Cloud Oriented continuous testing frameworks for secure fintech releases

Abstract

Fintech platforms operate in security-critical, highly regulated environments where rapid release cycles must coexist with stringent requirements for reliability, data protection, and regulatory compliance. As fintech organizations increasingly adopt cloud-native architectures, microservices, apis, and devsecops practices, traditional testing approaches—largely manual, siloed, and stage-gated—are no longer sufficient to assure secure and resilient product releases. This paper investigates cloud-oriented continuous testing frameworks designed to support secure fintech releases at scale. It examines how continuous testing, when tightly integrated with cloud infrastructure, ci/cd pipelines, and security controls, enables early risk detection, faster feedback loops, and sustained release velocity without compromising trust. Using architectural analysis, framework synthesis, and expert-informed evaluation, the study proposes a cloud oriented continuous testing framework for fintech (coctf-f) that embeds functional, security, performance, and compliance testing across the entire product lifecycle. The findings demonstrate that cloud-native continuous testing reduces post-release security defects, shortens release validation cycles, and improves regulatory readiness. The paper positions continuous testing not as a quality assurance activity, but as a foundational pillar of secure fintech product delivery.