Leading news and recruitment business engaged Inceptive’s team to build a global engineering team.

A T  A  G L A N C E

  • Built and scaled engineering team
  • Inducted DevOps Automation using
  • Selenium, using C#
  • Implementation of SCRUM
  • CI/CD implementation using Azure DevOps

S U M M A R Y

The customer is a leading news and job portal in the oil and gas industry with operations in Houston, London, Aberdeen and Dubai. With a sourcing data of 2 million profiles and an audience of 4.5 million members, it is a one-stop portal for all hiring needs in the Oil & Gas industry.

Customer also works in creating hiring campaigns with top brands in the Oil & Gas business, using their proprietary recruitment tools by tapping in their vast profile pool.

The customer first started an engagement with us specifically with a QA team and slowly after gaining their confidence, we ventured into providing full stack development and DevOps services. We have been working with them for the past 7 years.

W H A T  W E  D I D

  • Started engagement small with a small QA team
  • Performed manual and automation testing using C# and Selenium
  • Write test cases, participate in daily stands and taking a proactive stand in ensuring quality is first and foremost
  • Perform smoke tests daily using automation and manual techniques
  • Monitor performance metrics on key web pages which accumulate over a million hits in a month

T E C H N O L O G I E S

  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • MVC
  • AzureDevOps
  • AWS
  • Selenium
  • Swift
  • Java(for Android app)
  • Angular JS
DevOps
  • Optimise AWS architecture for budget savings
  • Rearchitect and implement load balancer
  • Performance monitoring of server and taking action against security vulnerabilities on the web and database servers
Development
  • Introduced and scaled up a .NET and mobility team
  • Took over and lead development efforts in a CI/CD environment
  • Lead daily stands, sprint planning and retrospective
  • Critical implementation of Google page speed improvements with an average page speed score of 90%+

R E S U L T S

  • Saved customer over 100% in development costs by building an offshore team
  • Attrition at customer end dev team was mitigated
  • Overlap of hours with customer ensured streamlined communication
  • Opportunity to hire and bring in diversified team in marketing and sales
  • Business continuity and reliability to scale operation upland down as and when needed
  • Understanding legacy code built in ASP and team willingness to support and migrate systems to newer architecture