McGrath

McGrath is a leading real estate brand that provides property listings and a comprehensive online search platform. Beyond listings, McGrath offers expert guidance across buying, selling, renting, property management, and home loan services, supporting customers throughout the full property lifecycle. Their digital platform plays a critical role in delivering a seamless experience for both customers and internal teams.

Client Location

Australia

Model

Project Based

Link

https://www.mcgrath.com.au

Project Detail

What Was The Brief?

SoftwareSeni partnered with McGrath to support the ongoing development and optimisation of their website. The engagement focused on continuous backend and frontend development, alongside testing and design support, to ensure the platform remained reliable, scalable, and aligned with evolving business needs. As a long-term delivery partner, SoftwareSeni worked closely with McGrath to balance day-to-day enhancements with urgent fixes and larger architectural improvements.

Back-End

Front-End

Graphic Designer

Project Manager

Quality Assurance

How Did We Fix It

Identifying the Key Challenges

The Hurdles

Legacy integrations and APIs: The platform relied on a number of legacy integrations and APIs that had been built over time using older patterns. These dependencies limited flexibility, increased maintenance overhead, and required careful handling to avoid disruption while modernising the system.
Incomplete technical documentation: Earlier phases of development lacked consistent documentation, making it difficult to fully understand existing implementations, dependencies, and historical design decisions. This increased onboarding time and introduced risk when making changes to critical functionality.
Competing priorities between urgent fixes and long-term development: The team needed to respond quickly to production issues and urgent business requests, while still delivering planned enhancements and architectural improvements. Balancing immediate needs with sustainable progress was an ongoing challenge.
Limited automation testing and quality assurance coverage: The absence of consistent automated testing increased the risk of regressions during releases. Manual testing alone was not sufficient to ensure stability across frequent updates and complex user journeys.

The Solutions

Modernising and aligning legacy APIs: SoftwareSeni migrated and refactored existing APIs to align with the updated system architecture. This reduced technical debt, improved performance, and ensured integrations were more reliable and easier to maintain moving forward.
Establishing clear technical documentation: Comprehensive technical documentation was created and continuously maintained, covering architecture, integrations, and key workflows. This improved knowledge sharing, reduced reliance on tribal knowledge, and supported faster onboarding and safer development.
Managing urgent requests without sacrificing roadmap delivery: The team implemented structured prioritisation and planning processes to address urgent fixes efficiently, while protecting time for long-term initiatives. This approach ensured business-critical issues were resolved quickly without stalling strategic development.
Introducing automated testing with Playwright: Automated end-to-end testing was introduced using Playwright to validate key user journeys and critical functionality. This significantly improved release confidence, reduced regressions, and strengthened the overall reliability of the platform.