Case Study: AutoTrader.ca saves $620K/year and speeds releases with QA Wolf

AutoTrader saved $620K/yr trading in manual testing for automation

autoTRADER.ca, a Canadian automotive marketplace and CRM provider for dealerships, faced significant bottlenecks in its development process due to a heavy reliance on manual testing. This approach, which utilized staff from the customer support team, delayed releases for weeks and even months, hindering their national expansion plans. Their challenge was to implement a robust automated testing solution without the high cost and long timeline of building an in-house QA team.

By partnering with QA Wolf, autoTRADER.ca had a comprehensive suite of over 500 end-to-end tests built, run, and maintained for them. This solution from QA Wolf drastically reduced QA cycles from over three days to just 15 minutes, increasing release velocity by 15-20%. The automation offset the need to hire six QA engineers, saving over $600,000 annually, and returned over 1,000 hours to the support team, saving an additional $20,000 per year.

autoTRADER.ca

Jocelyn Deslauriers

VP of Engineering