Case Study: Northbridge Financial Corporation achieves 60% faster test creation, 90% faster API execution, and 80% higher API coverage with Parasoft

Northbridge Financial Scales API Testing to Increase Productivity & Deliver ROI

Northbridge Financial, a Toronto‑based commercial property and casualty insurer, relied heavily on third‑party broker APIs to power its applications. The company faced slow, non‑scalable API testing—dependent on a few developers using bespoke C# libraries—plus integration needs for Azure DevOps/CI‑CD and cultural resistance to DevOps practices, all of which limited test coverage, slowed delivery, and increased costs.

Working with Parasoft, Northbridge adopted SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP to automate API testing, simulate unstable third‑party services, and integrate tests into their CI/CD pipeline. The solution cut test creation time by 60%, API test execution time in CI/CD by 90%, and increased API test coverage by 80%, while improving testing efficiency ~40% and reducing testing costs and delays by ~30%.

Northbridge Financial Corporation

Pushpinder Malhotra

Senior QA Automation Manager