Citation:

Srikanth Chakravarthy Vankayala, Sudheer Devaraju, 2021. "Cloud-Native Banking Quality Assurance Frameworks Powered by Azure DevOps and Intelligent Observability", ESP Journal of Engineering & Technology Advancements 1(2): 305-310.

Abstract:

The rapid adoption of cloud-native technologies in the banking sector has transformed the development and deployment of financial applications, enabling improved scalability, operational agility, and continuous service delivery. However, the increasing complexity of distributed architectures, microservices, containerized deployments, and real-time transaction processing introduces significant challenges in ensuring software quality, operational resilience, security, and regulatory compliance. This research paper presents a cloud-native quality assurance framework for banking platforms powered by Azure DevOps and intelligent observability techniques to improve testing efficiency, system reliability, and continuous delivery performance.

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Keywords:

: Cloud-Native Banking, Quality Assurance Frameworks, Azure DevOps, Intelligent Observability, DevOps Automation, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), CI/CD Pipelines, Banking Technology Platforms, Digital Banking Systems, Cloud Computing, Microservices Architecture, Containerized Applications, Kubernetes, Enterprise Quality Engineering, Software Testing Automation