Boston Children’s Hospital

No.1 Pediatric Hospital in US wanted to reduce manual testing, speed up testing cycles and improve QA methodology.

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At a glance

Client challenges

  • Manual regression testing takes several individuals from the business days to complete for every functional and environmental change.
  • Limited test coverage
  • Inconsistent QA processes and procedures used to manage projects
  • Consistency and reliability of test data due to EPIC and Cerner updates

Business Values

  • Successfully implemented Automation of 22 critical applications reducing manual effort by 90%
  • Released business resources to focus on other tasks
  • Scalable QA processes to support growth of QA and Dev teams
Boston Children’s Hospital

Objectives

Our client was looking for a QA partner who could help with testing a complex multi-EMR environment by reducing regression and integration cycles. Improve efficiency and effectiveness of QA processes and procedures. Reduce pressure on internal business teams to conduct testing. Develop a short term and long-term QA roadmap which focuses on robust and scalable processes to ensure consistency in testing of sensitive information.

Our client was looking for a QA partner, who could help them reduce regression and integration testing cycles. Improve efficiencies and effectiveness of QA processes and procedures. Reduce pressure on internal business teams to conduct testing.
Services & solutions

Solutions

CelticQA supported BCH’s strategic IT initiatives by providing the following services and solutions:

  • Epic thick client data creation (patients, pre-admissions, admissions, and future appointments) which supported Epic integrated testing involving downstream/3rd party systems
  • Validation of data in Epic MyChart patient portal application for demographics, visits, and billing
  • Validation of clinical data in Cerner HealtheLife patient portal application including allergies, medications, lab results, documents, and provider messages
  • Supported manual testing of MyChart/HealtheLife hybrid app across mobile device configurations using BrowserStack
  • Implemented an automation framework using Ranorex and automated high-priority regression test cases.
  • Created test cases to verify the existing hospital PC builds function with security, MS patches and general updates.
  • Led regression testing to validate future changes will not adversely impact the previous functionality.
  • Developed a method to prioritize which applications qualify for regression style automation and maintenance.
  • Developed a short-term and long-term QA Roadmap
Boston Children’s Hospital

Results

  • CelticQA successfully implemented an automation framework for 22 applications and reduced manual testing efforts for the client’s business teams too practically nil.
  • BCH now has automated regression testing coverage on 22 of the high priority applications that allows them to complete regression testing on these applications in 1 hour versus the days it used to take their team. This is a +90% reduction in regression test cycle times.
  • Overnight remote job execution (regression testing suite), results are published automatically to the issue tracking/test management software - Xray.
  • CelticQA’s IQS™ frameworks allows BCH to identify defects earlier, reduces the manual effort on their team, measures Quality better through consistent status reporting and KPI tracking while increasing productivity and QA efficiencies.
CelticQA successfully implemented an automation framework for 22 applications and reduced manual testing efforts for the client’s business teams too practically nil:
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