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A hardware retailer with thousands of stores worldwide, the client operates one of the largest retail networks in North America. With innovation driving every store experience, the cooperative sought to match its physical scale with an AI-led, resilient, and high-velocity enterprise backbone, where quality assurance could no longer afford to lag delivery.
When legacy QA meets AI-led velocity
The retailer’s QA landscape was burdened by legacy practices that couldn’t keep pace with retail innovation. Key challenges included:
• Revenue loss due to delays in time-to-market
• High production defects impacting customer experience
• Lack of test management, QA, and data governance
• Tribal knowledge with no documented test cases
• Redundant manual testing across applications
• Absence of quality gates for proactive defect prevention
• Multiple automation tools causing inconsistency and duplication
• Limited test and automation coverage
The retailer needed a transformation partner who understood retail, AI, and quality engineering — a partner who could infuse intelligence, automation, and governance into every release cycle.
The choice was clear: HTC Global Services.
