Paragon Application Systems

Paragon Application Systems is a payment testing software platform designed to help financial institutions automate, manage, and optimize the testing of payment systems, ATM networks, and transaction processing environments. Its primary purpose is to improve the speed, accuracy, and reliability of payment testing through solutions for automated testing, ATM testing, certification, end-to-end testing, performance testing, and regression testing. The platform includes products such as Web FASTest, VirtualATM, ATMulator, FASTest, and FASTress, enabling organizations to simulate payment networks, validate ATM and POS transactions, perform stress and performance testing, execute reusable test scripts, and accelerate certification processes. It supports dozens of payment network, ATM, and POS message formats and offers cloud-based deployment options, centralized management of testing resources, role-based access control, and pre-certification scripts for major payment networks. Users consistently praise Paragon for reducing testing time and costs, improving testing accuracy, simplifying ATM configuration testing, accelerating product releases, and providing responsive customer support. Some users note that building comprehensive transaction scripts requires an initial setup effort, but once configured, the platform delivers reliable and efficient automated testing for daily operations.