Use case
Boosting Release Quality with Automated QA Testing in Jenkins & GitHub
- Mihir Madviwala, Priyanka Jadhav
About the Customer
SkillForge is a funding-trading company and growth program that provides career-enhancing opportunities for forex traders worldwide. Its flagship Hyper-Growth plan empowers traders to scale their capital and profits, helping them advance in their trading careers while contributing to a thriving global trading community.
Customer Challenge
SkillForge’s development team was moving quickly, introducing new features at a rapid pace. This led to frequent pull requests (PRs) for merging feature branches into development and staging environments. However, this accelerated cycle introduced risks. Developers often made mistakes in the code or overlooked critical components before raising PRs. As a result, unverified changes were merged, breaking core functionality and, in some cases, causing complete environment downtime.
While the QA team had automation in place, it was limited to the staging environment. Since changes were already merged into staging, this often destabilized the environment and made testing ineffective. This slowed developers’ ability to validate features and increased the chance of untested or unstable changes reaching production. Such risks could result in outages, eroded customer trust, and business disruption.
In short, the absence of strong checks and controls in the PR and merge process transformed the CI/CD pipeline into a high-risk bottleneck, leading to disruptions, prolonged downtime, and reduced reliability.
Solution
IAMOPS delivered a comprehensive, automated QA testing solution to stabilize SkillForge’s CI/CD pipeline. The solution integrated Jenkins, GitHub, and AWS services including EC2, EKS, IAM, and Secrets Manager, to ensure high-quality code validation at every development stage.
A Jenkins Master was deployed on AWS EC2 for orchestration, while containerized Jenkins build agents were run in AWS EKS using isolated namespaces and node groups. This design ensured secure, scalable, and reliable testing environments that prevented disruptions to the Jenkins master.
IAMOPS configured seamless integration with GitHub PR workflows using webhooks and GitHub Actions. Automated QA jobs were triggered immediately when PRs were created or updated, enforcing validation gates before merges into dev or staging.
The AWS infrastructure was designed with security and cost efficiency in mind. IAMOPS implemented fine-grained IAM roles, cluster-autoscaler for dynamic scaling of EKS nodes, and best practices for secure credential management with AWS Secrets Manager. This allowed SkillForge to optimize resource use while ensuring performance and security.
By enforcing PR-level gating and automation, developers received faster feedback and avoided introducing unstable code into shared environments. This improved reliability, accelerated development cycles, and enhanced the developer experience.
Results & Benefits
With IAMOPS’s solution, SkillForge achieved greater stability and confidence in their development pipeline. Production outages that could have been caused by untested merges were eliminated, and issues in the development and staging environments were significantly reduced.
Automation at the PR level provided faster developer feedback loops, reducing bottlenecks in validation. Test coverage improved, leading to higher-quality releases. The elastic Jenkins infrastructure dynamically scaled to match workloads, optimizing costs while maintaining performance by spinning up EKS-EC2 nodes when Jenkins jobs were triggered.
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis showed reduced infrastructure costs due to autoscaling, as well as savings from less downtime and fewer manual interventions. Overall, SkillForge now benefits from a secure, cost-efficient, and reliable CI/CD pipeline that supports faster innovation.
About IAMOPS
IAMOPS is a full DevOps suite company that supports technology companies to achieve intense production readiness.
Our mission is to ensure that our clients’ infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines are scalable, mitigate failure points, optimize performance, ensure uptime, and minimize costs.
Our DevOps suite includes DevOps Core, NOC 24/7, FinOps, QA Automation, and DevSecOps to accelerate overall exponential growth.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner and Reseller, we focus on two key pillars: Professionalism by adhering to best practices and utilizing advanced technologies, Customer Experience with responsiveness, availability, clear project management, and transparency to provide an exceptional experience for our clients.
