Friday, July 17, 2020

Ultranauts/ Advancing Neurodiversity

Can neurodiversity be a competitive advantage for a huge financial institution that manages $35.2 trillion and has “the largest data set in the financial world “ ?

Six months ago, BNY Mellon’s Enterprise Quality Engineering group started an experiment as part of their ambitious “transformation agenda”.

They wanted to know if autistic quality engineers could accelerate the automation of testing and QA of the hundreds of legacy applications being modernized across the bank. 

BNY Mellon hired Ultranauts, an onshore quality engineering startup powered by cognitively diverse teams.

The results are in : BNY Mellon announced this week that they’ll be “doubling down on neurodiversity.”

“Ultranauts’ quality engineers continue to increase our productivity and ensure we are delivering high quality results. Amazingly, we’ve seen a ~250% increase in the number of new test cases we automated” , BNY Mellon CIO Bridget Engle said on Monday.

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