How a Top Securities Firm Earned Tier‑3 Continuous Testing in China’s DevOps Model

With the widespread practice of R&D‑operations integration across industries, testing has become a critical link for improving R&D operational quality. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s 14th Five‑Year Plan emphasizes enhancing software quality management, monitoring, early warning, and evaluation, calling for a complete testing certification system.

On October 26, 2023, the 21st GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shanghai, co‑hosted by GreatOPS and the DevOps Era Community, announced that the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) released the first batch of Continuous Testing (CT) standard assessment results.

Shenwan Hongyuan Securities participated with its “Business Middle‑Platform” project, which passed the CAICT Continuous Testing standard at Level 3, indicating a domestically leading capability in continuous testing.

To date, Shenwan Hongyuan has also passed two Security & Risk Management (DevSecOps) assessments, one Continuous Testing assessment, and one Continuous Delivery assessment, all derived from a single business system.

Interviews with Kang Lan (Deputy General Manager, IT Development Headquarters), Wang Jiahua (Head of Quality Control), and Bian Fengjie (Test Lead, Business Middle‑Platform) reveal details of the project’s architecture, the challenges faced during the assessment, and the benefits realized.

Key insights from the Q&A:

Why is a continuous testing system vital? It creates an end‑to‑end testing loop from requirements to operations, requiring universal testing skills, risk management, and lifecycle coverage, thereby strengthening product quality and driving organizational evolution.

Challenges and solutions: Tight schedules and high demand forced the team to embed improvement tasks within regular iterations, allocate dedicated resources, and receive strong leadership support to meet multiple standard evaluations simultaneously.

Benefits observed: The middle‑platform now handles 3000+ interfaces, serves over 100 systems, processes 10 million daily visits, and saves roughly six person‑days per release, reducing defect rates to 30 % of previous levels and leak rates below 0.1 %.

Future plans: Localize the CAICT DevOps standards, enhance the DevOps tool platform, expand rollout across projects, and align with the company’s 14th Five‑Year fintech roadmap to further boost delivery capability.

Industry participation details:

Statistics up to October 26, 2023 show the number of securities and fund firms that have undergone DevOps maturity assessments, with data sourced from the official DevOps evaluation website.

The DevOps Capability Maturity Model, jointly developed by CAICT, the Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance, GreatOPS, and leading internet, finance, and telecom companies, is the first comprehensive domestic and international DevOps standard, recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and adopted by many major enterprises.

For inquiries about DevOps standard assessments, contact CAICT (Liu Kailin, 156 5078 6171, [email protected]; Bai Hanxiong, 159 1076 9206, [email protected]) or GreatOPS community (Wei Huanxin, 185 0025 5645, [email protected]).