Case Study
Headcount Reduction
Overall Cost Reduction
A global online gaming company with daily production releases, faced rapidly rising testing costs as player traffic and feature velocity grew.
Manual testing for Farmville and other titles, could not scale to support frequent game updates and platform releases. The company therefore introduced a test automation strategy to improve quality, accelerate delivery, and dramatically reduce operational costs.
Gaming. Global online gaming company with daily production releases.
Unsustainable growth: >100 manual testers needed within 2 years. Overtime & 40 hours weekly of outsourced contractors driving costs up.
3 automation engineers with T-Plan replaced manual testers, eliminated overtime & outsourcing, while delivering faster releases & better quality.
The gaming company faced significant challenges maintaining quality while supporting aggressive release schedules:
The gaming company adopted T-Plan’s test automation platform, and built an internal automation framework tailored to game services, and multi-platform testing.
Q1 Year 1: Initial deployment with core automation team (1x QA Manager | 1x Senior Automation Engineer | 1x Junior Automation Engineer | 5 Developer Licenses for script development.
Q2-Q4 Year 1: Scaled execution capacity by adding 80+ Execution Licenses to replace manual testing capacity.
Year 2: Phased out manual testers and outsourced contractors, as automation matured.
T-Plan proved to be an indispensable solution for the gaming company, enabling efficient, thorough, and cost-effective automation for daily releases.
By preventing the need to hire >100 manual testers, and achieving over 300k in annual savings, T-Plan transformed the company’s QA operations while improving team quality of life.
The automation team delivered superior quality, faster releases, and improved player experience – all while dramatically reducing operational costs, eliminating outsourced contractors, and restoring sustainable work schedules.
The result is a scalable quality strategy that supports continued growth without proportional increases in testing headcount or costs.
Automated regression suites replaced repetitive manual validation. Leading to:
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