Why Are Insurers Moving From On-Premise Majesco to Majesco CloudInsurer?

Moving from an on-premises Majesco deployment to Majesco CloudInsurer is done for multiple reasons. A few carriers have gone on record about why they made the move.

Lower infrastructure and licensing costs

Triple-S Propiedad completed the move to CloudInsurer for Majesco Policy for P&C. It pointed to cost savings, ISO compliance, and access to newer product features as the reasons. (Businesswire, 2020).

Another multinational Insurance Company, moving from an older on-premise version to CloudInsurer, reported meaningful savings on the licensing costs tied to running its own web, application, and database services (Majesco, 2020).

Less infrastructure to manage in-house

Under CloudInsurer, Majesco takes over application availability, platform updates, release management, and incident response on the insurer’s behalf. Companies can also cut down on the manual work of managing their own infrastructure, servers, and networking, freeing up the team to focus on day-to-day business (Majesco, 2020).

Scalability when demand spikes

Heritage Insurance moved its Claims platform to CloudInsurer to improve scalability and security ahead of hurricane season, when its large coastal customer base drives a surge in claims activity (Majesco, 2020).

Speed to market

CloudInsurer’s ready-to-use content and capabilities let insurers accelerate speed to market on new products. (Majesco, 2020). A Majesco and Microsoft executive interview put potential infrastructure cost savings from moving to the cloud at up to 65%, though this depends heavily on timing and how the platform is used afterward (Insurance Innovation Reporter, 2021).

Screen layout and navigation change

CloudInsurer is a rebuilt interface. It is not the old on-premises screens moved to a new server. A manual script that says “click Field X on Screen Y” stops matching the interface when that screen looks or behaves differently.

The API and integration layer changes

In a 2021 interview about Majesco’s cloud architecture, Majesco described CloudInsurer as exposing functionality through thousands of APIs, built to the OAS 3.0 standard and delivered through Microsoft Azure’s API gateway (Carrier Management, 2021; Insurance Innovation Reporter, 2021).

That interview is a few years old, and we found nothing more recent confirming the architecture in the same detail. Even so, it points to the fact that integration testing built for the old connection points may not hold up once those points change.

Configuration-driven behavior multiplies what needs testing

Majesco works closely on rules, product configuration, and templates. Not custom code. A single configuration change can impact quoting, endorsements, renewals, claims handling, and billing all at once (TTC Global). Manual scripts written to check one screen at a time cannot catch that kind of ripple across several processes.

Why Majesco Regression Testing Is an Ongoing Challenge

You cannot treat this as a single project in which you rewrite the test scripts once and move on. That undersells what’s happening under the hood.

Moving legacy data and functionality to the cloud commonly produces compatibility issues and slows down operations if it isn’t planned for carefully (ValueMomentum). Separate analysis of core platform migrations across Majesco, Guidewire, and Duck Creek points out testing and QA as one of the areas where gaps show up during and after a move (ASI).

Moreover, every new release can shift screens, workflows, or configuration behavior again. Manual scripts don’t update themselves. There’s no fixed finish line on a SaaS core the way there was with an on-premises system that didn’t have to be upgraded for long stretches of time.

Can Manual Testing Alone Keep Up With Majesco Cloud Releases?

No.

The tester headcount usually doesn’t grow. Majesco itself describes its Fast Upgrade capability as making upgrades faster and less disruptive than before, though we don’t have exact numbers for how long an upgrade takes.

And the test load per release is often larger than it looks, because of how configuration changes apply across different processes.

Manual testing is still important, especially for exploratory checks and judgment calls a script can’t make. But depending on it alone to cover every regression cycle, on a tight schedule, is asking a team to do far too much.

What Manual Test Assets Carry Forward After a Majesco Cloud Migration?

Everything in an old manual test library does not need to be thrown out. Some of it just needs to be separated. Here’s what carries forward and what does not.

• Doesn’t carry forward as written: click-path instructions, screen-specific field references, screenshots tied to the old interface.
• Can carry forward with some rework: the business logic being tested, the expected outcomes, the test data behind each scenario, and the links between requirements and tests. But it’s only possible if the tooling you move to supports rebuilding those links.

ACCELQ’s manual scenario import lets a team bring existing manual test steps, expected results, tags, and requirement or automation links into the platform directly from a spreadsheet (ACCELQ Help Center).

How to Rebuild Test Coverage for Majesco’s API-First Cloud Core

Insurance core system testing has to account for more than screens.

A large share of CloudInsurer’s functionality is described as sitting behind REST APIs. That means coverage built only at the UI layer misses a lot of what’s running underneath. A stronger approach tests both layers: what the user sees and what the system runs behind the screen.

ACCELQ supports this with REST API test automation, including parameterization, API chaining, and response verification (REST API Test Automation; Parameterization; API Chaining; Verifying API Responses). It offers the kind of insurance core system test automation an API-first platform like CloudInsurer needs.

Majesco Insurance Testing in Practice: A Case Study

ACCELQ has published results from working with a large insurance enterprise running Policy, Billing, and Claims platforms. The numbers speak for themselves: an 87% cut in defect leakage and an 80% reduction in regression cycle time after moving to business-driven, codeless test automation (ACCELQ case study).

If you’re comparing a Majesco testing company, a Majesco testing service provider, or evaluating an in-house build, this kind of track record on comparable core systems is worth considering.

Majesco Cloud Migration Testing Checklist

Before the migration kicks off, know exactly what you’re carrying forward and what you’re rebuilding from scratch. This checklist is a starting point.

• Go through your existing manual scripts and sort them: which ones test business logic? And which ones are really navigation instructions?
• Map your current test coverage against the new API layer, as well as the new screens.
• Set a re-validation cadence that matches Majesco’s seasonal release rhythm. Do not leave it to a one-time sign-off after the migration ends.
• Identify which test data sets and requirement links need to make the move intact.