with Own’s automation framework, a python / Pytest-based framework solution that provides a wide range of test capabilities and reporting features like OpenSearch and Kibana
Planning and execution: We use Jira and GitLab to manage testing and automation flows and pipelines,

Benefits to Own

Own has been very pleased with Galil’s high-quality work, efficiency, and performance, which exceeded their expectations. Among the benefits Own has derived:

Faster software development life cycle (SDLC), which improves time to market. This included a fast ramp-up of the automation team and experts and fully integrating Galil’s QA team with the Own’s Development scrum teams.
Higher return on investment (ROI) and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with manual testing.
Improved quality: performing full regression testing in a short time allows more frequent testing, which improves the overall software quality.
Automation framework development, which can be customized and adapted to Own’s needs.

It’s worth highlighting that we managed to guide the UI-focused engineers to develop infrastructure and tests for our Performance and Customer oriented scenarios testing, areas that were new for them.

Their hard work and dedication fit right in with our way of doing things, making them a key part of our team.”

Alon Pisnoy, Sr. Director of QA