Vodafone

Vodafone dials up test automation for SAP S/4HANA speed and innovation

Company overview

At Vodafone, innovation never sleeps. Vodafone made the first-ever mobile phone call in 1985. Today, Vodafone powers Europe’s largest 5G network and the world’s largest IoT network connecting over 100M devices ranging from smart metering to health solutions. They also built Africa’s largest payment platform and are rapidly expanding it to provide financial services. Their commitment to innovation made them an early adopter of SAP S/4HANA—achieving one of the world’s 5 largest SAP S/4HANA implementations in just 10 months.

There was one extreme outlier in their innovation strategy: software testing. The longstanding testing solution (HP/Micro Focus UFT) was holding the QA team back. For years, they had been battling a steep learning curve for defining test automation and a resource-intensive process for keeping it in sync with evolving applications. With a massive migration project, new SAP technologies that weren’t supported by their current testing solution, plus more (and faster) releases to keep up with, their quality leaders recognized that it was time for a new testing approach.