BlackLine is a leading provider of cloud-based solutions that transform Finance and Accounting (F&A) by automating, centralizing, and streamlining financial close operations, intercompany accounting processes, and other key F&A processes for large enterprises and midsize organizations. Designed to complement virtually all ERP and other financial systems, including SAP, Oracle, and NetSuite, BlackLine increases operational efficiency, real-time visibility, control, and compliance to ensure end-to-end financial close management and accounting automation from within a single, unified cloud platform.
Challenges
BlackLine was founded in 2001. Their innovative accounting software fueled rapid growth such that by 2007, BlackLine was in need of rapidly scaling up their QA team and testing processes. They needed to transition from developer-driven QA to a formal QA and testing program. After a thorough in-house assessment, BlackLine decided that the optimal path was to outsource to a trusted third-party partner. Because the product is complex and compliance-heavy, the partner would have to demonstrate deep domain expertise in accounting and finance.
Solutions
Partnering with XBOSoft since 2008 allowed BlackLine to benefit from a wide range of XBOSoft’s software testing solutions and expertise, such as:
XBOSoft worked closely with BlackLine to ensure that their customer’s user stories would be fully covered in the testing process. XBOSoft’s experience in the financial software domain significantly compressed the start-up time while ensuring full coverage test cases.
BlackLine’s SaaS-based product supports both mobile and web browsers. Hence, regression testing across platforms is an intensive and time-consuming task. XBOSoft developed automated test suites for the main supported browsers to provide smoke and regression testing with each release.
BlackLine’s applications have the end-user option to be displayed in a number of different languages including; English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian…To ensure maximum test coverage with high build frequency, and while keeping to a tight schedule, XBOSoft’s automated test experts rapidly set up the proper environments for each new build.
Today, we provide full regression testing for every software release. Our deep expertise in BlackLine’s software enables us to conduct targeted exploratory regression testing on new features and serve as their insurance policy that their software is ready for the rigors of accountants going their daily tasks whether it be account reconciliation or matching.
Growing with BlackLine from 20 employees, we began as their outsourced testing team with 3 testers, and have become their QA partner filling in wherever and whenever needed. This has included performance testing, QA consulting on metrics and processes, and test automation.
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Benefits