Case Study | Q&I Process Migration using DevOps & Microservices

About Client

HDFC Life (HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company) is a leading long-term life insurance provider in India. It offers a range of individual and group insurance solutions that meet various customer needs such as Protection, Pension, Savings, Investment and Health. HDFC Life has over 30 individual and 10 group products in its portfolio, catering to a diverse range of customer needs.

Requirement

HDFC Life was looking for a digital transformation solutions partner to help migrate their systems to a newer ecosystem which would make it easier and faster to deploy changes.

Business Challenge

The Quote & Illustration (Q&I) process at HDFC Life was connected to all the core processes of the organization. The deployment of changes in new products or processes, became cumbersome. This lead to delays in product release which affected the entire business.

Solution

RapidValue migrated client’s Q&I process from a legacy core system to a new system environment using Microservices and DevOps.

The core system was decoupled to microservices to maintain the same legacy tools and data.
Microservices and APIs were developed using Java and Spring Web MVC.
Designed and configured Blue-Green deployment to reduce downtime and risk.
DevOps integration was implemented using Jenkins.
AccuRate, test automation suite by RapidValue was used for the functionality testing and Serenity framework was used for Acceptance testing.
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) was performed using JBehave.

Microservices Architecture

The architecture of the Q&I system evolves regularly. As soon as one implementation is completed, we are ready for the next change. In the past, such iterations of the architecture was quite difficult to achieve as we had to replace large systems. With microservices, we have built an architecture ecosystem that allows the client to change small components at any time without any complex migrations.

Results

With implementation of microservices architecture and devOps, RapidValue achieved the following results for the client.

Segregating the current Q&I process to microservices eased the deployment process.
Release of new features will not require the entire product rollout. It can be limited to participating microservices only.
Reduced the cycle time of testing and release process from weeks to overnight.
Reduced the time to market by upto 50% by streamlining delivery with DevOps.
Increased business agility through faster delivery of new functionalities.
Changes or addition of new features can now be done easily and rolled out faster.