Chapter / Tribe Presentation
The Expertise, Performance and Automation Chapter is responsible for three main activities:
- Performance testing of managed applications
- Automation of functional and non-regression tests
- Synthetic monitoring of applications in production
The beneficiary aims to implement several enhancements to its technical foundation and seeks the Providers expertise in functional and non-regression test automation.
Profile
Main Missions and Activities
Within this framework, the mission consists of contributing to:
- Defining the project and scoping the needs for automated functional testing
- Establishing the test strategy according to identified needs
- Assisting the project on the functional testing scope, providing QA coaching if the project is autonomous on Tosca, and promoting test value through feedback and experience sharing
- Supporting the team lead on all types of activities
- Maintaining a non-commercial relationship with the software vendor (currently Tricentis, publisher of Tosca Test Suite): incident tracking, consulting, etc.
- Administering the automated functional testing infrastructure with Tosca Test Suite: troubleshooting, operational maintenance, capacity monitoring
- Maintaining documentation bases, relationships, and collaboration with experts
Scope of intervention: Applications of the IT department.
The diversity of supported projects results in heterogeneous application profiles being tested: Web UI tests, Mainframe UI tests, API and web services tests, document generation/control tests (e.g., PDF).
Expected Deliverables
- Estimation and documentation of automated functional test strategy
- Creation of test cases in Tosca Test Suite and setup of Continuous Testing pipelines with Jenkins and Xray
- Advising autonomous entities on best practices
- Demonstrating the benefits of test automation to project entities and validating ROI for automating manual tests
- Assisting third-party entities
- Implementing automated tests on Tosca Test Suite: strategy, troubleshooting, test report validation
- Implementing Continuous Testing
Soft Skills
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Rapid learning ability
- Problem-solving skills
- Adaptability
- Time management
- Communication skills
- Promotion and evangelization of Quality approaches
- Positively challenge project teams by being a proactive contributor
