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CASE STUDIES · 2025

ZybraMoney

# Weekly release gates held through a mid-flight FinTech rebuild. Hundreds of defects closed.

ZybraMoney is an Africa-focused FinTech backend handling group savings (ROSCA flows), wallet-linked journeys, payments, transfers, referrals, and the security and compliance controls financial workflows demand.

[“Their engineers combine deep technical expertise with excellent communication and execution.” Dekhani Nsaliwa Clutch](https://clutch.co/profile/wavect-gmbh#reviews)

BLOCKCHAIN Software QA 2025 Live

At a glance

Engagement Software QA

Industry [FinTech / Africa](/industries/finance/)

Stage Seed

Engagement size Weekly retainer

Year 2025

Stack

Node.js Typescript PostgreSQL Redis Express

Status Live

Live [zybra.money](https://zybra.money/)

## Overview

ZybraMoney is an Africa-focused FinTech backend handling group savings (ROSCA flows), wallet-linked journeys, payments, transfers, referrals, and the security and compliance controls financial workflows demand.

## What's the challenge?

We joined mid-modernization. Architecture in flux. Service boundaries getting redrawn. Defect density high. Security and functional issues bleeding into each other across auth, session, and transaction surfaces. QA held release safety weekly while engineering rebuilt the foundations underneath.

## What call did we make?

### The cleanup nobody priced into the rebuild.

> Live with real users when we joined. The codebase had been built fast and without test coverage, and support was carrying the result: daily tickets, the same defects resurfacing, in a system that moves money. We didn't restart it. We worked the failure surface week by week, tying every closure to the release gate. Months in, support requests dropped to near zero.

## What We Did

Money-moving system, foundations being rebuilt underneath. We tied defect closure to the weekly release gate, not to ticket count, a ‘closed’ bug had to be genuinely closed. Full defect lifecycle ownership: reproduction, triage, fix verification, regression follow-up. Security-remediation validation across auth, session, and transaction surfaces. Cross-team supervision over distributed contributors. Architecture moved weekly. Regressions never compounded.

## Outcomes

### Weekly - Release Gates Held
- **Category:** Risk

### Hundreds - Defects Closed
- **Category:** Risk

### ~0 - Support Tickets After Cleanup
- **Category:** Business

Want outcomes like these on your build?

Fixed scope. Fixed deadline. Signed SoW.

[Get in touch](/contact/)

## Selected Screens

![ZybraMoney, screen 1](/img/case-studies/zybra-money/001_hu_64818bd4ad54678c.webp)

![ZybraMoney, screen 2](/img/case-studies/zybra-money/002_hu_9aa6df3b3a3979ac.webp)

![ZybraMoney, screen 3](/img/case-studies/zybra-money/003_hu_2e44baea2aef9a66.webp)

![ZybraMoney, screen 4](/img/case-studies/zybra-money/004_hu_d89f88e81a31d074.webp)

![ZybraMoney, screen 5](/img/case-studies/zybra-money/005_hu_73e14a68c64d2556.webp)

![ZybraMoney, screen 6](/img/case-studies/zybra-money/006_hu_48b4e25a598fa2ba.webp)

## Client Voice

[Clutch · Verified](https://clutch.co/profile/wavect-gmbh#reviews)

> **Their engineers combine deep technical expertise with excellent communication and execution.**

Wavect GmbH's work has resulted in high-quality product performance, robust security, and high-quality code. The team is highly responsive and delivers work on time. They have an ownership mindset, challenge assumptions, propose better approaches, and care about the client's long-term success.

Dekhani Nsaliwa CEO, Zybra

Want to have the same impact?

Fixed scope. Fixed deadline. Signed SoW.

[Get in touch](/contact/)

## What We Learned

Refactor-heavy environments need QA as continuous signal, not a checkpoint. Tying closure quality to weekly release gates kept regressions from compounding while architecture moved. The discipline isn’t in the tools, it’s in the closure criteria.

## Tech Stack

- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/)
- [Typescript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)
- [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/)
- [Redis](https://redis.io/)
- [Express](https://expressjs.com/)

## Tags

- FinTech
- QA
- Africa

## Links & Resources

[Zybra](https://zybra.money/)

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- [Blockchain Development](/services/blockchain/)
- [Custom Software Development](/services/software-development/)

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