Case Study: How Emburse Halved Testing Costs by Retiring Its In-House Selenium Grid
Key results
The challenge
Emburse ran test automation on an in-house Selenium Grid where each grid was built differently, making the setup costly and time-consuming to maintain. The team faced frequent test flakiness from network failures, disk errors, and high resource consumption, with tests taking up to 45 minutes to complete.
The solution
Emburse migrated to LambdaTest's cloud-based Selenium Grid, removing the need to maintain in-house infrastructure while gaining scalable parallel sessions and cross-browser coverage. The vendor was selected after a proof-of-concept and a decision matrix comparing cost and speed against competitors.
“This is a pretty competitive space. I created a full decision matrix only to find that, assuming equal quality of service, the cost was the differentiating factor that mattered most to us.”
AHAlan HarwoodSenior Manager, Engineering, Emburse
The results, in context
Emburse reports a 50% reduction in cost and a 20% reduction in test execution time after retiring its in-house grid. Figures are quoted from LambdaTest's published Emburse story and dated to indexing.