Case Study
How UST’s cloud migration services and application testing strategy for a real estate marketplace cut costs by 15% while boosting efficiency, scalability, and user satisfaction
OUR CLIENT
The client is a prominent U.S. technology firm in the real estate and financial services sector, offering innovative solutions for property management and asset disposition. Renowned for its sophisticated platform and real estate data-driven insights, the company streamlines processes for mortgage servicers, real estate agents, and investors.
THE CHALLENGE
Digital real estate listings marketplace struggles with performance and scalability, preventing a rich user experience
The client faced significant technical challenges with their real estate listings marketplace, struggling with scalability, maintenance, and performance issues. These limitations made it difficult to provide up-to-date listings for millions of users. The issues also negatively impacted the downstream work efforts of mortgage servicers, real estate agents, and investors, causing potential damage to the company’s competitive standing and positive user perceptions.
The company needed a scalable, cost-effective solution that could deliver user experience improvements for real estate listings and provide a high-performing, easily manageable, extensible real estate platform.
THE TRANSFORMATION
Cloud migration services and test automation for real estate platform ensures reliability and scalability
UST delivered a comprehensive solution by migrating the real estate platform to AWS. By transitioning to a cloud-based solution, company leaders were able to scale their real estate marketplace more efficiently and significantly improve overall platform performance. The cloud-based real estate solution now supports high-performing real estate applications, enriches the user experience with reliable functionality, and offers vital real estate data-driven insights for mortgage servicers, real estate agents, and property investors.
UST also developed and executed a detailed test strategy to ensure the platform's reliability and functionality after migration. Key project phases and test automation tools included:
- Data migration testing—compared and validated data between the relational database and Amazon DynamoDB, using QuerySurge, and ensured images migrated to Amazon S3 accurately and securely
- User interface (UI) and functional testing—verified that the platform’s UI and functionality met exacting performance and reliability standards across all features
- Security testing—identified and addressed potential vulnerabilities to ensure the platform had a strong security posture
- Multi-platform testing—ran test patterns to ensure a consistent user experience across various browsers and mobile devices
- Performance testing—used Apache JMeter and Google PageSpeed Insights to evaluate both page-level and overall application-level performance
THE IMPACT
Development and testing for real estate platforms cut costs, improved efficiencies, and enabled scalable growth
The AWS cloud migration and comprehensive testing strategy significantly boosted platform performance and scalability while helping the company maintain its position as a formidable competitor in the fast-paced real estate marketplace. The project achieved these impressive results:
- Reduced overall testing efforts by 25%—thanks to process automations
- Achieved a 40% testing productivity increase—with parallel multi-browser testing
- Realized a 15% cost savings—boosting the company’s bottom line
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RESOURCES
https://www.ust.com/content/dam/ust/documents/CustomerStory_AWS_TechCo_EmailServicesMigration_Final_Jan22.pdf
https://www.ust.com/en/insights/migrating-a-philanthropic-donor-platform-onto-the-cloud-with-amazon-web-services
https://www.ust.com/en/insights/enabling-cloud-connectivity