Grupo Bemol cuts testing from 40h to under 9min with Azure DevOps.

To sustain its growth and innovation, Grupo Bemol needed to ensure the quality of its systems in a scalable way, without it becoming a bottleneck for delivering new features. The challenge was to modernize the testing process, reducing the dependence on slow, error-prone manual validations, and to adopt a culture of continuous quality integrated into development.

The solution developed by QaCoders was the creation of a Continuous Testing cell, which centralized the entire software quality lifecycle management in Azure DevOps. The project included:

• Unified management: use of Azure DevOps for code repositories, process documentation in the Wiki, automated CI/CD pipelines, and dashboards for real-time metrics monitoring.

• Test automation: implementation of Robot Framework to automate API, Web, and Mobile tests, with parallel execution for greater speed.

• Robust infrastructure: use of Docker and Mock Servers to simulate external services, allowing tests to run independently and continuously, even when third-party environments were unavailable.

• Strategic visibility: creation of HTML dashboards generated directly in the pipelines, providing QA and management teams with indicators for fast, data-driven decision-making.

After nine months of implementation, the operational gains proved exponential, with drastic reductions in test execution time across several business fronts:

• 99.96% reduction in the Seller Center: manual testing time, which was 40 hours, was reduced to just 8 minutes and 45 seconds with automation.

• 92.2% reduction in the Retail App: the process, which previously took 80 manual hours, is now executed in 2 hours and 14 minutes with automated tests on real devices in the cloud.

• 77.9% reduction in critical APIs (SNGPC): the average API test execution time was significantly optimized, with 78 scenarios automated and monitored in real time.

The project became a milestone of efficiency, proving that intelligent and scalable automation is a strategic path for companies seeking to innovate and accelerate their deliveries without compromising quality.