Chime was founded as a financial technology company by Chris Britt and Ryan King in 2012. It was supposed to become the bank account of the future and change people’s financial lives, giving them more control over their assets.
By partnering with local banks, the company aims to design member-first financial products. Chime’s offerings create a more competitive market and suitable lower-cost banking options for Americans. To generate income, Chime doesn’t apply fees and charges – the revenue comes mostly from transactions and rewards paid by Visa when a member uses the relevant Chime card. Chime aims at profiting with members, not from them.
Company Needs
Chime needed to perform tasks related to two different projects.
The first project was a Chime testing store that acts as a merchant accepting credit/debit cards. A Chime testing store generates financial messages which interact with Chime systems across different environments and configurations. It should include private APIs that need to be used in relation to a specific transaction, such as endpoints on GSimulator, but without an attempt to create or modify a user’s state.
The second project was Stampede, which serves as a solution for performance testing, monitoring, and reporting needs. Chime needed to perform the following tasks for Stampede:
- Create a test profile that holds all the data, scripts, and other properties associated with a service (test data, test scripts, environment, and load properties associated with BAS should be a one service profile)
- Combine one or more service profiles with actual load testing parameters defined by test suites and tests execution
