Quality Assurance in Investment Banking Domain

Abstract

Investment Banking applications are complex applications supporting different trading platforms, risk management systems, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Different Investment Banking applications have different software testing and QA requirements, depending on the domain function they are supporting, complexity of the flows and external applications they are integrating with. Investment Banking is a huge domain, and everything cannot be summarized in a single white paper. In this paper we will study the commonly used terminologies in Investment banking domain, especially around trade life cycle, and what quality assurance activities need to be performed in complex Investment Banking applications, covering majorly around the trade flows.