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CUSTOMER STORY · INSURANCE

Behind the firewall: a Fortune Global 500 insurer runs 4M+ tests a year on SBOX

For 10 years, a European-headquartered Fortune Global 500 insurer has run its group-wide browser testing, manual and automated, on one shared SBOX instance hosted on its own premises.

Company profile
Sector
Insurance and asset management, multi-line: life, property & casualty, health
Region
European-headquartered multinational, operations across 50+ countries
Strength
Fortune Global 500 group with 100,000+ employees serving tens of millions of customers

We have been working with SBOX for the past 10 years to enhance our group’s browser testing capabilities, whether for manual testing or test automation. SBOX offers us several valuable encapsulated features that facilitate automated testing, such as Proxy Usage, various Authentication Types, and Video Evidence.

Head of Test Engineering · Fortune Global 500 Insurance Group
The challenge

What the group needed to solve

Group-wide capability

Requiring a group-wide browser testing capability that supports both manual testing and test automation.

High data sensitivity

Facing high-data-sensitive applications that demand strict architecture, data management, and security compliance.

Unpredictable peaks

Handling project peaks across the group without straining shared testing infrastructure.

Multi-day campaigns

Running test automation campaigns for multiple projects that can take several days to complete.

Multiple product teams

Accommodating multiple product teams that work with different skills and technologies on the same testing infrastructure.

The solution

One shared SBOX instance, on the group’s own premises

Architecture

CUSTOMER PREMISES · BEHIND THE FIREWALL SBOX single-tenant · shared Life Property & Casualty Health Underwriting Claims Distribution
One shared, single-tenant SBOX instance on customer premises, serving every product line behind the firewall.

How SBOX delivers it

Hosted on premises

Hosts SBOX on customer premises to simplify architecture, data management, and security compliance for high-data-sensitive applications.

Mutualized capacity

Mutualizes infrastructure and capacity across the group so one shared SBOX instance handles project peaks.

Usage decoupled

Decouples usage from tests executed, users, and parallel browsers, so the group scales without concerns about parallelism variations.

Days to hours

Combines parallelism with extended browser coverage to reduce automation campaigns from several days to a few hours.

Fits every team

Adapts seamlessly to different SDLC, accommodating every product team regardless of skills or technologies.

Encapsulated features

Provides encapsulated automated-testing features including Proxy Usage, various Authentication Types, and Video Evidence.

The impact

Ten years, one shared instance, millions of tests

Deployed for 10 years to enhance group-wide browser testing capabilities across manual testing and test automation.

Executed more than 4 million tests in the last 12 months.

Sustained 70 to 90 parallel executions across the group.

Supported more than 40 projects on one shared SBOX instance.

Reduced automation campaigns from several days to a few hours.

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