Kelly Blue Book Achieves 100% Cloud Adoption to Reduce Regression Testing Cycles

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Challenges

Sought the ability to increase product time-to-market and push innovation faster
Strong competition with owning market share
Needed to deploy on-demand without extensive testing (instead of 2x/week)
Platform needed to support new microservices architecture blueprint

Success Stats

100% cloud adoption
250+ deployments per month, increased from 12
25% reduction in regression test cycles
70% of testing automated in first year

KMS Impact

Supported a 100% cloud migration strategy with AWS; Shifted to a microservices architecture by maintaining a monolith platform once shift was complete.
Combined ALM tools across scrum teams to adopt an automation-first mindset and long-term strategy; led to the ability to deploy product tests on demand.
Implemented smart Agile practices such as continuous planning and Lean development across all teams, resulting in increased time-to-market and delivery efficiency.
Attained a low product team attrition rate which contributed to an increase in both team confidence and overall business productivity.