How China Postal Savings Bank Boosted Efficiency with DevOps Standards

Domestic and international large enterprises have shown that standardization and tool empowerment are key to success. The DevOps standards and the DevOps continuous delivery pipeline platform can significantly improve quality and efficiency, enhancing market competitiveness.

On December 26, 2022, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) released the latest batch of DevOps system and tool standard assessment results.

China Postal Savings Bank participated with two projects: the DevOps R&D Collaboration Platform and the Xingchen Platform Jinniu Automation Testing System . Both projects passed the CAICT "R&D Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" system and tool standard assessment. The R&D Collaboration Platform received an "Excellent" rating in the Pipeline and Build & Continuous Integration modules, while the Jinniu system received an "Excellent" rating in the Interface/Service Testing module, indicating a leading domestic level.

To date, the bank has passed six CAICT DevOps standard assessments, including three continuous delivery and three system‑tool assessments, and is the first enterprise to pass the Interface/Service Testing module.

-Q&A-

Q: Please introduce yourself and the projects you evaluated.

Hu Junfeng, General Manager of the Software R&D Center, explained the bank’s scale, its focus on serving agriculture, rural areas, and small‑medium enterprises, and its commitment to digital transformation through DevOps and open‑source governance.

Both the R&D Collaboration Platform and the Jinniu Automation Testing System integrate requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment tools, providing standardized, automated task management, component design, CI, and auto‑deployment capabilities.

Q: How does passing the Interface/Service Testing, Pipeline, and Build & CI modules feel?

Hu expressed pride in achieving excellent ratings across these three capability items, noting that the assessments confirm the bank’s leading position in automation testing and continuous delivery.

Q: What is the importance of the pipeline in end‑to‑end value delivery?

The pipeline links build, test, and deployment tasks into an automated flow, improving software quality, delivery speed, and supporting complex micro‑service architectures.

Q: What changes did the assessment bring to the bank?

Improvements include higher automation testing capability, better software delivery quality, and enhanced team skills through learning industry best practices.

Q: What were the difficulties during the assessment and how were they solved?

Challenges such as tight timelines, remote work, and gaps between existing functions and standards were addressed by detailed planning, weekly iterations, and strong leadership support.

Q: What are the next steps for DevOps at the bank?

The bank plans to launch DevSecOps assessments, continue maturity evaluations for test‑plan and test‑data management tools, deepen integration of automated testing with pipelines, and promote best practices across the organization.

Q: How do you see the future development of DevOps?

Hu and Zhang highlighted the evolution toward XOps, incorporating big data, AI, cloud‑native technologies, and chaos engineering to achieve smarter, more resilient operations.

The article also provides statistics of state‑owned banks that have participated in the DevOps Capability Maturity Model assessments and introduces the model’s architecture, which covers agile development management, continuous delivery, technical operations, security, system and tool integration, and business value management.

For further information on DevOps standard assessments, contact the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (Liu Kailin, phone 15650786171, email [email protected]) or the Efficient Operations Community (Wei Huanxin, phone 18500255645, email [email protected]).