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Cleartest resources engaged to deliver a new trading platform for a tier one building society

Cleartest resources were engaged in 2015 to deliver a new platform for a Findur to Murex migration. The remit included delivery of all IT components and Murex functional testing. The platform was delivered successfully and to high acclaim.

Due to the successful delivery of the original trading platform, Cleartest resources were recommissioned in 2020 – 2023 to deliver a new trading platform for the society. The platform was required to address End of Service Life (EoSL) components, compatibility with the latest Murex binaries, and take advantage of the latest cloud and private cloud technologies. It was required to deliver a set of cost efficient platforms with a focus on resilience, security, evergreen capability, scalability and resilience.

The remit included:

          • • A 14 point upgrade of the Murex application (to 2.1.38), in conjunction with 3rd party teams
          • • Delivery of multiple cloud test environments
          • • On-premise private cloud test, production and disaster recovery environments
          • • Multiple change requests
          • • Full project lifecycle from Business case to warranty completion

The program was delivered to the original budget and to the original timescales.

Functionality Delivered – Murex V3.1.48

      • 14 patch upgrade from V3..34 to V.3.1.48
      • Front and Back Murex Functionality – all main modules included:
        • › Trade capture
        • › Risk
        • › Trade Lifecycle
        • › Accounting and hedge accounting
        • › Payments (inc. SWIFT)
      • Full Project Lifecycle
        • › Conception and funding
        • › Design (solution, on-prem infra, cloud, networks, interfaces)
        • › Build
        • › Test (functional and non-functional)
        • › Training
        • › Implementation
        • › Warranty and ‘Business As Usual’ handover
      • Market data and regulatory interfaces
      • Test Automation (ORQA)

Technology Delivered

AWS

      • • Fully virtualized Development and Test Environments
      • • DevOps Tooling: Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub, Lambda
      • • Networks/Access: PaloAlto VPN/AWS IAM
      • • Hosting: S3 Private, RDS, Route 53, Image Bakery
      • • Security: Splunk, Twistlock, ELK

On-Premise (Private Cloud)

      • • Production, Disaster Recovery and Pre-Production test platforms
      • • Hardware Cisco blades for App virtualization and physical database hosting
      • • RedHat Linux operating systems (migrated from Solaris)
      • • Oracle to Version 19.4
      • • Secure Network Environments
      • • Hardware Security Models (HSMs)
      • • Cross Site data replication via DataGuard
      • • Connectivity to internal and external interfaces via proxies
      • • OEM for monitoring of SWIFT and Murex databases
      • • ControlM for batch processing
      • • Data propagation across sites and Cloud/On-prem environment

 

 

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Please contact Ian Brazier at info.cleartest.co.uk